Notices by Stewart Russell (scruss@xoxo.zone), page 2

@nev morse is used in a whole bunch of accessibility situations.

I've known a couple of computers that beep/flash boot errors in Morse

@tek @zompus There already was FreeFileFillableForms, the govt-supplied but TaxPrepCo-designed system. I had to use it a few times for my partner's returns, and it was foul.

Because it had clearly been developed with a "the government must not provide a value-added service!" mindset, its idea of helpful error messages were XPath validation warnings for missing fields. I am a big ol' XML nerd tho, so we got the filings done despite that

@owen aren't they hiding on the Hathi Trust server, at various levels of locked down (including not even available to the library that donated them)?

If Google does still have the scans, you can bet they are in LLM training data somewhere

@padraig yeah, because my post about the stick library mentions a word a bit like a crapto, I'm getting the spam.

We have a small overgrown suburban back yard. The neighbours don't like it. But today, we had 21 different species of #birds visit: American Goldfinch, American Robin, Baltimore Oriole, Clay-colored Sparrow, Common Grackle, Common Raven, Gray Catbird, Hermit Thrush, House Finch, House Sparrow, Nashville Warbler, Northern Cardinal, Northern Parula, Orchard Oriole, Ovenbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Tennessee Warbler, Veery, Warbling Vireo, White-throated Sparrow, White-winged Crossbill
#toronto

@laurelrusswurm @gemelliz I think we get a bye from our neighbours because the former owners used to get drunk and throw beer bottles at the mosque-goers, while their sons had broken into every house in the neighbourhood. We don't do either.

@joy I've seen several irate "... but ChatGPT says it can!" tech queries in the MicroPython community. I can't explain where anyone might get the idea to query such a thing.

Unless they think the I-part of 'AI' is real intelligence instead of a brain-fooling party trick