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- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 day ago:
They could save themselves all that bullshit by just not bothering with any of it!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 days ago:
IMHO Bitwig is a modular synthesis and sound design environment that also contains a full DAW. There’s possibly nothing else quite like it around - I’m not certain, but I’ve looked and not found anything. Notes are events and can be processed or generated in all manner of crazy ways… or just played. Audio can be piped all over the place and processed almost however you want. I think of the stock devices like basic building blocks, like Lego or Minecraft. Once you understand the pattern you can build anything. There are so many ways to work in Bitwig! It’s almost like Ableton but equally it’s almost an unlimited modular synthesizer. It’s very playable too, a real digital instrument. I could probably spend the rest of my life with it and not run out of things to try. It steers away from trying to be a virtual instrument rack like Reason with pretend jack leads, and seems to me to be both incredibly powerful and still very intuitive. It’s the best music making software I’ve come across in 35 years of using music software!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 days ago:
I love synthesizers. Found my salvation in Bitwig Studio and now I don’t even eye up VSTs. (I’ll await my downvotes!)
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 days ago:
No thanks! I’m more into abolishing capitalism than facitating it further. I’m looking forward to the end of all commercial enterprises and especially management! It should be as difficult and expensive as possible to establish hierarchical systems of digitally managing large corporations.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 days ago:
I can’t move the Windows 11 taskbar because I’ve been running Linux for over 20 years. Recommended fix!
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 5 days ago:
Starmer is a fucking terrible PM and we knew he would be from the start because the establishment wheeled him out to get rid of the Jeremy Corbyn problem.
Starmer sold his soul long ago, his big “human rights lawyer” past counts for jack shit - it’s history. He’s so unlikeable, stands for nothing, has no moral clarity, and has absolutely zero charisma. He’s liked and respected less than a dull secondary school headteacher. Even people who agree with his policies die of boredom and cringe when he’s speaking.
He’s alienated so many former supporters, and meanwhile despite adopting right-wing talking points and policies, he is absolutely loathed by the people who will vote for Fartrage and ReBørk. They think he’s woke, when actually he’s just useless.
Starmer has painted himself into a corner like a twat, and now has nowhere else to go. Labour could have seen it coming if they cared, but they didn’t care because Corbyn posed a bigger threat with some actual socialist policies that were gaining popularity the more people heard about them. We couldn’t have that, could we!
Labour smears Corbyn with bullshit antisemitism accusations, while continuing to arm Netanyahu and profiting from the genocide. A Palestinian genocide we’re not allowed to express support for a certain genocide-opposing nonviolent direct Action movement, without getting arrested?
Now there’s nonviolent political prisoners, held on remand with no trials yet, some seriously ill on hunger strike. All because Labour have no principles.
The whole lot is laid bare here in fascist Britannia. The Labour party is bought and paid for by the arms industry and the Israel lobby. Starmer is a loathed lame-duck PM and should go ASAP to limit the damage, but he won’t. He’s a hanger-on, an egotist with a messiah complex, much like Blair was. It’s already too late and in any case there’s nobody good to replace him, or anywhere to advance current Labour policies that doesn’t just play more into the narratives of the far right. The more Starmer plays on their terms, the more he and Labour lose. He’s lost authority and has no control of the narrative.
The Tories are in disarray too and are trying to play the “brown people who are clamping down on immigration” fool move, also directly playing on the far right’s terms and losing. Bad-enoch is also utterly uncharismatic, but in far more of a problem for potential Tory voters, she’s black and a woman! A tokenistic bit of lip-service to trying to be a modern political party - it won’t wash with Tory voters, they will smile and secretly vote to stab Bad-enoch in the back when she’s no longer useful to them.
If bloody Fartrage gets in though, it’s firmly at the feet of Starmer, who couldn’t be harder to vote for if he tried.
Because he’s so crap, and implementing fascist policies, he will be directly responsible for ushering in ReBørk votes, since he hasn’t really made the case for anything different.
What a fucking waste of space and very real fascist threat Starmer is!
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?
Government bailouts is how.
Socialism for the rich, dog-eat-dog capitalism for everyone else.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Larry Ellison can fuck off while we’re at it, the meddling technofascist bastard. Hope he loses everything!
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 week ago:
Imagine being scared of your own butthole ffs!
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 week ago:
𝕬𝖗𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙?
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 week ago:
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 week ago:
Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum and professionalism” to documents.
Bro it’s going to take more than a font change!
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 week ago:
What they conserve is wealth and power, and only for themselves and their perceived “in group”.
Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
Account age 19 hours and already behaving like an ass. Congratulations and welcome to Lemmy, a place with actual communities where you can expect to be blocked if you carry on like that. Please learn to treat people better!
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 weeks ago:
I use my old pc nas as a 50w continuous heater in my lab-shed which is a small stone outbuilding. Keeps it dry in there!
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 3 weeks ago:
Fuck that! We should be aiming for 21-28 hours being the normal length of the employed week for everyone everywhere, and it not being necessary to work any more than that unless you want to for yourself. We can’t accelerate forever, we need to do less work hours and have good quality of life, otherwise what’s even the point of technology?
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
It is! They’re trying to “compile” insulin on the smaller scale. Not home labs but local production. They haven’t managed it yet but I believe they will eventually.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 3 weeks ago:
We could change it to being called a Mountbatten-Windsor but that’s a much lengthier way to say the same thing.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 3 weeks ago:
Win2k Pro was the last version of Windows that was actually any good!
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
Please support the Open Insulin Foundation who are creating an open source model for insulin production! Such an important project!
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 5 weeks ago:
I got accused of being an AI for writing a comment reply to someone which was merely informative, empathic and polite!
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 5 weeks ago:
Once user trust is burned it’s not coming back.
There are no positive outcomes available now - it’s time to abandon Google.
Linux phones arriving sooner? Hopefully that’s the silver lining.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I have four kids - thankfully I’m not in the USA. Trust me here? The meltdown isn’t about the cinnamon toast and neither do you have to buy it. Your own rage also isn’t about cinnamon toast, or your kid - these are the triggers not the cause.
Make sure you let your kids know that you love them and you care. Be on their side emotionally, even as you’re saying no to something. Direct your rage at predatory capitalism for your exhaustion, not your kid! They will forget the cinnamon toast but they won’t forget that you were angry with them if it happens a lot. Your relationship with your children is precious and delicate, and not worth wrecking for any amount of money.
Good luck, you are stronger than you know!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Reverse number the days and count them down until it’s finished? You’re almost done, hang in there!
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 month ago:
Welp, that’s a fuckin stupid idea. Next!
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 month ago:
So glad to read your comment @SparowHawk. This is exactly it, and why I am no longer a hardcore atheist. We can’t connect with anyone while we’re in the middle of telling them that they’re wrong - even if they are completely wrong about factual matters. It’s essential to build connection first, then conduct any education through the connection. Without connecting it’s wasted effort.
The educating can’t come through coercion or condemnation either, because those shut people down. If we don’t offer something better then we push those people away. We might write them off and say “fuck em, who cares!” and that’s how we end up at political deadlock and perpetual war.
This is why the fascists are so terrified of empathy, because intelligent, educated people (lots of those around!) who are highly empathic (not so many, it’s a harder skill) joining together and building connections with and between the masses, already have all the tools to dismantle the whole scam we’re living in.
Empathy and education, from kindness not condemnation, is unstoppable. Though I will grant that there’s not much in it for rugged individualism, but lots in it for diverse, individuality-celebrating collectivism.
Of course we’re supposed to be arguing - we’ll never get anywhere that way.
Empathy lets you say “I absolutely disagree with your view, yet I still value you as a human, so am committed to your long-term wellbeing” and other similar bits of “radical hate speech” which, put into action will dismantle capitalism, fascism, authoritarianism, religions, prisons… you name it.
But it can’t be passive, it is something for each person to be putting into action all the time.
That’s my spiritual practise and I don’t feel personally affronted if someone disagrees with it or doesn’t understand it any more, because it’s just with myself and how I want to be in life with myself and others anyway.
There are billions of us humans and we’re unstoppable when we put aside our petty differences and work together for common dreams.
…besides, if you don’t agree with me, you’re wrong! /s
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 1 month ago:
I’ve been combining eggs and my interest in Go (the ancient board game) to similar effect.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
- Invent incredibly dumb device.
- Brand it as “Smart” to lean into Dunning-Kruger effect sales.
- Profit!!
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 1 month ago:
Extremely destructive to the future of the company, you say? Go on…?
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’m still a Lemmy account noob though I’ve been lurking for a year. Ex-Reddit - finally deleted my account there, it was time!
Part of what took me so long to sign up for Lemmy was ADHD and trying to choose an instance to join! So in the end I picked a geek/coder/anarcho/punk/egalitarian seeming one.
Hadn’t really thought about people blocking the whole instance. I mostly just like to help answer questions and engage in some online banter.
Is this the point in my Lemmy life where I decide to create a second account on another instance just in case!? Probably, lol!