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Julia@foxgrrl· 28d

She was suspended for this quote post (don't ask why I can still see her posts)

Julia@foxgrrl· Jul 10

This is what you're missing out on:

A screenshot of a third-party BlueSky client, which is a modified fork of the first-party "bsky.app" source code, which displays a "she/her" (or whichever pronouns) on the side next to a user's handle. (Along the same horizontal line as the handle.) (It also changes the color palette.)

The pronouns are a different UI element from the two labels that appear under the handle, above the text of a post.

A screenshot of the first-party BlueSky client, which does NOT display a "she/her" (or whichever pronouns) next to a user's handle. Statistically, this is probably what it looks like for you. You're missing out on seeing the pronouns of every user who entered pronoun data into the pronoun field on their profiles. It's literally stored in the same data structure as your name.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 29

So, did y'all see this TADC Google Search Easter Egg?

Screenshot of what happens when you search for "TADC" with Google Search. A Windows 2000 "command.com" style window appears, shortly followed by animated PNGs of the characters "Caine" and "Bubble" from the animated series "The Amazing Digital Circus". There are also two buttons styled to look like keyboard keycaps, labeled: "Fun!" and "Delete".

Screenshot of what happens when you search for "TADC" with Google Search, after loading the Easter Egg that looks like a Windows 2000 "command.com" style window and after animated PNGs of the characters "Caine" and "Bubble" from the animated series "The Amazing Digital Circus" are drawn randomly over page... and then... you click on the "Delete" keycap button... The animated "Caine" and "Bubble" images disappear, and it begins playing this pop-up window animation.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 24

Using "curl", how do you send data to a server through the "websocket" protocol... Google... answer my fucking search query Google! What the fuck are these shitty results. No, the answer is not fucking "-T . " that doesn't even read from STDIN. It's fucking WRONG! Using HTTP PUT method is wrong too!

Screenshot of Google Search bullshit "AI" generated answer, which is fucking wrong by inspection, but I tried it anyway just to make sure, and yes, it throws an error. If you do "fix" this to read local data correctly, you then get an HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed, because you need to use the fucking GET method, not the PUT method.

These are the first results after the AI generated text box.... these results suck, and so do the next dozen results. None of these shitty web search results actually say anything about sending data to a server through websocket. They're all about downloading data through a websocket.. which is the opposite direction I need to go.

You would fucking that this would be in the Curl documentation itself... that first link to the official website is a preliminary design/brainstorming draft written a decade or more BEFORE the code for the websocket feature itself was written in curl itself.

Why doesn't Google just give me a fucking link to the current documentation for curl that says how to fucking use websocket with curl? Because I have the most recent version of Curl, and I can download data from a websocket just fine. HOW DO I UPLOAD DATA?

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 20

Here's more context if you can read these screenshots. Not in here are replies that I will summarize as: "If someone didn't explicitly state that they self-identify themselves as a transsexual/transgender person, then they are not one." Which is... an argument you could make about all identities.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 20

I wanted to discuss ontology... Yeah, "gender is a myth" but so is a lot of useful stuff; be consistent. Can human experience be fully communicated in language? Can we ever truly know each other? Literally: "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill..."

"destructivenothing.bsky.social" wrote in the following reply to "hereagainwegoagain.bsky.social"
[quote]
no, trans identity was never recorded until the 1970s.

and it absolutely is a belief system. you can't be trans without first believing in gender.

YOU are just biased.
[unquote]

My first reply:

The "Heterosexual" and "Homosexual" identities didn't exist until 1886... so what were people before then?

Were there any heterosexuals in the 1700s? Was anyone in ancient Rome a heterosexual? Are Adam & Eve [in Bible/Genesis] heterosexuals?

"destructivenothing.bsky.social" replies to me the following:
[quote]
no.
before then people were people.
i included that in my post, that sexual identity began in the 1800s.
[unquote]

I reply to that reply with this:

[quote]
Schizophrenia didn't exist before 1908 when it was defined by Eugen Bleuler. Prior to 1908, was anyone schizophrenic? What do you think Eugen Bleuler was describing in his patients?

Epilepsy didn't exist when Julius Caesar had seizures & fell down convulsing on the ground. Why does Julius do that?
[unquote]

To which "destructivenothing.bsky.social" quickly replied:

you're a moron.
[end quote]

I replied with the following, and then got blocked:

[quote]
Ah! But you see, I don't identify myself as a moron. I'm "just a person". The identity of "Moron" didn't exist prior to 1910.
[unquote]

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 19

It looks like this for me:

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 19

The "The Weather Channel" is also wrong.

The Weather Channel exists for one and only one purpose, and that is to sell eyeballs to advertisers.

This is the actual, real, measured, wind speed velocity at San Jose Airport over the past few hours. These measurements of between 14 MPH to 22 MPH sustained wind speed with gusts of 32 MPH exactly explain why shit is blowing all over the place here and the wind is going SHWWWWSHSHWSHSESWWWWWSSSWSSHHHWW! here and making doors swing back and forth inside this building.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 19

The Google weather app for Android was recently replaced by automatically opening a web browser and performing a Google Web Search for the term: "weather". The results are a bunch of nonsense. Note: There are currently 30MPH, 48 km/h, 26 knots winds here, not fucking 9MPH 14 km/h

After scrolling past AccuWeather, The Weather Channel three times, Weather Underground, Yahoo Weather, and something else like that, you get results from Reddit.

Weather Underground said the wind speed was currently 3 mph when I checked an hour ago, but I didn't get a screenshot then. It's still not fucking 6 mph... the wind is currently howling at at least 20 mph

I forgot which website this is... and it's also wrong. For anyone in the USA: 15 km/h is about 10 mph. The wind outside is currently at least twice that speed with gusts three times that speed. Seriously, the wind is going like 45 km/h right now.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 18

Oh! I remember now! It's this one:

Collapse adult content on mobile networks

This is the client I'm currently using, I forgot that it was actually this very client that I'm currently using right now which will hide NSFW images on cellular networks. duh.

More stuff... you can also write your own mute rules in Javascript. I'm currently muting all GIF replies, and all replies that consist of only emojis.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 18

I've heard that BlueSky increased the maximum resolution for images recently. I'm going to test this now...

Shorter crop of the previous screenshot in case BlueSky is decimating these images to an illegible blur.

This is the same as the previous screenshots, but all together as a single very tall image that BlueSky will probably compress and decimate (litterally what the process is called) this image to the point of being completely unreadable. But like... this is how the whole thread went together, which might help you, the reader, make sense of the context.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 16

Android version 13

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 12

Exploring...

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 1

These menu items are all books. I don't know what any of these things do. I assume it must be related to books, right? That's what these tool-tips are about, books, right?

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "View | Toolbelt | Captured Output" with a generated image of an open book on a table. The text is set in three columns on the left page, and four columns on the right page. About 90% of the surface area of the text is highlighted with yellow highlighter.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "View | Toolbelt | Notes" with a generated image of an open book on a table. This book has drawings of gears made on the pages, and there's a ruler and some pens and, um, I guess a large mechanical drafting schematic under the book. There's also the corners of a laptop and a table lamp in the corners of the image.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "View | Toolbelt | Snippets" with a generated image of an open book on a table. This book is actually on a display stand, on the table, and there's a bright light behind the book, but you can see it reflecting on the table surface under the book... which doesn't seem to have a hard cover. There's what I presume to be a library in the background with an arched ceiling, and the shelves all facing the center of the room. Some sections have a window rather than a bookshelf. The first floor bookshelves are lit from above, and the second floor bookshelves are lit from below. There doesn't seem to be any way to walk along the second floor between the bookshelves, even though there's a guardrail there's no walkway.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 1

Oh, I forgot to transcribe (in the alt-text) some of the obviously "AI" generated text which accompanies these... I guess menu tool tips, in the previous two posts above this one in this thread. It's um... fucking useless AI generated "Tool Tips" which tell you nothing about what this menu item does

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Window | Arrangements" with a bizarre generated image of... um... stuff... glued into a display case, and hung on a wall.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Window | Password Manager" with a bizarre generated image of a spotlight shining on a key ring with seven random keys (including one skeleton key) laying on some kind of wooden surface made from at least three boards. It could be a floor or a table.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "View | Toolbelt | Codecierge" with a bizarre generated image of a one of those modern androids with a smooth shinny featureless "face" wearing a tuxedo, holding a silver tray with... maybe a reflection on it, and not a very flat object. This "robot butler" is standing the a well lit wooden paneled room with four or five differently shaped candelabras attached to the walls. There's something like a recessed bookcase or two in the walls on one side, next to, um, some kind of door thing maybe. There's some chairs and a couch along the walls in the background, and a little table, and it's all very orange and brown in color. The carpet too.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 1

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Session | Triggers" with a bizarre generated image of a... um... I'm don't actually know. I think it's intended to be something like a Rube Goldberg Machine, but... it's just a collection of random disconnected objects. There's a cat, and a bird, and a bunch of gears, and a guy in a top hat who is the same size as the cat, and a ladder, and a window, and a slide, and... you know, stuff.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Session | Bury Session" with a bizarre generated image of the setting or rising sun casting rays of light through the trees of a forest where a 1850's California style gold prospector, I guess with a shovel in his hands, is I guess digging a hole next to a stereotypical looking treasure chesh full of gold coins. Thelid of the chest is raised so you can see the gold coins piled up flush to the rim of the chest. You know, when I bury a tmux session, I think about shoveling gold coins in the forest...

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "View | Toolbelt" with a bizarre generated image of a guy typing on a laptop while skiing down a 45 degree steep inclined snowy mountain... oh wait, it's greater than 45 degrees, I just noticed the horizon is tilted by like 20 degrees in the background, so this guy is skiing down a 60 or 70 degree angled slope, with both his hands full typing on a laptop, and I guess that's a ski pole tucked under this guy's arm.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "View | Find Cursor" with a bizarre generated image of a stereotypical 1940's noir film detective in a dark smoke filled city ally at night, looking at the ground through a magnifying glass... just in care your cursor was lost on the ground under that street light there... I'm sure the detective is searching for your cursor over there because the light makes it so much easier to see.

Julia@foxgrrl· Jun 1

Why is iTerm2 using a Gigabyte of RAM, and what the fuck is this shit on the drop down menus?

Screenshot of my M1 MacBook Air with 16 GB of RAM soldered onto the motherboard, but that's not enough to run Google Chrome, which is actually using over 10GB of RAM, not 4GB like OSX says in this screenshot, because this is only the main User Interface process, not the Helper process and individual tab processes.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Window | AI Chats" with a bizarre generated image of what I guess are supposed to be various contemporary androids standing around in a disco while holding drinks in their robot hands.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Session | Run Coprocess.." with a bizarre generated image of a low-angle view of a marionette on a stage backlit with a spotlight, and a giant person who is maybe also another marionette with their arms in the air, as if to control the small marionette, but the hands don't touch the strings or that wooden dohicky that the puppeteer actually holds.

Screenshot of iTerm2 version 3.6.9 with the mouse pointer (not visible in this screenshot) hovering over the menu item "Edit | Find | Filter" with a bizarre generated image of a coffee pot with a funnel full of um... capacitors and um... a random pile of discrete electronics parts, including maybe nuts and bolts. At the top right quadrant is a teapot, I guess, pouring water onto the pile of random parts. Clear water is flowing out of the bottom of the funnel, and filling the coffee pot with clear liquid. There's a fake vignetting effect so the central area of the image appears much brighter than the (correctly exposed) fake AI generated kitchen counter, and sink, and wall, in the background.

Julia@foxgrrl· May 16

When you prompt an image generator to generate a self-portrait... of itself... of the image generator itself... it will generate a statistically average image that looks something like these other "self-portraits". Because the word "self" doesn't refer to the image generator, it refers to the image