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I thought this was only for documentation, for now?
To be clear, it is my intent to eventually move entirely to software which is either no-AI by license or forked from pre-AI code. If it means I have to throw away Linux I throw away Linux. Linux is an inferior product I am *only* using because Windows added AI. Why the fuck am I using Linux if it's also AI?

2026-03-11 02:54:08 GMT

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So
1. It's installed on at least one dev's computer
2. The presence of a header-disclosed commit could imply non-disclosed commits possibly from the same developer
3. The project is not filtering for such code even when it's disclosed

2026-03-11 02:53:55 GMT

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Ah.
I deleted because if there was any chance of error, I didn't want to leave it up, but a PR'd one line change is still enough for me to complain.
The thing is, my understanding is you have to use the tool in a particular way for it to actually create the committed-with header. For more complex uses I believe the header does not show up.

2026-01-10 21:46:11 GMT

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115872922320160715
To explain my reasoning here—
- You cannot get LLM model creators to comply with a license or law, and they operate in secret, so you don't know they've stolen your code.
- However, people who *use* LLM code are not so lucky. They are non-anonymous. They must comply with the TOSes of their code hosts and the legal departments of their employers.
So attack the problem at the other end. People scrape and steal your code— you can't stop it. But once they do, they get *nothing else from you*.
#note1jxc…y4ng

2026-01-10 21:28:30 GMT

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Note: Before replying to this thread, consider whether being blocked by me is something you want.

2026-01-10 21:28:26 GMT

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LLM advocates and their enablers will hide the fact that they are posting stolen code— they brag about this, their most widely-effective argument for LLM code being allowed in OSS is "if you tell us we can't, we'll do it and not tell you"— and attempts to track which open source projects use stolen code will be harassed off the Internet. I do not want to be part of this open source community, so the only options I seem to have are to wall myself off from it, or stop doing open source altogether.

2026-01-10 21:27:59 GMT

I've been thinking about removing all open source code I have ever written from the Internet, and re-uploading it exclusively under licenses that prohibit mixing it with code generated by a statistical model.

2026-01-10 20:48:28 GMT

Canadians: Are you familiar with a website called https://northmail.ca/ ? and/or, are there any Canada-hosted webmail providers you think are worth knowing about? I do not require it to be free.

2026-01-09 04:18:53 GMT

Hey— please reply to this telling me which operating system you are reading this post on, and what if anything you see after this colon: 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁴󠁸󠁿

2026-01-08 03:07:45 GMT

小 and 少 are probably the meanest thing I've encountered yet in 中文. Look similar, sound similar, mean something similar. It's not シツ bad but it's pretty darn close.

2026-01-08 02:47:29 GMT

If you want to make money selling whiskey then don't. Piss off. The fucking. Canadians.
https://www.masslive.com/business/2026/01/whisky-industry-takes-hit-as-5-popular-brands-file-for-bankruptcy-including-in-boston.html

2026-01-07 23:03:38 GMT

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I saw it for the first time this year

2026-01-07 22:34:42 GMT

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115816635577573026
I have updated my "favorite things of 2025" list at the top of this thread because even though I'd picked one out, I didn't include a music entry. In my defense I was doing real bad last week.
#note16fz…mzx4

2026-01-06 00:33:53 GMT

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⚠️⚠️ Warning!! ☠️☠️ Apple may have CAPTURED your computer, even if it is running Windows or Linux. ❗❗ To test if Apple is controlling your computer, access https://captive.apple.com/ 📡📡 The string "Success" indicates that Apple has successfully captured your computer 🥷🥷 Please boost for awareness 🥺🥺 #NotMisinformation ⚠️⚠️

2026-01-06 00:32:53 GMT

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Wait… wait that's not the post I should have made . Hold on

2026-01-06 00:27:51 GMT

Thought experiment: What is the most interesting and/or useful thing a state intelligence service could do if they were able to monitor all IP traffic going to and from a OS/browser captive portal detector, such as captive.apple.com or detectportal.firefox.com?

2026-01-05 02:22:09 GMT

At some point Jeph Jacques, cartoonist of Questionable Content, just mastered creating single panels that seem designed for me to crop out and post on Mastodon and point at
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/840/100/740/316/987/original/1dbd4477deb67265.png

2026-01-04 23:01:15 GMT

I love the little "copy" icon with the square inset in the second square. I love it because everyone just Agreed on it. Every phone app and every website just uses this same icon. It's not like the share icon where you have to guess which square with an arrow means "share", or the various ways a website might draw a paperclip for "attach". The copy emoji, we just, we made a decision. As a species. We picked an icon. Problem: this icon is not in emoji. There's a copy emoji and it's a clipboard

2026-01-02 02:16:10 GMT

Lately when I use the Discord web app on Firefox on my Linux laptop, whenever text is italicized, the italicized text appears to be a single size level larger than any of the non-italicized text around it. And I'm thinking. The chances are really extremely high that this is somehow Donald Knuth's fault

2025-12-31 23:47:24 GMT

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Andi Is Not Done Recommending Gay Manga Apparently
- Love Bullet: This amazing manga got an official English release like last week and perfectly nails the tone of being teenaged, pansexual, dead, and incredibly thirsty for love
- My Dear Lass - Manhua I read this year, super heart tugging, has no official English release so you will have to *says something muffled into hand*
- Rock is a Lady's Modesty: I'm not done with this but I love it. Watch this anime if you like metal music or F/F BDSM

2025-12-31 23:22:27 GMT

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Things I feel guilty not mentioning:
- Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, and She Loves To Cook She Loves to Eat: These are oddly similar yuri manga about career women slowly figuring out that they are gay, both involving food?
- Tetris Grand Master series: TGM4 is a flawed masterpiece that is mostly only playable if you're *really* good. If you have an arcade stick and can mod it to an octagon or square gate I recommend playing all 4 games in order. Gamepad players I recommend TGM1 on PS/Switch

2025-12-31 22:53:32 GMT

Best video game I played this year: "Hollow Knight: Silksong"
Best movie: "Pontypool"
Most *interesting* movie: "Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees"
Best book: Commonweal quintet by Graydon Saunders
Best comic: The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All
Best TV show/anime: Sanda
Best album: The pair of Billy Woods albums, "GOLLIWOG" and "Mercy" (the latter is under the name Armand Hammer and working with The Alchemist and Elucid)

2025-12-31 19:36:16 GMT

Seaweed dryad

2025-12-29 19:27:05 GMT

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censoring attempt paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most Zoomers would probably have never heard of if not for the Streisand Effect

2025-12-27 20:28:38 GMT

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Follow up, 2025-12-27: Rudy here confirms the Blacksky appview is still being worked on (eg: blacksky uses bluesky's appview still)
https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3maykethsbk24
The sticking point, as he describes it, is "backfill". This alludes to the issue that makes me compare ATProto to blockchain: to get the features users expect, every node on the network must mirror the network's entire history. This is impractical, which is why bluesky is as of this moment a federated network with effectively only one node.

2025-12-26 20:51:20 GMT

Maybe ublock origin should just make a web browser

2025-12-26 01:28:05 GMT

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It is my opinion there is virtually no good reason for an distributed executable to ever be larger than ten megabytes, and for a program without art/sound assets I'd lower that ceiling to something like one to four megabytes. I am aware this is a deeply antiquated opinion but it is the opinion I have. I think this is also the attitude you need if you want to make a language that targets wasm. I have made a serious attempt at JITing C# to ASM.js. There were… there were executable size problems.

2025-12-26 01:24:35 GMT

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Tangent:
Imagine this approach for "interpreting" a Rust-like language. You link against LLVM; you *actually compile* the Rust into machine code, in memory; when you want to invoke your script, you simply jump to that code. This is the approach used by Julia and (optionally) GHCi, and it has many advantages.
I wouldn't use it, at least not at first, because it makes your "interpreter" non-embeddable. LLVM is tens of megabytes. It also excludes you from W^X ("no JIT") platforms (iPhone, wasm).

2025-12-25 23:29:37 GMT

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Tangential thought:
A really funny thing is almost everything good about Rust comes down to when it was written. It has excellent LLVM integration because it was written right after LLVM happened. It has a good build system because the build system was written after pip and npm. It has great libraries because all the libraries were written between 2020 and 2024 and so they're all modern. Not sure where I'm going with this but it makes me wonder how Rust will age.
"How Rust will age". Heh.

2025-12-25 23:25:06 GMT

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This thread got ungainly & apparently I needed 1000-character posts to write it coherently. But I have been stewing in these ideas for several years and some *variant* of them for like, 15 years. This might actually happen. Last year I wrote a language interpreter in Rust (a flimsy LISP) and it wasn't so hard. Eventually some version of this will happen. The nice thing is even if it's terrible, it has the defense "well, use it during dev, then rewrite the whole thing in Rust before you ship it".

2025-12-25 23:24:39 GMT

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(cont)
I at one time thought I'd do this by taking an interpreted language and adding types (this was Emily 2). It turns out writing a typechecker is hard! Writing a compiler is hard! I never got the full thing working. Okay, I give up. Somebody already wrote the Rust compiler. I'll go the other direction. Start with a compiled language I like using, give it an interpreted mode. Solve the "compilers hard" and "Rust interop annoying" problems at once!

2025-12-25 23:22:59 GMT

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- I've been dealing with "writing in 2 languages means duplication/annoying refactors" a long time.
Thus, my daydream for a long time has been a programming language that's interpreted/compiled dual mode, such that "porting" across the interpreted/compiled line is just a matter of adding types until there are no untyped statements left. (From what I hear Racket tried this, and there were huge problems. Not sure if I should take this as a warning against trying, or a guide for things to avoid).

2025-12-25 23:22:02 GMT

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(cont)
At least, this is the trap I'm in. I'd like a scripting language, but my scripting languages can't easily access Rust stuff, and a lot of what I want to use is in Rust, so I just use Rust. Suboptimal.
Hence, a solution: *The scripting language should use the Rust ABI*. I'm not sure this has ever been done fully. There are several scripting languages which are Rust-flavored or sit atop Rust, I've skimmed docs for a couple. As far as I *know* "just interpret Rust" would be a novel one.

2025-12-25 23:21:05 GMT

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(cont)
Like, Rust *can* interoperate— as I said, mlua's great. But the interop is such that you have to do a bunch of *work* to expose functionality in Rust primitives to another language.
Rust (glossing over many things) was supposed to be a language for writing VMs, for writing *one* VM, Servo. It's designed for interop. It's *designed* for the "the hard parts in this compiled language, easy parts in JS". But the hard parts aren't hard enough. It's easier to just write it *all* in Rust!

2025-12-25 23:19:41 GMT

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- There is a second problem with "partly in Rust, partly in Lua". Rust is greedy! Rust is a totalizing system. C is pretty easy to interface with other languages; C++, less so. Rust has all kinds of things that don't map well into other languages but are *important*.
Why is everything being rewritten in Rust these days? I have a theory. It's because Rust has all these really great libraries people want to use. And the only way to access them is Rust, since *Rust doesn't interoperate well!*

2025-12-25 23:19:20 GMT

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(cont)
If the reason for the split is "Lua is for 'business logic', C is for high performance stuff", you'd think you'd want the matrix multiplication on the C side. But things will never work out that politely. At some point in a single function you'll wind up going, oh, I gotta mutiply this matrix, it would be really inconvenient to move all this over the line. And invariably, a larger and larger set of utility functions wind up being duplicated 3 times (C, Lua, GLSL).

2025-12-25 23:18:49 GMT

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(cont)
Right now, the best way to do this is mlua. mlua is fricking great, actually. But there are issues.
- I wrote a very large program in a mix of C and Lua awhile back, and code switching actually *does* get frustrating. But there's a hidden problem which is bigger than the cognitive dissonance of syntax changing between files.
You wind up duplicating your work on both sides of the line! Say your app does matrix multiplication. Eventually, you will need matrix multiplication *everywhere*.

2025-12-25 23:18:09 GMT

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Reasons I want this:
- I want to write Rust code with runtime-interpreted code.
There are contexts where Interpreted, Untyped is just The Way You Want To Do Things. Types are friction, you don't want that friction for like a quick script that moves some files around.
I do "creative code" stuff. I do games. Prototyping means many quick experiments you discard. You don't want to waste time refactoring types! You would prefer to write your game logic in something like a scripting language.

2025-12-25 23:17:33 GMT

I have a daydream. Maybe (probably not) next year will be the year I try to execute on it.
I want to make a runtime-interpreted, gradually typed version of Rust. I want it to be able to load+run regular Rust code, but also I want it to support something like "var x = [rust expression]", where "x" winds up being treated like it is of type GarbageCollectedRefCell<Option<Variant>>.
I want this for a few reasons. In my head, I have a really good name for it, which I will not tell you at this time.

2025-12-19 20:22:34 GMT

Check out this thread and realize that once Microsoft invented software (Recall) that can continuously scan a computer screen and semantically parse everything you're doing with it, it was inevitable that a government would attempt to make this technology mandatory https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115747292179816100

2025-12-17 03:23:19 GMT

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Poll: Do you know your astrological sign? NO, NO LOOKING IT UP. Do you remember it at the time you are reading this post

2025-12-17 03:22:36 GMT

POLL: Do you know your blood type?

2025-12-16 22:07:01 GMT

My opinion is that there should be one big button labeled "opt out" and when you click it it should opt you out. Just in general.

2025-12-16 18:38:14 GMT

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Because Firefox has a focus on "local models", their "AI" solutions will almost certainly keep running if the cloud providers shut down or introduce paywalls.
Unfortunately.

2025-12-16 16:40:33 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
Since this is the flat out opposite of Firefox now—you have to go into unsupported debug settings and click eight boxes based on folklore—and there's no acknowledgement that this comment is a complete 180 on Firefox's current policy of enabling AI in secret then trying to trick you into using it… this statement is not a reassurance to me. It feels dishonest and like a continuation of Firefox's dishonesty about AI, "PPA" etc.
#note1htm…cruj

2025-12-15 16:05:47 GMT

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/115724392195833813
It's great how many different companies this post could be about
#note15hk…djwr

2025-12-09 22:52:57 GMT

"Get the fuck out of my light cone", as the meanest thing a physicist can think of to say

2025-12-09 06:50:25 GMT

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yes, but replacing the launcher comes with compromises, and the nova launcher project is having a maintainer conflict

2025-12-09 06:38:36 GMT

I'm still angry Android put all my app icons inside circles. I think that was about ten years ago now

2025-12-08 18:19:16 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onelson/115685319103741450
Mastodon is where you find the Good Posts
#note1vly…ktsn

2025-12-07 22:51:50 GMT

LINUX NOW HAS STABLE GPIB DRIVERS. FUCK YEAH
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GPIB-De-Staged-Linux-6.19

2025-12-06 21:09:53 GMT

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not doing the same thing with the sound but if you liked that video i would like to recommend this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVBlhgt9j8

2025-12-06 04:19:06 GMT

A thing that super frustrates me is on Mastodon if you run your own server you can excuse yourself from the character limit, but I don't run my own Mastodon server, but I *do* run my own Bluesky server, but Bluesky is designed so even if you run your own server you're locked into Bluesky's character limit. Anyway
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/670/686/195/080/772/original/583f99ecf9557295.png

2025-12-06 00:33:37 GMT

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UPDATE: Switched to a different anime but still thinking about the beans…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/669/805/869/867/349/original/39332033ee9bb92d.jpg

2025-12-06 00:01:35 GMT

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This episode turned out to be really intense and emotional but I was distracted thinking about the beans

2025-12-05 23:51:41 GMT

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I hadn't heard this expression. I'm from Texas. Down there if someone is "full of beans" it has a different meaning. An ominous meaning.

2025-12-05 23:50:33 GMT

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Okay so what I'm guessing happened here is the translator tried to represent "this character said 'shes so lively' in a weird way" with the character saying outdated English slang https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115669632121815404

2025-12-05 23:46:08 GMT

Watching "once upon a witch's death" on Crunchyroll
Main character: "Genki da [followed by what sounds like] ko res ne".
Even I know enough Japanese to know "Genki da, ne?" Means "she's so lively, right?"
Subtitles: "She's so full of beans!"
…What?

2025-12-05 22:49:29 GMT

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115668518614188764
Now looking for Calibre alternatives or forks. I haven't got around to *setting up* Calibre so this is an easy time for me to avoid locking in to AI-infected software.
#note1e83…c40j

2025-12-05 20:11:43 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "RK 5000 bucket chain excavator - timelapse"
Why does this go so hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL6ukglbO0

2025-12-05 01:57:01 GMT

lolsob. Developer attempts to replicate liquid glass in CSS and in the process accidentally discovers a novel and rather serious browser vulnerability
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
( via @npub10ra…fpql )

2025-12-04 23:20:10 GMT

So here's what stops me from using Passkeys.
- I want Passkeys.
- I want to use "BitWarden".
- BitWarden can use passkeys on all my platforms incl Android.
- However, I do not install BitWarden on all my computers, because I don't trust some of them to hold my BitWarden vault.
- This means I have to have a way of "airgapping" the passkey— some way of using a passkey on a phone, is a computer.
- The ONLY way to do this the FIDO Alliance allows requires Bluetooth.
- My computer doesn't have that.

2025-12-04 20:06:41 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "Njalo Njalo", Nomisupasta featuring Rapsody and Madlib
Johannesburg singer makes some deeply satisfying funk in collaboration with diaspora members from LA and North Carolina, styles seamlessly integrated like hip hop is leaking backward into the 1970s. Immaculate scrongly bassline. "Njalo" is Zulu for "always" and "Njalo njalo" appears to mean "and so on…"
I believe this is an early release from an album landing early next year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjxBEe2X2KQ

2025-12-04 19:48:44 GMT

One thing about "AI" is with the technology OpenAI has (large neural network plus manual tagging) you could've made the best search engine ever. There could be a Copilot where you describe what you wanted and it finds an example of it in the corpus of open source software. You could go from a fuzzy image description to a stock image. These would be better than buggy code and fucked up images. But they wouldn't do that because the *service* OpenAI provides is obscuring that the content is stolen.

2025-12-03 21:21:24 GMT

Intellectual challenge: Come up with a plausible meaning, any plausible meaning, for the target triple "none-none-none".
Maybe impossible.

2025-12-03 20:09:50 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "Drummertime and Brainstep Jam 1", Tubbutec
YouTube account for a modular synth company posts a demo of their modules. Process-wise the most interesting thing here is a 808/Volca style performance sequencer/drum machine made with computer-keyboard keycaps and fit to the 1U space on an Intellijel. Musically the standout is some *really* freaky glide that turns some competent but standard acid into something really odd sounding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBzf4Zgg_A

2025-12-02 19:51:47 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "Raised by Dope", Bruiser Wolf
Bruiser Wolf, sometime billy woods collaborator, is probs the most unique rapper I know of operating today, with a crafted, incredibly distinct flow I literally don't know how to describe except "AM Radio". Not sure if that makes sense. It's ike if Juvenile's weird cadence on "Ha" were an entire career. Here, lush hip-hop crafted from a sadly-long-lost form of 80s R&B. Birthed a style that you couldn't conceive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ8rt33gj7k

2025-12-02 06:29:05 GMT

Oh, I *will* be using this as a reaction image online.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/648/555/381/874/673/original/0ec13cf4c0bc3d92.png

2025-12-01 20:17:36 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "n2o (slices) by dominator"
Creepy, mind-bending, atonal-sounding Amiga tracker music. Breakbeats and fell summonings. Hard techno soundtrack to something horrible which you are powerless to stop. Your limbs move unbidden, your sight reduces to a single point. The dead speak in languages of Juno hoovers and overdriven gabber kicks
2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eeIKryiofI

2025-11-30 20:00:44 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "Minkara", Adrian Portia
This is an old favorite of mine. I think I mentioned the "hang drum" in a post before? The modern steel drum / bongo drum fusion. This is an "AsaChan" hang drum by Echo Sound Sculpture being played at the limit of the art, just really wringing every timbre this physically simple but mechanically complex object can make. Good calm background audio, the feeling of laying on your back and floating on the tops of clouds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvt5TZy0aAc

2025-11-30 05:51:10 GMT

If you are using the "NVidia App" on Windows, I suggest promptly going in to the settings, looking under "Notifications" and turning off "Available Rewards". If you do not do this, it apparently now uses the Windows notifications to show you fucking ads for random video games
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/637/080/964/859/763/original/e338f83eca0792b6.png

2025-11-29 20:29:25 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "Fusion", mon0
Hum hiss drone dub. Drinking television static in enormous quantities, pattering hints of dub. Is this "elegiac"
Really good unofficial glitch video by Sean Redbeard, of a texture that's almost improved by the YouTube compression artifacts (almost).
Feels triumphant somehow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBFpi16XAng

2025-11-28 20:04:23 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "mode 1", StereoMan
Some more 1997 sample tracker music. A lot going on in this and just a lot of satisfying sounds. A kind of crashing silverware-on-glassware percussion, beats like some 90s dance act I can't place, and a bunch of synth sounds that give me a feeling like the composer listened to Incunabula/Amber-era Autechre and was like "what if I tried to make something sounding like this but more dance-y?".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJpNKJRNNVM

2025-11-28 19:28:38 GMT

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My working model is that if AI can be successfully used for a job, that job didn't need to get done at all. Someone who chooses to use AI is making a judgement "it's okay if this job is done wrong"; if it's okay if the job can be done wrong, then logically it follows it could be skipped completely.
If the higher you get in an organization, the more you can successfully use AI without anyone noticing the difference, then what does this say about top-heavy organizations?

2025-11-27 20:57:07 GMT

Internet age verification kills anonymity and risks your data. It's a terrible idea, and the fact the UK and the most conservative parts of the US were the first to embrace it should tell you that. The EU shouldn't let this bad idea infect you. https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115621195342074414
You shouldn't need a driver's license to speak.

2025-11-27 20:07:39 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "Live Ambient vermona perFOURma with Digitone and Blofeld.", Surgeons Girl
Pleasantly meandering ambient, like someone tried to freeze the idea of "distraction" into a song. All little fluttery subtractive analog synth bubbles.
Minimal, but on second listen it's more substantial than it felt at first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pFrPWCBgME

2025-11-26 20:00:25 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "the 3rd experience", Merr0w
Behold the unbelievable versatility of the Roland TB-303, released in 1981 as a bass accompaniment device for guitarists, failed rapidly as it doesn't actually work for this, postmortem birthed multiple genres of music and decades later there's a whole micro-industry of clone devices and folks are still creating fun unique-feeling music with them. Here's some acid trance (is this "goa"?). This is the sound. This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMXF6VN8L1o

2025-11-26 16:42:22 GMT

Will someone please pass a law requiring EV charging stations to just put a fucking credit card reader on them
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/616/990/613/626/928/original/89c43661928e7f7b.png

2025-11-25 21:29:15 GMT

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I believe that it is possible to do things.
Contrariwise, I believe that the "AI" behemoths use compromise as a form of marketing. I believe if you create your "harm reduction" AI they will use its existence, to regulators and the general public, to justify their greater-harm AI approaches. A warm, cuddly, "human-scale" plagiarism machine is optimally formed for their PR. I do *not* believe harm reduction is, in this case, possible.
But I believe your harm reduction *can* do harm.

2025-11-25 21:24:03 GMT

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What I'm listening to today: "mode 4", StereoMan
Light, airy "intelligent jungle" from 1997, in sample-based Impulse Tracker. There's a whole hidden history behind this inaccessible to me, this musician broke out of a modscene group called N.O.I.S.E. to become Bulgaria's most successful electronic musician, this is from a collection of "mode" tracks (1 through 5) that may or may not have been released under the name "j0r0". All I know is this has irrepressible energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1dts4ZHGg

2025-11-25 21:21:47 GMT

I'm on three and a half years now of ~daily music recommendation posts here. For reasons that seem less defensible all the time, I chose to organize them as a thread instead of via hashtags. Threads tend to break completely after a year of posts, so I make a new thread once a year, but even THAT kinda breaks Mastodon, so I'm thinking, I'm gonna start refreshing the thread on a six month schedule.
Previous posts: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114536097208424007
Year 3.5 in the thread below:

2025-11-25 21:17:02 GMT

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"Local models" are still AI models, and so cause harm. "Open source models" are still AI models, and so cause harm. A cooperative is a funny looking corporation and so cooperative-run AI models are still AI models, and so cause harm, and also in the long run become corporate. Efficiency is not possible because the technology doesn't *work*, so the pressure to add more parameters to make it work will be ever present.
Coexistence with LLMs is surrender. I refuse to surrender.

2025-11-25 16:03:44 GMT

The lack of functional discovery features on Mastodon is so nice. One of the worst experiences on Bluesky is making a post and then 18 hours later completely random people start Discovering it. And they're almost never happy to see it, nor do they remotely understand the intent or context. Make a post for your friends on Bluesky and wake up the next morning to a bunch of messages from mystery people along the lines of "why did you post this??". And I just want to know well why did you read it??

2025-11-25 01:23:58 GMT

This feels like a metaphor
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/607/719/141/473/857/original/ac5a81b43b4d1ee9.png

2025-11-24 20:23:20 GMT

We need this but for open source software https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/827650/indie-developers-gen-ai-nexon-arc-raiders

2025-11-22 03:06:29 GMT

I don't know who needs to hear this is that moka pots are a cheap and easy to use way of making espresso that requires no supplies but coffee grounds and no technology more complicated than a stove. Seriously, they're great. What they produce is about half the concentration of regular espresso but lots of places just put 50% water in anyway, right?

2025-11-21 05:05:47 GMT

What you need to understand is getting into advanced mathematics is like hanging out with a bunch of stoners
MATHEMATICIAN 1: Hey
MATHEMATICIAN 2: Wha
M1: You know how like… in an irrational number… the digits after the decimal… they go on forever
M2: Yeah
M1: Like they just go on forever
M2: I know man
M1: Well what if they went on forever to the left
M2: What
M1: What if there was a number… and it went on forever after the decimal… and also forever before the decimal
M2: Duuuuude
M1: Duuuuude

2025-11-20 23:36:06 GMT

As a reminder if you are looking for a alternative web browser not controlled by AI cultists,
https://servo.org/
has various ways to set up a recurring donation!
I am not involved with Servo, and I don't know for a fact they will never let you down. What I can tell you is they
- Rejected a plan to allow AI contributions
- Allow gender-neutral pronouns in documentation¹
- Are designed from word go for embeddability, meaning they will always be easier to fork than Firefox or Chromium.

2025-11-20 17:30:40 GMT

Just learned about this and am very curious now that Plastic's been absorbed by Unity
https://ark-vcs.com/

2025-11-19 16:42:22 GMT

"Claims about AI-datacenter water usage are overblown, it's really not that much water"
"Oh, how much water is it?"
"That's a secret"
[ https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115575889086562703 ]

2025-11-17 22:52:41 GMT

This is just to say
I have closed
the jira
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for the next sprint
Forgive me
it had been open
forever
Fuck you
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@vfig/115567470681018243

2025-11-17 19:50:50 GMT

It is confusing to me that tmux and termux both exist

2025-11-16 21:38:35 GMT

The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen

2025-11-16 19:47:01 GMT

What percentage completion would you say you're at

2025-11-13 19:03:49 GMT

Completely baffling that Kagi now simultaneously has an elaborate feature for tracking and hiding AI slop in search results but also has multiple features which generate and inline AI slop directly in the interface

2025-11-10 03:42:31 GMT

Wait so is the necronomicon just a book of deadnames

2025-11-09 19:19:46 GMT

I'm in a dialog box in a computer program. I use "tab" or "shift-tab" to move from one text field to another.
I expect, that when I tab into a text field, that the entire text of the text field will be selected. I don't know why I expect this. My neurology has this expectation for some reason. Using a particular program, I find that this does not happen.
Who is right? Is it me (expects text field selected), or the program (expects text cursor to move only)?

2025-11-09 00:47:08 GMT

It's just really baffling to me how people look at generative AI, a cartoon villain technology created by an actual alleged child molester, and go "hm yes this is the thing to look for 'nuance' on"
There is simply no technology on earth which fails on so many levels! Even Bitcoin, which is arguably more evil than genAI, has viable less-evil versions and plausible uses. But GenAI, you could solve nine out of the ten problems with genAI and the tenth problem would still be bad enough to avoid it.

2025-11-08 15:23:43 GMT

C++: So we've introduced this keyword "auto" so you can store a value in a variable without having to keep track of which type it is
Me: Wow that's great
C++: Now you just have to keep track of the difference between auto, auto &, and auto &&
Me: