Wherein @pluralistic sums up in one paragraph what I spent a whole blog post rambling about. (Also TIL about CAFOs)

The question is, why the fuck would anyone write the web if the only "person" who can find what they write is an AI's crawler, which ingests the writing for its own training, but has no interest in steering readers to see what you've written? If AI search ever becomes a thing, the open web will become an AI CAFO and search crawlers will increasingly end up imbibing the contents of its manure lagoon.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/#enshittibottification

Catsby found a sun patch #cats

TIL g-code - the language driving a lot of CNC machines and 3-D printers - is a bit over 60 years old?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code

It's that time again, time to apply flea repellent on the cats. I got 2 out of 3 via stealth. But, that was long enough for Catsby to pick up the stink on the wind and hide somewhere inconvenient.

Now I get to be gazed upon as a betrayer for at least the next day or two.

Churu treats were reluctantly accepted for the crime of having been made stinky by flea repellent #cats

Of the three, I think Cosmo cares the least about the stink. Cheddars and Catsby glared at me when I walked back in the room. But, that kinda tracks

Catsby is Cheddars' kitten - so they have a lot in common. Cosmo is a random gremlin who didn't really know how to cat when we adopted him

Hmm, The Interim Computer Festival is next weekend in Seattle. About a 2.5hr drive for me per google. Someone like me should go. 🤔

https://sdf.org/icf/

Catsby didn’t hold a grudge for too long #cats

@soypunk that’s probably too ambitious a bike ride for me for now, but the someday idea of it is tempting!

Firing up the live stream for a little sunday afternoon tinkering with my 3018 CNC machine - I might add some limit switches?

https://twitch.tv/lmorchard

Well, that stream was not great, not terrible. I did get some limit switches mounted but not wired up. Also had a couple network outages and the laptop started overheating.

Fun to skip through and watch the death ray of the sun creep along until it's centered directly on my head, at which point I started overheating.

Thinking this means it's a Summer of Basement Streams if I keep this hobby going

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2093836084