Notices by Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb@mastodon.social), page 2

OpenAI stealing Scarlett’s voice for their new product after being told “no” is so perfectly on-brand, it’s almost painful. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

Harrison Butker: “the highest calling for a woman is to get married and raise children”

Benedictine nuns: “are we a JOKE to you, Harrison?”

Just came across my first AI Overview search result. AI-plus work here, good job everybody, no notes, you’re doing great sweeties.

@eaton Wilhoit’s Law once again rears its ugly head.

Hanging out with https://events.indieweb.org/2024/04/front-end-study-hall-FHS5M2AofkU4 this afternoon — come join us if the topic sounds interesting to you.

Google Vault out here reminding people to destroy evidence of their crimes, just in case they forgot.

Today my main accomplishments were blowing raspberries with my 7mo granddaughter back and forth for like ten minutes; finding a new way to make her giggle uncontrollably; and soothing her from crankiness to a nap, twice.

Few days have been better spent.

@eaton They’re just what now?

I think that washer load might have been a tad unbalanced.

Every time I see a reference to Hugging Face, this is what I envision.

Open-source maintainers are coping with a rising flood of people submitting PRs that are just LLM-generated code, and I just. I mean. What is wrong with people that they didn’t immediately vomit the first time they tried this. Copy the output of an overengineered autocomplete and try to pass it off as my own work, while adding to someone else’s burdens in the bargain? I would rather die first.

If Apple sticks to their declared intentions, web devs outside the EU won’t be able to test their sites/webapps/whatever against the non-WebKit iOS browsers that will exist in the EU.

So, get ready for aggressive browser sniffing and “best viewed in/please switch to” badges making a comeback, because those are easy responses to this. Not good responses, at all, but humans are nothing if not lazy.

Happy arbitrary Gregorian boundary condition.

Today I learned about Mozilla’s new AI startup from my gas pump. Stop the future, I want it to be less stupid.

BRING BACK THE 3D PAGE INSPECTOR YOU COWARDS

'tis the season for us to hold this timeless message close to our hearts.

SomeBODY once told me
About the way he trolled me
By messing up the plans in my head
I was feeling kinda numb
Hearing that the cold sweet plums
Which I’d saved for myself, he ate instead

It’s been 30 years since I typed my first HTML tags. Sometimes I wonder how many more years of that I have before me, but I do kind of hope I at least make it another 20. Anyway, here’s a two-minute read about that night and what, exactly, I was marking up — including a link to a copy of that very first page.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/06/three-decades-of-html/

I really like this experimental typeface — it’s exactly the kind of thing I’d hoped typographers would do with variable fonts. And at least one of the axes really appeals to me, so that’s a plus. https://marbla.de/

I know a couple who met in front-end coding bootcamp and ran off to get married without telling anyone beforehand. And that was the day they truly became web dev elopers.