FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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@Stem Also, re. the tool argument: https://humancode.us/2026/09/24/ai-is-not-a-tool
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Had an interesting online exchange with an event organizer who asked me to repost their AI-generated car event flyer. I declined, and they asked why because AI is the latest and greatest thing. They were really polite and curious about it, so I linked my site https://whynoai.info and thanked them for being curious.
A day later they came back to me and said that they now understood why I took my position and that they respected it.
I like to think that I helped shine some light on this topic for one more person.
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Let me be clearer about what that would entail. You want to set a reminder on your computer? Sam Altman wants that interaction to go through his data center. Not just the text and alert time, but the processing required to handle reminding as an activity. That's a tiny task relative to the power of any modern computer, but he wants to strip home computers down to the point where they can't do anything without routing the task through his company first. The goal is to capture computing itself.
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@hikari doesn't look like anything I can find for DOS, Apple, or UNIX, and the "Insert disk and type ENTER" part didn't return anything either. all of the standalone word processor devices I could find pictures of have very different displays to this.
interestingly it does have almost the exact list of menu items from page 374 of this 1998 paper on UX comprehension. https://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Kintsch%20-%201998%20-%20Comprehension.pdf
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“Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” (1991) is a Columbo episode where everyone is using this same word processor for what is presumably DOS. Does anyone recognise it?
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Turns out you can in fact run `gdb gdb` to find out where gdb is crashing. Not that I have the time to look into the gdb crash
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Welp, I just made gdb crash when trying to debug my program crashing. That's a new one
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Intel's stock imploded and the CEO started posting bible verses about fear and death on social media. 🎈📌
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"this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, *that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling*. This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house."
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EA. Get in the Nasir.
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modern society is "hey let's print out a QR code to various nutrition facts and cooking instructions instead of putting them on the label like we have been doing for decades"
QR code that just says "Fuck you" how about that?
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117535740628165125
friends dont let friends bug bounty
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every day they put new bespoke streaming service buttons on remotes
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roommates and i did pumpkin carving but we all got fucked up pumpkins
one is short and squat and slightly moldy, one is extremely thick, and bumpy like it has some sort of skin disease, and the other is pale white and smells like a melon
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Katie remains the queen of speed pumpkining
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Why don't we meet in the middle and call it superficial intelligence
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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