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next time i am mad at an eastern state in germany i will simply remind myself the ddr abolished them because they were “bastions of bourgeois thought”

octaves are a lie invented by Big Keyboard to sell more keyboards. you only need 12 keys just use inversions

very important fact about me: i haven't studied german in eight years, the only reason i can still speak it is that many years ago i decided to try the german version of final fantasy xiv, and i stuck with it. so my knowledge is skewed towards rpg and fantasy words these days,,,

https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01HX6J9G7JAFTNGWXJCBX8E80W

random berlin observations thread

(tom scott voice) i am in copenhagen central station

i'm not the founder of a stealth startup i'm a professional revolutionary

you know how llms will overgeneralise their training data and start hallucinating/extrapolating stuff?

this happens to me all the time with emoji. the original set in ios 4(?) was tiny. i could remember what was and wasn't an emoji. but there's too many now, so i “hallucinate”

#wikifinds

jesus christ the cloud future is complete shit. i've clicked the link to go to a google drive shared folder, and i want to find a single file in that folder. so i type in the search bar. but that doesn't search the folder. there's no option to. what the fuck???

i still can't believe that the swedish agency for international development is officially named ”sida”. that's french for “aids”, the disease. you know, the kind of thing that an international development agency might want to contribute to stopping in, say, francophone africa