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mcc

Things you see when you install Blender

Windows protected your PC

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
More info
Blender setup
End user license agreement
Please read the following license agreement carefully

GNU General Public License
Version 3, 29 June 2007
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mcc

It's just never gonna stop bothering me… it's just never gonna stop bothering me!!!

The GPL "end user license agreement" in Blender. Arrows are pointing to

"You are not required to accept this License in order to receive to receive or run a copy of the program."

and the mandatory checkbox

"I accept the terms in the License Agreement"
mcc

I have been too busy to do AOC this year and will be all month

So I'm thinking I'm going to do AOC 2024, *in 2025*, under the following rules:

- One challenge per week.
- I don't have to perform a challenge every week. The goal is to finish by the start of December.
- I have to do a different programming language every time.
- C, C++ and Objective-C are not eligible languages.
- If I make an honest attempt at a language and fail, I may retry in Go (but only Go) (I need to learn Go)

mcc

Bonus rules

- ASM may be used more than once as long as it targets different language families (x86_64, RISCV, ARM, WASM).
- JavaScript and TypeScript are the same language.
- Rust and Unsafe Rust may be potentially counted as two different languages.
- I may use Perl/Python to "preprocess" file inputs into arrays of numbers or strings (but no more complex parsing) in the target language
- If I make an honest attempt at a language and fail, I may retry in Go (but only Go) (I need to learn Go)

mcc

Just attempted to use "Google Lens" to parse a QR code. It did a web search for similar images and presented me with a list of images containing QR codes. Horrible future

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Raven667

@mcc If Chrome doesn't have a QR code reader a part of the address bar, it should, as that is a nice feature of Firefox on mobile, just read the QR, don't try and guess what i wanted.

lp0 on fire :unverified:

@mcc, I have “Barcode Scanner+ Simple” installed for those things. No Artificial Incontinence to get in the way.

Simon Waldman

@mcc I've stopped using Lens for QR codes for exactly this reason. Of course this is what's integrated in google phones....

mcc

Currently feeling very comfortable with the idea of Mastodon being my primary online home

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Zelda 👑 Sky

@mcc Can't imagine where else I'd be. All I get on bluesky is endless likes zero retweets or replies, and a follow from someone with "kiwi farms" in the name every time I include an LGBT hashtag

Григорий Клюшников

Now I'm curious what kind of software they're using that allows and supports HTML in names.

mcc

Do you ever see a line in a piece of documentation that just makes you angry

Handling of local options                       local-options

Note: The following also applies to global-local options.
mcc

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

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Tuckers Nuts Resist😈!

@mcc
🥥 Eye don't understand what this post means, mcc, but it's got rubber ducks, so Eye boosted it. 🥥

patcanfield

@mcc so the rubber ducks don't get bored(stiff)

mcc

The number of transgender people who have ever been elected to the United States Congress has just gone from 0 to 1.

mas.to/@kims/11343363177103515

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belligerent metonymy

@mcc

fuck yes, delaware

mcc

Is this the first time in history someone has written these words in this order

dragon.style/@gutmunchies/1134

mcc

Trains are so great. Someone should invent trains

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pfabphilou

@mcc Here you can see ducks pretending to be trains

Two renfe Highspeed trains are linked to each other with their long noses
Norman Wilson

@mcc Reading this on a train. Endorsed.

Frank Sonderborg

@mcc Trains of thought, Bridal trains, and not forgetting those trains for moving unwanted water;-O

mcc

My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.

Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.

The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.

"We have made some updates to our Terms of Service. This version of the Terms of Service will go into effect on November 15, 2024. Until then, the current Terms of Service continue to apply."
The current, and post-Nov.15 versions of the Twitter TOS (non EU version), the section granting Twitter a copyright license. Highlighted is the new text in the Nov. 15 version only: "including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type".
mcc

This meeting could have been an email. This email could have been a slack message. This slack message could have been an emoji. This emoji could have been a knowing look. This building could have been a grassy field, this job could have been a rounding error, this company could have been an abattoir. This economy could have been a rat in a cage pressing a button over and over.

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Jaycie

@mcc Deeply and justifiably distressed at how specific and concrete of an example of that phenomenon comes so quickly to mind.

L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ

@mcc I had to sit with "This building could have been a grassy field" for a while.

João Pinheiro

@mcc What did the rat do to deserve that fate?!

mcc

A recurring thing I've seen happening to various Computer People over the last several years

Computer Person: "We don't need [new internet service]. This was unnecessarily complicating things. We have email. We can achieve this same thing using email."

*Three days pass while Computer Person migrates workflow to email*

Computer Person: "Oh wow email is completely broken now"

mcc

Oh, one last thing

"Did You Know: servo is still maintained under new leadership that exists outside mozilla"

feed.hella.cheap/@bob/statuses

Also Did You Know: You have the option of giving the Servo project five dollars a month ( using GitHub or OpenCollective: servo.org/ )

You will surely not regret giving the Servo project five dollars a month

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Michael Kohne

@mcc Is anyone using it in a browser yet? With Mozilla dabbling in AI, I might do with an alternative.

Colin Marquardt

@mcc Didn't see it mentioned yet that they are also on the Fediverse, so there: @servo

Pxl Phile

@mcc servo is a project I am super invested in!

good you shared the collective link. GitHub only supports credit cards so I quit earlier

mcc

What if we deal with the creators of Inktober and Nanowrimo being obnoxious by writing novels in October and drawing pictures in November

mcc

One of the things I've started doing with my new tablet is jumping into a language app (Pimsleur) to learn Japanese and a problem I'm running into, trying to say words out loud, is I keep wanting to drag out my consonants, both due to southern drawl and due to if I talk slower it gives me more time to think, except in Japanese phonetics how long you draw out your vowels has semantic content so my southern drawl is actually probably destroying the comprehensibility of the words I'm saying

mcc

Pimsleur is VERY CLEARLY adapted with almost no changes from a books on tape series, which… well you know what it works about a thousand times better than Duolingo so if the audiobook wearing a shoddy paper mache app costume turns out to be a *good* audiobook, that's a win

mcc

Poll (1 of 3):

Is fire alive?

Anonymous poll

Poll

Yes
79
18.8%
No
293
69.8%
Unsure
48
11.4%
420 people voted.
Voting ended 29 August at 20:17.
mcc

This post sounds like a joke dads.cool/@hex/112961980923861

However, it is not bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekj

Summary: A man signed up for a free 1 month trial of "Disney+". That trial contained an arbitration provision. Disney is now arguing in court that arbitration provision covers, literally, the Disneyworld theme park killing his wife

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Eva Chanda

@mcc
And 5 Supreme Court justices probably agree with this.😒

Daniel Marks

@mcc You may have already agreed to a click-through EULA that allows Disney to manslaughter you and compensate your next of kin with some free tickets to Disneyland!

C'était Marud depuis le début :mastodont_v2:

@mcc he should have read the CGU, he would have seen that they could also randomly pick one of his organs if needed.

this situation reminds me of the South Park episode with Apple and the human cent-Ipad

this is absolutely insane

mcc

Thinking about it, what we need is for every high school to have a single poorly secured server which is a honeypot, and if any student randomly happens to hack into it they get inducted into secret mandatory night classes in infosec. Like some kind of mage/samurai thing defcon.social/@defcon/11293449

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CyberFrog

@mcc@mastodon.social I feel like this is eerily close to how most hackers find their community anyway, just maybe this would make it slightly more official LOL

Alex Zandra

@mcc tfw you get sent to the weird teacher's office for messing with her chemistry(?) demonstration and making it blow up in her face because the cool kids dared you to only to learn you're not getting detention, you're her new apprentice and you start tonight

Mallory's Musings & Mischief

@mcc Holy shit that would be awesome! Secret hacker society

mcc

EFF's "privacy badger" extension today expanded its effects on your Chrome settings to disable the Google "Ad Sandbox". This disables not just Topics (the worst of Ad Sandbox's features so far) but also the other two features— including "Ad Measurement", a feature that Apple copied a couple years back and Firefox adopted as an "experiment" this month.

mastodon.social/@eff/112831156

The EFF here succinctly argues why all of these ad features should not be running on your computer:

EFF's "privacy badger" extension today expanded its effects on your Chrome settings to disable the Google "Ad Sandbox". This disables not just Topics (the worst of Ad Sandbox's features so far) but also the other two features— including "Ad Measurement", a feature that Apple copied a couple years back and Firefox adopted as an "experiment" this month.

Privacy Sandbox might be less invasive than third-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for your privacy. Instead of eliminating online tracking, Privacy Sandbox simply shifts control of online tracking from third-party trackers to Google. With Privacy Sandbox, tracking will be done by your Chrome browser itself, which shares insights gleaned from your browsing habits with different websites and advertisers. Despite sounding like a feature that protects your privacy, Privacy Sandbox ultimately protects Google's advertising business.
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Take It EV Podcast 🎙️

@mcc @lisamelton Reason no 48419375729 not to ever use google browsers. Any.

Tiffany Lynch

@mcc so privacy sandbox isn't private at all 🤷‍♀️

liebach; ++ungood; // 🏳️‍🌈

@mcc Oh, I had read about Google war against 3rd party cookies, and how that was just to protect their own business, but hadn't made the connection to the latest Firefox change.

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