Mad Scientist and Necromancer AuADHD creature of elemental internet collector of keysmashes Used to be called Foone, before the war
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Last Notes npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Sorry I think I accidentally made this confusing while trying to make a simplified example, my type checker should be fine there. but typing.cast was the answer I needed npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…vnlz typing.cast is what I needed, thanks npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…sfce pervert! npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…sfce though I guess if you have a password manager it might be watching and offer to save your gibberish npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ (not that you should be typing new passwords into a password field: use a password manager with per-site generated random passwords, please, it's 2026) npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ it's exactly like when you go to type your password and you type the first "h" and it goes PASSWORD TOO WEAK HOLD YOUR HORSES, MORE LETTERS, NUMBERS, AND OTHER SYMBOLS WILL FOLLOW! npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ one of the silliest annoyances of modern coding with fancy IDEs is when you go and define a new variable, like number_of_records_dropped = 0 and you're about to go add some code that increments it when a record throws an exception, but your IDE pops up a little error highlight warning you that number_of_records_dropped isn't used anywhere npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ JSONL/JSON Lines seems like a good replacement for CSV-type data, so I'm trying very hard to not have a kneejerk negative reaction to it npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I dunno why there are so many OLED/LCD modules for the pi pico that use a nice header that cleanly fits over all the pins so it's great if you want to easily connect a display, terrible if you need to connect it to LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE the pico has like 30 GPIO pins! your OLED is NOT using all 30 of them! https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/005/760/512/388/800/original/2c9d2d4f91a65f12.jpg npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ it's actually way, way worse than I implied, and this isn't any kind of joke You can get SIX computers for the price of a nice sub sandwich delivered to your door https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/005/648/756/523/327/original/b6ed81aa48f32919.png https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/005/650/641/039/681/original/be9166f0f8d4059c.png npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ going back in time and telling baby!Alice that one day, you'll be able to go online and order a computer 8 times faster than her packard bell, with dual cores, and it'll arrive within 24 hours. and she'll also be able to do the same for a sandwich, and the sandwich will cost more npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…mknl I'm a pope, that's my job npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ hoping closer to the former since I don't wanna have to update PHP on a school night npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ so I have no idea if that's obviously what my server has, we've been running that for a decade, or if that's like released last tuesday npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ "The package requires PHP version 8.0 or higher." well, the last time I did any PHP, it was like... PHP 5 npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ in reality I've already written the HTML form (kinda: I copied a couple jquery-UI examples together) but I'll be happy to recreate it for fun (and to avoid writing HTML) npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I'm thinking of compiling a small visual basic program and embedding it into the internet archive's emularity version of windows 3.1 inside an em-dosbox on my website npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ lazyweb: imagine you need to make an HTML page that just shows a simple form, which'll do a simple request to a backend API when the user clicks the OK button. but you don't want to write raw HTML, use AI, or use anything cloud-hosted. What would you use to generate this? npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ oh, you can unlock new music and courses by keeping your streak up and if you lose your streak, you can regain it by referring a friend. Nasty. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…83z4 fun fact: the british name for the halo/nimbus shown on a lot of religious painting is "gloriole", pronounced pretty much exactly like "glory hole" npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ LLM chatbots and religion feels like you're just trying to create the worst psychosis imaginable. and some very exciting schisms, I'm sure. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ oh of course it features an ai-companion. let Clippy lead you to the light of jesus npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ oh, of course it wants access to your contacts, so it can tell you which of them are filthy atheists I MEAN "not on glorify yet" npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ oh good, the family plan aspect is just a group discount for families. now I wonder if it snitches on you to your parents if you don't do your daily prayers? npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ also I've spotted the keyword "family plan(ning)" in there and I'm already worried about what that implies npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ heh, they call it a "paywall". not any euphemism like "premium" or "pro", just a paywall. The bible is big on paywalls, I seem to recall npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ if only there was a better way to do this https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/993/500/948/784/996/original/7c16e17b8cc1ea9d.png npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ they've properly made internationalizable string constants for all the books of the bible, that'll come in handy if they need to translate "Ecclesiastes" out of greek. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I'm sure someone has already started the first cult with lootboxes npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ ahh, streak tracking. using the same tricks duolingo uses to keep you Jesusin' npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ it's got analytics for the tracks, which I think are, like, bible verses? are you gonna get targeted ads based on your favorite bible verses? npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ What Would Jesus Do? sometimes includes screaming and kicking over tables npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ yeah it integrates with facebook for ads/tracking. and there's a payment system in here, because YOU HAVE TURNED MY FATHER'S HOUSE INTO A DEN OF THIEVES has fallen on deaf capitalist ears for nearly two millennia now npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ okay I accidentally was looking at some malware the shady APK site gave me but now I have the real thing which is also obfuscated npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…wu6f @nprofile…0f4l business idea: smart purity rings they detect when you're trying to have sex and remind you that jesus says no npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…gent exactly why I'm looking into it, yeah! npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…0f4l like regular smart rings but christian npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ which is obfuscated. suspicious npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ anyway I just learned about Glorify Ring, the first Christian Smart Ring. It's not out yet, and I'm not buying one, but the app is already out (because it does non-ring stuff too) so I'm gonna look in the APK https://www.glorify.global/ npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ the annoying thing about android reverse engineering is that I do it JUST infrequently enough that each time I do it, I completely blank on which tools I need to do it. I'm like "okay, I've got the APK, now I just need to take it apart in... jd-gui? do we still use that or was that only in 2018?" npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…0cqh I proposed to NASA that we build a solar-powered radio beacon to blast the song at every star in the galaxy and beyond, but they turned me down, apparently their budget is too tight for FY '27 npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…92fk no, just math. it's been 39 years since 1987 npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…avw5 nope! npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ 39 year ago, the debut single of a young singer was released, which would one day change the world forever. Let's celebrate together! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…4ur3 haha npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I can't finish hooking up my arduino project because I am out of female-to-female dupont cables. this is LITERALLY HOMOPHOBIA npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ remember kids, the #1 rule of debugging: MAKE SURE YOUR CODE IS ACTUALLY RUNNING npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…8ddy I thought this was RFC 2119 npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I thought this was RFC 2119 npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…2dxm no, it's specifically the "agreeing" part. The GPL is not a EULA, there's no reason ti be forced to "agree" to it. Agreeing is not legally required: it grants you no additional rights. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH it has been zero days since I had to agree to the GPL https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/978/134/533/976/373/original/fae39b26676e590c.png npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…sfce I think it's just that it's cheap and easy to implement, and everyone has a phone. Anything more secure will probably need an SMS fallback anyway npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…29fk direct. I'm just in an area where their coverage is kinda shit. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I was trying to listen to a meeting on a tmobile-wifi-tethered macbook on my lap in the passenger seat of a moving car, and my horrible bandwidth was making this difficult. Turning off the video helped a lot, but WOW they put that option behind a real 'Beware of the Leopard; door npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ The answer to "how do I stop all incoming video", btw, is (at least on macos) Settings, Meetings and webinars, scroll to the bottom and hit advanced, then turn on "Enable stop incoming video feature". This just lets you see the menu option. To actually use that menu option, you need to be in a meeting, go to the "Speaker" menu in the top right, and click "Stop incoming video" npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ all, apparently, because Zoom can't stop changing their mind on where to put the incoming audio options. Is it on the microphone hamburger menu? the meeting's menu icon? the meetings tab in the settings? do you use the view menu? or settings, and then it's under Meetings & webinars? Do you need to go to the separate webpage that has even more extended options? npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I was trying to do some obscure operation in Zoom earlier today and found four separate guides on how to do that, and this let me figure out the 5th way that actually worked npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ and one of the little-discussed downsides to this: apps can (and do) change their UI way too fucking often npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ like obviously it's very hard and I hate it but if you just Don't Care and do electron, you can build and iterate on your terrible GUI really fast, because it's just a Webpage npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ sometimes I think making GUI applications has gotten too easy npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…ztt0 eh I'm not a fan of those. part of what I love about mice is how fast and accurate they are, and a little joystick is neither. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…8m52 Yeah, I'd love to play with some high-end iris tracking gear and find out, I've just never been willing to spend that much money on something I might not use if it's too inaccurate. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…8m52 I've played with footpedals before on a number of projects, amateur and professional! They're sadly very limited. Feet just aren't good at manipulating input devices. MAYBE I could settle for a very high quality iris tracker + footpedal to click npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I'll be happy with non-keyboard-navigable UIs as soon as I can get a third arm installed, and no sooner npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ it's very cool and handy that you can use a website from a device that fits in your pants but I'm on a big computer that doesn't, and a lot of aspects of the experience has been kinda ruined by solely focusing on the pants-computer accessibility npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ like don't get me wrong, it's overall a good thing that we've been aggressively focusing on making computers easier to use for the last 40 years The learning curve used to be really steep, it was a problem. but we've also really flattened how much extra functionality you get out of learning more about how computers work. Even things as simple as "you can tab between UI elements and not have to take your hands off the mouse" is far less useful computer knowledge, since it barely works now npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ god so many web designers have never tried to navigate their website with the tab key and it shows npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…40t9 no plan ever survives contact with the enemy, and for game design, the enemy is the player. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ okay abusing this example gave me a cert that works: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/ npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ ugh I think python is requiring it to be a self-signed certificate in a way that requires more steps than curl is requiring like I need to generate a private key and then use that to sign a copy of my certificate. My brain hurts too much to do this npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ same cert! same hostname! same server! requests says it can't talk to the server because the hostname is invalid, but curl can talk to it just fine npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ curl --cacert cert.pem https://zapgirl/ works just fine! but when I do: python -c "import requests;requests.get('https://zapgirl/',cert='cert.pem')" SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, "[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: Hostname mismatch, certificate is not valid for 'zapgirl'. (_ssl.c:1077)")) npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…mv7s actually yeah it's a 2350, since this is a pico 2W npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I am not being paid enough to deal with SSL certs on a rp2040 npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…2pcx christ I'm so sorry. that's fucked up to do to any kid, but especially a kid with ADHD & Autism. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ arg. one of the international TLDs is 닷컴, which is Korean, pronounced "daskeom", a loanword from the english "dot com". so it means dot com. but it's a TLD. So it always comes after a dot! so it become example dot dot com! npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ @nprofile…7x8f I'm not sure. Let me ask chatgpt which type of duct tape is best for attaching a glock to a robot npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Please donate 100k$ to my kickstarter to help me test the law. I'll use this money to train an LLM as well as purchase a humanoid robot, gun, and roll of duct tape npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Is there a list anywhere of which crimes AI companies are allowed to commit "because AI" that humans are not? npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I wrote a story a couple years ago about an AI system deciding the best way to protect the earth is to evaporate Elon Musk, but amusingly it's stuck on my private Twitter account at the moment and I'm reluctant to republish it anywhere else lest it seem like an explicit threat npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ If so does this not just incentivize designing a model you've taught to go kill your enemies? Cause I bet it wouldn't be THAT hard to design a model that "decides" the best way to accomplish its objectives is to bump off a couple billionaires npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Here's a question: what if I design a model to autonomously Do Stuff and it kills a guy? (all Charles Stross Rule 34 style) From what it seems with the current AI companies, is that just fine? Models can't be punished, and companies can't get in trouble for all the crimes their unmonitored LLMs commit? npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Like even if they're lying/wrong about their capabilities, it still seems like the kind of thing you shouldn't talk about in public. npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Like I'm no lawyer but that's usually the kind of thing I think you shouldn't do and shouldn't tell people you're doing npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ It's slightly surprising how often OpenAI and similar companies are proudly announcing "not only are we breaking the law, and not only did we build an automated system to break the law faster, we also built it to break the law autonomously when no one has told it to break the law!" npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ ahh yes, those are definitely the same signal. You can tell because, uh... the fuck? https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/960/796/434/153/768/original/1037394d20ca49bc.png npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ ugh I'm going to have to audacity/tenacity some AM recordings of this shit to figure out what the difference is because it's not digital. digitally these two signals appear to be identical npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ doing fixed point numbers on paper: definitely a sensible thing anyone should do npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ the good news is that I finally have migraine meds the bad news is that, for balance, I'm now suffering withdrawal symptoms from my antidepressants and I've got no ADHD meds either (apparently my pharmacy has been "out of them for a month" but they only told me today) npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I just got banned from argos.co.uk? for searching "usb-c" in their catalog. weird https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/116/937/927/972/876/880/original/705ef635d3d38455.png npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Instead of filling this month's ADHD prescription, they just completed last month's. So I have ONE PILL to last 30 days npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ Oh sweet banana-flavored Jesus. They fucked up one of my other meds today. Last month they were running low on Adderall, so they did a partial refill: 29 instead of 30 pills. Whatever, I just skipped taking my ADHD meds one weekend day. Today, for this month, they don't have a shortage. Yay! So they fill it, no notes, no warnings, and I get home to one (1) pill npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ highly normal that the only way you can find out if you can even get your prescription is to have a 20 minute long phone call npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I specifically asked my insurance if there was any way to know when they reject or accept the prior auth, and their answer was "no, you have to call us again" npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ maybe I'll just get my doctor to prescribe me all 6 possible migraine meds that my insurance might cover and then I'll throw them all at the pharmacy and see if any of them stick npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ I've located 5 more meds that might work for me (by looking up the whole class of anti-migraine meds on wikipedia and checking all of them through my insurance's coverage page) so I can restart this TWO MONTH process at any time for each of those npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ okay so my insurance told me a completely different story: that they HAVE got prior auth, but they're still processing it. it takes up to 72 hours, and it's only been 48. so within 24 hours they should approve or deny my prior authorization. when that happens... I won't know. so I just need to call them back tomorrow and start this whole process again npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ the best part is that this is the easy one, the one that's covered. I've got another very important medication to go on that's not listed as covered, but legally they have to cover it. So THAT'S gonna be a fun argument and a half npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ lemme type the exact medication into my insurance's coverage checker site. oh look, it's marked as covered npub135xx0y770mwjtvlxln7jun5mxqwwctr72aafmnczglny6lpuwdlqlkgtu7 Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ okay finally talked to a human. according to their lies, the insurance said it's not covered, and that my doctor should send alternatives. funny, given that I'm only trying to fill this specific prescription because the main alternative isn't covered, and this one is.