Weldawadyathink's recent activity
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 3 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
Weldawadyathink Link ParentIt definitely is. That’s why I try to actively seek out anecdotes of this sort of thing, such as the video that caused all this drama and the things you have seen. I would say I am quite clueless...It is really hard to see when you’re not the one it’s happening to.
It definitely is. That’s why I try to actively seek out anecdotes of this sort of thing, such as the video that caused all this drama and the things you have seen.
I would say I am quite clueless in social situations. Not sure if it’s my AuDHD or just my personality. But noticing these sort of things have been difficult when they are against me let alone against someone else. But my hope is that knowing how these things tend to play out will help me see it when it does happen.
I do have to say that the wine industry seems to be better off than tech based on the stories I have heard. At my current winery, 3 of 5 of the winemakers are female. 3 of 4 of the seasonal hires are female (I am the one male). The full time staff skews slightly male but the distribution still makes sense given random population sampling. One previous winery I worked at was almost exclusively female. I wouldn’t dream of saying there are no problems in this industry, but we do seem a bit better off than tech.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
Weldawadyathink LinkI am not in the tech industry, at least not for a career. And I haven’t seen anything like this in my chosen career field (winemaking). But it is something I am going to be on the look out for...I am not in the tech industry, at least not for a career. And I haven’t seen anything like this in my chosen career field (winemaking). But it is something I am going to be on the look out for even more after watching that video.
I welcome feedback from both men and women on how I can be a positive change, even when it isn’t something I really see in my industry.
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Comment on YouTube is looking to expand into audiobooks in ~books
Weldawadyathink LinkOpen letter to any company running a video, podcast, music, or audiobook service: I never want any of these to be within the same application. Never. I don’t want a single monolithic app, since...Open letter to any company running a video, podcast, music, or audiobook service:
I never want any of these to be within the same application. Never. I don’t want a single monolithic app, since that just makes it a poor app for all of these. That is one of the many reasons I don’t use Spotify. YouTube at least has the right idea with having a separate YouTube music app from the main YouTube app. Now if they could just break off the YouTube gaming bullshit from the main YouTube app so I could never see it again. And please do the same with shorts, so I could never see those again either.
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Comment on Looking for advice: How do I find out what stocks to invest into? in ~finance
Weldawadyathink LinkGotta agree with /u/stu2b50 Read up on Bogle style investing. You balance exchange traded funds of different categories, and almost never have to do active management. The key is to keep the...Gotta agree with /u/stu2b50
Read up on Bogle style investing. You balance exchange traded funds of different categories, and almost never have to do active management. The key is to keep the management costs as low as possible. I manage all of my family’s retirement accounts like this.
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentI think you describe it very well. It’s very frustrating to me since I feel it makes arguments weaker. If there are actually good, valid reasons to not like something, why do we bother shoveling...I think you describe it very well. It’s very frustrating to me since I feel it makes arguments weaker. If there are actually good, valid reasons to not like something, why do we bother shoveling all the stupid, benign, and easily disproven reasons in too? It’s a common thing when people talk about apple, and it seems like AI is attracting the same argumentation style.
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentHere is the thing. The language these people use (most, not all of them) is about code quality and “slop”. If they want to be against it on ethical grounds, okay. But they don’t get to claim poor...Here is the thing. The language these people use (most, not all of them) is about code quality and “slop”. If they want to be against it on ethical grounds, okay. But they don’t get to claim poor quality without mentioning ethics and have use steel man their arguments using reasoning that they themselves don’t use.
Let’s engage with the actual arguments people make, not hypothetical ones they could make.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentOnly if you ignore open weight models. Data centers run open weight models at a profit. So you can just look at the market rate for running those models on various providers. And open weight...Only if you ignore open weight models. Data centers run open weight models at a profit. So you can just look at the market rate for running those models on various providers. And open weight models are not very far behind frontier models. I suspect that this adobe remake would be just as possible using Kimi k3.
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Comment on Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns in ~tech
Weldawadyathink (edited )LinkThis sounds fantastic. No better way to show people the hypocrisy than turning it back on the people who perpetrate it. Edit: it would be fantastic if they open sourced this project and set up...This sounds fantastic. No better way to show people the hypocrisy than turning it back on the people who perpetrate it.
Edit: it would be fantastic if they open sourced this project and set up crowd sourcing data so people could deploy it around their home towns.
Double Edit: for any police officers who are worried about their privacy, worry not! We will use the exact same super secure protections that Flock itself uses for data requests. Users will be required to enter a “reason” for the request. Absolutely infallible. And, yes, “testing” is an accepted reason.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentOpen weight models have been right behind closed frontier models for a long time now. I would bet Kimi k3 could probably already do most of this. And for what astra and fable still do better at,...Open weight models have been right behind closed frontier models for a long time now. I would bet Kimi k3 could probably already do most of this. And for what astra and fable still do better at, just wait a month or two for Kimi k3.5 or k4 or a new deepseek model.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentMy favorite version is this: the first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.My favorite version is this: the first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
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Comment on What foods are better after a day or two? in ~food
Weldawadyathink LinkA little different than what you mean, but chocolate chip cookie dough. Make it and leave it in the fridge for a few days before you bake it. Like 2-3 days makes killer cookies. You can do up to a...A little different than what you mean, but chocolate chip cookie dough. Make it and leave it in the fridge for a few days before you bake it. Like 2-3 days makes killer cookies. You can do up to a week just fine.
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 1 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
Weldawadyathink LinkI mentioned earlier that I had access to some actual grapes this harvest. The first batch were from some abandoned vines behind a coworker’s rental. I think they are Zinfandel, but I am not...I mentioned earlier that I had access to some actual grapes this harvest. The first batch were from some abandoned vines behind a coworker’s rental. I think they are Zinfandel, but I am not positive. I only found out about them after they were already on the vine too long, so they were way more sweet than I would have liked. That means a higher potential alcohol.
I recently got into homemade ginger beer, which means I have a bunch of kegs and a co2 tank. I decided to try something that I am going to call “super carbonic macération”. Carbonic macération is a pretty common thing in the wine industry already. If you put whole grapes in a pure co2 atmosphere, that co2 diffuses into the grape tissue and triggers certain metabolic pathways in the grape cells. As far as I understand, these are biological processes of the grapes themselves, not from an external yeast or bacteria. Carbonic macération uses this to break down the tissues and achieve a very powerful fruity flavors. (If you have ever had Beaujolais Nouveau, that is very typical of carbonic macération. If you are curious to try this, it will be released worldwide on November 19 this year. Ask around that time at your local wine store. Also, don’t save a Beaujolais Nouveau bottle for aging. It is not designed to age. Save it for Christmas if you want, but not much after that.) Anyway, I put my grapes whole into some kegs and pressurized them to about 12psi co2. As far as I can tell, there is research about atmospheric carbonic macération, and pressurized yeast fermentation, but not pressurized carbonic macération. After this process, the grapes tasted like they were sparkling when I ate them. Very unique effect. I actually might try this in the future with table grapes. They also tasted aggressively fruity, which means the carbonic macération went off perfectly.
I then did a traditional skin fermentation with a hand punch down once per day. I think I may have lost a lot of the carbonic aromatics, but it was still an interesting experiment. This batch has been finished for about 2 weeks now. I got the lab at work to run a panel:
TA: 7.0
pH: 3.58
Acetic acid: 0.13
Malic acid: 2.15
Residual sugar: 1.3
Alcohol: 15.68Standout info is it is very low in acid and very high alcohol. It’s about what I expected, but I will need to add acid before it’s particularly balanced.
I am also very impressed with the acetic acid number. Acetic acid is bad, and comes from poor sanitation and unclean fruit. I had very unclean fruit and that acetic acid is way lower than I was expecting.
Overall I am very happy with it. I am planning to blend it with my other batch (likely this weekend). I think I might burst carbonate it and make a sparkling red on tap.
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Comment on NotProton: Steam Play for macOS in ~games
Weldawadyathink LinkOh fantastic! I have always been frustrated with steam on Mac. I do realize that apple has ranged from indifferent to hostile to these sort of things, but come on. All the work is there to enable...Oh fantastic! I have always been frustrated with steam on Mac. I do realize that apple has ranged from indifferent to hostile to these sort of things, but come on. All the work is there to enable this. Someone just had to plug some things together. Apple even makes a directx to molten translation layer now.
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Comment on Productivity tools on MacOS in ~tech
Weldawadyathink LinkHyperspace (paid): Download more disk space! Apfs, the file system that apple uses, has a really cool feature called copy on write. When you make a copy of a large file, the copy happens instantly...Hyperspace (paid): Download more disk space! Apfs, the file system that apple uses, has a really cool feature called copy on write. When you make a copy of a large file, the copy happens instantly and takes up zero extra disk space.
(What actually happens is the system marks the data as copy on write. When you edit it, instead of editing the existing data, it makes a copy and then edits it. Since saving to an ssd requires writing a new version instead of editing in place anyway, you don’t notice a difference. But if you want a bunch of different instances of your 200gb photo library in 6 different places on your disk, it will fit with room to spare on a 512gb ssd since it’s only storing one true copy.)
However that all only works if you actually copy the files from finder. If you download the same file multiple times (like if you for some reason use npm instead of a proper package manager), this mechanism doesn’t work. This is where Hyperspace comes in. It will scan your disk, find duplicate files, and recreate them with the copy on write mechanism, freeing that space. Depending on your usage, you can save quite a bit of disk space.
I am currently messing around with different configs and whatnot for elite dangerous running in crossover bottles. I have ED installed in three different bottles for various tests. Because of hyperspace, it’s only taking up 50gb or so, not the 150gb that three separate installs would take.
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Comment on Blocking of unverified apps on Android starts in Brazil and other three countries in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentI don’t think it would be difficult. Don’t present it to the user at all. For example, if the phone is connected to adb during the setup process, and the user goes through the new procedure within...I don’t think it would be difficult. Don’t present it to the user at all. For example, if the phone is connected to adb during the setup process, and the user goes through the new procedure within the first 24 hours, skip the 24 hour wait part of the process. Any power user that knows they want unsigned apps can do that pretty easily. Other users don’t even know it exists.
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Comment on End of development of Orion for Linux and Windows in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentHow is Orion Mac now? I used it a while ago, but had weird performance problems with 1password extension and websites breaking in ways seemingly unrelated to WebKit (they worked fine in safari). I...How is Orion Mac now? I used it a while ago, but had weird performance problems with 1password extension and websites breaking in ways seemingly unrelated to WebKit (they worked fine in safari). I am using Vivaldi now, but would love to go back to Orion.
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Comment on Blocking of unverified apps on Android starts in Brazil and other three countries in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentJust to clarify, you would have only had to do this if google also revoked their developer account. This process isn’t for everything side loaded. It is only for apks that aren’t signed by an...Just to clarify, you would have only had to do this if google also revoked their developer account. This process isn’t for everything side loaded. It is only for apks that aren’t signed by an android developer account. I am not familiar enough to know what that situation was at the time. And even if their dev account was revoked, you can just install it with adb from a computer and bypass this entire process.
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Comment on Blocking of unverified apps on Android starts in Brazil and other three countries in ~tech
Weldawadyathink Link ParentI also think it’s a good idea and reasonable execution. The one modification I would make is have some way to bypass the 24 hour wait when setting up the phone. If you know already that you will...I also think it’s a good idea and reasonable execution. The one modification I would make is have some way to bypass the 24 hour wait when setting up the phone. If you know already that you will be developing with a phone, or installing unregistered apps, you should be able to set it up from scratch to do so. But besides that exception, I think it is a good policy.
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Roll Call in ~creative.timasomo
Weldawadyathink Link ParentI am using fresh grapes. Well, for some definition of fresh. My Zinfandel definitely stayed on the vine a bit too long. I’ll have more details in the first real post. If you live anywhere near...I am using fresh grapes. Well, for some definition of fresh. My Zinfandel definitely stayed on the vine a bit too long. I’ll have more details in the first real post. If you live anywhere near wine country, you might be able to find some grapes for cheap, and possibly free. It’s a bit late in the season depending on the area, but might be worth considering for next year?
If you need any help during your project, feel free to shoot me a message. I have a degree in winemaking, although my practical experience is a bit more limited.
I hope your cab goes well! Cab is one of my most favorite varietals. And I am lucky enough to be working with a cab house this year for harvest.
I want to share about my batch 2 of fruit. The winemaker where I work had one block she was very worried about. The fruit set was very poor this year, and this block in particular had a bunch of tiny berries on the clusters. She was at first worried that these would fall through the slits on the shaker table we use, and then decided that she didn’t want them anyway since they would be low sugar and high acid. With their permission, I grabbed a 5 gallon bucket and filled it with these tiny berries. I crushed it a bit by hand and let it ferment. Turns out the sugar was around 24 degrees brix, which is nearly identical to what the main lot was. I did once per day punch downs. I tried to keep it somewhat warm to speed it through fermentation. I had a lot of stems, and so extended stem contact would not have been good for the wine. It finished without an issue, and I pressed it by hand to get about 2 gallons of wine. I blended it with the Zinfandel that I talked about before. This wine was far better than the Zinfandel, but I didn’t want to deal with multiple different lots of wine.
The blended wine needs more acid, so I will be doing acid trials probably next week with one of the employees at work. After that, I plan to carbonate it in a keg and serve it from there. Saves me the pain of bottling it.