Notices by Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)

@shtrom Gotcha. I have a very customized DDG config I save to use across all my machines. Haven't tried a blacklist as a gate though... I'll take a look. @futuresprog

@shtrom Isn't noai.ddg just a search with their AI stuff turned off or am I missing something? @futuresprog

@futuresprog I haven't lately. Forgot about it TBH. Might be time to give it a fresh look.

@Starfia Sure seems like it. Clicking on damn near anything (sans Wikipedia and a couple of other good sites, when they actually appear in the results) takes you to nothing but AI slop.

@futuresprog I've got all the explicit AI shit turned off but all the results go to AI slop anyway.

Even DuckDuckGo has gone to shit at this point. I hate the 20s.

It’s our first Cubs game this season. We have the worst seats possible (even though we trusted the app for the only “excellent” seats available). They’re getting killed but the weather is amazing so I’ll take it.

After using oh-my-zsh for years I finally ripped it out of my machines this week. With a little work on my standard zsh config I just didn’t need it anymore. It always feels good to remove extra cruft!

@hydrian I think it probably is in my case. For her though… OMG! That sounds horrible!

@ramsey Ugh. For us her family just won’t go anywhere else. Unless it’s their mother or the SIL whose house makes me sick, no one else is really considered.

@ramsey Oof. At least you know what it is. Does she at least turn them off when you visit?

I’m seriously debating getting White Sox tickets just for the Pope Hat giveaway (we usually go to a few games a year as my wife is a fan).

@ramsey I really don’t know, probably a little of everything. There other sister says she gets the same, but not every time. For me I’m miserable every time we go.

So it took 3 hours at my SIL’s house for me to develop a migraine. It happens only there but every single time we’re there. I hate it.

@tenzochris Honestly, refreshing has been the theme of the season and after worrying about relegation just a couple of years ago, I'll take it.

@tenzochris Oh nice! I can't watch the game but when I last saw the score we were down 1-0

Stop 👏🏻 emailing 👏🏻 OTP 👏🏻 codes 👏🏻 instead 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 prompting 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 passwords!
Latest culprit is Netflix. I have a password. It's in my password manager. Ask for it *before* sending me an unsolicited email and making me dig for the "just use a password" option! 🤬

The location of remaining WordCamps is really no surprise when you consider the “community” has been clear that it doesn’t want to pay US wages. I still see some talk about people “reviving” them here and I don’t get it. Even sadder that most of that talk is from people here who can no longer afford to take WordPress jobs.

The wanderlust has been strong again lately.

@logan perfect!