Was setting up a Windows 10 install for my dads old laptop (I know how to pirate Office for him lol) so he can use it for car diagnostics and had to do the dreaded task of opening Microsoft Edge to download Firefox (my dad is actually a long time Firefox user, since like it released, he tried Chrome and hated it. He’s such an old school Firefox user that he uses the menu bar still) and I noticed how hopelessly bloated and messy Edge is by default. This screenshot is what Edge looks like after going through onboarding (which asks if it can periodically take your browsing data from other browsers and connect to your Google account). There is so much stuff on the screen, like, what are they thinking? This is horrible UX, it’s convoluted, overwhelming, and confusing beyond belief. No wonder Chrome is so popular. For all of Chrome’s faults, it doesn’t through a trillion things at you at once. Also, having to add a cookie pop-up on your new tab page is peak bloat lmao.
Just noticed I’ve reached the top users page on beta/alpha about a week ago… I am coming for him…
It's always strange to me when someone says something like "your spelling is good" or something along the lines that I'm good at writing, constructing sentences and/or expressing myself in written forms, or even going as far to say I don't seem dyslexic. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate compliments, but it's such an indescribable thing to me, but I never truly feel I can express myself in words properly. To me it's like there's some kind of barrier between what my brain is thinking and what ends up coming out in writing or conversation. It's not that I'm not being truthful or omitting things, rather that I feel it's not how I wanted to express myself. I dunno, it's weird. Again, the compliments are nice, especially when my dyslexia is really bringing me down, but at the same time it always feels as if I can never find the right words or way I want to say something.
I don’t like Twitter but this has to be one of the few good reply chains on that website ever (Screenshots aren’t mine)
rumour has it if you say wombat 3 times in the mirror you get early access to alpha.wasteof.money
While I don’t care for the music much on twenty one pilots’ 2021 album Scaled And Icy, the cover with a blue dragon (he’s called Trash btw, never knew that until I looked it up lol) is cool as hell
Happy 100 days online @onion! Happy I could help contribute to the bot, even if it was in a small way! (Pretend I didn’t take like forever to write this headline in the style of The Onion)
This video was generated entirely by AI.
It was generated by OpenAI’s new text-to-video model called Sora. It’s currently only being tested by a small group of experts and creators.
I don’t know how other’s feel about this, but I find this kinda terrifying. A lot of the videos that they’ve shown off so far are already very convincing, and I can already imagine the kind of misinformation that will be created with this tool. Even if OpenAI can keep the lid on it with Sora, the fact that they have pulled something like this off probably means we’ll see others turning up soon. I wouldn’t be shocked to see an open sourced equivalent for this, like Stable Diffusion.
I know we can’t put the genie back in the bottle now, but I do really worry about the future when the tech is getting this good this quick. This feels like the end of the information age, because we might be soon be unable to tell what info is real and what is fake.
You can see more examples from Sora here: https://openai.com/sora
happy valentines day @perrin 
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Here’s a TNC themed Valentines card to send to that special someone!
Hoping this to be the last post I make about Blaze. Simply put, it has gone too far and I want to put this to bed.
To be clear, yes, Blaze is flawed in many ways. Being a Wix site means a lack of control over what data the website collects and how it’s used. The privacy policy leaves a lot to be desired. The marketing of the site is poor, tone-deaf at points and possibly AI generated. Yes, the logo is stolen (see my previous post). Support is non-existent. The site doesn’t use end-to-end encryption.
However, that does not justify what has happened over the last few days. Spamming and attacking the site to take it down is bullying. Even worse is how a lot of the conversation has shifted from trying to point out problems and light-hearted memes to just being mean. From what I can gleam, the owner of Blaze isn’t the greatest person, sure. But that doesn’t justify being rude back. Be better than that. We as a community need to be able to recognise when to apply the brakes to stop people getting hurt or upset. I hope we all want wasteof to feel inviting to everyone so it can grow. This doesn’t just apply to Blaze, but to a lot of the recent conversations I’ve watched spiral into full-blown arguments. Not discounting myself here, I’ve felt frustrated with myself over how I spoke regarding Blaze. If I knew my post about their logo would cause such a stir, I probably wouldn’t have posted it, same with that meme I posted on TNC.
That’s most of what I have to say, back to goofiness.