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A THING I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ERROR MESSAGES

Language: NullReferenceException, the object was null on line 37

Me: Which object?

Language: The one on line 37

Me: Yes, but which of the objects on line 37?

Language [patronizingly]: It was null

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(In this particular situation, after investigation, the answer to the question turned out to be "the one on line 39".)

mcc,
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@ratsnakegames as far as I'm aware modern Java improved a TON of stuff and that's very academically interesting but if you actually USE Java now Oracle will just sue you so what's it help?

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Adobe did the thing companies that host and sync data keep doing: they updated their terms in what is a reasonable way without a) giving advance warning and a thorough explanation and b) realizing that the legal niceties sound horrifying to an average person. Adobe can’t legally safely host your content without a license. This updates mostly adds compliance issues that are govt focused—and should be examined. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use

mcc,
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@glennf I don't think this "explanation" helps at all. They don't justify why this data needs to be on their server rather than at rest on the user computer, and I don't see where they make it clear what you'd need to do to prevent exfiltration to "the cloud" or applicability of the bad terms. Some of the justifications they give as to when and why they apply tos terms are either so elastic they could mean anything ("to improve the service") or are the exact features people are afraid of ("AI").

mcc,
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@glennf A bad power granted for a reasonable reason can be used for a bad reason later. I don't see anything convincing in this post that they're even granting for reasonable reasons. I do not feel convinced reading this that if I used Photoshop I would have control over when Adobe uploads my data off the computer. And none of this helps with the widespread alarm that Adobe may unilaterally push new tos terms on users overnight and they cannot decline, not even to uninstall the program.

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A funny thing about Google's terrible "AI" is that sometimes when people try to defend it, they say "but if you don't want Google to use 'AI', wouldn't that mean they'd have to remove 'Featured snippets' also?", and this is extremely humorous because featured snippets are also consistently terrible and I've been watching people make fun of them constantly for like ten years

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The other funny thing about Google's terrible "AI" is when it shows you an "AI result", it usually ALSO shows you a featured snippet underneath, which means (1) the entire page is filled up with Google boxes and you can't see even a single result (2) it becomes really, really obvious that "AI results" are invariably the same content as "Featured snippets", except the "AI result" strips out the attribution and context that would have allowed you to figure out if it's an Onion article or not

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@Ash_Crow I guess, but if they didn't show us the AI result wouldn't that mean they have room to show us the featured snippet plus the first n pages?

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@apaleslimghost i need to pet the bird

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An intrusive thought I return to often is how "I want a pony" is the canonical example of an unreasonable request but, like, if you look into it even a little you'll find it's not hard at all to acquire a pony. On raw purchase price a pony is far cheaper than a car and probably not much more than a good ebike. You're gonna have to invest time and money into pony upkeep but, of all the aspirational goals you could set yourself in life "a pony" is one of the more attainable ones

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I have similar unproductive kneejerk reactions to "the sky is blue" as the canonical example of a undeniable, basic factual truth (the sky can take many different colors, varying in both time and space; someone insisting "the sky is blue" as an axiomatic, unchanging truth is necessarily denying someone else's lived experience) and also the cliche "you can't have your cake and eat it too" (eat half the cake now and save the other half for later. Don't you have a refrigerator?)

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Now THIS truism, I will accept https://infosec.exchange/@DaveMWilburn/112571839735840463

mcc,
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@ratsnakegames You hereby grant us an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit the cake in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented

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The Kensington Market petrification wizard is back https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110379663517628624

I think I must not be the only one kinda weirded out by these fliers, cuz I saw at least one where someone had ripped out the image of the woman being turned to stone while leaving the contact numbers untouched

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Men are always saying this https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/112547724546996006

mcc, to random
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A thing I don't get: Why is it when checking out from the public library ebook app a book which is in the public domain, I have to "borrow" a copy which gets "returned" after the normal period, instead of the ebook app just downloading the Standard Ebooks version and letting me keep it?

(I know the reason: It's because the ebook app is a monopolistic tech company that was recently bought, and probably soon to be hollowed out, by venture capital https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/overdrives-new-owners-what-means/ . But I don't accept it)

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A quick #WebGPU PSA: the async method adapter.requestAdapterInfo() is being replaced with the attribute adapter.info. You can try it now in Chrome Canary!

https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/commit/9e908a7dca56215132ec7afc8962b18f993bbd2d

requestAdapterInfo will stick around in Chrome for a little bit while we monitor usage, but we plan to eventually remove it and leave just adapter.info. From what I hear Firefox and Safari are considering only shipping the adapter.info variant.

Read on for a thread about why!

mcc,
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@tojiro So do I understand adapter.info is not a new API or something being added to the standard, it's just that the tier-one/fallback api is now going to be the only api?

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I don't know if I can communicate to cis people the horror of going through the wrong puberty. Your body is being turned against you from the inside and it goes on for years. The transphobic wedge strategy decrees there are no legitimate trans folk under 16, so puberty blockers are a kind of compromise— freezing the poison in your blood in place until you turn 16 and are allowed medical self-determination. The Conservatives have made even this half-mercy a criminal act. https://lgbt.io/@gendercensus/112564150066141141

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Note: The original form of the above post said "18", I have double checked and per the official docs the NHS says trans people are eligible for HRT at 16. I am not in Britain. I don't know how that "16" line is modified by other policies, harassment campaigns ( https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/04/02/tavistock-britains-biggest-gender-identity-clinic-has-closed/ ) and/or the Conservative emergency order. What I have heard from every British trans person is that getting the NHS to prescribe HRT at all is like pulling teeth from a gorilla.

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This reply https://sfba.social/@fluffydotorg/112570504094985684 raises the question of the effect on cis minors needing gender affirming care (this happens all the time—various minor conditions can cause cis women to grow facial hair, it's easily treated with the same antiandrogen trans women get), however if you look at the order text https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/727/made it appears to have a carve out for uses "other than gender dysphoria". They're not pretending the drugs themselves are unsafe. They just think trans people are invalid

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Again I'm not in Britain, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know how to read this order (I think I know how to read American laws and executive orders, but this no), the exceptions section is spaghetti.

I'd argue that if (for example) a cis woman gets treatment for gender incongruous effects of PCOS, that's treating "gender dysphoria or gender incongruence" but I'm assuming that's not legally the case here. The intent seems to be a carveout where cis people can get the drugs but trans people can't.

mcc, to random
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Neologistics

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I don't want to switch from Chrome to Firefox because Firefox is worse, so Google has been helpfully making Chrome continually worse so I won't have to worry about that

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1 AM,, unable to sleep I wonder if anyone's ever written a story where Emily Dickinson was a vampire

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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "The Angler", Mateusz Wicher

A lo-fi, indistinctly unsettling hip hop jam getting a lot of mileage out of desktop equipment. Roland's 2021 refresh of their old 00s sampler, glitchy guitar and some noodling on the Volca Keys. The YouTube summary describes the genre as "Boom bap".

The voiceover sample is from an interview with surrealist horror artist Zdzisław Beksiński, so, extra content on this one for any Polish speakers reading this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f11FIys81lg

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