Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Random Windows help:
If you're struggling to get your new Walmart printer to print from your new Walmart laptop, do two things. 1) Check that both ink cartridges are fully inserted and latched in. 2) Restart Windows 11, even if you think it doesn't need it. 3) Load enough paper to print all of the test print jobs you accidentally queued up.

The only truth in OpenAI's very name is the word "artificial," but even then, only if the name is an acronym.

The USA is buying 81 USSR combat aircraft for less than $20,000 each. https://www.india.com/video-gallery/why-us-is-buying-81-soviet-era-combat-aircraft-from-russias-ally-russia-ukraine-war-6893412/

This makes me unreasonably upset because 1) I'd need a loan of at least that much to buy the cheapest car, and 2) I can't imagine old Soviet planes being harder or more expensive to maintain than just-as-old American cars. I was somehow able to keep a Ford Tempo as a daily driver for years; I can't imagine a defanged MiG 27 being much harder for a discount Jetsons' future.

Also, since it's spam itself, the spam outfit behind it is overcharging, and the actual going rate per message for blasting spam is much, much lower.

That's why literally 10 million people could know spam when they see it, except just one who falls for its scam, and the spammer still comes out ahead.

(This isn't a rule on my instance. It's just good etiquette on any instance.)

Please add alt text to your images. It doesn't just help blind and low-vision people. It helps the fully sighted on crappy computers and crappy browsers and crappy connections to understand what you're showing us.

Please add alt text especially if you're sharing a text-only screen capture. The alt text description limit is a lot higher than the main post body text limit.

(...of out-of-copyright mathematical computation books.)

Current distraction: being a computer and doing all the downloading.

Happy Tax Panic Day, USA!

The day we suddenly remember that we need to take numbers the state and federal governments gave us, work some simple arithmetic in complicated formulas for them for reasons involving tax prep industry lobbying, give those numbers back to them, and hope they get the same results when they do the same math.

Falsehoods programmers believe:

* Thinking the gender binary can be encoded in just a single bit.

** In reality, the gender binary word size often exceeds the byte it takes out of your simplistic, need-to-unlearn understanding.