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What I'm listening to today: "Empty" (YMF288 Cover), jaezu (original by 4-mat)
Yamaha FM was the sound of pop in the 80s, with the DX7 used in more hits than I can name, and then the sound of high-end computers in the 90s, with budget versions of the DX7's chip showing up in the Genesis, Neo Geo, Soundblaster etc.
This is a chiptune cover of another chiptune (originally a 512byte demo), remade on the Sharp PC-98 Yamaha chip as laid-back, vaporwavey electric-piano funk.
What I'm listening to today: "TD-3 // RD-6 + volca FM = f u n k", Ricardo Schnidrig
Here cheap Behringer reproductions of the Roland 303 and 606, both running at maybe half the tempo those machines are usually run at, combine with an entire garage workbench worth of guitar pedals to make some *unbelievably* laid back acid atop a foamy wall of phased FM. Cool and dreamy and a little bit hypnotic.
リモートなのでそれはやめておいてw
sync; sync; sync; halt もね
Modern machine learning research reminds me a lot of particle physics research though this is partly bias due to having only read one book on sociology of science. There is a lot of fitting of interpretation to empirical results (not to be confused with ML itself which is also the fitting of models) which is very different to other branches of CS.
It's interesting how many methods are used as a result of social forces as much as empirical results. Methods come in and out of vogue without much impact on quality. I've read a few papers doing ablation tests and there is a common pattern that much of common practice can be replaced with alternatives or even thrown out completely. I'm never sure how important things like dropout or batch norm or choice of activation function really are.
As a colleague just pointed out to me, some of practice may be shaped simply by the fact that researchers are in a hurry to get papers out and need to have a paragraph or two on interpretation of results. The paper gets accepted because the methods work but now the interpretation work is also published, a bit like a rider bill, even though it might not be justified.
What is a cool / punk / queer brand of shoes?
I'm already aware of Docs and Converse but it feels a bit yesterday. What's today a cool hip queer brand?
sync; sync; sync; halt もね
Ever wish HTTP status codes were easier to remember? 🖼️
Check out this MDN cheatsheet that pairs each status code with an emoji to help you visualize what each one means, from 200 OK ✅ to 418 I’m a teapot 🫖
Check it out 👇
I am so stubborn about not using AI.
You have no idea.
I will even go as far as writing my own texts, drawing my own images, writing my own code, and reading the whole article or email just by myself. Crazy stuff.
I like being a Power NonUser
make checkがひとつも通らなくなったのでまけです←
Earlier this year, the German BSI together with the Consumer Advice Centre NRW performed a review of 10 popular password managers. What can we say? We're happy to be one of only few to receive a very positive review without major security concerns. 🥳 We're also mentioned explicitly for being particularly privacy-friendly.
The full report (in German) can be found at https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/DVS-Berichte/passwortmanager_sicherheit_datenschutz.html and https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/wissen/digitale-welt/apps-und-software/10-passwortmanager-im-vergleich-113439
I saw some cool pixel art trucks made by 
@nurapixelNuraPixel 
and decided to draw one myself.
泣くんじゃない。俺にはまだexitが残ってるんだ…
Encouraging lots of people to die by suicide.
Killing people in other ways, such as deadly medical advice, or being used as an excuse to fire humans or avoid hiring humans. With very little social safety net, many of us lacking families that can financially support us, and a job market that Gen AI has been used to kill... People are becoming unable to pay rent, buy food.
No housing? No food? That's literally killing people.
7. And by not hiring young people new to the industry, companies are screwing themselves by ensuring that no one new learns how to produce their goods and services.
8. And by laying off experienced people, companies are screwing themselves by losing institutional knowledge. Remember that AWS outage from a few weeks ago? A reporter from The Register has good reason to suspect that it happened because Amazon laid off a ton of senior cloud technicians. Those techs knew how to manage their databases and DNS, and losing that knowhow triggered disaster. Now imagine those sorts of incidents happening to every big tech company, nonstop. Gen AI cannot replace human thinking work, and you will see most crucial online services becoming completely inoperable much of the time.
9. And shit like all the horrible Gen AI vomited code in new Windows 11 updates, breaking very critical functions.
10. And the power grid cannot support all the Gen AI datacenters the Sam Altmans of the world insist on having, even if Three Mile Island goes back in service, and even if a bunch of new nuclear power and coal power plants are added worldwide.
11. Massive technical debt and tons of very shitty code breaking everything.
12. And do you really want something like Copilot taking constant screenshots and keylogs? These assholes are ridding people of privacy. This is also a massive attack surface for cyber threat actors that aren't Microsoft and Google.
2/3 #GenAI
13. And the economy is collapsing with most people becoming unable to buy food and housing.
So what's the upside of Gen AI?
Well, it helps fascism and it also helps a handful of billionaires to take whatever we have left from us. Yay!
I see job postings for training Gen AI.
DO NOT apply to those jobs. Not only will you be a scab harming the rest of us, but you will be chewed up and spit out ASAP after doing that job for a few months.
Support humans! Fight the f**king clankers!
Why don't recommend to implement ActivityPub from scratch
https://amase.cc/articles/en/why-dont-recommend-implement-activitypub/
Why don't recommend to implement ActivityPub from scratch
https://amase.cc/articles/en/why-dont-recommend-implement-activitypub/
$ :q
bash: :q: command not found...
gitだと散らかしてあるはずのパン屑がみつかりません。やっぱりgit initしときゃよかった…
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// what's upki?
@arichtmanAriel (🐿 arc) @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// Not much, what's upki with you?
Earlier this year, the German BSI together with the Consumer Advice Centre NRW performed a review of 10 popular password managers. What can we say? We're happy to be one of only few to receive a very positive review without major security concerns. 🥳 We're also mentioned explicitly for being particularly privacy-friendly.
The full report (in German) can be found at https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/DVS-Berichte/passwortmanager_sicherheit_datenschutz.html and https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/wissen/digitale-welt/apps-und-software/10-passwortmanager-im-vergleich-113439
특이점이 온다..
i've set up a #faircamp for #pastagang https://pasta.salat.dev so cool how easy this was to set up!! i still haven't used any of the configuration options, but it's enough to listen
Medibubble: Angeblich sucht sich ja die Fachrichtung die Assistent:innen.
Mich findet irgendwie keine. Gibts da counseling für?
mh-
Hallo impostor syndrome, my old friend.
I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.
NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.
checking which clients support Mastodon's undocumented annual report (#Wrapstodon) notification and wow, #phanpy is elaborate
The December edition of the PSF Board Office Hour is about to begin 🐍 🗒️ 9 PM UTC. Join us to share how we can help your community, express your perspectives, and provide feedback for the PSF! #python
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-new-psf-board-another-year-of-psf.html
So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences?
Link: https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/08/so-you-want-to-speak-at-software-conferences.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208773
なんでstdoutなのにprintfじゃないんだっけ←
fprintf(stdout, "%s:%d %s\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__)
わーいprintfデバッグずんだprintfデバッグだいすきー
Kyle Jamieson, expert in wireless systems, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE.
He has been recognized for "contributions to indoor localization and sensing, and physics-inspired wireless network design.”
Jamieson's research uses classical, quantum and physics-inspired computation to expand efficiency of wireless systems to meet increasing demand for connectivity.
Students at Burnsville HS in MN just walked out chanting “No more ICE! No more ICE!”
Young people are DONE watching injustice in silence. They’re not waiting for permission — they’re demanding change. ✊#press
@0x1eef strange again.
Could you retry now? I've added can01.bsd.cafe - in Canada.
And could you also please try the 167.114.96.67 as media.bsd.cafe?
Thank you!!!
All I want for Christmas is your two front teeth 👊😼
In case you missed it...
Yes, my ex boss Jon Davis of SecureNation did make it clear to me, over and over, that he doesn't care if I live or die.
I've seen through the grapevine that their "Criticality" show now has two new hosts, they even got rid of Chip Harris. Or, he quit.
That's about 6 weeks into the show's existence. And no episode has had more than 100 or so viewers.
Jon Davis is literally deciding to not pay some people for their work (I was one of them), so he can spend money on marketing the show.
If you are a human who values being paid for your work and not being replaced by a planet killing bot, do not watch "Criticality."
I am in talks with a couple of companies about writing whitepapers.
But I'm not going to be able to make my rent this month. I have bought zero Christmas presents.
Jon Davis of SecureNation is a literal Ebeneezer Scrooge.
So, please help me out: (My Ko-fi) ko-fi.com/kimatstopgenai
And here is my story:
Am I rude or am I remarkably patient for someone being told non-stop that I don’t deserve to be alive? (On the Gen AI clankers who would be happy to see us dead)
https://stopgenai.com/am-i-rude-or-am-i-remarkably-patient-for-someone-being-told-non-stop-that-i-dont-deserve-to-be-alive-on-the-gen-ai-clankers-who-would-be-happy-to-see-us-dead/
I’m a professor literally risking my own life to fight the menace of Gen AI destroying education. You can help me live and fight…
https://stopgenai.com/im-a-professor-literally-risking-my-own-life-to-fight-the-menace-of-gen-ai-destroying-education-you-can-help-me-live-and-fight/
(I have citations for all of this...)
Gen AI is:
Accelerating environmental destruction. Burning down forests, draining lakes, polluting the air of poor people who live near datacenters, possibly causing lots of them cancer, and also making electricity way too expensive for most households.
Replacing good, reliable information on the internet with slop that's rarely accurate.
Exposing children to pornography, even in Gen AI implementations that are intended for children, such as Gen AI teddy bears.
Conversely, making it way easier for "PDF files" to make CSAM. And making it easier for attackers to make deep fake videos for more effective phishing.
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can01.bsd.cafe is now operational as a media.bsd.cafe proxy, currently running in testing mode.
Bicycle riding people, when you get on or off your bike, which side of the bike do you do it from/to?
(Boosts welcome. I could just assume everyone does it from the left like I do, but why not run a poll.)
@cksChris Siebenmann I once wondered about this ... https://basement.marginata.com/2018/05/leftness/
Come out and admit if you've signed this. https://resonantcomputing.org/
Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-slow-ai-pace-becomes-104658095.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205724
Event sensors detect only events: change and motion. They’re incredibly efficient for wearables that need to be small and lightweight. https://spectrum.ieee.org/event-sensors-to-the-edge?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Last night, 
@crazy4pi314Dr. Sarah Kaiser and I hit "go" on posting a draft charter for the rereading Project.
After Calibre betrayed readers and writers alike, it's clear to me that something as essential as personal archival of book libraries should not be a burden placed on a single individual — my hope is that by starting with the governance, we can build enough robustness to support a long-term Calibre fork.
ネタタグまちがいて再投稿です←
顔に肉、腹に草 #なにいってんだこいつ
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Is this on the U of M campus?
ICE abducted someone on the Augsburg campus yesterday.
jnkrtech
GNOME
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