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a tragedy in two screenshots

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strxfrm

Why is it that the feeling of 'no, I'm not going to sleep just closing my eyes for a bit' feels so good?

Chicken acquired.

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It's well hidden, but the relay system is the centralised part.

The posts you see come from the AppView. The AppView gets its data from the Relay. The Relay gets its stuff rom the PDSes. So you always go through the relay. No direct connection from AppView to PDS. Yes, they promise that in future you might be able to run your won relay. But right now and since its inception, Bluesky rund the only relay system you can connect to. I call that centralised.

#BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage yesterday is the obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic and storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.

[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Window's phone

France, 2012

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stop calling it "AI" when it's a large learning model.

yes, it's artificial, but LLMs are *provably* not intelligent.

yeah i did the numbers for real now. if i exclude one specific impulse purchase that i'm likely to sell off, a maxed-out m1 macbook air literally would've cost me more than twice the price of my entire music gear collection combined. i know which spending choice i'm happier with

losing my mind at the mandatory IT corporate training which has a table for how long it takes to crack passwords of a certain length — to drive home that every additional character is an order of magnitude in cracking complexity — but they helpfully provide sample passwords that are abc, abcd, abcde, abcdef…, which is self-defeating the message to a truly impressive degree

breaking development from the eggheads down in R&D

my dream for mozilla involves them working strictly on the damn browser again and not trying to do all this other stuff

i am really enamoured with the PSS-A50's “arpeggios” feature. it feels like i finally found the version of Yamaha's “styles” system that actually really clicks with me. i've tried two other takes on this before, the PSR-350's auto-accompaniment and the QY70's pattern system…

the PSS-A50 arpeggios have two really important features:

• flexibility: i can take any of the 116 built-in patterns (intended for various instrument types!) and play them on any instrument with any chord in any octave
• immediacy: it responds instantly to the chord i am currently playing (and its notes' velocity!), so i can very naturally alternate chords or start and stop or whatever in real time

and then these round out the package:

• you can press a button that will “hold” an arpeggio, so it just loops in the background
• you can change out the pattern of a held arpeggio while it's playing
• you can record arpeggios into a phrase and loop it (separate from a held arpeggio)

on the PSS-A50, you only have those 116 patterns stored in ROM, and you can only layer two arpeggios at once in the way i described. that's pretty limiting! but it's just so easy to do stuff within those constraints…

on the other hand, while the QY70 may let you layer 24 things, both custom ones and built-in ones (and there's like, hundreds of patterns in ROM), it's so much clunkier. and then on the PSR style system, well, you don't even control what the individual layers are; Yamaha have picked a set of layers and instruments for you, all you get to pick is the chord. that's way less flexible! high-end PSRs do let you edit these but it's even clunkier ^^; (and i don't own a high-end one anyway)

so in the end, the system that wins for me, if i just want to get in the zone creatively and come up with ideas, is the one i can most directly “play” with in interesting ways, and the PSS-A50 is doing great at that :3

on its own i can't make a full song, but there's MIDI I/O…

girls will really look at a $100 toy keyboard from Yamaha with USB MIDI that "does not support the [General MIDI] format" and go "challenge accepted"

>:3