Clippy is now reborn as an AI chat interface. Don't tell me this is not Just Plain Wrong.

"Clippy let's you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s."
—Felix Rieseberg, CLippy @ Github

Back in the day, I was writing the outline for a new training course in the then-new version of M$ Office 97 (I think!) and kept getting interrupted by the damned "assistant" chipping in with what Microsoft clearly believed were helpful suggestions. As it was a big distraction, I looked for ways of disabling it. Finally I used the assistant itself for help, typing "Fuck off, paper clip" into its prompt. Thankfully it dutifully outlined how to disable it, and I was thereafter untroubled by it. Seriously, I never heard of anyone who found it even remotely useful otherwise, just like the ill-

1. What is your name?

I'm gail!

I've always been pretty guarded about my personal info ever since the beginning. Anonymity means something to me, for a lot of reasons. It's not personal. Although I guess that's the point isn't it.

The man behind the gail force might or might not have written and published things on e2 under another name or names but will not confirm nor deny this speculation.

"Stop self harming!" - a friend in another board when I mentioned I was going to do this again

It's a fitness race. If you're tough enough to thunder down the A12 like a REFORGER convoy and get off at Brentwood you'll start to see see signs for the Secret Nuclear Bunker. This is on some farmland but during the summer, on some of the side fields on this farmland, three times a year, the proprietors host Nuclear Fit. Which I, despite still being on