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I loved Grammarly. But it has changed post LLM boom. The underlying concept was awesome as they take grammatical rules from a book of english grammar rules into a linter. Then it let you select the tone and adjusted some for marketing/engagement so it sounds good on Twitter. I have severe dyslexia and struggled with tone.

Lately, like following ChatGPT 3.5 release era, I had found Grammarly now replacing entire sentences with LLM replacement which are random and inject bias to being near useless. It did this some before. The problem is I can't even tell if it's defensible from a grammatical point when it uses an LLM to do this. At some point Grammarly reached too far in the cookie jar and I no longer trusted that someone who read the Grammar rule book verified any part of the elaborate suggestions.

I haven't logged in for months. I guess I was no longer learning from it. I need to take a closer look but sys admin outrage from pushy sales people doesn't bode well in my mind.

> FoxPro just executes what it finds in there.

Perfect. I'm looking for a program that executes everything it reads. You've tracked a 20-year-old security bug for FoxPro? That's gnarly. What if, instead of reviving FoxPro, we summon a new type of DOS with no security model to begin with? FoxPro was always better that way.

Hear me out. So, you have your regular computer on your desk, right? I call that the REAL SECURITY computer for REAL WORK: You know, your typical choice of Windows 11, Apple, or Linux. The biggest names in security. The names we trust. Real work. Real computers. Real security.

Next to it sits FoxPro, running new DOS on a separate computer with no security model at all.

Here's the ergonomics. You press your hands against your desk and push your office chair off like a boat, gliding away from the SECURE COMPUTER in the REAL WORLD toward FoxPro. FoxPro reads everything and executes with religious zeal.

- written from my treadmill. edit: fix typos

If the signature matters both parties pay for Acrobat-approved certificates. In most other situations I like to imagine a world where we agree to a document before signing it, thus the signing is just a formality or even optional.

I'd extend some good faith to someone reporting a potential community health problem. And roaches in a kitchen isn't a smoking gun. Roach bait is food. Poisoned food, but food. You put it in the kitchen on purpose. Next to the food. That is how it works.

I'm pretty sure Age of Empires II uses Bliss as the background for the Watch Tower icon. You can see the rolling green hills in the back.

They should let NMAP have its own celeb page on IMDB. Better than MGM's lineup nowadays.

Look, my fellow smug lisp weenies, I love Emacs too, but FrameMaker is the standard. If I pay $100 for Times New Roman Pro from Monotype, my DSL is automatically more expensive. I select Times New Roman Pro in Adobe's tools, and it prints it.

Emacs, LuaTeX et al, GhostScript, and PDF take the liberty of upgrading my $100 Times New Roman Pro to Libre New Roman (from the LibreOffice typesetting subsystem) without my consent, and I have to link it using configs like a C library and hope the path environment variable is clobbered together in the right order.

Or you can use the Weenie Hut Junior HTML-V8 infused PDFium, where I basically have to manipulate a tamper-resistant DOM to print a post on most social media sites. Then Chrome uses whatever font it feels like for the timestamp and header. It's almost easier to hardcode my Times New Roman Pro font file into their source code and recompile Chromium, and last time I attempted that, my computer BSOD'd since I forgot only the bourgeoisie can actually use open source, not just look at it.

That's why FrameMaker is the standard generalized markup editor.

Things ahead aren't looking too good, especially after Xerox drivers had that glitch that replaced numbers with different-looking ones. Don't get me started on my recent HP all-in-one fax machine nightmare. Maybe the smug LISP weenie that joked about stapling his s-expr onto the IRS worksheet was right.

If anyone finds this comment, tell my family I died trying to find a way to share the best version of the Times New Roman font for them to read the XML in.

As someone who knows exactly as much COBOL as everyone else here, XML is what comes out of Java tooling as the handicap for the office that demands Windows tools; of course, it's barbaric. The real crime is sending me this article in HTML, AKA the Super Weenie Hut Jr of generalized markup languages. Adobe FrameMaker is the real text editor used to forge your generalized markup language. Rumor has it that when FrameMaker dropped Mac support, Jobs cut out Flash games in the next Super Weenie Hut Junior.

I've missed the entire shittification cycle of Apple News which was added in iOS 10. Around that update, I always put any new default Apple apps (being added every iOS update), including Apple News into a folder I named "utilities" in case I ever needed them. Thanks for the heads up. I'll update the name to trash right now.

How about instead of calling Claude a clanker again, which he can't control, how about we give everyone a fair shot this time with a bill that requires the news to not suck in the first place.

It increases the number of jobs at the job factory. You write it into a Chrome extension and name it 2954.

Breaking news: MMORPGs are less fun when doctors keep calling mom to ask how the MMORPG is because it kicks you off of the dial up. News at 9: is my iPhone actually an iPod with a cellular dial up modem glued inside. Late night: Stick around to watch an old man yelling at clouds.