@angelastella@toddztoonz@Binder@GustavinoBevilacqua Exactly. It genuinely horrifies how many websites and apps now literally will not take No for an answer, and leaves me vert uncomfortable about the mental state of the people who design those sites and apps.
@robpike Related: I use bt.com once a month to pay my broadband bill. If you click the "remember login" button, it remembers for 28 days.
This means there is a 50% chance of it working once per non-leap year (when I login in March after a 28-day February, depending on whether it's earlier or later in the day).
@petersuber@OpenAlex I want this to succeed, but from my brief poking around it's nowhere near up to Google Scholar's standard. I search for "xenoposeidon" to find myself, clicked through to my author page at https://openalex.org/authors/a5069719980 and found I wrote 326 works (closer to 30), and have 10 affiliations (I have three). Obviously has me conflated with other Mike Taylors.
@dale Number one: fix the bug that means after a week or two it suddently starts using a ton of CPU and has to be shut down. It is BY FAR my biggest problem with Firefox.
Number two: stop talking about integrating "AI" features. NO-ONE WANTS THIS.
Amazon Prime's ad-powered enshittification reaches the UK. I got the email this morning.
I 100% will not be paying them the extra ยฃ3 a month ransom to avoid the adverts. The question is whether to cancel Prime completely; or keep it for the free deliveries, and just not watch the enshittified video.
@pfefferle@selfawarepatterns No, not at all โ I am genuinely surprised, borderline shocked, that this code is not only being written but actually deployed with such alacrity.
"โGodfather of AIโ Geoff Hinton, in recent public talks, explains that one of the greatest risks is not that chatbots will become super-intelligent, but that they will generate text that is super-persuasive without being intelligent, in the manner of Donald Trump or Boris Johnson." https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
Infuriating to find that #LibreOffice, on which I created the 13 Mb, 64 slide deck for my #SVPCA talk, cannot export it as a PDF: it crashes every time, even when I save my PPTX as an ODP, quit, open the ODP and try to export from that.
I am running LibreOffice v7.6.0.3 on Mac OS X 12.6.8.
@thomasfuchs And that is what's perplexing. Especially as they have just watched, in real time, as the importance of the question of who runs a network has become very very apparent.
As Twitter self-immolates, I am seeing people I know setting up on Bluesky.
I find this perplexing. Can people really not learn the lesson that a social network owned by a capitalist is a social network they don't control?
You can argue about whether Bluesky or Mastodon has the better technology, but what's 100% clear is that Mastodon is run BY users FOR users. And that difference is the only one that matters in the end.
By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years.By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs.I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and also for open peer-review though I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support #LFC.Email: dino@miketaylor.org.ukORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675