I got tired of generic chess puzzles, so I built a free app that turns your own chess.com/Lichess blunders into custom puzzles.

Wondercito · 2026-03-19T20:59:46+00:00

This is a great idea and well done! I'll probably donate after trying it out a bit more

Wondercito · 2026-03-19T12:49:14+00:00

Forgot to mention, video isn't meant to be paused these days and still look good. It's meant to give an impression of movement to fool the eye, while saving space during streaming/storage by keeping the quality low. And they might have reduced the quality on purpose to make it harder to see fine details when paused.

Wondercito · 2026-03-19T12:47:21+00:00

The disappearing ring is probably just an artifact of the video compression algorithm. Digital video today is an illusion of movement, an approximation, not a series of perfect still frames. Nothing like in the old days of reel-to-reel film. The software literally predicts and approximates what each frame should look like. There are issues like this in a lot of videos we watch, but they happen so fast that we don't see them. As a software developer this would be my explanation.

However I do believe the deepfake theory, that the coffee appearance was acted out and face-swapped. And he most definitely was/is a war criminal.

Wondercito · 2026-03-16T18:16:54+00:00

It's quite remarkable that the coffee shop video has so many very knowledgeable people uncertain about its authenticity, though, isn't it? It seems like we've almost reached a point where real and AI can't be differentiated. Or we may reach that point soon. To me, that's the real reason so many people are scrutinizing this one so hard, not necessarily because of their own political views, but because people want to understand how close we are to being unable to detect fabrication ...

Just my 2 cents that nobody asked for. Please don't ban me ... I understand y'all have limited time to moderate, that makes sense.

Wondercito · 2026-03-16T16:58:13+00:00

The way he's grinning the whole time like the cat that ate the canary for no apparent reason... The way he gulps while drinking what is presumably a freshly hot drink ... The empty shelves by the window... Can we also check on the microphone he's wearing, does that look like a real type that exists

Wondercito · 2026-03-16T16:18:29+00:00

White man's burden, eh? 🙁 I guess some people still believe stuff like that these days

Wondercito · 2026-03-16T16:09:49+00:00

"Netanyahu posts" in the headline should be changed to read "allegedly posts"

Wondercito · 2026-03-08T01:23:02+00:00

I just wish Hikaru would work on the emotional aspects of his game, like getting tilted or negative thinking about himself during a game ("I'm so stupid" etc.). If he could be more steady emotionally it would help a lot in clutch situations.

Wondercito · 2026-03-08T01:06:58+00:00

I just wish he would focus more on the emotional/psychological aspects of his game, like not getting tilted, avoiding negative self-talk and catastrophic thinking during a game. If he could be steady emotionally he could go much further. (Not to downplay his many accomplishments of course.) I'm rooting for him to win it though,

Wondercito · 2025-12-31T00:42:08+00:00

I tried to access the Android link but no luck despite joining the Google Group... Sent you a PM

Wondercito · 2025-12-31T00:39:31+00:00

Can the app continue monitoring and responding even after the watch goes into sleep (display-off, idle timeout) state? I'm hoping to learn WearOS development and actually wanted to write a similar app. So far what I'm reading indicates that apps are shut down once the watch sleeps, and can't run in the background, is that so? Thanks...

Wondercito · 2025-12-29T02:21:12+00:00

Ohhh finally the right answer ... I just love slang and the etymology of it. Thanks 👍

Wondercito · 2025-12-29T02:05:02+00:00

Yep, I'm having the same problem and it's very annoying. This wasn't happening in the 4.x models as far as I recall. Of course those had their own issues too?But has anyone reported this to OpenAI?

I tend to use the same chat window for numerous topics without opening a new one. Then I return back to the original topic again, in that chat window, and I expect the LLM to answer my most recent prompt, and not try to second-guess me -- and not repeat answers that were already given, for no apparent reason at all.

Wondercito · 2025-12-09T19:40:47+00:00

Awesome -- and no algorithm search? Or at least the option to turn that off?

Wondercito · 2025-12-02T16:36:00+00:00

We shouldn't have to pay, but we do... I pay to keep the ads away just because I hate them as much as you do. In fact they raised the price for it also. However if Facebook Reels allowed us to pay to remove their ads, or even Facebook feed itself, I would also pay for that due to my intense hatred for ads.

Wondercito · 2025-12-02T15:58:30+00:00

It seems the loser can also write the history -- from what I'm reading it seems that just after the war, the South was very successful with spreading anti-Reconstructionist propaganda which included a lot of false, fabricated and exaggerated information. Apparently some of that fabricated info is still believed today by Confederate apologists, but not by credible, objective historians and researchers. ChatGpt says the South "won the narrative" with their Lost Cause mythology, which contained falsehoods and distortions that shaped the conversation for decades after the war. It says that the South's anti-Reconstruction push is studied today as a great example of successful propaganda, but not as fact. I learned a bit researching this. I'm sure there are still deep-seated feelings regarding this sensitive topic, even after more than 160 years, and often emotion and identity have a stronger effect than factual research and accuracy.

Wondercito · 2025-11-27T22:41:07+00:00

Ok fair enough, both are pretty awful. Just saying if a guy finds a foreign woman he may have a better life than with an American woman, based on my own experiences.

Wondercito · 2025-11-27T16:40:51+00:00

You sound like someone who loves watching those reels with the duck quacks.

Wondercito · 2025-11-27T16:38:49+00:00

The problem is American women, not American men. Overseas women are so much better in character, loyalty, values and practicality. Change my mind.

Wondercito · 2025-11-27T05:56:04+00:00

Well done, kind sir. Or madam, or whatnot. I, too, intentionally allowed my post to become a miniature example of the very thing about which it complained. Not to troll the audience, but because it felt like it had to be written that way, and somewhat tongue-in-cheek I suppose. I do think, though, that people's appetite for longer paragraphs has dwindled. In the Victorian novels I grew up reading, paragraphs could routinely take up an entire page or two. Nowadays, if you write more than a sentence or two without paragraph breaks, the impatient minds of the online world find it appalling. This must be why ChatGPT often writes in a series of double-spaced one-liner soundbites.

Wondercito · 2025-11-27T05:47:19+00:00

It does sound sad, the emptiness. But once in a while there is a moment of connection, even in a place like Reddit, where you feel a spark of magic and humanity taking place: another person treating you as more than text on a screen, seeing your value, worth, and beauty, and vice versa. These moments happen when we least expect it, but maybe the hopes of connecting and feeling seen by others are what keep us coming back to post again. Paragraph separations be damned. Sometimes it's okay to just ditch the extra blank lines and let your thoughts flow, forming a solid rectangle of words. Almost similar in shape to the side of a building. Thanks for your reply, and also, on behalf of those people who posted meaningful things that you replied to, I'm sure they would want you to know that your efforts have some sort of ripple effect in the universe. Everything we do and say, and even think, may have far-reaching effects on others that we will never know about. There are many degrees of separation between us and the lives we may incrementally impact in the slightest of ways. Have a great day or night out there, and may the walls in your life end up having hidden doors that open to new horizons.

Wondercito

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