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the thing that's very frustrating about israel is they chose to be in a state of constant war and then complain about how hard it is. their neighbours are probably never going to like them, especially with 80 years of bad blood, but they could be tolerated if they wanted to

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea [because it's too cheap and simple to pull off, so there are millions of potential actors who could do it, and it's undetectable without destroying the device, so a Pandora's box has been opened] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

people who know a bit about electronics in music production: any idea why a few Roland and BOSS products have 12V AC inputs? most of their stuff uses the vastly more common 9V DC, and in general low-voltage AC seems like an uncommon thing. is there some reason it'd be useful?

“hentai” is a 米製和語 (beisei wago; “Japanese made in America”)

the 12-string guitar tone on a roland sound canvas is just two standard guitar tones layered with different tuning and envelopes. WAKE UP SHEEPLE

apparently, one possible giveaway for ai-generated art is the presence of what look like jpeg artifacts, but not present systematically, because (this person's conjecture) jpegs were part of the training data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUHDvY60l0

the unfinished death star from return of the jedi would make for an excellent 90's-style creative software splash screen

https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/beyond-the-stars-sc-7-version is still the best piece of music i've written i think

(quoting https://twitter.com/seanbax/status/1834407788891525304:)

I wrote a proposal for memory safety in C++. It's in this month's WG21 mailing.

https://safecpp.org/draft.html

🔥🔥🔥 Sean is doing amazing work here, i hope this gets the reception it deserves. maybe there's hope for c++!

i hate how you can almost viscerally feel the end of the zirp with how every website has gotten more aggressive with trying to upsell you on its premium version. youtube no longer avoids showing ads where it would feel like it's too much; soundcloud is now deliberately annoying