Not only does Stack Overflow say you don't have a right to remove your words from Stack Overflow, according to Stack Overflow, you don't even have the right to decide what words Stack Overflow publishes under your name.

Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.

To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".

In the meantime, I have been suspended for 17 hours to "cool down". OpenAI is so, so offended by me saying I don't want them to train on their content. Clearly I am very angry and need to sit in time out.

Noticed this last detail only when I tried to edit my profile and discovered you can't edit your profile while "suspended".

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

Meanwhile in dystopia news:

1. In Android 13 they made it even harder to disable Google Assistant. I activated it by accident like 3 times trying to disable. The first thing I did was uninstall Google Assistant, but this turns out not to disable Google Assistant instead it shuts you out from disabling Google Assistant. That is, to disable Google Assistant you must first install Google Assistant. Then you have to be careful not to tap it— that activates it— you MUST long-press and tap "Settings"

As you may remember from me talking about it once a week, the three things I most want out of a cell phone are

1. RECTANGULAR screen with NO HOLES OR ROUNDED EDGES ON THE DISPLAY CANVAS

2. Big bezel/bevel/whatever it's called so I can hold it without activating the touch screen

3. Headphone jack

I search and search and even for high prices I usually cannot get these things

But the $35 carrier branded temp replacement phone I bought at the Wal-Mart by the airport?

All three

I don't like lying. I really, *really* do not like it when a software program requires me to lie

2. In the process of setting up my new phone, I at one point had to answer a nightmare CAPTCHA where the question was "Please select all objects crafted by humans", and then all the options were either fish or clocks, and that was was a fine question, except one of the clocks I was clearly required to select was *clearly* an image generated by "AI", meaning no it was *not* crafted by humans,

In other news, it turns out on stock Android now, disabling animations adds an additional, extremely disruptive animation. Everytime you home button it flashes the icon of the app you're leaving huge, blurry and screen size for exactly 1 frame. It's glitchy and photosensitivity-unfriendly

I thought this was an Android 13 thing, but no, appears it's stock Android and Sony had somehow disabled it on my main phone. People have been flagging this issue for two years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/tkci6q/new_minimize_animation/?rdt=59271

It feels like a loyalty ritual

It may be that after all the many gross indignities I have solemnly endured at the hands of Google, Android 13 is the thing that finally drives me to build my own rom.

The full screen flicker is enough by itself, and on top of that, the thing where it displays a mandatory popup you must swipe to clear every time you copy anything is *really* bad. I thought it was gonna be bad and it really was

Anyway sorry I spend so much of my time on this account complaining about computers, but is just the thing is, there are so many horrible things about them,

I like limiting animations, but the reason I HAVE to disable animations is the grotesque, nauseating full screen overscroll animation in Android where everything stretches oddy. So now it's like they give me a Pavlovian punishment for doing that. Periodic bright flashes in my eyes. I'd consider this frustrating but acceptable if this happened because I used the "Developer" reduce animation options, which naturally aren't QAed, but it happens with the builtin accessibility "reduce animation" too!

@jbo ever since the update where they made the notifications display taller than the status bar I have liked each version less than the one before it

@clacke @negative12dollarbill @csolisr I'm very interested in the low-power/low-cost electric category currently being rapidly innovated on in China.

Things I don't know about these:
- How is the safety? I mean really?
- Is Joe Biden gonna ban them in the name of US protectionism?

Also, I really don't want computers or cameras in my car. I don't know what those computers and cameras are doing. If it's on the CANbus I don't want it to have the capacity for TCP/IP.

2008, me: I love the idea of cryptocurrency

BITCOIN: The word "cryptocurrency" now means "financial scams based on inefficient write-only ledgers"

2018, me: I love the idea of the metaverse

FACEBOOK: The word "metaverse" now means "proprietary 3D chat programs with no soul"

2022, me: I love the idea of procedurally generated content

OPENAI: From now on people will associate that only with big corporations plagiarizing small artists and turning their work into ugly content slurry

Why does!! The city of Toronto!!! Make it so hard!! To dispose of minor hazardous waste!!!!

I got a chance to use a car today so I'm like damn I'm gonna get rid of these paint cans and swelling batteries! And now I'm all the way out at the transfer station

They're closed for Easter Monday!!!!

The transfer station is right here but the gate is closed!!!

What am I supposed to do with these paint cans!!!

@AlgoCompSynth I'm trying to run a piece of software from 2010

@AlgoCompSynth ocaml isn't so bad. it's lacking a couple of the nice things from sml and most of the things it adds are either highly dubious ideas or are extremely useful but are such batshit deep math you'll never use them, but it's not so bad, the package/tooling ecosystem is actually good, PPXes are nice.

A lot of people seem to think the thing after Haskell is Idris.

Me: How long can sharks live

Google: I need to customize this result to your current location

Me: That's clearly wrong and if it's right then it's terrifying