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"everyone moving to bluesky is an idiot"-- me, a harpy
co-founder @tcrf.net w/ roommate @rachelmae.bsky.social
homepage: xkeeper.net

(plural, therian, digital, demon, harpy... we're a mess, say hi.)
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i'm back on my bullshit
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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poking through twitch settings and oh hey, more garbage!

it's nice how something potentially neat (voice-command clip) is paired with something awful (constantly monitoring for High Engagement). i bet this is very cheap to run, too

help.twitch.tv/s/article/au...
screenshot of twitch.tv's website Auto Clips Waitlist ALPHA Toggle on to request to join Alpha testing of Auto Clips, an AI-supported tool that identifies engaging moments from your streams, and helps you automatically create and publish clips with captions, including clips that contain multiple moments from your stream, saving you time on clip creation and editing. If you are accepted into the testing, Auto Clips will be enabled for your channel and the tool will auto-create and auto-publish clips to your channel for you. The clips are your User Content under our Terms of Service, and you can delete the clips or opt out of the testing at any time. Alpha testing is currently only available for English language channels with VODs and clips enabled. Learn more. Frequently Asked Questions How does Auto Clips help you pick moments to clip? Auto Clips runs speech-to-text on your stream and analyzes the results with the help of AI to enable you to identify and clip the most engaging moments. Examples of engaging moments include: Positive sentiment and excitement from the streamer Funny gameplay moments or banter Entertaining interactions Auto Clips also detects when you say "Twitch, Clip That" or "Twitch, Clip It" during your stream and makes clips of those moments. How does Auto Clips use AI? Auto Clips uses AI to analyze your stream content to help you create clips as described above. The AI makes quick assessments of your content and chat activity for purposes of helping you create engaging clips. The AI used for Auto Clips does not retain these assessments, or information about you or your content, and it is not trained on your content or information. You have control over your Auto Clips, just like with other clips, and can delete specific Auto Clips at any time in your Creator Dashboard or turn off the capability altogether.
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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facebook is going ham today. not sure why, since they've been blocked for months, too. it used to request actual pages, now it's just constantly requesting robots.txt forever.
screenshot full of facebook's cralwer trying to load robots.txt
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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i wanted to find this story, so i tried looking for it on pcgamer's site. it might surprise you to know that searching "microsoft ai pretty obvious" does not return it as a result.

like, i get that search on the internet is broken, but come the fuck on
search results on pcgamer's site for "microsoft ai pretty obvious". the actual article i'm looking for, "Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious", does not appear anywhere in the results (including the ones not shown in this picture)
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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a good magician always reveals their secrets, so here's yet another off-the-cuff demonstration

(this was *supposed* to be a video, but i accidentally recorded it as a GIF and, well)
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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a sort of "making-of"
a desktop screenshot of multiple ms paint windows, showing various pieces of the comic, mainly the rainbow outline, which is cribbed from the windows color select dialog box + irfanview rotating it slightly
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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from a conversation with a friend
three-panel mspaint comic. panel 1: two large figures: "good news, kids! you're getting an inheritance!" panel 2: two small figures. "oh boy! money?!" panel 3: both together. the ones from the first panel say "diseases :D". over the smaller ones, a rainbow "*hereditary conditions*"
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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it's not very extensive
(php code screenshot) function no_chatgpt_for_us_thanks() { $src = $_GET['utm_source'] ?? ""; $ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?? ""; // chatgpt.com/ if ( $src === "chatgpt.com" || stripos($ref, "chatgpt.com/") !== false || stripos($ref, "perplexity.ai/") !== false || stripos($ref, "copilot.microsoft.com/") !== false || stripos($ref, "claude.ai/") !== false ) {
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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nice
666 following, 6.9K posts
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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example data from the logs, just because it's fun to see.
server logs showing "Blocked ChatGPT dork xx.xx.xx.xx →" with various article titles and referrers from ChatGPT, Copilot, and Perplexity
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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as a reminder, if you visit with a referrer from one of the major ai sites, you get this message. you can easily continue to the real article, if you read the text — it's just a link you click
tcrf's big "YOU SUCK" interruption page
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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the anti generative ai interstitial on tcrf actually provoked someone into sending an angry email over it, and it's a real doozy
Some of your pages are not included in some modern search engines, because they suck (the search engines). Some of these search engines censor some of your pages, because they suck (the search engines). By blocking or even discouraging alternative methods other than these search engines that suck, you are passively supporting search engines that suck, and passively supporting censorship. So... _You_ suck.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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rachel sometimes complains to me about phantom floating points showing up in her sources, which are all supposed to be pixel-aligned.

yeah, no clue how that might happen. real mystery
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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i'm a REAL big fan of this update
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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[screenshot of the obs 31 changelog] General Changes Updated the browser source/docks CEF (Chromium) to version 127 (6533) on all platforms [reitowo/WizardCM/PatTheMav/tytan652/pkviet/kkartaltepe/Lain-B] Changed scene items to use relative coordinates [derrod] (highlighted) Existing scene collections will be automatically converted to use relative coordinates if the scene collection has a known output resolution set. [11/25/2025 5:33 PM] i honestly wish i could help, but i did not experience this particular problem. all my scenes have been at 720p forever X, [11/25/2025 5:33 PM] i mean X, [11/25/2025 5:34 PM] i am constantly, constantly, constantly giving you laughs and shit for updating and then wondering why your stuff is a flaming pile of wreckage, because some dipshit 1200 miles way put a pencil up their nose and decided Break It! X, [11/25/2025 5:34 PM] i'm the clown now.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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ok nope OBS just straight changes all your positions and sizes whenever you change the canvas resolution, awesome. incredible. i updated when i was on my (rare) 1080p set and now everything's just broken forever
one set of transform coordinates in 720p... ...becomes something entirely new in 1080p
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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my first thought was "well, maybe the base size is staying the same, but the output was changing": nope, they're still the same. i'm not sure what to do about this
profile: 1080p. canvas: 1920x1080p. output: 1920x1080p profile: 720p. base: 720p. output: 720p
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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messing in OBS and trying to get set up to stream, and did behavior change in a recent update?

i switched from a 1080p profile to a 720p one and it shrank everything in my scenes, instead of actually. shrinking the canvas
a visual example of the obs canvas changing size. in old versions it would just crop the output, but now it seems to actually downsize everything to fit obs with the 720p profile. everything is chunky and gross obs with the 1080p profile. everything is still blurry, but because it's scaled to fit the preview and not because obs is crunching it
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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stumbled across this box art for cyberwar (PC) last night and laughed myself to tears
the box art for "cyberwar" on pc, which is a plain red box with a hexagon cut out of it, revealing the inner contents through a window: a character from the game (presumably) giving a thousand-yard astonished stare a zoom in on the hexagon
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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banned from subway.com
Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.subway.com/" on this server. Reference #18.cecf5868.1764035047.3c7ab9db https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.cecf5868.1764035047.3c7ab9db
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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hi neighbors. always good to hear from you. thanks for making my ceiling fixtures rattle and my blinds shake
noise chart of our apartment, showing a bunch of constant noise for hours, with valleys of mostly silence
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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"137h marathon" sure, ok
discord showing me playing an old version of a nes emulator for a "137 hour marathon"
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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if you are going to pointedly ignore robots.txt, may i suggest writing a crawler that isn't fucking broken
access logs from a crawler requesting broken file URLs (which include a URL-encoded quote on either end of it) the end of those access log lines, revealing the bot user agent and its homepage firefox screenshot showing the machine-translated text: " Why are your web crawlers ignoring robots.txt? expand_more On a lot of websites, robots.txt steers the search engine web crawlers around the outside of material that is absolutely necessary to recreate the correct experience of a website as it looked at at any given time. Our experience shows that if we collect with respect for robots.txt, we will miss out on large amounts of vital data – for example the newspapers’ websites – but also tens of thousands of private websites, which we consider to be significant contributions to the Danish cultural heritage. According to the same principle, we also have the option of overriding HTML-meta tags." screenshot showing the IP address is indeed registered to that place
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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r/tvtoohigh
a picture from inside vrchat from behind a couch, looking at a tv showing my roommate's twitch stream. the tv is up against the ceiling, instead of at eye level.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM