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Users invented retweets.
They typed “RT” and then pasted in the text of a tweet they liked. The practice became so widespread that Twitter turned it into an official feature.
Quote-tweets were created by Twitter users, too: they typed a commentary on someone else’s tweet, then pasted in the URL of that tweet. Voila, the quote-tweet was born.
And users invented tweet-threading: the first Twitter threads were created by posting a tweet, then replying to your own tweet, then r…

Walking around our new neighborhood, our 16-yr old noticed a house with Trump flags and the whole front door pasted over with a Trump 2024 flag. Understandably concerned.
Then I pointed out at least three homes flying LGBTQ flags.
3 to 1, visibly speaking.
#lgbtq #trans

I know AI is rubbish etc but I really just couldnt with this Shelly website that publishes no swagger or schemas for their APIs annot only that but the html tables arent complete....so pasted all this rubbish into ChatGPT and this actually saved a bunch of time, obvious need to double check everything but at least a tad useful.
(note missing SSID and RSSI from the spec and then see the comments etc in the result, niiiice)

pasted the latest volcano update from the icelandic met office into google translate and i thought it had had the LLM equivalent of a stroke: it was translating cubic metres of lava into milliletres of wastewater, and other wild fabulations
turns out google thought my paste was german, and was back to its usual levels of inaccuracy after i switched it to icelandic

My contribution on #Xitter just now:
If you can deadname your kid, we can deadname your app, Elon.
That once-thriving place known as Twitter
is dying on the vine: a no-hitter.
When a billionaire bought it,
Its best members forgot it.
They fled as Musk raged and turned bitter.

Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire
In a recent clash on social media, Elon Musk accused Stephen King of ‘deadnaming’ the platform formerly known as Twitter, now X.

@… It doesn’t help that in my app (Ivory) the URL appears as just “xoxo.zone” when really I pasted the full URL, which is https:// and then xoxo.zone.

Study finds that Github Copilot lowers code quality and maintainability:
"We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved '…

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' -- Visual Studio Magazine
We find disconcerting trends for maintainability.

The old (C19) beigel shop on Brick Lane was shut down?!!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/14/piece-of-londons-jewish-east-end-feared-lost-as-beigel-shop-shuts

Trying stract.com and finding copy pasted in a wiki a series of interviews I had done for the camino browser project. blog on whihc I psoted these is long defunct.
Development:Home Page - Camino Wiki
https://wiki.caminobrowser.org/Development:Home_Page

made some #Eclipse emoji for yr slacks and such