Weldon @weldon@librem.one
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Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.
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Them: Our model is so powerful. It has now gained supernatural powers.
Me: Go away.
Them: It escaped and started hacking other companies. We tried our best to lock it down in jail. This is scary. We are scared. Humanity is doomed.
Me: You left the door open, didn't you?
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1622 out of 114279 packages (1.4%) seem infected and we're still counting...
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“You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end. The partnerships with universities that took generations to build collapse.”
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
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Your password must contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.
"Claude summarize this document from the Internet for me" is probably the worst infosec antipattern of my lifetime
I've been wondering lately if the excitement about AI coding tools stems from the fact that people younger than ~40 have only ever had text editors with catastrophically bad ergonomics. Because I really can't understand why you would pay for snippets and skeletons otherwise.
@sje this is seriously one of the weirder security stories I've seen in a while
Like, this was bizarre enough I had to check it wasn't actually April 1.
This is crazy. A compression library nearly every piece of software uses.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users
I had a house bassline living rent-free in my head so I made it into a track to make it go away.
https://soundcloud.com/bandrami/noxubee?si=7ddb39eb7efe46c8b47a00bbaab8bc73
Some results of the DAW switch:
https://soundcloud.com/bandrami/tollygunge-darker-remaster
Also it turns out Soundcloud's mastering AI is awful, at least for this track, so this is my manual remaster.
Honestly I'm kind of tempted to just run Supercollider or Csound without a graphical environment for my DAW at this point.
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A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.
I'm switching back to a modular DAW setup like I used to use in the oughts. To that end I built NON for Fedora 38 (spec here if anybody else wants to try it: https://weldongoree.github.io/packaging-non-daw.html ). It's going to be a big difference from Bitwig and Ableton but I at least think it will help me focus rather than just tweaking knobs all the time because I can.
If anybody's stuck with qmidiarp crashing on Fedora when you add an LFO or sequencer, I have a spec file to build a working version here: https://github.com/weldongoree/wmg-srpms/blob/main/qmidiarp.spec
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Seen this story of how a group identified the IP addresses of posters on a notorious anonymous economics web forum?
Well here's the original paper. The techniques are pretty jaw-dropping:
https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/ejmr_paper_nber(1).pdf
Scrolling should move the viewport, not the content. I will not be taking any questions.
