Unmerciful Chaos

Canadian, Crazy, Chaotic. 45 years and counting.

[krjpalmer]

Compute's Gazette April 1986

The Winter Consumer Electronics Show report in this issue did have to deal with how Commodore having "no official presence" there amid reports of cash crunches; however, the article reported on "approximately one million 64s, almost 500,000 128s, and about 20,000 Amigas sold", with the Commodore 64 called "the Lazarus machine." A type-in program promised to speed up the 1541 disk drive when copying disks; however, the introduction to CP/M ("a little cranky, somewhat sluggish, and rather unforgiving. But it has endured the test of time.") for the Commodore 128 suggested you'd be much better to use a 1571 disk drive with the operating system for the computer's Z80 coprocessor.

[ruinedchildhood]

[inkskinned]

you may be thinking that some of the reactions to the tumblr update are unfounded or panicky. but i meant what i said: this will fucking destroy any artist on this site.

for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:

and here is what it looks like now:

holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.

maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.

but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.

do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.

it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.

the tumblr feedback form is currently crashed for me, but when it's up, everyone please go (politely! calmly! like you're walking in a burning building!) tell them what you think. in the meantime: @staff @changes like... i am begging you. literally just set up a suggestion box for ideas on how to monetize tumblr, surely one of us can help you.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[federalbureauofislam]

this could be us

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

[st-just]

It's funny that they still have the 'no smoking allowed' lights and warnings on every plane you fly on, as if there's a single flight you CAN smoke on any human has been on since the turn of the millenium at latest.

[txttletale]

the funniest part is that they're lights, and the other lights turn off and on depending on circumstances, leading to the strange implication that there's some hypithy situation where the pilot is supposed to go "eh, why not?"

[freelyunder]

turning off the no smoking lights as soon as it becomes clear we're not avoiding that mountain

[ak-nm]

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[mckitterick]

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2025), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

[everythingfox]

Sound up

[animusrox]

[mistress-light]

Aliens (1986) • Dir. James Cameron 

[the-big-mood]

She made a ball pit for him and look how happy he is ☺️ (insta)

[theinternetarchive]

PSA

the internet archive is getting sued for a bajillion dollars. you can voice your support for the archive and its services on change.org here or below.

Sign the Petition

Defend the Internet Archive

the actual internet archive staff are pushing for signatures, so i figured i would support. + definitely reblog if you feel so inclined.

[frontmansdefender]

[gnar-slabdash]

Oh good, now I have a cheat sheet for Uncensored Nate

[arborix]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[Video description: A classical musician in hanfu absolutely shredding while on a small boat floating down a river. End description.]

#craving a wuxia type story of a travelling bard that has a reputation of being cursed or working with demons#but shes just nosy and pisses people off on purpose to make them drop their guards so she can upend their whole world n find rot underneath#and she does this while being sloppy and poorly mannered on purpose#but also extremely badass and elegant when she needs to get shit done#and she ALWAYS makes a fucking Entrance wherever she goes#shes the bad guy#most people know if you let her into your village she'll bring destruction in her wake#but the people who REALLY know know that the change she brings is usually for the better#like the death tarot card#.........HEY SOMEBODY WITH MORE TALENT THAN ME- (via @spookymodernjazz)

HELP I NEED THIS TOO

[minerva-is-a-robot]

"absolutely shredding" does not at all convey that she is playing "Bad Guy" by billie eilish on her electric sanxian

[everythingfox]

[everythingfox]

Sorry to keep you waiting, Sir. Hedgehog

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