Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@earthshine Their dogs ate their homework, and we're collectively gullible enough to believe them.

@Chip_Unicorn For future cleaning that makes removing keycaps unnecessary, and if the keyboard has the right kind of switches on it, consider installing a set of typewriter-style keycaps instead of the original. Their short sides make the base and switch area so easy to access with tweezers and canned air without disassembly.

@Chip_Unicorn Remove the keycaps, and you'll have enough access to hit all the places where gunk likes to gather with swabs, rags, and canned air. Use a cheap but specialized keycap puller tool to lift straight up on the cap.

If it has scissor or butterfly switches, like laptop/notebook keyboards, then removing the keycaps is a different, delicate, and likely breakage-prone procedure that may make cleaning it infeasible.

@ellenor2000 @atax1a On its way to slop: AI code reviews at least.

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#user-content-version-control

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/3c8adaef712ce350

@arstechnica It also turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for real people who need assistive tech like screen readers to access websites.

@atax1a Of course it would be "how long since" instead.

The natural follow-up question is: How long until the other big thing Linus Torvalds made, Git, is turned to AI slop?

A Nigerian prince just added me to a Google Calendar event in Bangladesh in which my Paypal bought an iPhone at an Apple store on the other side of the continent and oh there's a convenient number for me to call to dispute it.

I have never seen this many classic scam stereotypes crammed into a single, actually-sent spam message before.