Muted Reddit’s auto-subscription after it became intolerable

~ Veselin ~ 2 Comments

Reddit somehow detected that I’m interested in AI and Data and auto-subscribed me to several hundred AI and Data subreddits. This turned their feed to an endless slop machine. Every single pre-IPO hype post or or doom prophecy would pop on my feed multiple times per subreddit, 5 if it was Sam Altman’s. Multiply that by at least 100 AI subreddits and you get the idea. You are scrolling and scrolling without seeing a single cat. Claude this, Sam Altman that, Anthropic this, I vibe coded this genius thing, and then Sam Altman again.

Rather than adding Reddit to the list of sites I ignore, I followed the subreddits where I’ve recently posted comments, and then disabled the following setting:

I greatly recommend this approach. Cats, rockets, and cars showed up again. The apocalypse is muted.

Limping Park

~ Veselin ~ 2 Comments

I managed to do 3K steps today. My knee is better, only hurts when walking. The pain at rest is gone. However, I think I won’t be able to do the daily steps challenge for another week or so.

Meanwhile, the winter decided that it’s not over yet and surprised us with snow. The weather forecast says it will be summer within 3-4 days. Not sure who to trust on that. Sofia has this tendency to stay cold when the nearby mountains are covered with snow, and they will be for another month.

Why so serious

~ Veselin ~ 10 Comments

I had a health scare today. Bumped my knee into a concrete trash can right outside a playground. I suspect making steps won’t be possible for some time but at least nothing is broken, other than my plans.

I moved the damn trash can out of the way. Whoever put it right at the exit of the playground was evil.

Here’s a cat photo from my only walk for the day. This is a mighty fluff, species unknown.