Riccardo Mori

Handpicked, on Morrick.​me — → A toolbar that is rudely stamp’d: morrick.me/archives/10271

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

Hell. Hell is where you go.

I'm sure it'll be a treat. The good thing of waiting for the complete experience after only playing the sandbox survival for 8 years is that now I have a whole new experience to keep me entertained until Blackfrost is released.

I also managed to stay spoiler-free for Wintermute! Don't know how! 😄

Thank you for creating an amazing game and caring for it for all this time. It’s a commitment so very rarely seen. In 30 days I’ll finally be able to start my whole play of “Wintermute” — yes, I’ve waited for all the episodes to be released before embarking on this journey! Cheers!

Stop treating them as if they were a category needing different rights or special treatment. They’re people. Same rights. Love and respect for their identity is what they need.

This shouldn’t need to be spelled out, for fuck’s sake.

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Your stupid ‘AI’ chatbot is not sentient. LLMs are not sentient.

You know who’s sentient and deserves your attention and respect? Trans people, for instance. Stop treating them as if they were abominations or ‘fake people’ or ‘crossdressers with a secret agenda’.

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Haha, I feel my brain being whacked by a Ninja Turtle!

Maybe this is entirely subjective, but I’d advise against creating titles with this kind of word layout. At first glance, my eyes moved on the words in such a way that I read:

“Living during on a a lighthouse storm”

and I thought I was having a stroke or something.

Meet Tuna: a brand new, modern, modal launcher for macOS YouTube video by Mikkel Malmberg

For all those who miss a launcher like Quicksilver on the Mac: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkm-...

tunaformac.com

(Requires Mac OS 15 Sequoia)

→ On software quality (and reliability, and frugality) I think the trade-off of staying on an older version of an operating system or third-party app to pursue stability instead of buying into an increasingly mindless update cycle still exists.

Handpicked, on Morrick.​me — → On software quality (and reliability, and frugality): morrick.me/archives/10267

Hilarious malapropism of the day:

“I went down a rabid hole” (from a YouTube comment)

Sorry, budget is tight, subscription fatigue is at an all-time high.

(Original work by System32Comics - I've just changed the text.)

There, I fixed the thumbnail.

Indeed. And as someone who is *not* upgrading to the latest Mac OS exactly because of Liquid Glass, I wish I could have the new features while retaining the user interface of past Mac OS X versions.

Apple has a transparency issue. YouTube video by Thinking different

This does a good job at summarising the problem with Apple’s Liquid Glass and how we got here from skeuomorphism through flat design. If you want to raise awareness among laypeople, this can be used to introduce them to the subject in a plain, comprehensible way.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPq...

People and resources added to my reading list in 2025 Again, not many new additions, but all well worth keeping.

New, on Morrick.​me — People and resources added to my reading list in 2025:​ morrick.me/archives/10263

These people should redirect their energies and time into contacting their local politicians and ask them to implement the changes they want, instead of bothering a regular person who writes online and tries to get by.

ThAnKs FoR yOuR aTtEnTiOn To ThIs MaTtEr! — RM

Of course I didn’t even need to address this. Emails like the one I got from Anonymous Coward routinely hit my Inbox and, while I ignore them all and never respond, never cease to baffle me.

I also care about OTHER PEOPLE’s mental health, so I tend to avoid propagating the doom-and-gloom. I prefer looking for positive things and share them at all costs.

My ‘little bubble’ is called mental health. I try to reduce my exposure to doom-and-gloom content because it’s just unhealthy. One thing is to learn facts, another is being bombarded by narratives that, while they might be true in the here&now, lead to some degree of reality distortion at scale.

Well, I’m not a professional political commentator, or an economist, or a geopolitics expert. If I don’t post about certain topics, it doesn’t mean I’m oblivious to them, just that I don’t have anything meaningful to add.

Someone (they didn’t use their real name, so I’ll refer to them as ‘Anonymous Coward’) dared write me to school me about the kind of posts I should post here. “With everything that’s going on in the world, you seem to live in your little bubble”, they wrote.

Thanks for letting me know! I’ll watch it later today 😊

I haven’t watched this video, so I don’t know where this is going, but a friend of mine once bought on eBay a ‘4K’ camera (no brand specified) for €4, and it turned out to be an 8-megapixel digicam from 2006.

4K resolution is, in fact, about 8.3 million pixels.

Even when there’s proof (like Mickey Mouse not wearing suspenders), these people think someone has gone to impossible lengths to ‘edit out the suspenders in all available media to mess with our minds’.

And I’m just like 🙄

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People are more willing to accept the theory that the Large Hadron Collider has ‘changed something in our reality very subtly’ than admitting to not remembering things clearly.

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Yeah, strange that so many seem to have false memories, but you can’t honestly believe reality has been changed and ‘something’ blurred two timelines.

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According to said friend, this was ‘the better stuff’ that really tried to explain why so many people seem to remember certain details (the cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo, Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, etc.) that actually didn’t happen.

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A friend sent me some links and I fell into a small rabbit hole of ‘Mandela effect’ videos.

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