Posts by mcc@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B1HkEXKqWRlIDqyo64 by mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "Ha", JuvenileThis one's a classic of Dirty South hip-hop, a truly foundational work. If you feel this you will Feel it and I won't need to explain it to you. If you don't feel it, try to think of this as a *historical document*. Here is a narration of being a drug dealer in the late 90s (what is a "triple beam", and what is it for?) and a video which is basically a documentary time capsule of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Entirely unreplicable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9VlmXKYgs
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What I'm listening to today: "Two riders down", carolineI love electronic music because there is so much attention to timbre. I love "indie rock" for the same reason, indie rockers love sounds, they just focus on the sounds of strings and cassette tape and echoey rooms instead of circuitry.This is that *good* Athens, Georgia sound, which is weird since it's from the UK. A room full of sad, angry folk musicians hitting their instruments and crying with joy. Sprawlinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDHOKoVviuw
(DIR) Post #B1HkEZXgJhDX4F05Ng by mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "Technocratic Manipulators", VoivodI was gonna post some more acid today but then I was in a bad mood. Have you heard this album? "Dimension Hatröss". It's wild, sounds like heavy metal cliche until you realize it's from 1988 and it was *inventing* some cliches. Good and hard and angry at stuff we're still angry at 17yrs later.Couldn't decide whether to post "Tribal Convictions" or this track, went with this. Whole album's worth it honesthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDr1y9xyWBs
(DIR) Post #B1HkEaY4Zj7mBkBud6 by mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "Углами (лайв в коридоре)", Рушана["Corners (Live in the hallway)", Rushana]I know nothing about this band; YouTube says they're from St. Petersberg and it appears Rushana is a woman's name from down Uzbek way. Music is what I'd recognize as a early-90s alternative-rock tone with modern indie production, liquid feeling, refreshing like a chill shower right after waking up. They are in fact performing live in an apartment-block hallway.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGHp2Ita5R8
(DIR) Post #B1HkEbH5sL8YRNFrns by mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "313", evadumPercussive minimal acid house. Got an actual original 303 in the mix but it's there to do (satisfyingly subtle) support work and the focus here is on the beats. Skeleton of 80s-flavored 90s dance music, constantly shifting 808-soundy drums*. Focus on the fundamentals. Sometimes that just feels good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xATA9VNDQwY* I think every sound that isn't the 303 is just Ableton lol. 50% vintage 50% software reproduction
(DIR) Post #B1HkEcrzwcFdO7Wqxs by mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "Massive Cure", SmooshAt some point around 2000 the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie started teaching the drums to a local six year old, setting off a series of events leading to this album recorded when the drummer was 10 and her sister, on keyboards, was 12. They play with the exuberance of 10-year-olds and it really works. I love the casual, effortless poetry of this one track. Electric piano through an overdrive pedal just always works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUBJUVceEzA
(DIR) Post #B1HkEfQ6SmijITV7Oy by mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "thought u might like this.", hijaqChill, homey performance on some misfit toys. The thing on the left is the minichord, a modern, DIY-optimized (it's powered by a Teensy and you can solder the PCB and 3D print the casing yourself if you want) modern remake of the Suzuki Omnichord, which is an unusual instrument from 1981. This musician is just absolutely going to town on that qchord. They are shredding. Dreamcast jungle beats on the PO33https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nExE544uCU
(DIR) Post #B1NUAGTVNynmn4FLIe by mcc@mastodon.social
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In the official Visual Studio Code on my Windows desktop, there is a pane titled "Live Share" that enables a useful code collaboration feature. In VS Codium on my Linux machine this pane is absent. I understand VS Codium to be just VS Code with some of the extensions missing. Can I install an extension to get Live Share on VS Codium? Searching "live share" in the extensions mraketplace turns up several things but not the Microsoft "Live Share" plugin present in the official VS Code.
(DIR) Post #B1cKcnlr6K7TzgCIUK by mcc@mastodon.social
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@NiwlCraft Kagi is running something like this but it's weird because it's part of the paid product and if you pay for their slop blocker product you get their *own* ai slop product as part of the bundleI do think you're right tho, I really feel like AI features and websites ought to be blocked by the same extensions and for the same reasons as adblockers
(DIR) Post #B1xC8iBAbiByeNKz32 by mcc@mastodon.social
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@glennseto (1) The Wayland transition is unavoidable. X11 can't any longer be maintained: Nobody *wants* to maintain X11, and there's no mechanism to *force* anyone to maintain X11. X11 is a contract with GPU manufacturers and new GPUs are made all the time, so you can't just stick with what you have. (2) The Wayland transition probably couldn't have been delayed, at least not much, because I don't know where the resources to maintain both stacks in parallel much longer would have come with.
(DIR) Post #B1xC8izVaYSTAUtBVg by mcc@mastodon.social
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@glennseto(3) The Wayland transition was very disappointing. Needs from user groups as varied as (a) fractional-DPI laptop owners, (b) disabled users, (c) graphics apps managing floating palettes !! Were not considered early enough or thoughtfully enough. I don't see hard evidence there's a timeline for addressing them now.. I would call this a failure. But I need to be clear the failure was neither the decision to go Wayland, or the decision to do it now. It was a failure to plan ahead.
(DIR) Post #B1xC8jXXY1gEs2oMYS by mcc@mastodon.social
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@glennseto(4) Going forward, here is the problem that concerns me: Wayland withholds many capabilities apps had under X, reserving them for the compositor or extension designers. This would be fine if people could just pick the compositor with the features they need. But you don't get to pick your compositor because your compositor is bound to your DE. Your DE picks it. Compositors are fragmented, and fragmented in the way that holds back innovation rather than the way that promotes it.
(DIR) Post #B1xC8l3TukpBZOlNyq by mcc@mastodon.social
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@glennseto(4, contd) We need *some way* to give people the freedom to replace the compositor out from under the DE if they need a better feature set, so that extension innovation becomes possible. I may about to be say something incorrect, but I believe the problem here is GNOME. I *think* other DEs/WMs are ultimately based on wlroots, so wlroots-based compositors could be drop in replacements. But GNOME's Mutter is way more specialized. IDK how to work around that. We all switch to Cosmic? :(
(DIR) Post #B1xCKQoczT8CGzNkLQ by mcc@mastodon.social
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@mntmn @glennseto in my opinion libadwaita is really pretty embarrassing… have you seen what Pinta looks like now
(DIR) Post #B1xCQk58GvetlP6wr2 by mcc@mastodon.social
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@mntmn @glennseto I was talking about this the other day and got this interesting reply; see thread https://social.dreampi.es/@drakulix/statuses/01KDX4WEW7DZ2C968J2GKK1GH4My conclusion is , if you have to support a bunch of in-memory GNOME structures which aren't documented, this might be impossible. If there were a process to force GNOME to document the in-memory structures and follow some kind of process for changing them, maybe it becomes possible again.
(DIR) Post #B1xCdRKFJoMzMBEdAu by mcc@mastodon.social
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@mntmn @glennseto I'm torn because one, I agree we should stop inventing new standards instead of making the software we have good, but two, I want all new software development in C to halt completely
(DIR) Post #B2DhsfDMAUABst6v7g by mcc@mastodon.social
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115883972029010549There should be a list documenting which open source projects are making use of "AI" code generation (eg: code stolen from other open source projects without following the licenses), and that list should track the last clean no-"AI" commit for future forks.This is because I want to not run "AI"-generated code on my computer. If you disagree with this, you're saying I have no right to keep slopware off my computer, and in fact information must be hidden from me to prevent me from avoiding it.
(DIR) Post #B2Dhsil8zJyMsXwRhg by mcc@mastodon.social
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I'll go further: If your code makes use of "AI" code generators, you shouldn't be describing it as "open source". There are source-available game mods of Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time based on code stolen from Nintendo by hackers. These aren't really "open source".OSS/Libre/Free Software is a project to build a commons based on consensual collaboration. You can't claim those labels when your project has, via "AI" scraping, contributors who are unknown, uncredited, and unconsenting.
(DIR) Post #B2FB3dAZCfOKYXLb9M by mcc@mastodon.social
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@burnoutqueen What I said is that projects exist based on the leaked code.
(DIR) Post #B2FB3fEtVY2cyXO5Am by mcc@mastodon.social
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@leo @burnoutqueen What I am stating is that I am aware of such projects. Such projects are IP-encumbered and therefore not open source. I would prefer to go out of my way to avoid saying anything at all about the IP encumbrance level of the separate category of decompilation projects. Is there a different way I could have worded this?