Note - March 21, 2026, 5 p.m.

Human.json

I have seen more and more people talk about human.json lately and I think it is a pretty neat idea. From what I can tell it checks all the boxes I would expect from a protocol like this.

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Note - March 20, 2026, 8:48 p.m.

Jimei Palace - Lux

Back in 2024, I ordered the Worlds (basically their World Cup?) statue of League of Legends. I did not hear anything from Riot for over one and a half years. When I opened a support ticket, I got the very helpful response, “We did not cancel your order.” I checked twice if they snuck in the word "yet" somewhere. But just a few months later, my prepaid statue of Luxanna Crowngaurd finally arrived.

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Post - March 18, 2026, 7:15 p.m.

DLSS5

When the RTX 5090 was released I was already very much not in favor of the whole DLSS marketing that went into it and how it gave a very unrealistic view of the performance compared to the previous generation. Companies obviously make numbers look as good as possible during release announcements. Thankfully most reviewers simply do their own benchmarking and we get numbers without imaginary frames. But like power connectors going up in flames Nvidia found a way to double down on stupid.

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Note - March 17, 2026, 9:55 p.m.

MacBook Neo camera indicator

There is an update to Apples platform security guide explicitly addressing the camera indicator. As I was playing the "think of the children" card when collecting my thoughts about the Neo I thought it is worth mentioning that things are a bit more nuanced than I made it seem. We all know Apples hardware security and Secure Enclave is pretty good(tm).

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Post - March 15, 2026, 10:58 p.m.

TTS adventures

Another week working on LazerBunny and things are progressing. Not as expected but that is fine. I spent some time with text to speech this week, generating voices and trying to clone one. It has been a rollercoaster, not just thanks to the tooling.

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