@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Ah, but the code is right. You just need to decompress it properly. @davidgerard@circumstances.run

lol. so a lot of the high valuations for AI coding assistants are not because this shit works. No, it's because the companies are selling their users' usage data to the bigger AI vendors for training.

you know Charlie Kirk was a straight up fucking Nazi righthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefsedit: well that's one Nazi apologist already. just report and then block them, don't debate the fuckwits

@davidgerard I have to settle for starting my day crucified by cats.

Firefox hit me today with the fucking AI bot popupsdiscovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*someone at mozilla is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences

neuralink early adopters with stickers on their heads saying I BOUGHT THIS INVASIVE SKULL PROBE BEFORE ELON WENT CRAZY

@davidgerard I need an app I can point at the paper in the morning and have it tell me why the hell I thought it was a good idea in the middle of the night

Update on the AI scraper blocking: it's working well!I've had reports of the helpful geeks of Mastodon testing the site hard enough to knock it over.But I've had *zero* reports of the specific error that being blocked by my blocker would show up. Good!We are pretty solidly established that normal browsers work fine! including command-line web browsers!I'm still looking for *weird* browsers. PSPs, fridges, cars, weird embedded browsers, etc.Do you have such a device? What happens when you go to https://pivot-to-ai.com ? If it doesn't work, what's the error message?

it's hard to come up with slurs for generative AI users because ideally they should go (noun)(verb)-erand there aren't that many nouns that worksuggestions welcomedFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:Q. look, if we throw *mean names* at the AI grifters fucking up everything around us, doesn’t that make us as bad as them? if you really *think* about it.A. lol no, the fuck is this dumb bullshit, get the fuck outQ. butA. no, we need more shame here. much more. also, didn't i tell you to get the fuck out