@sus Howbout a law that at least half of all transportation infra money has to go to anything except cars.
...or, even better, in proportion to the number of passenger-miles per energy-unit that each mode can support...
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@PaulieMoosh/115700262540499894
Please tell people that Linux distros aren't *so hard* to *learn.*
It infuriates me to no end when people say to me they are keeping Windows 10/11, even though it spies on you nonstop and makes it easy for fascist cops to see your computer activity, and Copilot keeps injecting slop into their documents, and Gen AI is massively environmentally destructive...
You could maintain your privacy, have an ad free computer, have a Gen AI-free computer, and control your life instead of big evil corporations controlling you...
But nah. People insist that using Linux requires a computer science PhD.
A ton of distros are actually a lot *easier* to use than modern Windows. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin all have user interfaces that'd be intuitive to anyone who used to use Windows XP. But no ads, and no Copilot getting in between you and the cursor.
Please spread the word, Paul. Switch to Linux, or you're letting the Trump admin in the US spy on your computer. (I can back up everything I'm saying.)
I came across a torrent entitled "The Beatles - 2017 ...Lost Album", consisting of 6 "CD" folders of what appears to be mostly alternate mixes and other unreleased material. I can't find this documented anywhere, so I don't know if it was ever an official release (like the Anthology series). It mostly seemed only vaguely interesting...
...but then I noticed that the 6th "CD" consists of 4 tracks of over 10 minutes each, so I had to listen...
...and they seem to be sort of stream-of-consciousness pastiches, sort of like the Love album (which I've never listened to all the way through) and apparently having a lot of overlap with the material therein but also not the same; there were lots of shorter bits, incomplete songs, mistakes, and so on...
...and it made me think that maybe this is a better way to approach putting my material together. I have a lot of unfinished bits, songlets, whatnot...
...oh, and let's add "The Mind Electric" into the mix, where bits of the song are played both forwards and backwards (at least in some versions), and TMBG's "stelluB", and the fact that on one of my very earliest recordings I started out with a reversed version of the chorus...
...because there's really no substantial pressure anymore, artistically or commercially, to package music into "songs" anymore, really, is there?
@riley 2. an algorithm for converting a floating-point number to a reasonably-accurate fixed-digit representation
@ablueview I have to think that the Right only understands this sort of project in terms of virtue-signalling.
If they take an action which shows they hate $bad_thing, and then $bad_thing only increases, that just reinforces their sense that they are Good⢠and the rest of us are Bad⢠-- probably an expected outcome, but definitely not a failure.
@kookie I'll have to try this with actual keys, but tentatively it's the wrist-movement piece that trips me up.
@theseliminaldays We have all 3 -- but happy to host them for (hopefully) eventual use in a different kind of lending-library idea I've been working on, if you need to send them somewhere.
@theseliminaldays [offers supportive thoughts] Open for commiseration, if commiserating would be helpful ^.^
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115689198997943088
a long analysis and response to @Mastodon's call for digital sovereignty. How open social protocols provide the European Commission with an opportunity for digital sovereignty, but that this opportunity also comes with a loss of power, shifting their position from network regulator to one-among-equals
https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/
Move fast and break s/things/g:
(Please feel free to add to this list.)
@hosford42 But, you know, they earned it with their hard work and it would be stealing to make them give any of it back! đ§
@hosford42 If you look at just the bottom 50%, it looks like the US is second only to Poland, and they're both well ahead of the rest of the pack.
@rnd I hear someone tried this, but they used RFC 2112 by mistake because they were in a Rush. đĽ
if someone ever makes a fediverse instance for folks living in and around the capital of massachusetts, they MUST* call it "bostodon"
* The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
