macroplastic

Elder rules

The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions (pdf link, open-access) is a wonderful take down of the epistemic abuses widespread in much of ML/AI.

The Birate Pay

Signal? Isn't that the app for drugs? /s

I'd be happy to write a bunch of sql for this type of thing and throw it on github if you have any more specific requests / if instance admins would find it helpful

50 years of C and still no sane standardized way of packaging dependencies 😫

Very cool!

Is this really a surprise? Do we expect the FBI to not use phones or computers?

When we use at&t's phone lines or Microsoft's operating system, we are implicitly relying on them to be secure. Same would go for using linux or a secure communication app running on top of it. I think most people would rather the FBI be spending time investigating crimes than developing software.

Every time I see that URL, I wince

This, but then after you can do this solidly start halving the click tempo while still playing at the same speed so you get 1 click per 2 beats, bar, 2 bars, 4 bars etc.

Benny Greb (well regarded German drummer with a lot of instructional content) has a free metronome app for this purpose called Gap click that may be helpful, he argues for this as an essential exercise in developing your internal sense of time.

This is basically my view as a Fedora user.

Every time I've gone, I've always been amused by how the photos they have hanging inside match the present situation outside, despite the fact that some of the photos are 40+ years old (The Beatles!).

I use openscale and a Beuer BF700 (I think that's the model #, it's a model listed in the github wiki) and it works great, although I had to do the initial setup on their proprietary app to get the profiles to work right, and the scale had to be imported/was a bit hard to find. The wiki includes instructions for modifying a scale to add an arduino and the necessary bits to DIY one if you're at all technically inclined.

I recommend it, but YMMV if you try to use a newer scale. If I ever have more time I would like to try to extend the drivers to support more scales, because openscale is very good software.