mcc

glitch girl

pronouns: she/her
main project: https://mermaid.industries
on cohost: https://cohost.org/mcc
avatar by: Dana

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mcc_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

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2024-08-25 20:51:49

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They decided unlike Mastodon they were going to do everything on a wide-open broadcast model, and then it turned out their users really really did not want a wide-open broadcast model and wanted Mastodon-style data containment, and so they bodged in some data containment but because it was added thoughtlessly after the fact it doesn't work cleanly like the Mastodon equivalent does :(

2024-08-18 03:09:43

A minor thing that sucks in modern life is you bring up a video, you want to check something at the very end of the video, but whatever fucking tv-remote app interface you're using doesn't have a way to either jump to a location or fast-forward at more than like 4x, so you're either hitting "forward 10s" 100 times or sitting there waiting for it to scrub through a half hour or an hour or an hour and a half when this is digital video and it COULD just jump to the moment if the UI would let you

2024-08-16 23:55:15

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oh, I am sorry.
Also I gave a wide window because it depends wildly on your hair color.

2024-08-16 23:48:43

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This is mechanistically achievable but it's going to require several thousand dollars and two to five years of biweekly unpleasantness

2024-08-16 23:39:34

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As far as I can tell, the premise of this anime, artistically speaking, is "I'm going to write a wish fulfillment light novel, but all of my wishes are really basic and mundane"
Also, I think the original light novel author may have some lesbian feelings they aren't fully facing. Unless the author identifies as male. But that would only raise further questions.

2024-08-16 23:29:03

I am happy to report that this very mediocre anime I've been watching finally busts out the fetish content in episode 7

2024-08-15 20:31:53

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(On an unrelated note, of course: Single-occupant restrooms should not be gendered, ever. Why was this ever a thing)

2024-08-15 20:26:51

This is something I think about in context of "why don't we just make a third bathroom for the transgenders?"
https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/112967841865563341

2024-08-15 17:47:25

Toronto should like, paint the CN tower top ring four different colors, split up into four quadrants aligned with the city grid north/south axis. That way, looking at the CN tower would not only tell you how far away from the CN tower you are, you could also orient yourself within the city if you were lost depending on what color the CN tower was from that position

2024-07-12 20:40:56

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Anyway, I guess that's a lot of typing. The TLDR is:
- There is now a feature labeled "Privacy-preserving ad measurement" near the bottom of your Firefox Privacy settings. I recommend turning it off, or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.
- I have filed two bugs on Firefox about this, which I am choosing not to link to dissuade brigading. If I have not been banned from the bug tracker by next week I will file another bug about the ChatGPT integration in nightly

2024-07-10 01:53:27

Depraved anime weirdos: You should watch episode 1 of "VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream". No, don't bother looking up what it's about. It's exactly what it says in the label
Regular people who simply like Japanese animation: I have no particular recommendations for you at this moment

2024-07-07 22:39:36

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Spent hundreds of person-hours on this
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/747/606/764/602/919/original/3affdc55f60dde66.png

2024-07-06 01:13:24

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I remember being so excited when Dragon Maid showed what Ms. Kobayashi was typing on her screen in one episode and it was actually extremely plausible Python for the kind of stuff she was doing, down to and including some really bad development practices visible on the screen

2024-07-06 01:02:47

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Like the real problem here is that "QA best practices applied in a fantasy or sci fi world" is the kind of nonsense I'd have expected to be all over but I cannot help the feeling this stuff is just coming off an assembly line at this point. I hate it when people make me hate things I like

2024-07-06 00:35:05

"Quality Assurance in Another World" i dunno how i feel anymore about the process for deciding which animes get made

2024-07-05 02:21:43

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unsure if response is wanted:
I have never seen /emphasis/ like this before this post, I can't even guess what community that's from. In the communities I've been in slashes around a word indicate a joke about "regular expressions" from programming.
The pre markdown convention I'm used to is *asterisks* being bold and _underscores_ being italics.

2024-07-03 19:14:38

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I'm used to the American mindset where my own country's drones are killing a steady stream of people in undeclared wars that go on for decades, and that virtually no average citizens are aware is happening. And my only choice at the voting booth is whether this should happen "relatively more" or "relatively less", never being asked whether it should happen at all…
…the Ukraine war is so different, if for no other reason than it feels like the world is really paying attention.

2024-07-02 22:43:18

I have a spare partition I set up for experimenting with an alt OS. What should I install on it
(Note: If I install Pop!_OS it's to evaluate it to run it on my laptop instead of Ubuntu. The other two are for "fun". Redox is an experimental Rust-based OS. Haiku is the BeOS clone.)

2024-07-02 22:31:06

On google was meaning to search for "hydrocarbon" but accidentally typed "hydrocabron" and now I'm wondering what that would be. A guy who's at the lake with a jetski and he's bullying all the swimmers? Like just driving way too close and splashing them with the wake and the swimmers are all like tu puta madre! and he's like jajajaja

2024-07-02 22:20:16

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Yes, hydro power is solar power. All gravity is doing in hydro power is converting potential energy into kinetic energy when the water goes downhill. But it was solar energy that did the work of creating that potential energy by moving the water uphill in the first place

2024-07-02 18:34:38

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The Oil Drum once posted this graph separating energy sources into
Solar (Solar, Wind, Biodiesel, Hydro)
Paleo Solar (Gas, coal)
Fusion (Fusion)
Paleo Fusion (Fission)
Gravitational (Tidal, Geothermal)
And like… huh, that's accurate, it's just totally unhelpful

2024-07-02 18:30:43

Do you ever think about how wind power is just solar power with extra steps

2024-07-01 14:34:28

Saw this post about a critical vuln in OpenSSH sshd, panicked, immediately went to update my VPSes, noticed that none of my VPSes actually *received* an update to sshd in the update, scratched my head, investigated a little further and discovered that in fact the versions of sshd I was running on my VPSes were all *too old* to have been eligible for the vulnerability bug in the first place.
W… winning???
https://chaos.social/@tobiasgies/112710496797063050

2024-06-24 13:45:15

Just basically gonna have to assume for the rest of our lives that any cloud/content hosting service offered for free is at best temporary and at worst some kind of trap
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/671/881/221/377/599/original/9a5c9dec22698e07.png

2024-06-20 16:31:56

Found myself adding this helper function to my C# code because I was repeating this block of code so many times. Why is this not in the standard library? Is it in the standard library?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/649/901/912/750/230/original/de5bca574d71a9af.png

2024-06-19 11:04:43

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These are British codes I'll have you know

2024-06-19 10:55:16

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/642/914/275/941/392/original/d877a4868252287d.jpg

2024-06-18 17:24:56

Framework is releasing a RISC-V laptop! https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/112638098841106104
If you like looking at disassembled computers, scroll to the end of the thread for a random board bringup pic.

2024-06-17 17:34:19

Is there anyone reading this who is in France and transfemme and would be ok to answer a couple questions about French medical stuff?

2024-06-17 10:33:15

Computer things that frustrate me
- Programs automatically switching me to "dark mode" after an update to indicate they have added a "dark mode", without asking if I want to use "dark mode".
- Forms that accept addresses in Canada, but then reject postal codes containing letters. (Amazingly, this keeps happening.)
- Some other things also I guess

2024-06-15 17:08:58

Have you ever had an experience like, you're walking down the street, there's a piece of litter, and you kind of like, kick it by accident, your foot grazes it, and suddenly you feel a compulsion to pick it up and put it in a trash can? This is litter, it wasn't your problem, but then you accidentally touched it and it Became your problem, somehow the act of touching it tagged it as "yours" and now the superego says you're obligated to deal with it?
That's what open source contribution is like

2024-06-15 11:58:02

When you are not Lazarus
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/620/513/347/284/824/original/a63962d3792a8ff3.jpg

2024-06-15 10:32:17

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Definitely would be interested in joining a band named "DEATH ANGLES"

2024-06-15 10:30:17

The Texas Department of Transportation calls this the "No Zone" but honestly this is a lot more metal
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/620/166/727/774/265/original/2c64b9c874e0405d.jpg

2024-06-12 23:34:33

So apparently the city of Portland is giving away free air conditioners this summer? You have to qualify under a household income threshold but it looks like you've got at least a 1 in 3 change of qualifying https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-free-air-conditioning-units-311/283-24361b3a-f195-4c31-82d6-481a6533345e

2024-06-11 23:15:06

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You are on Android? Do you find something like this pane anywhere under Google->All Services?

2024-06-11 21:55:49

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Okay!! It CAN be disabled!! Thanks to @npub1gq2…s67x I now know:
- Go into Settings->Google->All Services->SMS Verification Codes, or Settings->Google->All Services->Autofill->SMS Verification Codes (Traverse the menu, don't search "Autofill" that won't find it)
- There are two checkboxes, one for Google Play Services, one for Chrome (I believe this is called "WebOTP"). I had the former disabled already, but I guess the latter can count if an app uses a web view
- Google's documentation is just wrong
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/600/215/169/131/045/original/e9dc88fcb05dbe81.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/600/215/841/911/596/original/9c8ce57cc237b799.png

2024-06-11 19:07:17

Note: In addition to the unusual instrument and unusual language, this track appears to have something unusual going on from a music theory perspective, which I am unqualified to actually understand. The musician says he composed the song "using the classical movement of parallel fifths". I'm reading the Wikipedia and don't quite understand it but I think this will inherently make the song sound either subtly "wrong" and evil, or at least like it was composed before 1300
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112599541377049323

2024-06-11 15:02:13

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This gentleman has informed me this feature is, at least, cryptographically secure (I still think it is a bad idea) https://mamot.fr/@tdelmas/112598563053310679
He also helpfully found for me the instructions on how to disable it; unfortunately the instructions are (1) for some reason in the middle of API documentation [I'm nitpicking] (2) incorrect. It says to go to "Settings > System > Languages & input > Advanced > Input assistance > Autofill service" But I have no "Advanced" in that pane
https://developer.android.com/identity/autofill/autofill-optimize#enabled

2024-06-11 14:53:54

Okay what the fuck what the FUCK
I have an Android app open
It says to create an account they will text me a code and I should enter it into the box. Fine
They text me a code
THE CODE AUTO-FILLS INTO THE BOX AND IS AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPTED WITHOUT ME PERFORMING ANY INPUT
I ABSOLUTELY did not give the phone permission to do that at *any point*
I'd heard iPhones could do this and it sounds like one of the worst ideas I've ever heard
What the fuck just happened and how do I disable it

2024-06-10 18:36:50

I am hearing that Apple is attempting to build AI text-mangling directly into the browser.
My first question, as an operator of websites, is whether there's a way to suppress or poison Apple's AI from working correctly on my websites, without in the process damaging the functionality of screen readers

2024-06-09 23:55:40

Wait so like… there's going to be a Windows 11 update that just *removes* WordPad? Like you have a program on your computer and Microsoft just straight up deletes it? https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/news/goodbye-cortana-wordpad-tips-apps/

2024-06-09 21:09:12

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As for "what I originally wanted": I am transferring files to a low-power device, so low power I suspect (but have not verified) decryption is slowing down my transfers. I think what I am looking for is either the openssh "none" cipher (may require recompiling both server and client) or forcing use of the chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com cipher (cryptographically secure but designed to run performantly on low end ARM chips)

2024-06-09 21:06:59

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*rubbing eyes* I'm really sorry, this thread has got long t this point and I mentally substituted FTPS.
Yes, SFTP is SSH and therefore it supports keys.
What I'm saying is I am *trying to avoid* passwords being sent in the clear, which is what would happen with FTP. SFTP with a password or SFTP with a key would be two ways of avoiding passwords being sent in the clear.

2024-06-09 20:22:10

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Neat! But isn't that still an encrypted stream (just with HTTPS instead of SSH?)

2024-06-09 20:16:32

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SSH supports either passwords or keys but FTP supports only passwords (I think)

2024-06-09 19:39:55

I wish there was a variant of sftp that used ssh for authentication and then dropped the encryption for transfer. I am transferring files over the local network and I do not care that our smart TV¹ is sniffing the packets. But what I *do* care about is that when I'm logging in my password not be sent in the clear²
¹ DEFINITELY compromised by at least three nation-state actors
² Where it will be captured by the nation-state actors which have compromised our smart TV

2024-06-09 16:09:39

Hm.
So my cell provider has no good plan for roaming to Europe. So the last time I was in France, I got a local phone number and a SIM card so I could use Internet while I was there. It was a bit of a pain to get the SIM so I put it somewhere I'd be able to find it* when I next needed it.
Now I can't find it.
Can anyone think of a way to get a French cell phone SIM either without leaving Toronto, or without leaving Charles De Gaulle?
* Probably in that one purse I threw away a few years ago.

2024-06-07 15:19:17

I'm having a technical problem. This would be a great time to have access to services such as Reddit and Stack Overflow as opposed to those services now being traps that exist to sell your words to sketchy businesses so the sketchy businesses can eat the delicious statistical relationships therein and use them to sound more plausibly like humans when they're telling you to eat rocks

2024-06-07 06:27:17

A THING I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ERROR MESSAGES
Language: NullReferenceException, the object was null on line 37
Me: Which object?
Language: The one on line 37
Me: Yes, but which of the objects on line 37?
Language [patronizingly]: It was null

2024-06-07 02:49:22

A funny thing about Google's terrible "AI" is that sometimes when people try to defend it, they say "but if you don't want Google to use 'AI', wouldn't that mean they'd have to remove 'Featured snippets' also?", and this is extremely humorous because featured snippets are also consistently terrible and I've been watching people make fun of them constantly for like ten years

2024-06-06 15:49:16

I don't know if I can communicate to cis people the horror of going through the wrong puberty. Your body is being turned against you from the inside and it goes on for years. The transphobic wedge strategy decrees there are no legitimate trans folk under 16, so puberty blockers are a kind of compromise— freezing the poison in your blood in place until you turn 16 and are allowed medical self-determination. The Conservatives have made even this half-mercy a criminal act. https://lgbt.io/@gendercensus/112564150066141141

2024-06-04 17:18:04

Since roughly 1998 my go-to site for checking whether my Internet connection is functioning properly has been cnn.com . This worked well for a long time but somewhere around 2012 either CNN or American culture itself started getting kinda weird and now my Internet tests have become harrowing as every time I open CNN there's something on the front page that appears to be a dispatch from an alien planet
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/559/474/935/292/704/original/15ef6004bb247ee8.png

2024-05-31 21:29:02

I think my favorite program in the entire linux/unix toolchain is "file". Did you even know about this program? It's on every system including MacOS and it's magic. You run it on any file and it just tells you what it is. Any file. I don't know who keeps this updated but it supports surprising things. Like it knows Windows file formats. If it's a executable it tells you if it's 32- or 64- bit. If it's an image it tells you the size and channels. If the file extension lies it just figures it out.

2024-05-30 21:52:04

Is this a good time to bring up my deeply held belief that people should be allowed to vote in elections even if they are convicted felons

2024-05-30 16:37:20

A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.
So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/530/982/099/524/774/original/fa018ffa176ab796.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/531/006/909/047/881/original/95dafc153307a8a7.png

2024-05-29 22:28:43

Walked past a tree and there was a Kryptonite bike lock around it in a loop as if there had previously been some object which the lock was affixing to the tree and now the object is not there anymore

2024-05-29 03:23:22

Sorry, you want me to what
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/522/228/287/411/190/original/1933b650a1c263a2.jpg

2024-05-27 21:29:32

If you ever feel like you're not good at anything, don't worry! Even if you don't realize it yourself, you are an *excellent* nuclear moderator

2024-05-23 21:55:25

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My half-prediction is Apple's approach to "AI" will mirror their approach with the Vision. Maybe they'll do large scale indexing and content sniffing, like Microsoft. But instead of just leaving it sitting around in an SQLite file…
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112492445214914228
…They'll immediately go oh no! Oh no this big index we intentionally built is so dangerous! And extend the "secure enclaved" part of the OS to be even broader, so no one can access it. (Except Apple internal projects. Those can do whatever.)

2024-05-23 21:54:53

A kinda half-prediction of what we'll see at Apple's WWDC this year:
The defining characteristic of the Vision, to me, is that Apple added new, largely unnecessary, and potentially dangerous technology (eye tracking). And the way they addressed the danger of this choice was by further restricting what users are able to do on their own devices (i.e., further restricting what software they're allowed to run), even more than iPhones.
So the rumor is WWDC 2024 will be Apple's vision of "AI". (1/2)

2024-05-22 17:13:42

In the future, the only way to escape execution by the Microsoft killbots will be to legally change your name to be longer than 256 characters, thus rendering you invisible to their AI https://helvede.net/@jwcph/112485841825022134

2024-05-22 16:26:34

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Mood
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/485/704/629/980/522/original/877a6eb5eb65f72e.png

2024-05-22 16:26:23

I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg

2024-05-22 15:32:47

*Holding head in hands* We just tried to git clone the C# runtime and it failed because it would have created a pathname which is too long.
We used Microsoft's source distribution server (github)
To download Microsoft's programming language VM (dotnet)
Onto Microsoft's operating system (Windows)
And this was not supported.

2024-05-21 21:19:08

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"Oh, but we *didn't* send the Recall screenshots back to our servers! We only sent anonymized training data weights, as described in our privacy policy*."
* "Microsoft uses the data we collect to… improve and develop our products". There you go, disclosure responsibilities discharged

2024-05-21 21:12:12

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Similarly, it won't be enough for Microsoft to claim the data their "AI" surveillance features collect is kept local. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume Microsoft will eventually silently turn a local query into a network query without telling you. And even local storage can be accessed by malware, employers, or family members.
There is only one way, *only* one way, to prevent data being leaked or misused, and that is to not collect it ( see: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475323390645896 ).

2024-05-21 21:08:35

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My experience with Windows 10 was me turning off the "Bing" features, and one day turning on my computer and discovering overnight with an automatic update Microsoft had turned them back on, and everything I typed into the Start search was being forwarded to a network service. This happened more than once.
It won't be enough to turn Windows 11's "AI" surveillance features off. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume a feature you turn off today will be silently turned on later.

2024-05-21 20:54:03

Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391

2024-05-18 20:55:31

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People love to say this while hitting me on the head with a shovel

2024-05-18 18:38:58

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Current status: Apparently the claims it supports Python 3.9 or lower actually means "supports 3.9 or lower on linux". If you want to run it on Windows you need Python 3.7 or lower. OK
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/463/546/402/375/652/original/07ecdafe67931575.png

2024-05-18 17:25:08

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That thing I just said sounds illogical but IME it is highly predictive

2024-05-18 17:24:39

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Like, I saw a post complaining that everyone simultaneously loves Firefox's pure-local translation library but everyone is also complaining about Firefox "refocusing" on AI, and that is a fair point, but also to me if a company/org announces they are going to focus on "AI" that is a statement that they are only going to be exploring the least useful, most damaging forms of "AI". If they intended to do something good, they'd probably call it something other than "AI"

2024-05-18 17:22:50

Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

2024-05-18 05:35:44

TFW you're a few hundred words into a book series and suddenly out of nowhere they drop this batshit ligature on you
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/460/458/603/692/506/original/e49a4d7d2616a3a4.png

2024-05-15 19:09:55

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DEEPLY CURSED TWIST ENDING: What it turned out was happening here is that this was all being run in a copy of "fish" (the shell) that was, at some point immediately after this laptop was purchased, installed as an x86_64 executable. On ARM mac, x86_64 executables report they're on a x86_64 machine, and when they invoke fat executables they'll preferentially invoke the x86_64 slice. So x64 "fish" invoked an x64 profile lldb, which then freaked out trying to attach to the arm64 `dotnet` executable

2024-05-14 21:55:43

I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten *massively* worse about aggressively correcting acronyms to unrelated, similarly-spelled words. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/441/665/784/048/127/original/ca6fe63bc3866043.png

2024-05-14 19:01:20

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Okay, actually, here is a stranger detail.
Something I did not mention before: The application I was trying to attach to was the `dotnet` executable. (The crash is occurring inside a p/invoke call.)
I tried making a tiny a.out, and lldb could attach to that fine. The problem is `dotnet`. I can imagine that being an "odd" executable in various ways (although `file` insists it's ARM64). I wonder if there's some special process for running C# programs in a C debugger on Mac.

2024-05-14 18:58:19

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Note: Several people recommended running `xcodebuild -license accept` before running lldb, I tried this and it made no difference. Same error message. @npub1cwr…wp3h @npub1gld…8fqs

2024-05-14 18:46:56

I am (unfortunately) on a Macintosh. A program is segfaulting, and I need to run in a debugger to find out why. I run `lldb executable-name`, and then "run". It prints:
error: the platform is not currently connected.
I do not know what this means. Googling for this error message turns up various things involving iOS and XCode, but I am not using either of those things, I am using lldb at the command line.
What should I do?

2024-05-13 23:44:26

Oh… so you describe yourself as a "computer toucher"? How quaint… personally I command my computer from afar with my immense psychic abilities… *turns over three playing cards on a table, they show a red diamond, a blue circle and a long error message concerning "dbus"*

2024-05-13 00:55:50

I love watching speedrun history videos because they always contain a sentence somewhere like "It seemed all hope was lost. The people cried out for a hero, but none appeared. But then entered… FartMurderer77"

2024-05-11 22:43:36

Dead internet theory but for IRL

2024-05-11 15:58:45

My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:
"Never feel bad about spending money on books."
And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,
but this was before I actually realized
just how much money I am capable of spending on books

2024-05-10 00:48:32

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Maybe it was a mistake to have all the mobile OSes in the world be made in a ten mile radius in a part of the south San Francisco bay area where it is impossible to do so much as buy a jug of milk without a car.

2024-05-10 00:37:56

I hate it how transit apps will have a mode that lets you say you're about to get on a bus and then tracks your trip but if you're *already on* the bus and you just want it to estimate when you'll get there this is always awkward or impossible in the UI

2024-05-09 02:20:17

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Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.
To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".
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2024-05-08 21:46:17

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt
Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

2024-05-07 20:44:55

Weird Internet trick: Quickly get a list of IPs used by GoogleBot by searching for "what is my IP" and reviewing the page previews for the pages GoogleBot fetched from whatismyip.com, which of course include its own IP
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2024-05-05 18:38:42

Shout out to the girl in Kensington Market with the "I Don't Date Crypto Bros" t-shirt

2024-05-03 03:04:37

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I looked for this initially (as it was what a google search suggested) and did not find it. My eventual conclusion was the reason I could not find it was it is not supported on my phone, and therefore logically there is no off switch. Weird that the privacy disclosures warn me it's there, though!

2024-05-02 19:13:24

I bet if you formed an electric car company made only of people who previously worked for Tesla then quit in disgust, you could make a really good electric car company

2024-05-01 22:23:26

OMG just got a CAPTCHA with an honest to goodness Treachery of Images "is this a pipe" problem
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2024-05-01 20:26:10

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I have so many unreasonable demands of my computers "Do not occasionally power off for no reason" "Do not vibrate my skull" "Do not bulk collect my personal information and transmit it to a UFO cult in San Francisco"

2024-05-01 20:21:41

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Like basically there is nothing you can do that will upset me more than causing something which is mechanically coupled to my skull to vibrate

2024-05-01 20:13:47

I cannot describe how upset this is making me https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112264273262188993

2024-05-01 17:57:50

Web traffic analytics company's new figures find that at the moment Windows 10's market share is continuing to go up while Windows 11's market share is actually going *down* https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

2024-04-30 23:02:33

Every blue LED is too bright

2024-04-29 20:58:37

Nix is too complicated. I have decided to fork Nix and create a minimal distribution named "Minix"

2024-04-26 21:05:49

Hey. Question.
What the fuck is this?
Is my phone doing this? If so, how long has it been doing it? Also, why wasn't I informed? Also, why can't I find a setting to turn it off?
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