alister

@alisterair
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my posts don't even represent my own opinion, let alone any employer's
I hope this email finds you interesting or attractive.
Like I know I don't have to tell y'all, here on the algorithmless fedi, that you-might-like-this algorithms will not tell you things about yourself that you didn't know, will not help you grow as a person, will in fact stunt you and restrict your ability to change, because they're designed to show you things that they think you already like, not things that nobody, even yourself, could predict you'd be interested in. An algorithm can't stumble by chance and serendipity across your next passionate obsession, only a firehose of utterly random bollocks can do that
“Don’t say you are good at Vibe Coding. Say you are a… Smooth Sloperator”
just realized that as soon as tech companies made the shift from siri style "personal assistants" to "AI" that you were supposed to trust for actual answers about things, they stopped gendering them all as feminine. grok, chatgpt, claude, they're all either neutral or masculine
Hahaha I just saw someone call ChatGPT “Grand Theft Autocorrect” 😆
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Aus.Social

So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewt.net/post/3ljo2dja62224

Andrew (@andrewt.net)

Let's see what happens if I spoof the article metadata from the backend... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/69420

Bluesky Social
@mattblaze The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
Figured it out! Apple is pulling the Wikipedia data for its Safari suggestions from the Wikidata datastore instead of Wikipedia itself. On December 4, 2019, someone vandalized the Wikidata entry for "A rising tide" to say "a scrambled egg makes all happy" and it stayed there until February 24, 2024. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4660966&action=history
Revision history of "A rising tide lift all the boats" (Q4660966) - Wikidata