FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

“dreams can be

much better

than anything is supposed to be”

is, unsurprisingly, a chorus forever stuck in my head, thank you bill wurtz

Being a loner, I had no choice but to invest into learning some music software. The program of the choice for the guitarists back then was (and probably still is) Arobas Guitar Pro. Instead of regular music notation, it was displaying midi roll as if it was a guitar tab. Very accessible when your main instrument is a guitar.

It was very easy to find tabs, sometimes official tabs, from your favourite bands online. I have spent countless hours not just playing along, but also trying to understand what made certain songs work. This "music theory" studying was all guitar-centric: when you play guitar, you don't care about the scale too much; if you need a different scale, you can just capo on a fret you want, instantly transposing the sound of your instrument. So it was all about rhythm, pitch and melody.

A few of my followers mentioned that they'd like to know about my background as a "musician", so I am very happy to share my story as an amateur who went from trying to form a high school band to publishing a track with Sony Music, performed by a famous singer and produced by an even more famous producer.

Buckle up! I hope it is going to be an inspirational story or something, because it is a story of giving up and starting again, and again, and again.

Gasp! An electric guitar, but no amp, and no money! What to do!

Fear not, my dad was a HAM enthusiast. He had a "Mono" 9V-powered mixer and some old headphones lying around. Paired together, they offered some decent amplification to the guitar sound. As @hikari mentioned, just plug the damn thing into a damn amplifier, and you have interesting sound.

A happy accident is that the amplifier in this "mono" thing was pretty crappy, so turning the knob to 6 and above resulted in a neat "distortion" effect.

And that's, folks, how I've been playing my electric guitar for the next 4 years, until I saved for an amp!

And with this setup, I finally composed my very first "song", and tried to start my first band.

Congratulations on reaching level 10 of the INFOSEC GUY class. Please pick your specialization:

- Guy who's a little too into cryptography
- Guy who's a little too into cryptocurrency
- Guy who's a little too into guns
- Guy who hangs out on a discord full of trans women (with or without Rust)

Congratulations on reaching level 10 of the INFOSEC LADY class. Please pick your specialization:

- Lady who knows a little too much about threat models
- Lady who knows a little too much about drugs
- Lady who knows a little too much about sewing, knitting, soldering and 3D printing guns
- Lady who runs a discord full of trans women (with or without Rust)

As of about 15 minutes ago, SDL3 reached 100% documentation coverage. Every single public symbol in SDL's headers is now documented!

The massive list is here:

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryAPI

The much more pleasant way to browse this is here, though:

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/APIByCategory

(You can also download the entire wiki as static HTML pages for offline viewing, or even peruse them as Unix manpages. We're taking documentation very seriously in SDL3!)

ACAB includes the Elf on the Shelf

gender fluid storage device (comment courtesy of @rail_)

For the bus enthusiasts 🚌

i dislike how many problems can be solved by “buying things” i already have too many “things” i don't want to have to get even more of them i don't want to consume i don't want to accumulate excessive physical manifestations of material wealth

This whole situation is about as believable as a Russian dissident or oligarch falling out of a midrise window in Moscow. Like the Boeing whistle blower I don't think it much matters if "foul play" was involved because this whole scenario is foul af.

This young man was very brave and righteous to blow the whistle and was undoubtedly under immense social and professional pressure not to. He's fucking up A LOT of people's grifty gravy train.

We should read his words

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

#AI

I was just talking to a colleague about how much of a bubble AI is. These companies are in so deep they can't tell the truth. They are all lying about the efficacy, the costs to consumers and most importantly how & when this tech works or doesn't.

Is there enough money on the line to kill over?

There's likely a trillion bucks of valuations across the industry. Billions in sunk costs, billions in c suite remuneration, billions in VC mgmt costs.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

#OpenAI #AI #VC

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"May you live in interesting times"
Old, tired, all times are interesting times.
"May you be the back half of an Hbomberguy video"
Terrifying, life altering, a curse to rival the gods.