Post Race!

[dday9]

Has VBF been down for the rest of yall for the most of the day today?

It's the Cloudflare stuff. Apparently, VBF doesn't work from Chrome or Brave for me but it will work from Edge.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I don't have an issue with it on Chrome.

[wes4dbt]

I use chrome also. No problems lately except for cloudflare always verifying I'm human.

Are you a human???

[dday9]

I use chrome also. No problems lately except for cloudflare always verifying I'm human.

Are you a human???

[dday9]

I asked ChatGPT:

Can you generate an image of Bender from Futurama with a speech bubble saying "Yes"?

It responded:

Sorry, I can’t create an image of Bender from Futurama because that’s copyrighted material.

But I can help you in a couple of other ways:

I could make a generic cartoon robot in a similar style (metallic body, antenna, big eyes) with a speech bubble that says “Yes.”

Or, if you want something closer, I could guide you through generating it yourself with a free image model (like Stable Diffusion) where you’d use prompts such as “cartoon robot with a cylindrical body, antenna on head, holding a beer, with a speech bubble that says YES, in Futurama-inspired style”.

Would you like me to generate a generic robot image with “Yes” in the bubble, or do you prefer the prompt-writing approach so you can get something closer to Bender?

After I responded with "Yes" it generated the above "non-Bender" image.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Are you a human???

I'm never certain, but Chrome seems to think so.

[Shaggy Hiker]

After I responded with "Yes" it generated the above "non-Bender" image.

Yeah, that's VERY non-Bender. Seems like it might be the hands. Bender generally has two hands with three fingers on each.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hands are always difficult for artists. It's funny that they are so difficult for AI, as well.

[wes4dbt]

Someone should give Bender the finger. Also, give him a hand.

[Shaggy Hiker]

He'd appreciate both, I'm sure.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm headed to a meeting with a federal agency. It has not been cancelled.

[Shaggy Hiker]

There are a variety of groups involved, so the meeting can go on...just perhaps without the people who organized it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I already paid for my room, though, so we are going to MEET, by God!

[dday9]

That sounds like a terrible time.

[dday9]

Did y'all have the meeting?

[dday9]

You got the stuff?

[dday9]

Yeah, I got the stuff. You got the money?

[dday9]

I'm not showing you the money until I see the stuff.

[dday9]

That sort of meeting

[dday9]

I'm so sad that our spam emoji broke

[dday9]

I used to use it all the time.

[dday9]

Especially when handling reports.

[dday9]

Then again, we really don't have much spam anymore.

[dday9]

Not since CloudFlare was introduced

[dday9]

Pretty wild how effective it seems to be.

[dday9]

Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if spammers figured out a way around it.

[dday9]

Like the bad kid in class: will put in so much work just to not do any schoolwork.

[dday9]

Of course I was that bad kid in class a couple of years/classes.

[dday9]

I'm working on an HTML tutorial.

[dday9]

It's going to be in the same style/format as my VbLessons tutorial in my signature.

[dday9]

Take a wild guess at what it'll be called.

[dday9]

HtmlLessons

[dday9]

Go figure, huh?

[dday9]

It's coming along quite nicely.

[dday9]

I've done:

1. Chapter 1. The Basics
   
   1. History
   2. Documents
   3. Comments
   4. Debugging
2. Chapter 2. Head
   
   1. Head Element
   2. Title
   3. Character Set
   4. Viewport
   5. Meta Tags
   6. Favicons
   7. Linking Stylesheets
3. Chapter 3. Text Contents
   
   1. body Element
   2. Headings
   3. Paragraphs
   4. Line Breaks and Horizontal Rules
   5. Formatting
   6. Inline Text Elements
   7. Exercise
4. Chapter 4. Grouping
   
   1. Semantic Containers
   2. Non-Semantic Containers
   3. Lists
5. Chapter 5. Navigation
   
   1. Anchor Element
   2. Absolute vs. Relative
   3. Fragment Identifiers
   4. Anchor Prefixes
6. Chapter 6. Images
   
   1. Image Element
   2. Figures
   3. Exercise

And now all I have left is:

1. Tables
2. Forms
3. Accessibility (e.g., ARIA)

[dday9]

It doesn't get into CSS at all.

[dday9]

Basically, I'm teaching people how to build boring documents.

[dday9]

Which is why Tim Berners-Lee originally developed HTML in the first place.

[dday9]

By the way, I consistently wrap abbreviations in the abbr tag.

[dday9]

I think it would've been quicker for me to develop a macro that automatically typed out

<abbr title="Hypertext Markup Langauge">HTML</abbr>

Then me manually typing it out every time (or copying/pasting).