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mcc, 1 month ago to random

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

mcc, 1 year ago to random

As an indication of how badly this project has degraded my mental state, I at some point managed to create a file in the project directory named ":wq". Either you understand this post or you don't.

mcc, 7 months ago to random

Despite earlier worries, the new owners of Bandcamp, though they HAVE fired the entire employee union bargaining unit, are still holding Bandcamp Friday

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

This is great because it means if you do it TODAY, you can buy music without supporting the union busters

Here's my list of over 100 Bandcamp recommendations with micro-reviews:

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/922976-bandcamp-friday-reco

"Over 100 recommendations is too many. I want 1 recommendation"

Okay, listen to this song

https://chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spectra

mcc, 1 year ago to random

FFMPEG is so great… whatever it is you need to do with a video file, all you have to do is type "ffmpeg [thing i need to do]" into Google, copy-paste your first result, and then it doesn't fucking work

mcc, 3 months ago to random

The absolutely infuriating thing about Tumblr potentially starting to silently sell off your posts unless you affirmatively check a deeply-hidden opt-out box you can only find out about through word of mouth is, if I bring up my own Tumblr and try to scroll back more than a few posts, it stops me literally saying "Stop: Classified". So I don't get access to my posts, but OpenAI does.

https://chat.noelle.codes/@noelle/112005577930056541

mcc, 6 months ago to random

This stack overflow title is a short story

mcc, 6 months ago to random

Board of OpenAI fires Sam Altman and replaces him with a very small shell script

mcc, 5 months ago to random

IT HAS BEEN

[0]

DAYS SINCE A PROGRAM FAILED TO COMPILE BECAUSE PASTED SAMPLE CODE HAD BEEN PASSED THROUGH A SYSTEM THAT TRANSFORMED QUOTES TO SMART QUOTES

mcc, 1 month ago to random

OMG just got a CAPTCHA with an honest to goodness Treachery of Images "is this a pipe" problem

mcc, 7 months ago to random

Discovery: It is currently impossible in Google Image Search to search for "Underware", the 1995 Macintosh extension that animated your desktop image. It searches for "underwear" instead. It does ask "Did you mean: 'Underwear?'" but it no longer gives an option to say no.

Searching "Underware" in quotes does not help. Searching "Underware mac" gives you about 50% results related to Underware for Macintosh and 50% pictures of underwear.

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Learning about Dragonball Z

mcc, 10 months ago to random

About once every ten years there's a huge scandal where it turns out the NSA has been spying on basically everyone on earth without a warrant, and there's a big angry blowup and Congressional hearings, and there's an agreement not to prosecute if the NSA agrees not to do it again. And then ten years later it turns out they kept doing it, or rather, shut down the old program and started up a new program doing the same thing in a new way. (1/2)

mcc, 11 months ago to random

It's official: The new Big Thing in tech is services that "plan to turn on federation in three months"

mcc, 6 months ago to random

The Tautological Algorithm is the only currently known O(0) algorithm, and is an algorithm for creating a universe. The algorithm works on the principle that in order to be invoked, there must already exist a universe for it to be invoked in, and it supplies this pre-existing universe as output.

mcc, 1 year ago to random

Wait HECK the reason why that circa 2000 ISO software for like Windows ME or whatever was named "Nero" is because it burns discs. It is burning ROM. I only just now figured that out. This is so upsetting

mcc, 7 months ago to random

Something just occurred to me

• "GNU Imp" is a terrible program
• Also people are angry about the name
• By comparison Blender is actually kind of good now
• Also Blender has a cross platform GUI toolkit good enough it is now used by other applications (eg VCV Rack

Solve two problems at once: Build a 2D paint program on top of Blender's core libraries; name it Blimp

mcc, 6 months ago to random

This is a good idea, and every club should have one of these

mcc, 10 months ago to random

I rented a car and the rear view mirror is not a mirror at all but rather is a tiny LED screen showing the output of a camera. This is actually fucking terrible because I have no idea where the camera is, therefore I have no idea where this notional "mirror" is meant to be in space and therefore I cannot gauge distances, normally one of the main things you look into a rear view mirror to do

mcc, 8 months ago to random

The Fourth Law of Robotics, "A robot must never solve a CAPTCHA",

mcc, 4 months ago to random

In UI circles you sometimes see a (usually derogatory) label of "hover tunnel" given to a UI widget, like a clickless contextual menu, which requires you hover over an element then continue to hover over specific elements in order to keep the widget active. I would like to propose the term "Reverse Hover Tunnel" for the current YouTube front page, where you must move the mouse in strict and meticulous paths to avoid it beginning to autoplay random crap, possibly forever showing it as 10% watched

mcc, 3 months ago to random

I wish that it felt like Mozilla knew what Mozilla is for

mcc, 1 year ago to random

Here is the thing you have to understand about VCs (and therefore, companies and websites that have accepted VC money), always and forever. Repeat it like a mantra.

--- Venture capitalists do not invest in the company. Venture capitalists invest in the exit. ---

Eventually any site, app whatever has a Sell Out Moment. They get bought by a big established corp, they go IPO, something. There is an "Exit". If you accept VC money, you are promising that Exit day is coming and it will be big.

mcc, 10 days ago to random

I think my favorite program in the entire linux/unix toolchain is "file". Did you even know about this program? It's on every system including MacOS and it's magic. You run it on any file and it just tells you what it is. Any file. I don't know who keeps this updated but it supports surprising things. Like it knows Windows file formats. If it's a executable it tells you if it's 32- or 64- bit. If it's an image it tells you the size and channels. If the file extension lies it just figures it out.

mcc, 4 months ago to random

Naming my new AI startup DemiUrge™

mcc, 2 months ago to random

quietly under breath but in text i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity