Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

Look at all those methods I would never use to share anything from a website.

Might just be me, but if I wanted to share something with someone it’s going to be an IM

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I always liked how it’s ironically basically the opposite of the international “no stopping” road sign.

Like it represents something that was stopped.

You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

I mean it’s right wing politics in a nutshell

Dupe fools with simple, comforting lies over complicated, uncomfortable truth. If people don’t understand reality they can’t change it.

You made me curious to go and see what triggered this—dude got one downvote on a comment

Wait we didn’t already know this?

Matthew 23

Okay cheers, gonna memorise that for the next time some zealot doesn’t take “no thanks” as an answer

The percentage of area on someone’s* look that’s taken up by (the voluntary application of**) religious symbols exponentially correlates with how much of an absolute bell-end said person is.

* I guess clergy are partially exempt given it’s a uniform

** I know there are some poor people out there forced to make their entire look a religious symbol. They’re definitely exempt.

Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

I never actively sought this life, but I can definitely advocate for it

Kropotkin was on a different bakery related mission

Japanese toilets are so far beyond what we’re doing anywhere else in the world it’s not even funny

Wtaf have our toilet scientists been doing for the last century in the western world?

Antidisestablishmentarianism

opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England

Also bonus Welsh town name:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Literally translated, the long form of the name means: “[The] church of [St.] Mary (Llanfair) [of the] pool (pwll) of the white hazels (gwyn gyll) near to [lit. “over against”] (go ger) the fierce whirlpool (y chwyrn drobwll) [and] the church of [St.] Tysilio (Llantysilio) of the red cave (gogo[f] goch)”

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

They only extract value

oh no

I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently

About 35-40h generally, I’m a software engineer.

I enjoy my job, but ultimately the point of me doing my work is to be able to do whatever I want with my free time. Life is for living after all