Updated my profile:

― no longer a fringe contributor, I'm now a greybeard codger.

«A "greybeard" is someone whose beard has turned grey from years of pretending to know what they’re doing, only to realise they’ve been winging it the whole time. They’re the human equivalent of a vintage computer: full of outdated knowledge, occasionally useful, and prone to unexpected crashes mid-sentence.» ― https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/b3c99fe5-ccf3-43c5-a643-0d76336745af

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<https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/codger?s=t> strong matches:

crank | dodo | eccentric | fellow | galoot | miser

😸 OK, I'm probably most of those, except a miser.

The word "galoot" was new to me. <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/galoot#example-sentences> led to a 'Godzilla vs. Kong' review in The Washington Post, which I can not read. Instead, the sponsorship invites me to use Comet Browser, which was also new to me. <https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/announcing-comet-plus-launch-partners> launch partners, et cetera. <https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide> two weeks ago:

"Today we are releasing the Comet browser to the world, for free."

Yeah, right /s ‖ <https://www.perplexity.ai/download-comet> "requires an invitation | Comet download is not available to you yet | Join waitlist | Get immediate access to Comet when you upgrade to Pro. | $20.00 USD / month"

Erm, no thanks ‖ you've got to be fucking kidding me.

How Perplexity is Evading Anti-crawling Measures | Lobsters <https://lobste.rs/s/i81fly/how_perplexity_is_evading_anti_crawling> and if that's not bad enough, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487511> 🠶 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846> "Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account" 🠶 ‖ 🠶 My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup <https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/> (August 2025), about which <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846922> includes a response from "one of main devs of GitHub MCP" (whatever MCP is … I'm severely undereducated in these areas).

https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114996947615300629 @simon

https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/115336355573208202 @patrickcmiller

https://social.skynetcloud.site/@jos1264/115391181813017065 @jos1264

#codger #crank #dodo #eccentric #fellow #galoot #undereducated #Comet #Perplexity #MCP #lethal #trifecta

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