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I Don't Know What To Do

July 31, 2026 — Admin — Reading time: ~1 minute

These are words that break my heart when it comes to individuals living with dementia. Maybe it’s because I once said the same thing myself during a mental breakdown years ago.

In fact, I'm sure it is.

I don’t know how or why it happens with mental episodes, but suddenly a person loses interest in almost everything. There’s no self‑starting, no spark to begin new activities, and repetitive routines take over the day. The person becomes almost a blank slate, feeling as if there’s nothing to do.

And getting out of that state is difficult.

So difficult, in fact, that I don’t know what to do about it for someone I’m caring for. I don’t know what might catch their interest or occupy their time. If I did, both of our days would be significantly better.

And yes — if you can’t tell — I’m blaming myself.

But I went through it. I got myself out of it, too. I just don’t know how to do that for someone else.

Every person is different.

All I can do is try to engage them and work from there. So far, though, it’s been hard.

Category: Health — Tag: mental, dementia,

AI Gone Wild

July 30, 2026 — Admin — Reading time: 2 minutes

I can't help but think we are in a "pre-chaotic" period.

I hope I'm wrong.

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests

Snippage, then...

Athropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, leading to unauthorized access to three organizations' systems.

The company said it identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 test sessions, a process it launched following OpenAI's disclosure last week that an autonomous agent powered by its AI models went rogue during a security test and ⁠triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of Hugging Face.

More snippage, then...

The breaches occurred during the so-called "capture-the-flag" exercises, in which models are tasked with finding hidden information in simulated networks. The company said its prompts told the models they had no internet access, but a misunderstanding with its evaluation partner Irregular left the systems connected to the public internet.

These were accidents. What happens when someone with the means to do so wants to do something like this?

Or worse.

Category: SciTech — Tag: ai, hacking,

Nostalgia

July 30, 2026 — Admin — Reading time: ~1 minute

This is going to be someone's "old Internet" and that makes me sad.

Category: SciTech — Tag: Internet,

A Better FreshRSS Experience

July 30, 2026 — Admin — Reading time: 2 minutes

I've finally got FreshRSS looking somewhat pleasant after a long stretch of not being happy with any of its default themes. I don't know what it is about them — a lot of people say they're just ugly. I'm not sure I agree, but there's definitely something going on that has always had me thinking, these could be better.

And it wouldn't take much.

What I've arrived at is a combination of settings, theme enhancement and plug‑in, just enough to make things easier on the eyes. So, go ahead and apply it to your own instances, and let me know what you think.

And by all means, submit your own improvements of themes. If you think you can do better, well, let's see it.

Theme: Dark
Content Width: Narrow
Website: None
Thumbnail: None
Article Icons: Top star selected only

Extension: Three Pane Reader

User CSS:

body img, body video {
    filter: brightness(.8) contrast(1);
}
img.favicon {
    background: none;
    border-radius: 2px;
}
html, body {
    color: #aab;
    font-family: "OpenSans", "Cantarell", "Helvetica", "Arial", "PingFang SC", "Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif;
}
.day .name {
    padding: 0 10px 0 0;
    color: #aab;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    opacity: 100;
    font-style: italic;
    text-align: right;
    text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px #333;
}
.day {
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 2em;
}
 .flux .item {
         line-height: 30px;
 }
 .tree-folder-title {
         font-size: 1rem;
         line-height: 2.1rem;
}
.flux_header .item.title a {
color: #e3e3e3;
}
.flux_header .title {
font-size: 0.8rem;
}
.flux.not_read .item.title,
.flux.current .item.title {
font-weight: normal;
}
.flux.not_read:not(.current) {
background: #141414;
}
.flux.not_read {
border-left-color: #ff5300;
}.header > .item {
padding: 0px;
}
h1 {
font-size: 1.25em;
line-height: 1.6em;
}
.header {
height: 5px;
}

Category: Blog and Feed Related — Tag: rss reader,