Notices by Jon Gilbert (jgilbert@mastodon.social)

It was a long time ago and my memory may not be what it used to be, but when the Pentium came out in '94 with its floating-point FDIV bug, I don't remember *nearly* as many people coming out of the woodwork to defend it as there are in the replies to this post about ChatGPT's inability to do math: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/112796170421418841

@inthehands "Ginger Finger Ringer" was my nickname in college!

"acceptable content" crackdowns like what's happening on StackOverflow now, and what has *already* happened on FB, twitter, blusky, et al) as detailed in https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112407660306483283 are just more reasons that you have to interject your social posts with as much occasional shitposting as you're comfy with, so that all those dumb language models they're building will be as ineffective as people are in real life.

Balls.

@ipg

@ryanhoulihan if it's cause of half-size discrimination, consider Solovairs

so I guess that's "Harvey", not "Henry", but regardless: that school's material source procurers are henceforth awarded one YIKE.

My sister, who is a teacher, just discovered that a statement of opinion from a one Dr Henry Valdez, a professor at Miskatonic University, is present in the teaching materials that third-party content writers provided to her and all her other co-workers. It's presented as a real place, with real students.

She discovered it after a student of hers cited the source in an assignment. None of her co-teachers or her principal knew it was there, or even what it is.

As someone who spent a large portion of '98 and '99 making sure shit didn't break on Y2K, I'd like to extend a very heartfelt FUCK YOU to HBO for greenlighting a piece of shit documentary that suggests that effort wasn't necessary.

@buttondown that's good to know, thanks for answering.

Is there a place that is spelled out in an AUP somewhere, rather than the *waves hands* ephemera that is social media? I scanned through your TOS, but nothing jumped out at me as a clear statement.

@schmutzie @buttondown ok, but.. does @buttondown have an officially-stated, explicit policy against bigotry and hate groups?

Forever mentally writing heist movie screenplays based on the four unrelated things in each How It's Made episodes:

Gummy candy, fishy farming, aluminum cans, and bronze sculptures.

Metal safes, dentures, airplanes, and maple syrup