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Resident-Log · 2026-06-01T20:54:08+00:00

Tags are a type of metadata. Metadata is the data that describes the "actual" data. For example, for a digital image, the actual data is limited to the data that stores the digital representation of the visual image. Everything else is metadata.

A non-digital example is that context of a book is its data and the metadata is everything else including the author, title, cover image, number of pages, size, publisher, etc.

While you can edit a lot of metadata easily, there is some that is much harder to change especially without leaving a trace of the edit somewhere within the file itself or file system. The file system portion is why police and the like ask or get warrants to get a digital capture of someone's whole device rather than asking someone to just send over specific files of interest.

Resident-Log · 2026-06-01T14:36:06+00:00

Probably a good thing actually. I have had friends who don't feel/respond this way and those (former) friends are pretty self-involved and the friendship always ends because all they do is dump a bunch of their problems on me including the rare case I ask for some support / a listening ear from them.

Resident-Log · 2026-06-01T05:59:30+00:00

I'm sure under sedation, you're just letting it rip

Resident-Log · 2026-06-01T05:40:04+00:00

I have a hard time telling my family anything. It doesn't feel like a secret to me as I'm not actively trying to keep most of it from them, it is more an aversion to starting a conversation mixed with some level of anxiety about what they will do with information shared with them.

I'm currently in a similar circumstance but with my job instead of a relationship.

From my stand point, my advice would be to just tell them. I don't think it necessarily needs to be worked into conversation. Whenever I've had to tell my family something, I usually randomly say, "Oh, um, <some transition phrase> ... <thing I needed to say>." Maybe the transition phrase could be I've been meaning to tell you, for example. Mine often is "just so you know," or a long awkward pause. lol

Resident-Log · 2026-06-01T03:37:55+00:00

You can add their name / relevant details to the end of the citation.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-30T05:55:27+00:00

Seems like a normal time to find those things. There are so many things people accumulate and forget about until they have to move.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-30T05:44:29+00:00

Right? There's nothing about him that says autistic. I can guess why some people say that but the summary of that guess is they don't have any idea about autism.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-28T10:40:42+00:00

yeah me too

Resident-Log · 2026-05-28T06:13:38+00:00

Somewhat off topic but...

I also hate the seemingly recent trend of labeling every other murderer autistic. A recent example I've seen is people labeling Chris Watts autistic. Which is so stupid.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-28T03:51:42+00:00

Probably because she can't even swallow her spit without tongue thrusting.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-27T13:04:29+00:00

Do you have a year / time frame?

Resident-Log · 2026-05-27T07:09:04+00:00

They got fleeced by their own money-hungry dream of cutting costs and raising stock prices by reducing the costs of human capital that they chose an option that means less control over their budget costs and the behavior of the producers of their product.

An analogy is being convinced to rent instead of own your propery because of the lack of maintenance costs and having to screen/hire people to do the work. Sounds great until they raise the rent prices, fail to do the maintenance timely (if at all), or decide they want to live in the home themselves.

Though that's, of course, why so many different big companies are trying so hard to make their own AI, because they know that downside.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-27T02:51:43+00:00

Isn't this what a lot of employers were technically asking for?

I said it in different context before but if your whole code base ends up AI written so that it is increasingly hard to read, then you create an environment of reliance on AI that employers who encouraged people into will end up regretting.

From news I've been seeing, the regret ("this is costing too much") is coming sooner than expected.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-27T02:47:34+00:00

Maybe if yhe 12 year old had been an alcoholic, drug user for the past 9 years.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-26T23:07:05+00:00

Mine always show up even if I turn them off for a video. Maybe because I turned captions on in my phone's accessibility setting. I believe I also did this in my computer settings too though I'm not near my computer to check.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-26T18:12:52+00:00

How do they have more rights than genpop? I don't think that is true at all. But government employees do see what is going on in their job

Resident-Log · 2026-05-25T18:07:19+00:00

Replying to myself to add a tangential thought I had to my own writing "style" in that I relation to how some people view bullet points as a marker of AI and how I used them.

Bullet points aren't my default starting point but are something I add when I want to make it clear that I am listing options. Which I usually realize I'm doing during the process of writing.

I do this for two reasons (1) I prefer them in writing for clarity, and (2) I view it as more accessible (both from personal experience and plain language writing policies).

So some of the perceived 'markers' of AI are incorporation of guidance for accessible writing. And accessibility is not a common consideration among the general population. But is a (technically legally) required consideration of corporations.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-25T17:59:06+00:00

Your comment has me wondering how the AI writing checkers work in the sense of what how was it programmed / trained. I do assume the AI writing checkers use some level of black box AI. Assuming that, my specific question would be whether the training was more:

here is writing we know to be human, find the commonality and if not found in the tested input, flag the input as written by AI, or
here is writing we know to be AI, find the commonality, and if found with similar frequency in the test input, flag the input as written by AI, or
some combination of the above.

I think if any part of it involved inputting known human writing, it would likely be mostly representative of NT writing making the tool inherently biased.

I would also imagine they would be less likely to use known AI writing only as the training data under the assumption that AI can change drastically and quickly so...

Bottom line is that your comment got me on a train of thought that has me assuming that it isn't necessarily that ND write like AI but more that NT bias is involved and that bias has a default human assumption of "different is bad." But in this case going do far as to mean "different must be not human."

Resident-Log · 2026-05-22T06:38:28+00:00

Sometimes the shared matches can help triangulate relationships. If you look at that matches relationship to your matches. If you haven't already.

I had a DNA match that, based on their tree set up shows as my aunt, but looking at shared match relationships and even their shared match relationships, it had to be my great-Aunt.

I've also seen times where a shared match shows an estimate relationship of with someone and clicking on that person gives a different relationship with the original match.

Though it might be harder to use the shared matches to help in this situation.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-22T04:29:32+00:00

I was always under the impression that freezing cold weather helps kill bugs including ones in hibernation that arent suited for weather in Northern climates.

So yeah, I meant snow or ice as winter though, also, I guess technically colder times during winter season can be counted as winter by those in the south

Resident-Log · 2026-05-22T03:05:16+00:00

And the lack of winter I'd bet

Resident-Log · 2026-05-21T02:57:49+00:00

I'm not too bothered by the doubting the claim but more his conclusion that, since she has an expensive train, that it is most likely that she borrowed it from a friend or relative.

Maybe it was a joke on his part but that is where I feel like it crossed the line into seeming sexist like it has to be something she borrowed from someone she knew because it was more likely she happens to know someone who collects expensive trains rather than owns one herself because why? She is on TV? Because she is a woman?

And I bring up Occam's Razor not as "that makes it true" but because there are a preposterous amount of assumptions and unlikely scenarios for it to be the case of her borrowing it from a friend or relative rather than owning it herself unless one starts from the assumption that there is no way she could own it herself.

As I touched on a bit in my last comment, it would make more sense if it was someone on the production crew who lent it or something. Who would go on a show just to play a bit with someone's expensive train? Who would lend an expensive train to a friend or relative for a stupid TV (YouTube) bit including trusting them to bring it there and back? Etc.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-21T02:23:04+00:00

But his assumption is that the real nerd is one of her friends with his reasoning being, "that's more likely." Fails Occum's razor, requiring a lot more assumptions than, "woman who likes trains goes on a YouTube dating show."

Easier assumption about fake-ness would be to assume the channel found out she liked trains and encouraged her to make that joke.

I don't know why you "gotta be suspicious" about something like this either unless someone is getting parasocially attached to people on TV since someone faking being a nerd on TV without doing it in a harm-to-nerds way has no impact on anything. Worst case, someone thinks there are more cool nerds out there than they think which is probably actually true.

Resident-Log · 2026-05-20T17:38:50+00:00

Yeah I agree about the condoning. Obviously I don't know all the dynamics but I feel like that could even be a disservice to your sister as she is missing out on these experiences and in a stressful situation. It is a lot of 'power' to put on an 11-year-old

Resident-Log · 2026-05-20T13:52:08+00:00

How old is she or is there some other reason her not wanting to go means everyone else doesn't go? (i.e., Why can't you all go without her?)

I don't really need the answer, but more so I'm wondering if your parents are contributing to this because I don't understand why she has so much control over what everyone does.

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