SSAB - January 28, 2025

新年快乐！过年快乐 or is it 过年好? 蛇年快乐！ And so on and so on! 除夕 evening in China, 春节 tomorrow, the Year of the Snake is upon us. New YT Short out: Happy New Year! So… is it appropriate to say Happy Lunar New Year? Or, do as the Chinese do and call it Chinese new Year? I guess the Ukrainians call their New Year “Malanka”. Realized something: these Apple Shortcuts - can I add multiple APPs to the same workflow? YES. AND… could I program it so it restarts the assisted connection device every time I open a certain APP? YES! That veep issue I had before with it timing out? Seems to be solved… just had to automate it. Why couldn’t it do it on its own? CCTV Spring Festival Gala on tonight, doesn’t seem to be as much negative response to it this year. And… DeepSeek… worth it or not? Well, how are they powering it, do they have an API, and… can we trust it the same way we trust ChatGPT?? Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com And on Notion: https://stevensirski.notion.site/SSAB-The-Audio-Blog-of-Steven-Sirski-00acfe344e164bfab191d3cddf6952b2?pvs=4 December Drumming 2024 over here: https://skrskimuzik.bandcamp.com/album/december-drumming-2024 Newsletter over at stevensirski.substack.com (soon to be AI generated!) Language vlog on http://www.youtube.com/@stevenslanguagevlog Hope you have a great Spring Festival Eve!! 00:00 Introduction and Initial Thoughts 00:22 Chinese New Year Reflections 05:37 YouTube Channel Struggles 18:01 Spring Festival Traditions 27:57 Apple Shortcuts Insights 33:11 DeepSeek and AI Musings 36:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts