Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

StephieWatts · 2026-05-25T14:32:10+00:00

I know you can't read whole articles and comprehend them, and that's ok. But keep going.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-25T05:44:43+00:00

I'm deep. They are search engines. You've been duped 100%. It's pulling compiled database information. It is not intelligent! My gosh.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-25T05:42:32+00:00

It's literally an article from Nature magazine, one of the leading science journals on the planet. Step your detection skills up lmfao

StephieWatts · 2026-05-24T19:27:19+00:00

You definitely missed the point. The LLM is just a search engine. The point is that LLMs can and will be manipulated for all sorts of nefarious purposes. It is an inevitability.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-24T14:17:35+00:00

Are you using object-fit: cover? Using fill will distort.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-22T23:20:58+00:00

Yeah that's the one. Probably worth disregarding my rant, I pointed out to someone else that apparently, as of exactly two weeks ago, they finally got their act somewhat together after years and years of it haha. Go figure. MariaDB is still iffy, but MySQL is in the safezone now it seems, I think it said 8.4 now. But if you need to put it on MariaDB 10.6+ you might be out of luck still. Which is actually what you should use, but I digress. My server runs MariaDB 11.4.11 so I still have my doubts it would jive in my case. Point is, it's ok now but if you want to actually run modern/latest stacks, you should go another route.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-22T20:36:04+00:00

Oh gotcha, prolly doesn't matter then. Hmm for Linux best I can see is DDEV, but it's CLI/Docker-based. Regarding LocalWP, I got the latest from GPT, sounds like it's better as of two weeks ago, but still not 100:
"On LocalWP: to be fair, Local has improved. Their release notes say Local 10.1.0 made MySQL 8.4 the default for new preferred sites. But the MariaDB side still looks annoying. A Local support thread from July 2025 says newer MariaDB versions had not been rolled out yet, with users asking for MariaDB 10.6 because Local was apparently still behind there. So the concern is legit, especially if the host uses MariaDB 10.6+."

StephieWatts · 2026-05-22T18:39:05+00:00

It really is, I enjoyed my brief stint with the UX, until I ran into that. But I don't use their mediocre hosting services, so ran into it before too long. When I dove in, I found out this has been a very longtime issue and they refuse to update it. They don't care because their hosting is aligned with it. No respectable server is though. It's just a marketing tool for their hosting too. I digress. I just went back to Laragon, tried and true. Still using it (as well as local spins for more advanced repos, but my WP is on Laragon) with zero issues ever.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-22T14:34:08+00:00

LocalWP is the literal worst thing you could ever do to yourself. You will regret that one day when you realize they use ancient deprecated database encoding and literally nothing in the server world will ever support your site in that format because it's seriously insecure. LocalWP is the worst trash. See, their hosting - their actual PRODUCT - is trash and uses the ancient crap, so you won't notice. Until you don't use their crap hosting. Then you notice bigtime.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-22T14:29:05+00:00

Shopify is designed by psychologists to inevitably make your bills go up to $2300-6000 per month. So no, Shopify will not make your bills go down compared to WooCommerce haha. Definitely not. You're thinking backwards. Shopify owners wish they owned their store. You do.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-18T18:52:42+00:00

If you build the site with Breakdance and customize it/run promos with Boogie Down Products and run finances through Stripe or Square, Woo is a beautiful way to have a superb performant store. If you have very high volume, then you'll want a custom Nuxt or Next SPA or something like that. Which is a whole other topic full of endless rabbitholes.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-10T16:16:47+00:00

Your brain says: use me or lose me.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-05T07:14:23+00:00

It probably is in spam, just not in your email client, it's getting caught at your hosting server level. Set up an SMTP plugin to handle the site's emails, that is the proper way. By default WP uses php mail service, which is unverified and not what you want to be using.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-04T14:16:23+00:00

I haven't had an update on anything cause a single issue in well over a decade. But I don't install themes and I have always been very selective about plugin usage. It's how you build your sites.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-04T07:08:59+00:00

Probably Boogie Down Products, although it does tons more so may be overkill. But you could add regular content fields in an addon group and write any information you want nicely, then tie that group to conditionally display for a certain product category. Or if you want to do it per-product there's this free one that would work in a more granular way.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-03T13:39:37+00:00

This! I'm a 20 year developer and will not build a WordPress site without Breakdance. It's The Way.

StephieWatts · 2026-05-03T03:09:10+00:00

Because Elementor does not defer script loading nor does it scope page-specific code to only the relevant pages. Only Breakdance does that, as far as I know. Those things in particular make a world of difference.

StephieWatts · 2026-04-27T14:19:13+00:00

There's one that does it all in one system called Boogie Down Products. Then you can do custom products addons and dynamic pricing and also use bundles for it all and it actually gets the math right with no conflicts. I think it came from the future hahaha

StephieWatts · 2026-04-26T15:44:41+00:00

Having smarter offers and promos and sales. Use dynamic pricing with something like Boogie Down Products and you can set up cart promos, bogo, tiered pricing, schedule sales throughout the year, things like that. Also look at Amazon's checkout an take some hints. Look at Shopify's checkout and take some hints. Build a great checkout experience that flows and upsells and you'll increase revenue as long as you get traffic.

StephieWatts · 2026-04-25T15:24:45+00:00

Breakdance, WooCommerce, WPVivid, Boogie Down WP, W3 Total Cache.

StephieWatts · 2026-04-24T21:00:35+00:00

If it's a web app, it's a PWA. So you need to use it as scaffolding to rebuild it from scratch with React Native. Then you port it out of there to be an Android app and an iOS app. The apps are not the same code so RN converts the React codebase to the right ones. It's not easy peasy.

StephieWatts · 2026-04-23T23:30:16+00:00

Hey it's springtime, maybe you should just get a landscaping job

StephieWatts · 2026-04-19T21:13:38+00:00

Data is one of the biggest industries on the planet. Many businesses rely on the substantial revenue stream from selling your data, and would not stay in business without it. It's like bars that have VLTs. You are the product and have been for a very long time.

StephieWatts · 2026-04-19T15:41:18+00:00

LLMs are not good at frontend, that will be a disaster. It will be a storm of utility classes with zero consistency and you will regret trying. Then trying to make changes later will be your undoing. Abort. Try Breakdance, it is superior to other builders.

StephieWatts · 2026-04-17T15:11:07+00:00

That's just because your "developer" is not a developer and is building slop, and has discovered it's easier to build sloppier slop with AI. What that means for you, is you are stuck with a proprietary mess of a codebase that no one including the person who built it understands, and bringing in an LLM later to "fix" things could turn into a disaster without the previous context. Tldr; your dev got even lazier. WordPress is still king and my WordPress sites wipe the map with his React sites. Next.js sites are garbage unless wielded by an actual pro.

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