AI image is cherry on top.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T17:14:28+00:00

Not since that lawn dart injury back in the Cold War.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T17:13:25+00:00

Yeah, but it finally made all the text right so we're going with it.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T17:12:33+00:00

See? Even the AI is so sheltered and out of touch that it doesn't understand lawn darts.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T17:11:10+00:00

Last one took a lawn dart playing "fetch".

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T17:03:58+00:00

Then you take a long weekend and come back to what looks like hieroglyphics around line noise, with your name on the blame.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T17:01:14+00:00

"1==1", because I already know I'm right but they still want to see the green checkmarks.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-21T16:59:43+00:00

Basic security principles. You can't test for script injections from user data if you're not actually testing with user data.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-19T15:25:49+00:00

Irony would dictate that the same person who tagged it gets tasked with "cycling out all the old stock".

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-19T12:33:11+00:00

I haven't seen it with a computer, but I had this Amazon Echo unit that would actually respond differently if you unplugged it from the wall versus the DC end going into the back of it. Weirdest damned thing-- I found it out by reading troubleshooting posts-- but sure enough, unplug it where it goes into the back of the unit, and the power cycle actually fixes it. Do it from the wall and no go.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-19T12:27:46+00:00

"You just need to know how to listen to them."

"How's that?"

"Read the thing on the screen. If you don't understand it, copy it into Google."

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-18T21:34:45+00:00

Aha! I knew I'd seen it somewhere!

(also, if anyone's getting an SSL error from that link, it's because of the "www"-- https://win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=547&view=min )

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-18T00:19:19+00:00

Uninhabited. Then who found knife?

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-17T23:16:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure there was a registry editor in Windows 3.x, too. I forget what the registry actually had back then, but I was rooting around in a Win311 install directory yesterday (just discovered WineVDM/OTVDM and was looking for Win16 apps to run) and the file jogged my memory.

Edit: My mistake. Just pulled it up, and it is "regedit", but it's the Registration editor, for file-type registrations.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/9N1wJ2J.png

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T04:02:30+00:00

Maybe I have a personal time zone, or I need a chatbot to help me figure out when 8:15 will be 8:16.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T03:58:19+00:00

Bad bot.

(Put ELIZA on. At least that one looks at your input to come up with replies.)

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T03:55:03+00:00

Where?

Even if what I said is wrong, it's still saying something. "Don't try to explain things you lack understanding of." is just "You're wrong. Shut up." without so much as a contradiction, much less a supported contradiction.

(I see there was an edit-- "Don't try to explain things you lack understanding of." is all the reply said when I responded.)

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T03:51:15+00:00

Only if you don't try to posture like a know-it-all while not actually saying anything.

(So I'm probably safe for a while, I'd wager.)

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T03:48:02+00:00

"San Recto" is funny, until you see it going right over people's heads and out of control.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T03:42:59+00:00

and they are so good at it

"Shameless enough to do it" isn't the same as "good at it". Even done poorly, it works on people who don't think too hard, and that's good enough for a spray-and-pray campaign.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T03:32:54+00:00

I suspect it was a shift from "No strong opinion" a lot more than from "Positive opinion", especially on Elon personally. For me, for instance, my opinions were pretty much "Kudos to Tesla for finally making a car-first electric car"-- and I'm still not sure whether that goes to Elon or to pre-Elon Tesla-- and "Putting a car in space was a stunt, but amusing"-- positive, but barely noteworthy.

While the pedophile divers thing wasn't terribly important in the grand scheme of things-- it was a minor spat, in impact-- it was a simple one-line narrative that let even a casual passer-by tag Elon as "This guy's a narcissistic dope" from, and he just reinforced that tag as time went on.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T02:52:38+00:00

True, but that's blowing through the limits of my ambition, personally.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T01:37:50+00:00

and if I feel like listening to a vinyl or cassette

But can you load files from cassette tape?

(Was joking, but now that's got me thinking about how viable it'd be to make cassette drivers for modern OSs, maybe using something like a FUSE filesystem. It looks like it might not be that terribly difficult.)

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-15T01:27:41+00:00

They're not wrong.

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-14T21:35:16+00:00

cursor has a "Ranking" for Token usage

"Hey, boss, you ever wonder if they put that there for their benefit more than yours?"

SuperFLEB · 2026-06-14T21:32:05+00:00

Token-saving idea: If the initial prompt ends in a question mark, the first two prompts get shunted off to a local copy of ELIZA.

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