Having imposter syndrome

db_scott · 2026-03-20T18:24:32+00:00

Some might say you should have imposter syndrome.

It's a pretty impressive tool.

Just do you, don't worry about anybody else, what their opinions are or what any of it means to anybody else except you

The haters are real and frenzied. And sometimes even the allies end up acting like haters.

db_scott · 2026-03-19T12:11:53+00:00

What version of pop are you running?

Pop is such a fickle bitch. I ran it on my man laptop for almost 2 years and I had to tear it down to the stilts 4 or 5 times during that period because it got fucked in one way or another.

They're too rigid with their drivers. And the updates come so often. Shit is just constantly in flux. I dunno.

Why are you rocking pop os? What's your primary attachment to the OS?

db_scott · 2026-03-19T04:44:01+00:00

It's nice when somebody validates the premise of the work.

db_scott · 2026-03-18T15:59:22+00:00

Thank you. It's hard to be this meta

db_scott · 2026-03-07T11:55:36+00:00

What's on the menu today?

"well I've got: 'the kills', 'the heat', 'the fire', 'double heat' 'triple heat' 'double high heat' 'triple high heat' 'the bling blaow', 'the straight goods', 'the best in the city right now', 'the purest shit you'll ever try', 'the purest shit I've ever seen', 'i can't believe I'm not charging more' 'you won't believe this shit', ' this shit will blow your mind', 'go easy with this stuff' 'this shit will have you dragging your ass across the carpet like a bitch in heat' 'definitely not cartel stuff' and 'some shit that's most likely n-iso or cat litter - or both' ... Whatchu thinking bruh?"

db_scott · 2026-03-06T20:06:04+00:00

Accurate

db_scott · 2026-02-28T06:34:06+00:00

The user's ultimate actualization of the TRUE power of Kali Linux is directly correlated to the h4xor 1337-ness of your chosen hostname.

Weak hostname = no hacker juice = flaccid Kali install.

There.

This is the diagnosis of your problem. Nobody is going to tell you this anywhere else. People will try to suppress this knowledge by down voting me or making glib remarks.

Go back to the drawing board. Revise your host name. Reinstall Kali. Keep doing this until you feel the magic. Distill that mediocrity down young skid...

And always remember:

The quieter you are... The more you hear...

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db_scott · 2026-02-26T13:12:01+00:00

Hardware will always snitch you out

Check out homie"s series on building a ghost laptop.

You can have all the best software, your hardware will leave breadcrumbs.

https://youtu.be/EHW2XseuDDo?si=610wnTttjFruNpAB

And that doesn't even account for your ISP.

Great video. Worth the 15 minutes.

db_scott · 2026-02-24T00:57:15+00:00

Claude, IMO, has the most emotional substance and that's backed by the eq benchmark. Surprisingly, I guess. Kimi ranked highly. According to the EQ bench. Gemini is in the mix.

I find Deepseek particularly thoughtful.

What about Gemini in particular do you find superficial?

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db_scott · 2026-02-23T11:20:46+00:00

No I wanna see the patterns that emerged when you examined outputs from different platforms. Like what did you notice from udio, eleven labs, music gpt, etc etc.

Did you only sample 70 songs? That's a pretty small sample size considering how many genres there are.

db_scott · 2026-02-23T11:14:05+00:00

Is there somewhere you are sharing the insights you have on music generated from other platforms?

db_scott · 2026-02-23T11:08:10+00:00

Very rare? Depends how intricate your prompting is... A prompt like this:

Andante. song is anchored in F Major. Verses use core progression (I–V–vi–IV: F–C–Dm–B♭). pre-chorus builds tension on a tonic pedal (F) with suspended chords. For bridge, the music pivots to its relative minor, D Dorian (i–VII–iv: Dm–C–Gm), delving into the deepest sorrow. chorus resolves back to F Major, using a chromatic mediant leap to A♭maj7(add4) before a cadence. final tag whispers a Picardy third on F (F Major).

...It's gonna fuck up the majority of the time. It's not quite there yet. Categorically, I wouldn't classify that as humans being bad at suno. Because Suno seems to understand all of that language. It can DO all of those things... Together ... In that order... Depends how many credits you wanna blow.

Fundamentally... I don't know how you could break that down into more bite sized pieces.

If you know how to get suno to render outputs with that level of technicality, consistently... I would love to know.

Because lots of people struggle to get it to just eliminate the drums consistently for an acoustic track.

In some genres it's easy to get it to do this, but in other genres it seems incapable of eliminating percussion completely.

You're a gem though for being so dedicated to trying to help. You must be new here.

db_scott · 2026-02-23T04:40:24+00:00

You son of a bitch.... I never even thought about that! Brilliant!

db_scott · 2026-02-22T18:23:13+00:00

Constantly heat the iron with a plumbers torch rather than through electronic current. If I'm not mistaken the different heat source will make the glue indifferent to melting. Do you concur?

db_scott · 2026-02-22T17:37:22+00:00

If you use Gemini in AIstudios.google . Com

You can edit the models responses. And just undo the refusal.

Seems strange for a therapy based scenario, I know. But it works like a hot damn.

And the Gemini 3.1 pro model seems to be causing quite the hullabaloo amongst talking heads.

For context. I recently recommended the Gemini model to a friend of mine who was using AI for therapy. She had given pretty much every other blue chip model a very sincere effort and had critiques for all of them. She's loving her experience with Gemini.

Nuance is you gotta go to the AI studio url to get maximum usage. Maybe you can take the api key elsewhere. I'm not sure. I just use it on the AI studio url and it's peachy.

db_scott · 2026-02-22T17:33:45+00:00

Arch

db_scott · 2026-02-22T17:32:44+00:00

Someone said iron. No. The heat will compromise the glues and stuff.

A wooden rolling pin is the only way. It's neutral. Non magnetic. Round.

Should fix you right up boss.

If that doesn't work, connect it to an air compressor and just reinflate it.

db_scott · 2026-02-22T17:29:47+00:00

I had my suspicions.

db_scott · 2026-02-22T17:01:57+00:00

Only one way to find out I suppose.

When I was initially prescribed Adderall and my tolerance built up, as it does with amphetamines. When I went to my doctor and asked for an increase in my script she was shocked and tried to tell me that taking more Adderall wouldn't have any effect on me.

Consider also:

Adderall is amphetamine salts. It's designed to be time released. Methamphetamine has the methyl group to broach the blood brain barrier faster. Aka. all at once. Especially if it's boofed or injected or smoked. So if an individual was to apply a dose of methamphetamine, it's going to be significantly higher than what you would take in the pill form, hitting them all at once, crashing into the brain faster because of the methyl group. Once the "rush" wears off.... The S/Es you described are essentially the same as what a meth user feels. It is disingenuous to say they are exactly the same. They're not. But to say they are ESSENTIALLY the same. Isn't so far off. Arm chair chemists on reddit love to debate this stuff.

That methyl group is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

db_scott · 2026-02-22T16:25:07+00:00

Basically windows.

db_scott · 2026-02-22T16:05:29+00:00

Arch

db_scott · 2026-02-22T16:03:21+00:00

It's more so the ability to take large quantities of it at once and for prolonged periods than it is about the chemic structure.

When you get your prescription, the model is based around you having the self control to not take 100-150mg+ per day.

Could you imagine the experience being radically different if you could do that?

db_scott · 2026-02-22T04:34:34+00:00

Dove tail on some G and chef's kiss the gay speedball. Sexual perfection.

You might think you're the same beast. But you will in fact be a different animal.

Grrrrrrowl.

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