“…except when it’s a network engineer changing ‘unrelated’ firewall rules that just happen to block DNS on a Friday afternoon, without a code review or an approved ticket. Hypothetically speaking.”

Free Zorkmids!

With proof of pur– no, wait, just free-as-in-MIT-Licensed, for Zork I, II, and III.

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Allergist practice I went to yesterday had their own web site (I’d thought they were part of the general network, but no, just a partnership), and they set me up with an account. It had a pretty typical Javascript authenticator for its password rules, but it refused to accept my password. You must, it said, have letters and digits and one of a specific set of punctuation characters, but it refused to mark the “8-25 characters” requirement as met. Because I put a space in the password.

If they’d said “your password can’t have spaces in it”, I’d have just rolled my eyes and moved on, but no, it claimed I was failing the length check.

Not to pick on anyone, but…

There’s a lot of “digital art” being posted to the SwarmUI Discord that does absolutely nothing for me. Intricate and detailed, showing definite proficiency with advanced AI image-gen workflows, and… dead inside.

Me, I’m just playing with the shiny toy, but I see a lot of people (especially on Reddit) who think they’re Artists, and that anyone criticizing GenAI is some sort of frightened luddite. Yeah, that ain’t so, Yoko Ono.

(despite a prompt explicitly stating that the words were being spoken by the mad scientist, about 70% of the time the banana was talking, and in another 15% they were shouting together; sigh)

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