FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

just look at it…

i now own a MULTITIMBRAL TONE GENERATOR from the famous ROLAND SC SERIES!!!

specifically the Roland SC-7. it's a heavily cut down version of the SC-55: (almost) no GS, no MT-32 patches, a lot less effect customisation, no sample editing. it's not even a "Sound Canvas", just "SC".

but you know what it is? very smol, and very cute. it's incredibly small and light for a 1992 piece of computer hardware. it has a little red LED that blinks at me when it receives MIDI messages. <3

AI is a very processing-heavy way to copy and paste badly.

Never in my life would I expected a cybersecurity issue (at least not a non-food safety issue) to result in a food recall

Add this to your risk assessments

v0.2.0 of touchHLE, a high-level emulator for iPhone OS apps, is out now!

• now runs on Android
• several more games supported
• graphical app picker
• and much more!

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/releases/tag/v0.2.0

game of the year

42069

bike helmet

#London #Transport #advertisement from 1980:
"If it takes one man one gallon of petrol to get to work. How many gallons will it take 68 men?" - London Transport - the fuelsavers
#Urbanism #Buses #Travel #fuel #oil

But the pseudo #AI evangelists managed to destroy that too, didn't they?
#XKCD https://xkcd.com/810/

@cwebber helpful coordinate system alignment chart (by @acegikmo)

the #moon - how it really happened #truestory 🌝

So true

#meme #Mastodon #Fediverse

I'd go a step further: if something has no commercial value, preventing people from using, sharing, modifying, or expressing it should be illegal.

Not just copyrighted things. Also any DRM protecting something no longer for sale or that doesn't receive updates or support.

Locked bootloader on a ten year old phone? Illegal. Locked down jtag pins and bootrom on an always-online device after the services are turned down? Illegal. Class action suits up the wazoo.

It should be illegal to withhold from the commons.

Change in Guidance on Committing Lockfiles | Rust Blog

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/29/committing-lockfiles.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/29/committing-lockfiles.html

#programming #rustlang

In the latest installment of "Tech bros won't save us, but they will kill some of us": https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-bias-self-driving-software.html
"Autonomous vehicle software used to detect pedestrians is unable to correctly identify dark-skinned individuals as often as those who are light-skinned […]
tested eight AI-based pedestrian detectors utilized by self-driving car manufacturers. They found a 7.5% disparity in accuracy between lighter and darker subjects."
Study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02935
#AI #autonomousCars #blackMastodon