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Rebooted the system, logged in. All I see in the post is an SC with a green background. Gravatar picture is in the upper right corner of the screen with a cheerful Howdy, Scott but not in the blog picture itself. Interesting.
I’ve always thought I may the best software tester because I seem to be able to unintentionally break any software.
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Not applicable particularly here, but I’m of the opinion the big software guys are inventing AI hoping it will understand their products, which, after generations of ill planned and documented changes and updates, they themselves are no longer able to do. I’ve been two days troubleshooting a printer connection. Nothing from HP is helpful.
I’m old. I’m so old I remember when PCs were deterministic. (The first PC I bought, a Compaq, cost more pre inflation than my last. When I wanted to take it to a Compaq store for repair they asked what model. I replied it didn’t have a model name, when I bought it, it was the only Compaq. Portable. Same size and weight as an old portable sewing machine.)
And I see two dogs two places.
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So everybody is seeing the Gravatar picture except me, the one who owns it. Maybe I’ll try changing the picture and see if that changes anything.
The first PC I used was in 1982. It was a Zenith Z-100 running CP/M-80 as its operating system. Later upgraded to Z-DOS. We had a word processing system called PeachText, later upgraded to WorkStar. I think we later got SuperCalc as our spreadsheet software.
I didn’t get our own family PC until 1995 when I got a Gateway Pentium 1.
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For the record, I kept seeing SC in a green circle in Scott’s avatar, but now I see a dog.
On other things, I found a means for transcribing audio using AI. It’s a bit involved and requires Google Drive (sigh), but it seems to be working.
I did wonder, how do you check the output? Well, by reading to it while listening to the audio file. that’s a lot of work. Since it’s Duncan’s Revolutions Podcast appendices, I won’t bother. But I noticed an error right away. “Ancien Regime” is rendered as “Alcyon Regime”.
The use for the transcriptions is to be able to easily search certain parts for reference. I may stitch all the disparate files into one big file later.
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Looks like Byron Donald’s will cruise to nomination in the FL Governor’s primary and likely win the office in November.
Another reason to never, ever, visit the State of Florida.Donalds is a supporter of charter schools and school voucher programs. In 2017, Donalds sponsored legislation that allocated millions of dollars of Florida state funding towards management fees for charter school companies.[71] Donalds’ wife, Erika, operates OptimaEd, a business operating multiple charter schools in Florida. A financial audit of OptimaEd’s budget from 2020-2023 found that Optima schools had funneled taxpayer dollars to companies in which Erika Donalds owned a stake. A planned Optima school in Fort Myers, Florida, the Optima Classical Academy, enrolled 279 students for the 2024 school year, but later announced they would not be opening. Three charter schools operated by OptimaEd later cancelled their contract with the company following complaints the company was putting too little money into their schools. During his tenure in the Florida State Legislature, Donalds co-sponsored a bill which allowed charter schools to collect additional funding via tax initiatives. Donalds additionally established a state school voucher program that allowed for students to “get a biblical worldview education.” Donalds’ support for charter schools in the State Legislature overlapped with the advocacy of his wife.[72][73]
Just another grifter.
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Trump threatened to bomb Oman on Monday. Oman has already been bombed several times in this war by Iran. Trump should contract the bombing of Oman to Iran. Iran has the experience, and no Americans would be at risk. I’m sure it would be cost effective compared to a do it yourself project and avoid the Hegseth foul ups that bedevil our military. Certainly, that’s what a real business man would do.
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Randy Fine, a Rep out of FL, was caught snooping thru a mailbox while campaigning.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates_n_6a82f837e4b0ddd9c1b297ae/liveblog_6a84aca1e4b072505bad34b4
I hope that racist POS is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the goddamned law.Breaking into a private mailbox is a federal offense in the United States. Penalties include fines of up to $250,000 and up to three years in prison for damaging or breaking into a mailbox under 18 U.S. Code § 1705, or up to five years in prison if mail theft occurs under 18 U.S. Code § 1708.
Let’s see the DOJ go after this fucker like they did David Hearn, the pretend reflecting pool vandal.
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I think Big Data Mining is about to have a Big Tobacco moment.
The big difference is that tobacco smoke can cause harm to people who don’t smoke, while data mining apps don’t. that is, the idiot taking phots of his food and posting and doom scrolling at the table next to yours won’t directly harm your health.
Sure, they have very negative consequences for society, but that’s more a function of the content the apps choose to display and how they keep the product engaged (the product being you). And that will perforce need to be a different lawsuit.
For starters, children really should not be allowed to use data mining apps any more than they should be allowed to purchase tobacco or booze.
And I hope someone’s taking notes about LLM chatbots, too.
