App developers need to abandon these proprietary platforms and switch to open ones like the web. That’s the only way to end this fuckery.

The “value add” for mobile apps is mainly that they enable more analytics collection without the users having the ability to control it through ad blockers. There are vanishingly few cases where the UX is superior compared to a well-implemented web app.

Yep, and my takeaway from it is “don’t distort your syntax in order to allow yourself to be more dependent on an IDE.”

Yeah, there are some useful applications for ML. Less so for LLMs.

And the risk of prostate cancer from age 60 on is quite high and increases with age, even if you’re not in a high risk group (other than age).

What’s the false positive rate? You can dial up the sensitivity of any test if you don’t mind 10,000 people having unnecessary cancer surgery for every real case that’s detected.

There are instructions that are completely “type this” monkey see, monkey do. The majority of people who cannot follow such instructions should be wards of the state.

Docker’s an unnecessary extra step. Just install wireguard server on the VM.

Or by some other fly-by-night identity-verifcation company.

Even with an association of an identity to a VPN provider, there is no one-to-one correspondence between a person and an IP address.

Not so, more’s the pity.

The entire point of analog is that it’s “worse”

They’re savoring the patina.

Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

Which you only had to do to recover from a common media failure mode.

Vinyl has to be mastered differently (using the RIAA equalization curve) because vinyl is a crap medium. Low frequencies, unequalized, can cause the stylus to jump out of the groove. High frequencies tend to be attenuated. And it’s noisy as well, and the noise gets worse over time. The “warmth” afiicionados treasure is mainly harmonic distortion from the amp reconsituting the equalized sound.

On a solid system, there’s a lot more fidelity in the bass on vinyl.

See above. Bass has to be compressed in order to be written to vinyl in a way that doesn’t damage the record on playback. The amp then decompresses it before you hear it. Compression and decompression do not increase fidelity, instead what you get is a decompressed signal with the same reduced resolution as the compressed signal on the vinyl. In other words, you lose fidelity during the compression process, and information which is lost cannot be put back in later.

mainly fake nostalgia

Is there any other kind?

I did a collaboration once where we were considering doing a limited release of a one-off song on an Edison cylinder recording.

Turns out that yes, there are firms that produce them, but those fuckers are expensive.

And notice that nobody wants to release on 8-track tape cartridges. That’s because those things sucked.

In other words, an asshole who tells the sociopathic rich what they want to hear.

It’d settle for it being neutral for us but bad for them.

If libertarian tech bros are against it, we must be on the right track.

We need a lot more candidates like Mamdani. We don’t need any billionaires. Nobody voted for them, they only exist due to a flaw in the system.

I’m sure they’re not including Russia, Israel or Saudi Arabia, though.

Yep. Crying about the world no longer having billionaires would be like holding a funeral for a tapeworm.