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. Bonus rules - ASM may be used more than once as long as it targets different language families (x86_64, RISCV, ARM, WASM). 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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@mcc, I have “Barcode Scanner+ Simple” installed for those things. No Artificial Incontinence to get in the way. @mcc I've stopped using Lens for QR codes for exactly this reason. Of course this is what's integrated in google phones....
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@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 Now I'm curious what kind of software they're using that allows and supports HTML in names.
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@mcc What usually makes me angry in docunentation is looking up a function and it being blank. That is a doozy though. 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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@mcc The number of transgender people who have ever been elected to the United States Congress has just gone from 0 to 1.
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@mcc Trains of thought, Bridal trains, and not forgetting those trains for moving unwanted water;-O 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 https://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. 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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@mcc I had to sit with "This building could have been a grassy field" for a while. 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" Oh, one last thing "Did You Know: servo is still maintained under new leadership that exists outside mozilla" https://feed.hella.cheap/@bob/statuses/01J77J5N92A840QW1ENSAN53RG Also Did You Know: You have the option of giving the Servo project five dollars a month ( using GitHub or OpenCollective: https://servo.org/ ) You will surely not regret giving the Servo project five dollars a month
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@mcc Is anyone using it in a browser yet? With Mozilla dabbling in AI, I might do with an alternative. What if we deal with the creators of Inktober and Nanowrimo being obnoxious by writing novels in October and drawing pictures in November 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 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 Poll (1 of 3): Is fire alive? Anonymous poll
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No
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Unsure
420 people voted. 48
11.4%
Voting ended 29 August at 20:17. This post sounds like a joke https://dads.cool/@hex/112961980923861421 However, it is not https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go 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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@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! @mcc he should have read the CGU, he would have seen that they could also randomly pick one of his organs if needed. 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 https://defcon.social/@defcon/112934497669260607
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@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 @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
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@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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