Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social), page 5

I am just having the kind of morning that makes me want to crawl up into a tiny ball and then drop a bomb which propels me up to reach a higher platform

Multiple people on Bluesky accusing me of secretly working for Signal. No?? But are they hiring???

Had a fridge horror moment the other day when I realized part of why the AI scrapers are behaving so badly, ignoring robots.txt, hitting the same endpoint over and over etc, is that at least some of those AI scrapers are probably written using AI

Just learned that this was a thing. WTF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Characteristic

The government is taking dramatic steps in response to Teslas catching on fire and what's weird about this is they only care when there are *not* people in the car. If a Tesla catches on fire while it is empty that is a big deal to the government and they investigate it as terrorism and hate crimes. But if a Tesla catches on fire while people are driving it that is normal and the government sees nothing there to investigate

@lispi314 @mattblaze @ai6yr You may have a right to silence, but if the state can credibly charge you with a separate crime, they can induce you to waive that right in exchange for "voluntary" cooperation.

It is the case that the United States appears to be transitioning from government threats backed by legal force to government threats backed by wrenches. I am trying not to say anything alarmist in Mr. Blaze's mentions tho.

@ai6yr @mattblaze To be clear, it's slightly more likely that rather than a literal wrench a government entity will simply issue a subpeona for your (or your chat counterparty's) chat logs and threaten jail if you don't comply.

People of stigmatized ethnicities are being abducted by western democracies to undisclosed locations so quickly that I haven't even managed to post about the last incident by the time the next incident occurs

What's really funny about Firefox's new AI chatbot feature is you're probably *only* going to find out about it if it's by someone outraged about it on social media¹, because Mozilla snuck it in like a thief in the night.

¹ Sorry about that, by the way.

@robbo At the moment, your options for killing the Firefox chatbot are:

- Go to about:config in firefox. Search for browser.ml.chat.enabled . switch it to FALSE.

or

- Switch to LibreWolf. You may want to turn off "Resist Fingerprinting", which breaks things like time zones and "dark mode".

or

- Switch to Waterfox. This is most similar to basic Firefox but I personally am not sure if I trust Waterfox yet (for example, do I trust them to rapidly deliver security bugfixes)

This is not promoting Right Behavior

The thing the web browser wants you to think when it shows there is an update available is "oh snap, I'd better update, there might be security patches" but the thing I think now is just "oh fuck, if I install this update is Firefox going to cram AI into the browser"

Do you ever wonder what the total number of songs your brain can recognize is

@nora once on twitter read the words "a mermaid is a depoliticized siren" and i've never been able to get it out of my head

I *could* go to sleep… or I could file a 95-line bug report on cargo. Hm… *hmmm*…

@evan Probably not

@inthehands @lambdageek yes but what if we actually did it (as an art project) instead of pretending to do it (to scam people out of money)

@lambdageek Back before "neural network" meant "boil the oceans and elect a fascist President", I spent some time imagining a language whose parser is just a neural network trained on various other programming languages. Have it *guess* what you meant— a RNN could probably deduce "elseif", "else if", "elsif" and "elif" mean one thing. There's jokes about Python being "executable pseudocode". Why not make literally executable pseudocode. Like yes it's a bad idea but when has that ever stopped

Just discovered that Rust allows you to create a macro_rules that is scoped to a single function and I am doing ha ha ha yes sickos.png so hard right now

A thing I've been thinking about a lot is how, whether, technology like computers and computer screens could be made "locally", i.e., within a limited area and without access to global trade in parts and minerals, even if you have to make drastic trade-offs to get there

https://www.theverge.com/news/631357/elecom-power-bank-battery-sodium-ion