Paul Matula

Paul Matula

@paulmatula.bsky.social

1 Corinthians 9:16. Amateur spreadsheet guru. Not so secretly in love with all of the Gilmore girls. Future chairman of the #LynchburgDadClub @STATEnotCITY everywhere else.

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Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

My Dad encouraged me to read Dune when I was a teenager. He named me Paul. It's a family name on both sides, but it's clear there was the added attraction of it being linked to both the Apostle and Dune. I was born to resist AI. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Finally catching up on the Olympic opening ceremony and disgusted to see the AI slop immediately following all the athletes. Tragic to see the pinnacle of human athletic achievement followed by one of our greatest artistic lows.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

A few of the reasons I'm leaving Spotify/streaming services. Having dozens of playlists gutted with some songs/albums lost forever and others re-licensed under new compilations/remasters is frustrating. I wish I had the foresight to buy some of these albums years ago before they became lost to time.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

I lost my original iTunes account since it was tied to an AIM email. I didn't feel that bad since Google Play Music let me back all of those tracks up, except thousands of those songs are missing/corrupted when I pulled them back down, including ones purchased from Google.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Finally got around to finishing out our Plex server with our local live TV line up. I've had a Hauppauge TV Tuner for the Xbox One lying around relatively unused (aside from the occasional live sporting event) and got it running on our server. Easy activation, DVR set up, and decent channel pick up.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Just found an old screenshot of Facebook from 13 years ago. Wild to see how things have changed and consider a time when social media was a genuine tool to help enhance connection.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Had some issues with getting the ML link between our Immich server and my desktop working, but realized I had one setting turned off in Docker that was preventing it from reading the port properly. Got that fixed and now my older 2070 is able to run all the fun features in Immich for us!

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About halfway through getting our photo backups from Google in Immich and I think that photos duplicated across albums get hit in these counts. That said, learning that you have more than 100,000 photos between you and your wife is kind of crazy... We don't even have kids yet!

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

No more waiting around for the CPU in our NAS to process each one individually, and we should be able to get better facial recognition from utilizing the models for the CUDA cores too.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

About halfway through getting our photo backups from Google in Immich and I think that photos duplicated across albums get hit in these counts. That said, learning that you have more than 100,000 photos between you and your wife is kind of crazy... We don't even have kids yet!

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

It's been almost a week and I gotta wonder, has TWICE been holding back Chaeyoung? Her debut solo album is essentially perfect. It's KPop fueled by Frank Ocean (especially the first few tracks) and hits all the lofi girly pop vibes flawlessly.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Sometime between Genesis 2:16-17 (where God instructs Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) and Genesis 3:3 we know that Adam must have shared this instruction with Eve.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

This morning, I considered that Eve's error in the instruction might not be her own modification, but Adam may have failed to rightly handle the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15) We need the second Adam to wash us with the Word (Ephesians 5:26) because the first Adam might have failed to do so.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

"Nothing can be said in palliation or excuse of human guilt; and, therefore, he who bore its whole weight stood speechless before his judge." Morning and Evening by C.H. Spurgeon, reflecting on Matthew 27:14.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

I don't know why it's taken me this long but Severance is really channeling a lot of Dollhouse vibes, huh? I should have immediately picked up on it with Dichen Lachman's casting but this is just so much more than I could have hoped for a spiritual successor to Dollhouse.

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Just heard a real life human drop the classic "Yeah and I'll have a million dollars on the side" when ordering with the barista. Do I shake his hand? Do we all start slow clapping? What's the protocol here?

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

I haven't posted anywhere else online about it, but I started a coding job about 4 months ago. 4 months in and every day I still get to feel like an idiot when I can't a solve a problem, and then a genius when I solve it. (And inevitably feel like an idiot again during code review.)

Paul Matula
@paulmatula.bsky.social

Today is Thanksgiving 2023. 22 years ago today I played Halo: Combat Evolved for the first time at my cousin's house. This one game would change everthing and turn a Nintendo kid into an FPS fan.

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