Scripting News: Thursday, March 2, 2023

Thursday, March 2, 2023

The other day I was kvelling about how great ChatGPT was at finding feeds for news sites that didn't have paywalls. Until I noticed that some of the sites most definitely did have paywalls. So it's not perfect. It's a totally 1.0 kind of thing. If you don't know what that means, it might be a good time to re-read Microserfs. #

BTW, I wish ChatGPT would statically render their results pages, so I don't have to do screen shots just to quote them. Make it easier for us to promote our discoveries. It's so ridiculous that in 2023 we're still using screen shots as the way to hook networks together. #

Update: This project has the source to a bookmarklet that I used to create this static HTML version of a conversation on ChatGPT. Problem solved. It could be packaged so it's more easily used by a non-technical user. But it's very nice to have as-is. Thanks!#

Dirty Shirt#

I've been to Jamaica a couple of times and I swear I've heard people use the term "dirty shirt" as a verb. My uncle Ken who lived in Negril for years, used the term too. #
What it means. When someone dirty shirts you, it's as if they did something that left a stain on your shirt, something obvious and not nice that everyone can see.#
Example: When my cousin sell me bad ganja he dirty shirt me man.#
But when I searched for the term on Google, or asked ChatGPT, they offered weird and wrong ideas for what the term means. #
I checked in with my friend Dave Jacobs about this, he has the same understanding of what the term means, but he couldn't find our definition anywhere on the web either. #
At least now the correct definition will show up here on my blog. #
I find I'm starting to write like ChatGPT. Go figure. 😄#

Last update: Friday March 3, 2023; 9:19 AM EST.

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