The Universe of Disco

Mark Dominus (陶敏修)
mjd@pobox.com

12 recent entries

Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't
Look at what they tried to take from us
Examples of left and right inverses
Loki the comedian
A triviality about numbers that look like abbc
My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district"
A potpourri of cool-looking scripts
Horst Wessel and John Birch
ChatGPT opines on cruciferous vegetables, Decameron, and Scheherazade
It's an age of marvels
Hawat! Hawat! Hawat! A million deaths are not enough for Hawat!
Rod R. Blagojevich will you please go now?

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Sun, 16 Jan 2022

What the fuck, Firefox?

I don't even want to know what happened here.

I typed “convert regular
expresszion to” in the Firefox search bar and to complete the query it
had three suggestions about what I might want to convert it to:
“toilet seat”, “toilet seat stabilizers”, or “toilet”.

All I can think of is this guy:

[ Addendum: Joe Ardent informs me that the suggestions are actually provided by Goofle. ]

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