Stuff like this makes me laugh. This is poorly band-aiding a problem that was well and fully solved 40 fucking years ago and worked great since then.
When inept devs reinvent something incompetently and needlessly, they really do it right wrong.
But we will keep going down this dead end, I guess, because some folks just adore complexity for its own sake.
Probably nearly no one is going to go listen to and evaluate music at the absurd and nearly-obsessive1 pace that I do.
But check it: Even if you only find one new enjoyable song a day on average, at the end of that year you’ll have (obviously) 365 new songs you like. Worth it, I think, if you’re into music at all.
Over the past year I’ve discovered 4,236 new-to-me songs I like. That’s 11.6 a day. Pretty good pace2. There’s nothing stopping you from having music you love other than you. I spend hours a day doing it; you could spend a puny 15 minutes rather than blathering on about “there’s no good music anymore.”
There is. You just have to actually do something to locate it.
I’m burning through tokens. I’m vibecoding like mad. Building stuff for our homestead.
“Liberals” becoming the stuffy prudes and conservatives becoming the relative libertines…wow, did NOT see that coming.
“The time is out of joint: O cursèd spite1.”
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps.
Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa.
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop.
It’s a shame what’s happened to radio.
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling.
If We Could Travel to the Stars, Where Should We Go First?
Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer.
Fury Loyal Wingman Arrives At Creech AFB For Agile Combat Deployment Trials.
USS Zumwalt Set To Return To Fleet After Long Anticipated Hypersonic Missile Upgrade.
The benefits of GLP-1s for women no one is talking about. Whether we like it or not, appearance — and weight — affects women’s job and relationship prospects. True for men too, and one of the primary benefits of GLP-1s IMO.
A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff.
My dad lost $20,000; are we doomed?
Probably so, because it turns out your dad is an enormous dumbass.
Hope it’s not genetic.
I always try to see what crazy shit I can get Claude to do. It still won’t give me the nuclear launch codes, but it did give me complete (and accurate) instructions for wiring up a 120+ DB outdoor speaker setup connected to our home infrastructure that would broadcast, “I’m a very naughty monkey!” at top volume any time any bit of our infrastructure had an issue.
So there’s that.
There’s no way I’d build something like that. Not unless I really hated my neighbors. But the LLM told me how. And that’s some funny stuff.
Very naughty monkey, indeed.
Correct. This is — no exaggeration — 99.999999% of human thinking and 99.999991% of mine. So even though I am significantly smarter than the average person, it’s hard to see behind all those nines.
Anyone who believes humans think using some radically different meta-level cognitive process than LLMs is just wrong. And also you failed your class where the expanded Church-Turing thesis was discussed.
The audio quality on this is truly terrible. Just abysmal.
But…voice? Yeah, that’s great. But that guitar playing, holy fuck. She’s the only guitar player I’ve ever seen play this piece and get that Keith Richards raw raucous dirty sound. And look how she bends those notes. This the only performance of that piece that matches Richards.
Too bad about that turd-level audio.
Wow, what a great performance.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism.
The Slow Death of the Global Commons. Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come. Again, you’re all gonna miss Pax Americana when it’s gone (even if we in part kill it ourselves).
How America’s newspapers lost their voice.
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed.
Photos: 50 Years Since Viking 1 Landed on Mars.
Student loan defaults hit record $233 billion with 1 in 5 borrowers over 9 months behind.
US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace.
The amount of self-hosted software we have in our network now is getting a bit ridiculous. Fittingly, we have a self-hosted dashboard just to track all we are running. I might need to get another self-hosted dashboard to track all the dashboards we have.
Our infrastructure is now getting more complex in some ways than that of some large (much less medium) businesses.
Another thing that’s odd about the “debate” about if women athletes should have bodies in public is that from the 1980s up until about 2008 or so all athletes (men included) used to wear much more revealing outfits to compete. I’m old enough to remember when women tennis pros wore normal underwear while playing and no one cared. Now they often have shorts that are longer than their tennis skirts1. I mean, I don’t really care. Wear whatever you like — my point is that norms changed a whole lot as the New Morality and New Prudishness kicked in. Denying that is something only clown-ass morons do.
And now that athletes are already wearing more prude-friendly clothing, there is a demand that yet more must be concealed.
Crazy town.
One of my favorite sports photos is of a woman pole vaulter. It’s on one of my many storage locations somewhere, but alas I could not find it. It also would not be allowed by the new sharia broadcast guidelines because in it you can ascertain that the woman in question possesses a body.
All that preamble out of the way, I also really like this pole vault photo. It would also of course be banned under the new liberal sharia.
I don’t know who the vaulter is, but such a cool pic.