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Guilfoyle tried to blame AI for damning texts in effort to save her job:

Guilfoyle told the White House the money-requesting texts were not legitimate, but had instead been generated by artificial intelligence.

Uh-huh. “AI did it” is the new “I was hacked”. But also, this KRON4 bonus content:

“I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service,” she added, although it’s unclear what exactly she was alluding to.

“There were no real decades of public service, there was some years of public service. There was some years in the media,” said KRON4 political analyst Michael Yaki. “There was some years when she was dating Donald Trump Jr. and being a flunky for the Trump Administration, but there were not decades of public service.”

I am a Plex lifetime subscriber. Within the last week, I’ve started seeing unskippable ads before and during movies I’m playing off my home server.

Oh hell no.

Jellyfin, here I come. I’ll be damned if I’m watching ads injected between my home server and my own TV via a service I already paid a lot of money for.

See ya, Plex. You were good before the enshittification.

First reaction: Whoa, I didn’t realize I’d clicked an AOL link.

Second: LOL, so that’s what they’re up to these days.

Third: clicks Back button

Today we went for a 10K/6.2mi hike through rolling hills. My wife wore a weight vest. I carried a 40lb backpack. My legs are quite angry with me right now and are whining incessantly. I’m punishing them by acquiring another 10lb weight to add to the pack. “Oh, you want something to cry about?”

Comcast is advertising their “WiFi Motion” feature, which is basically “pay us to track when you’re home or away”. I wonder how often they get subpoenaed for that information, or whether they give or sell it without the hassle of a warrant.

While I would never in a million years let this into my home or office, I thank them for drawing attention to their ability to spy on customers this way.

Not to brag, but I just:

• Compiled an IRC client on Mac for the first time.
• Installed an IRC daemon on a VPC
• …inside rootless podman
• …with mandatory TLS via LetsEncrypt
• …and mandatory user authentication
• …over IPv6.

and I successfully connected the client to the server on the first attempt.

OK, I’m bragging.

A lot has been said about how AI killed Stack Overflow’s traffic, but that graph’s been falling since 2016. Here’s the real reason:

This is a screenshot of its “newest questions” page, zoomed in on the “votes” column. Although almost no one asks questions there anymore, its gatekeepers still have the energy to tell new users that their questions suck and aren’t worth bothering with. Even though the site’s nearly dead, the trollmods keep diligently telling new users to get lost.

There’s a large group of hall monitors who take glee in turning people away who don’t meet their criteria for their exclusive club. They finally succeeded in convincing the rest of the world not to bother with Stack Overflow. Wikipedia is notorious for this, too, although they’re large and general-purpose enough to keep their traffic for now.

I won’t shed a tear for sites who let the these tiny people take control and drive everyone else away.

We have empirically determined that three P0 issues are about the most I want to handle concurrently, and after that I trend toward snippy.

There’s a drone high and to the right of Sutro tower, just parked there. Watching… what? It’s too small to be a helicopter, and how often do you actually see those truly hover, fixed XYZ, more nor than a few moments? But it’s also much larger than the little bird I got for a present a while back. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t be able to see it from this distance.

Good: the HackerGadgets 21700 battery board for uConsole seems to be very nice.

Bad: Triple-check the 21700 cells you order.

Most Nitecore batteries with the protection board, such as the NL2155HP, are 75.3 mm, 1.9 mm longer to fit in the holder.

They mean it. Pay attention. Don’t be me.