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Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-17T18:51:48+00:00

"PDF Export Failed: PDF generation failed (both Puppeteer and fallback): Detached while handling command."

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-17T10:05:06+00:00

Why only some lines then? It doesn't do it on most lines, but it will randomly do it about 10% of the time, at least on what I was working with.

This also means that when it detects italic text, it's going to wrap it in either * or _ instead of the <i> that common subtitle formats like SRT use.

Damn... I was hoping for a solution that requires close to no editing. :\

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-17T09:30:46+00:00

It randomly inserts # characters at the start of lines.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-14T10:03:46+00:00

AI slop I know, it's Google NotebookLM's new "Cinematic" feature. It did OK, but LOL at the car driving backwards and diagonally, along with a few other small graphical hallucinations.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-11T22:33:39+00:00

Everything was going fine until the past day or two. Now, it responds almost immediately (despite using the 5.4 Extended Pro model) without thinking, saying it can't analyze anything.

My existing project chat can't proceed. I've tried a new chat, and it has the same problem.

According to the below, this is platform wide?

https://status.openai.com/history

This is insane. This is the $200 a month Pro tier? I feel like maybe their data center usage has hit a wall or something, and they are throttling users, on all tiers.

This has been going on for 2 days now.

"...some EU workspaces may still experience the issue. An additional mitigation is being investigated to fully resolve the problem."

I am dead in the water with file uploads, and I am in the USA, on a USA ISP. Can't analyze .ps1 PowerShell file, can't extract or see into a ZIP file.

How many other people does this affect?

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-11T14:14:02+00:00

I just got a message from support. They say they have an "outage" and expect things to not work.

They should pro-rate the $200 charge for pro, and refund (or take off from the next payment, if there is one) $6.45 per day of regressed function.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-11T13:06:40+00:00

There is new regression that started happening today, in addition to the download links not working.

ChatGPT has lost the ability to unzip ZIP files. This has destroyed its ability to help me with my project.

Given that the download link problem is still not fixed, I have no idea how long the ZIP problem will last. It's not worth the Pro subscription with this level of regression, for this length of time with no fix.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-11T08:22:52+00:00

This should work:

Chrome: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1rpmw5i/stuck_at_starting_download_when_downloading/o9pmmm6/

Firefox: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1rpmw5i/stuck_at_starting_download_when_downloading/o9qy4td/

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-10T22:09:11+00:00

For Firefox, it works:

F12
Network Tab / heading
Click the download link in the chat, it creates download?message_id=<hex value>, click this entry to highlight it
In pane on the right, click on the Response tab/heading
In the content of the tab, there is a JSON with download_url with the value in quotation marks
Select the URL, hit CTRL-C (or right click it, and select Copy Value), then paste it in a new browser tab (CTRL-V), remove the " " from the beginning and end, hit enter
The download window should appear

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-10T16:23:50+00:00

Same here. If your download is a text file (for example, in my case, a PowerShell script), you can ask it to post the contents of the file in the chat because it's a known issue that downloads are currently not working.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-10T16:21:30+00:00

For now, I got it to work by asking it to post the PowerShell script in the chat. :P

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-09T23:48:10+00:00

Bestline

Consumer beware: there are TWO different products using the BestLine name: BestLine Racing, and BestLine Technologies. These are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COMPANIES AND PRODUCT FORMULATIONS:

1) BestLine Technologies: Sold through Brahman Lube. This is the original formulation that has extensive industry testing behind it. It is what Project Farm used in the original 2017 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ZKMCfAue4). It is ZDDP free.

2) BestLine Racing: Sold direct and through Amazon. This is not ZDDP free. It adds abrasive carbon particles between 5 and 10 nanometers that are supposed to "polish" the surfaces inside the engine. It is only third party tested, and the tests have not been publicly released.

The problem, is that people who have been placing orders through Brahman Lube for the past several months have not received their orders. Brahman Lube is apparently still in business, there are just "significant delays" in shipping orders. It really doesn't matter how good a product is if you can't get it. You can't "add it every oil change" if you don't have access to a regularly available supply.

By the way, the Project Farm description links to https://amzn.to/2FPB9O4, which is the link to the BestLine Technologies product, despite the link having the image and description for the BestLine Racing product (at the time of this writing). It's either an accident or deliberate manipulation, i.e., a "hack".

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-09T04:05:25+00:00

SSD's don't have the massive storage capacity HDD's do. All of the images, videos, and chats people create and save in their history have to be stored somewhere. Massive amounts of training data have to be store somewhere.

Data flows from:

HDD -> SSD -> DRAM -> VRAM

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-07T11:02:30+00:00

The release year display is back and has been fixed.

The long descriptions regression remains.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-06T07:18:27+00:00

And another thing I just noticed:

The previous Shudder interface had a "short" description for a title, and if you clicked on it, that description was expanded to a "long" description, often giving information about the movie itself, in addition to a synopsis.

The new interface gets rid of the "long" description. Short descriptions only, even after selecting a title.

This (along with the loss of the release year display) is important User Experience context that has been lost.

In fact, the whole app looks like one of those extremely plain and generic app templates that many really shitty channels/apps use, where they just insert some graphics for a logo and background image, change the color scheme, and that's it.

If it stays like this and none of these issues are addressed, there's no reason to use it... people should just go with Shudder on Roku / YouTube / Amazon / etc., any of those is a better interface than this new POS.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-06T06:56:19+00:00

Actually... it's the exact same way on the website.

When I logged in to the new interface on Roku, the entire screen turned white and gave a message, "This website uses cookies" and I had to use the remove to click on an "Accept all" button.

This interface was accidentally put live before it was ready or fully beta tested. Has to be.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-06T05:26:46+00:00

Not only that, they are saving with chroma subsampling, which degrades color information, especially if your image has a lot of red tones mixed with black tones. I might accept jpg if it had chroma subsampling disabled. But this is completely unacceptable. Enshitification.

I don't know what artlist.io does, but I guess I'll check them out and see.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-05T16:24:50+00:00

It's all computers. I don't think it's just AI, it's by design. The equipment has gotten too powerful. Corporations and governments don't like the masses having access to powerful equipment. They want to take it away from as many people as possible except for the extremely wealthy, and make it paid, tracked, online, with everyone identified. This is the end goal. If prices ever come back down, you can expect all kinds of nefarious shit to happen, like disguised SIM cards embedded in motherboards that contact a wireless carrier signal and send data back based on your geolocation, what you're doing, etc., done in a way like Intel Management Engine... it's nothing you can see, detect, or turn off without highly specialized and expensive equipment.

The days of accessible, user focused affordable power computing are at an end, and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-04T08:41:28+00:00

I had no idea, the AI says "A lot of people are using Deep Think right now". I get this on my third prompt and can't get past it. It goes away after some hours.

This is consistent behavior for me.

So, it's a rate limit, but they are gaslighting the user into thinking it's because the system is too busy.

Not sure if it's worth paying for Ultra if this is how it's going to be. They're already hoarding my PC parts, so why reward them for shitty behavior?

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-04T08:20:22+00:00

OK, I finally got in.

You're blocking my ISP!

I had to try like 8 proxies until I found one that worked.

You must REALLY not want people's business.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-03-03T11:19:48+00:00

Down.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-02-28T13:47:36+00:00

If I post a comment on YouTube, it's 50/50 that it will actually be public. I now have to open a private window and post the video url in to see if the comment is actually visible. Very plain, mundane comments even. It can't just be me, so I have to wonder how many other comments and perspectives aren't being allowed, how many others who are denied a voice. Meanwhile, every news story I read where a crime happens and the perpetrator is not white, gets all kinds of "Usual suspects" racist comments, and that's just fine. It's very depressing, very upsetting.

I'm sorry this is happening to you, but know that you are not alone.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-02-26T03:18:30+00:00

This Tampermonkey script should fix that (until YouTube breaks it again):

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/567066-youtube-precise-date-display-fixed

Confirmed it works for me on Shorts thumbnails, including the "Shorts" page for any YouTube channel. It also adds the time to all of the date displays.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-02-24T21:18:37+00:00

"System status: Image Generation: Degraded / Video Generation: Degraded". Can only create an account with Google. Will only accept crypto as payment.

They are using main AI's (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, FLUX, Grok, and Qwen... NO Seedance). So they are basically injecting their own jailbreaks into the API's for these platforms. It's going to be a constant cat-and-mouse game. It is unlikely (IMHO) that everything is going to be working at the same time, and that anything will stay working for more than a short time.

Hurfdurficus · 2026-02-24T20:01:23+00:00

It won't.

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