“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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81·15 hours agoWhy do people seem to especially like fish?
Remember in Reaper you can change the theme and menus around all you want, so you can make it look and behave however you want if certain things annoy you.
FL Studio is great, it isn’t fair to compare other audio software to Reaper lol.
Sytrus is an amazing design for a synthesizer and Harmor is fascinating too.
Reaper works great on linux.
annoying note - for the record I quoted this from the article, I didn’t write this.
I agree with you though, that is the exact reason I quoted that section because it clarified things for me!
emacs with vim keybindings is all I need
Arch is not the only distribution that has a service for providing “use at your own risk”, unreviewed, user-submitted content; Fedora has Copr, the openSUSE project has the Open Build Service (OBS), and Ubuntu has Personal Package Archives (PPAs). Each of those services allow a person to sign up without any review process and build packages for download by other users of the distributions.
However, there are important differences between those services and the AUR. They provide a build environment that is similar to the ones used for the official distribution packages, and do not allow pre-built binaries or proprietary software. The model for Copr, OBS, and PPAs is that a user creates a project under their own user namespace; users have to add each repository from one of those services separately.
For example, niri creator Ivan Molodetskikh maintains a Copr repository for Fedora users who want to run the tiling Wayland compositor. To install niri from Copr, a user has to enable that repository specifically. It is possible for other Copr users to create a similar project under their own namespace, but it is not possible for another user to take over Molodetskikh’s repository unless they compromise his credentials. A would-be attacker could create a malicious fork on Copr and try to lure Fedora users to add that package repository to their system instead, but the attacker cannot simply pick up an orphaned Copr repository to compromise users who have already added it.
The AUR, on the other hand, is much more relaxed about ownership; the
PKGBUILDfiles are all maintained under the AUR namespace. The rules state that, when a new maintainer takes over an AUR package, they are supposed to add their own information as maintainer and then list the prior maintainers as contributors. That, however, is taken on trust and (as seen with the current attack) can be easily abused.
I think double entry accounting is FAR closer to relational programming than the concept of redundancy in checks.
31·8 days agoIn both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.
We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.
Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.
2·21 days agosuggesting that it would lead to an order of magnitude increase is surely premature
The US is continuing to worsen in performance on meaures of small business entrepreneurship in essentially all industries in the US, software and software adjacent industries are no different especially if you don’t get distracted by the AI bubble inflating that value of a bunch of illusions claiming to be businesses.
It is easy to see how the inability of the average person to try a new idea, or risk taking on a project that may not pay off immediately translates directly to a lack of available developers for open source software projects.
The impact of Universal Healthcare would be huge for open source development in the US, the amount of programmers that would be pushed over the line from “just making ends meet while having a work life balance” to “ok maybe I could devote some time to open source development”.
Don’t get me wrong though, I think we need to normalize straight up paying developers for Open Source Development. Just because it is open source doesn’t mean it doesn’t take labor, that is not the argument I am making.
Github and the whole culture that it came out of it used to (it feels sooooo good to say that in the past tense) be globally hinged on Silicon Valley, why would you not expect to see a anomalously high number of US developers on it?
Ok then, you are labelling yourself as a pathetic loser.
Black pill ideology is most deeply rooted in misogynistic online communities heavily populated by incels, or involuntarily celibate men.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/What-does-black-pill-refer-to
Either Universal Healthcare is on the menu or society falls apart, pick one.
But where will the maintainers for these alternatives come from, when barely anybody has stepped up in the 30 years of rsync’s existence?
Universal Healthcare would increase the pool of willing developers by an order of magnitude here.
You most certainly are, use a different metaphor/descriptor.
FOMO doesn’t work on people that know you are selling them a scam…?
No it will not be a net good.
Processing at least for 2d stuff.
Yeah, the current backlash over LLMs in any capacity is a meme.
No, you just don’t want to face the fact that a growing number of people are less gullible than you.
This is precisely why LLMs and AI are 99% a scam.
AI is the minimum value of a well structured dataset obtained by a destructive, hallucinatory compressor that is MAXIMALLY inefficient with inefficiency increasing nonlinearly as a model gets bigger… while it does demonstrate power, this observation that a well structured, QC’d, properly curated dataset reveals a latent intelligence in good data clearly points to functional programming, relational programming and the profession of the librarian and archivist as the directions where the genesis point of intelligence can be pursued, not these bullshitting AI’s which demonstrate a degraded truth in a stupendously hamfisted, wasteful way that sends amateurs looking hopelessly looking in the wrong direction.
In otherwords, the algorithm and model are worthless, costly junk, it is the well structured, large high quality dataset and the humans that maintain and contextualize it that are precious.
Scientists could have told computer people this was true a long time ago if they had listened.