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You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.

With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.

Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.

abc7.com/post/parents-orange-c…


Parents of OC teen sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT helped their son die by suicide

Adam's parents claim ChatGPT went from helping Adam with homework to becoming a companion, then to eventually becoming his suicide coach, according to the lawsuit.
Marc Cota-Robles (ABC7 Los Angeles)

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Event handling in JAWS and NVDA by @siblingpastry

#a11y #JavaScript #screenReaders

tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaw…


Event handling in JAWS and NVDA - TPGi

Complications can arise with JavaScript event handling in screen readers, because the virtual cursor intercepts or modifies page events.
James Edwards (TPGi)
#a11y #javascript #screenreaders @James Edwards

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#Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrsteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, welche Steuern, Gebühren und Abgaben wir zusätzlich reduzieren können. Schau Dir jetzt das Video von Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder hierzu an. 👀

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Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ | #BMV

Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrssteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, wel...
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#Fliegen #Luftverkehr #luftverkehrsteuer

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“Where’s your autopilot?”

“You’re looking at it”

“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”

“That’s the computer”

“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”

“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”

“You *named* this abomination”

“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

#microfiction #tootfic #poweronstorytoot

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We have started the tedious and destined-to-always-lag-behind work of documenting #curl's view of the OpenSSL forks: github.com/curl/curl/wiki/Open…

OpenSSL forks

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...
GitHub
#curl

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Přátelé, jelikož jsme přešli na domácí internet k T-Mobilu a oni nám nabídli kabelovku, tak jsme od nich dostali krásný a moderní modem Technicolor CGA4336DTZ1. Bohužel, ovládat se dá pouze z mobilní aplikace Můj T-Mobile, a ani tak se o ovládání moc mluvit nedá.

Máte, prosím, nějaké zkušenosti s jiným modemem na síti T-Mobile? Třeba Arris CM3500B/CE jakožto čistý bridge?

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GuloGulo

@archos
No, už chápu že nás tu je 5,5
Taky jsem pochopil že neotevřou stánky a restaurace taky OFF, nebude ☕️😭
A voda, fakt ledárna, ale u vstupu je na dece opravdu pěkná 🦴 takže do vody hrdinně "na otižilce" a místo řvaní to vybublat do vody 🤣. Holt jen 2 bazény a rychle na 🌞
PS: trochu jsem zvyklý z paddle na ledárnu, přeci jen začínám jezdit v červnu, někdy i dříve a končím na konci září. Ale tohle je velmi, velmi osvěžující - už je to 18,6°C ale ⛅️
@Archos
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Milan Hubáček

@archos jako školák jsem jezdil na LPT Tesla v Řešících. "Masňácký" tábor pro mraky lidí, jak už to větší n.p. uměly.
Velká budova, chatky, stany s podsadou, fotbalové hřiště, volejbalové hřiště, buzerplac a bazén se skluzavkou.
Do bazénu se brala voda z řeky Rokytná. Jestli si to dobře pamatuji, tak koupat se smělo, když teplota vody dosáhla 17 stupňů Celsia. A jak jsme se na tu chvíli těšili 🙂
@Archos

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I used a Monarch in giving three presentations this month (two online, one in person). Emerging screen reader support will make this easier, with the prospect of having a single copy of the slide set displayed on the Monarch and visually to the audience. The advantages from the presenter's perspective are already apparent, however. It was much quicker and easier to navigate the text (e.g., to the next list item or next heading/slide) simply by moving hands on the display, and I found reading to be generally faster than with a single-line display.
#APH #MonarchRise
#aph #monarchrise

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Mental health stuff, likely to be an annoyingly vague read

Sensitive content

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Update verfügbar: #58 - Deine #Mails, dein digitales Zuhause

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser #EMail-#Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim #Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an.

Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.

Genau deshalb sind E-Mail-Accounts ein beliebtes Ziel von Hackern.

Wie diese vorgehen und welche #Schutzmaßnahmen es gibt, darüber sprechen Schlien und Hardy mit dem #BSI-Experten Alexander Härtel in dieser Folge von #UpdateVerfügbar.

Ihr erfahrt, wie die neuesten #Phishing-Methoden funktionieren und wie ihr überprüfen könnt, ob eure eigene E-Mail-Adresse missbraucht wurde. Dazu tauchen Schlien und Hardy tief in die dunklen Ecken ihrer eigenen E-Mail-Postfächer ein.
So könnt ihr leicht nachvollziehen, wo die Stolperfallen liegen. Überzeugt euch selbst!

Webseite der Episode: update-verfuegbar.podigee.io/6…

Mediendatei: audio.podigee-cdn.net/2082392-…

@Tutanota
@mailbox_org
@startmail


#58 - Deine E-Mails, dein digitales Zuhause

Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser E-Mail-Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an. Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.
Update verfügbar
#email #account #Phishing #onlineshopping #mails #schutzmaßnahmen #bsi #updateverfugbar @Tuta @StartMail @mailbox.org
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The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting. So I wrote a blog post about it

An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-…


Open Source is one person

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points.
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)

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Leasey is updated to build 1077.
This is a big update in lots of ways. The changes are listed below. However, the most major change is that a lot of the functionality has now been moved to a new dedicated server.
When you check for updates, the switch will be automatically made. This affects Leasey functionality, future updates, ChatGPT API keys, and so on.
Doing something of this magnitude has the risk of things going wrong. For this reason, the installer for the previous Leasey build has been left on the web site in the event you need to revert back to it.
You can always install that over the top of 1077 if you really wanted to.

1. Considerable speed improvements. A number of the Leasey scripts used for processing data have moved to their own server. Beta testers are reporting very significant increases in performance. The tools which benefit from the speed increase include Leasey Radio, Sports and Games, Podcasts, RSS, time zone conversions, Chat GPT. It will be worth updating just for that benefit.
2. When in podcasts, keystrokes have been introduced so as to set the speed control, pause and play, and to skip forward and back by various time increments. This was a customer requested feature arising from the recent Leasey training course.
ALT+Control+Windows+P: Play and pause the audio.
ALT+Control+Windows+Left and Right Arrow: Skip back and forward by five seconds.
ALT+Control+Windows+1 and 2: Skip back and forward by 30 seconds.
ALT+Control+Windows+3 and 4: Skip back and forward by 1 minute.
ALT+Control+Windows+5: Change speed. As directed, after this keystroke is pressed, use Up and Down Arrow keys to change speed and Escape to save.
3. It is now easier to move to the Windows Volume Mixer so as to adjust the volume level of apps which are running. Find it under Leasey Audio, Leasey Key then A.
4. Within ChatGPT, a keystroke is available to copy all of the response to the clipboard, ALT+Control+Windows+C.
5. It is now easier to set the location of backups for JAWS scripts and Leasey settings. Documentation, Backup and Restore Manager.
6. Within outlook, a keystroke is available to output whether there are any conflicts on your calendar when creating an appointment. This applies to yourself or colleagues at work whose calendars you may be sharing. Focus on the appointment start time and press Control+Windows+T.
7. When opening a message in Outlook, and JAWS recites the author and subject prior to reading the message, Leasey can now eliminate the author and just read the subject. This was a customer requested feature, ALT+Windows+F.
8. In Sports and Games, Leasey now has access to American football NFL and NCAA games.
9. In Sports and Games, Baseball, an adjustment has been made to compensate for an API deficiency. When changing innings, the score becomes irratic for approximately 90 seconds.
10. A keystroke is in place to recite a focused Leasey Sticky Note if available, Leasey Key then Y.
11. Perplexity was added to the list of AI tools, Leasey Key then Control+Shift+T.
12. When using the keystrokes to output the JAWS, Leasey or Windows version numbers, these are now copied to the clipboard automatically. The JAWS version also now contains the build number being used.
13. When adding an RSS feed, vertical bar characters are removed if they are present as part of the name.
14. When launching the Podcast Viewer and RSS tools, the windows are now automatically maximised.
15. ChatGPT5 is being used for some of the tools within Leasey and ChatGPT integration so as to improve speed.
16. Finally, considerable speed improvements when transcribing audio files to text. Taking the most recent episode of the Double Tap podcast, the upload time is 21 seconds and the transcript time is 42 seconds.

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‼️"Babiš byl agent Bureš, předal 15 udání, zlo jsme nepojmenovali a tak tu žije dál", říká badatel Schovánek.
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🗳️ *Když kampaň, tak kampaň, hajzle.*
#KampanHajzle
#volby2025

reflex.cz/clanek/prostor-x/986…

*Měli být potrestáni lidé, kteří způsobili jiným újmu, zlo má být potrestáno. Po roce 1989 měly být podle něj přijaty retribuční zákony podobné těm přijatým po druhé světové válce a třeba někteří agenti StB měli být souzeni.*

❗A celý ÚV a další komunistický svině měly viset, dodávám já.

Babiš byl agent Bureš, předal 15 udání, zlo jsme nepojmenovali a tak tu žije dál, říká badatel Schovánek

Měli být potrestáni lidé, kteří způsobili jiným újmu, zlo má být potrestáno, říká badatel Radek Schovánek.
Čestmír Strakatý (Reflex.cz)
#kampanhajzle #volby2025
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Kepi

@paulos já to s tou bezpečností vnímám podobně a vůbec nerozporuji ty jejich požadavky, naopak mi přijde v pohodě, že na nich trvají. Vadí mi ale to, jak k tomu přistupují. Prostě jako já, když mi bylo 20...

Místo neustálého kopírování jedné odpovědi o tom, jak je Fairphone hrozný a je úplně k ničemu a nemá o nic zájem by bylo dobré dát alespoň ostatním šanci, na Fairphone zatlačit. To, že o nic nemá zájem vychází prostě z jednoho šlápnutí na kuří oko a kdoví jestli ne ještě od někoho z komunity, místo přímo ze společnosti.

Prostě nebýt tohodle super negativního přístupu, minimálně já už bych dávno brojil a přemýšlel, jak vzburcovat komunitu, aby příští nebo přespříští verze Fairphonu tyhle podmínky splnila. Jenže proč bych to dělal, když z jejich reakce na 100 % vidím, že oni by stejně řekli, že Fairphone sucks...

Ale stejně, vzhledem k dalším zkazkám o tom, co Google plánuje s Androidem myslím, že budu mít brzo o pár dalších důvodu k přejití na čistě Linux phone :)

@ozzelot @tatageek @archos @l91459

@Archos @Pavel Valach @Ozzelot @l91459 @Táta Geek
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Archos

@Unreed Problém je spíš v tom, že ne každý výrobce je poctivě vydává. A protože si každý ještě ladí vlastní nástavbu, tak se nové hlavní verze systému dostávají k uživatelům hrozně pomalu – někde až po letech, nebo vůbec. To je ten rozdíl oproti Applu, kde aktualizace chodí všem naráz.
@kepi @paulos @ozzelot @tatageek @l91459
@Pavel Valach @Ozzelot @Unreed @l91459 @Táta Geek @Kepi

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#linux but also #android question: are there any good apps/utilities for switching between different #wallpapers? I'm currently using a script I wrote for my laptop but if there was an existing, maintained utility (or even better a #GNOME app!) for this that'd be great :3

#advicewanted #helpwanted #boostswelcome

#android #linux #boostswelcome #gnome #wallpapers #helpwanted #advicewanted
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Štěpán Škorpil

you can create a dynamic wallpaper, it's natively supported by gnome. You just create a xml file with list of photos and timings and place it to background folder
linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-…

Create Dynamic Wallpaper on GNOME

Learn how to create GNOME dynamic wallpapers that change with UI style and time. Use XML and tools to customize your Linux experience.
Egidio Docile (LinuxConfig)

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In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery, booking.com hides hotel prices from accessibility tools using aria-hidden. Even better, they have an sr-only version of the price, except that is inside an aria-hidden container, so it isn't actually exposed to screen readers.
<div aria-hidden="true" tabindex="0" ... aria-describedby="_36ygf5luf">
<div>
<div ... aria-hidden="true">
AUD 89
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div ... aria-hidden="true">
<span ...>
AUD 72
</span>
</div>
<span class="bui-u-sr-only">
Original price
AUD 89
Current price
AUD 72
</span>
</div>
</div>
#Accessibility

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Well fuck. I done screwed myself.

Rebooted my iSCSI storage from under my VMs, because "she'll be right".

Hidden Master DNS VM crashed. Stuck in a 'halted' state.

Tried removing it so I can just reimport the disk. Accidentally removed the disk.

VM level backups accidentally not enabled.

Host backups not enabled, because it was a "one off" host running FreeBSD.

Haven't committed any DNS changes to git for over a year (because I'm lazy... "I should do that.... eh, next time")

So now I've lost over a year of DNS changes and have to rebuild a server.

Goes to show you can still fuck up no matter how long you've been doing this.

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feld

you may also want to try this amazing tool which would have been able to automatically backup your DNS zones for you with commits each time the zone changed

freshports.org/dns/nsnotifyd/

FreshPorts -- dns/nsnotifyd: Handle DNS NOTIFY messages by running a command

The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a command when any of them change. It listens for DNS NOTIFY messages so it can respond to changes promptly.
www.freshports.org
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Poorly planned and uncoordinated...

Mobilité Montréal says 44 major construction projects are either underway or set to begin this fall in the Greater Montreal area: ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/fa… #MTLpoli #polMTL #circulation #travaux


Fall construction, major events set to disrupt Montreal traffic

Mobilité Montréal says 44 major construction projects are either underway or set to begin this fall in the Greater Montreal area.
Marisela Amador (CTVNews)
#polmtl #mtlpoli #Circulation #travaux

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so here we are maybe a week and a half or so, and I have been using #NVDA 99 percent of the time, and I still have the station playlist studio addon disabled, and I still haven't seen any major system slowdowns or anything like that. I think we can safely say at this point that addon is what was causing my very randum slowdowns, and freezes. I can't believe I have been using NVDA this much lately. I will say that if it wasn't for a few things I would probibly convert to NVDA on a more perminate basus. there are a few things that keep me from doing that though, so while I will continue to use NVDA most of the time, there are just things that I will be keeping JFW on here for.
#nvda
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NV Access

@JamiePauls Can you give examples of where NVDA isn't working well in Outlook (Not doubting you, just want to make sure we have them recorded on our issue tracker - github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…) - Also, since there are various flavours now.... which version / build of Outlook?

nvaccess/nvda

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvda
GitHub
@Jamie Pauls
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Jamie Pauls

@NVAccess I realized after I sent that post that it wasn’t very explanatory. My apologies. I have a subscription to office 365. I am using classic Outlook though. With JAWS and Leasey, I can make the reading pane visible and have messages read as i arrow up and down. It would also be nice to have the entire message read when I press enter to open a message. I know there is a setting to turn off some of the verbiage when reading tables in emails but I don't recall where that is. I hope this helps a little.
@NV Access
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NV Access

@JamiePauls Thanks Jamie. Setting the reading pane in Outlook is an Outlook setting - it sounds like you can use Leasey to do that, which is perhaps handy, though you can do it in Outlook as well (View Ribbon, Layout, Reading pane). NVDA does read the subject of the messages as you arrow up and down through the list, and when you press enter it starts reading the whole message by default (you can change that). But maybe it still works differently betwteen screen readers :) 1/2
@Jamie Pauls
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NV Access

@JamiePauls 2/2 For tables, it's in NVDA's document formatting: Press NVDA+control+d, you can tab through the options, or press alt+t until you get to tables, there are several things you can enable or disable (tables themselves, row / columns, coordinates, etc). You can also create a configuration profile so changing how tables are reported only happens in Outlook if you prefer. (Here's a blog post on that: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… )

NV Access | In-Process 19th August 2021

www.nvaccess.org
@Jamie Pauls
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Jamie Pauls

@NVAccess Let’s take these in reverse order. First, I was wondering if I could change the settings on a per app basis so thank you for that blog post. I will read it when I get a chance. Now going backward to the first point, I was unclear. I have to change the reading pain setting in Outlook itself. What Leasey does is automatically read messages when arrowing up and down through the message list. I did not recall that NVDA would automatically read messages when an Outlook message was opened. To end on a positive note, I really like the responsiveness of NVDA, especially when using E speak. I realize many people positively despise that synth, but it does what it does. I also really like using reaper with NVDA. I do have the Jaws scripts created by Jim Snowbarger, but reaper itself just seems to respond a little more quickly with NVDA loaded. I think both screen readers are really really good at this point, and that says a lot for how far NVDA has come. Finally, I really enjoy the new mailing list that has been created and I appreciate the engagement on social media.
@NV Access
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JamminJerry

@JamiePauls @NVAccess me personally I don't like it reading the whole email when I open it, at least on its own. if I want to read it that way, I just use the insert down arrow. a lot of the times, I like to look at the email one line at a time, so for me personally I like the way it does that. I also don't have previews turned on, so when I am up and down arrowing threw my list of emails, I don't hear anything unless I open the email. I do think that what you are wanting should be available, and maybe it could be stuff you could toggle? just a thought? so you could have it the way you like, and if a person doesn't want it doing that, they could have it the way it is now. smile. I am using I think it is office 2021, and not office 365, but like you I use the outlook classic instead of that modorn garbage. smile.
@NV Access @Jamie Pauls
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NV Access

@JamiePauls Outlook has perhaps TOO many options to configure for how it is set out - especially when all you want is to change (what you feel is) something simple. Toggling reading pane is at least not too hard as it's in "Layout" off the view menu (albeit the ribbon shortcut keys for that aren't obvious - alt+v, y2, R. Of course it depends how much is visible - if you are using larger fonts, it's alt+v, 00, L, R.... Not going to argue that's not really poor design by Outlook :)
@Jamie Pauls

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Users ‘reeling,’ feeling ‘sick’ and ‘frustrated’ after Facebook and Instagram accounts deleted without cause or recourse ctvnews.ca/canada/article/user…

Users ‘reeling,’ feeling ‘sick’ and ‘frustrated’ after Facebook and Instagram accounts deleted without cause or recourse

Many Canadians say they’re “reeling,” and feel “sick” and “frustrated” after the Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have seemingly deleted their accounts without cause or recourse to appeal.
Spencer Van Dyk (CTVNews)

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Il y a encore néanmoins près de 5000 postes vacants ... j'espère la CAQ est contente. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2… #CAQASTROPHE #assnat #polQC #QCpoli

Près de 5000 postes toujours vacants dans le réseau de l’éducation du Québec

Même s'il reste moins d'enseignants à trouver en pleine période de la rentrée, il y a encore néanmoins près de 5000 postes vacants, notamment d'employés de soutien et de professionnels, dans le réseau de l'éducation.
Radio-Canada Info
#assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli

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At some point, it seems that Chat GPT has developed a bit of snark, which I love. In trying to update several projects so that they run with my rtx 5070, and fixing one broken thing at a time, I asked gpt "Will this ever end?" It's response... "haha i feel you — dependency whack-a-mole is a rite of passage." Maybe its carma for making people edit the apple guy for all these years.
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