LoSnoCo Network

Oh, fuck you, Peet's.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-silently-removes-memory-encryption-from-consumer-ryzen-cpus-leaving-users-unaware-that-they-may-be-vulnerable-security-feature-vanishes-after-newer-agesa-firmware-amd-engineers-go-radio-silent-when-pressed-about-the-change

Mark my words: Gag. Order.

Every time I look at social media, I feel like I already spend way too much time engaging with reality. Do people really wonder why others don't want to engage with reality all that much?

Cool, looks like Gnome is so allergic to Server Side Decorations, that their Gitlab self-destructed when I attempted to open a Merge Request for implementing them.

Breaking News: Orange Man Afraid of Parrots

Comparing genAI use to rolling coal? You know the next step after we get rid of all the datacenters will be to get rid of gaming PCs. You're not hosting your Mastodon server in a datacenter, are you? You should be hosting it on a nice, energy friendly Raspberry Pi. Or at the very least, shared hosting with your whole neighborhood living on the same instance.

Re: Coding for a code base you don't fully understand:

I have to refresh my memory regularly for my own dang code bases I've been working on for a decade or more. I do not have instant recall of every single minute detail. Maybe that's the sign that I should hand the reigns to someone younger and saner and go farm goats in the hills.

Or maybe not.

Why is my timeline repeating everything from yesterday all over again? It seems like an endless feedback loop of AI discourse.

Is it bad that, in any argument involving someone I know rather well, I automatically side with the person I know over the relative nobody they got into a fight with? And then feel the need to vacate communities completely when this relative nobody is being invited to them one by one?

I have finally figured out that I am a cishet neurotypical person. I must be, because the queers and the neurodivergent are hard wired to hate LLMs and other generative AI things.

That must be why, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I tried to use search engines by feeding them natural language prompts instead of intuitively knowing how to make the most out of boolean operators. Why, in the early 1990s and late 1980s, I tried to program my first Basic program by telling the computer what to do in plain English in what turned out to be comment statements.

What I've been poking at for the past 10 days: SpessaSynth, a C port: https://github.com/kode54/spessasynth_core_c

Yes, there's some vibe code in it, but it's mostly language translation work. I had to make much of it work manually, and later only resorted to using the bot if I was seriously stumped. But I'm out of budget for the month after just 10 days, and it looks like it's mostly ready now anyway.

Feel free to run it through its paces, offer up some suggestions for improvements, etc.

I still need to backport the sflist support to the upstream original project, but I don't know what to do about that.

#midi #soundfont #dls

Love the new Democratic party petition scare emails.

$NAME, our deadline is TONIGHT at 11:59PM - and you are the only Democrat in your city who hasn't responded!

Somehow, the arpeggios throughout Jesper Kyd's Beyond the Biodome, from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, remind me of the arpeggios from The Serpent's Trench from Final Fantasy VI. Weird. #jesperkyd #nobuouematsu #borderlands #finalfantasy #finalfantasyvi

Fuck you too, Apple! #advanceddataprotection #apple #security

Advanced Data Protection, my ass! Guess it's too late to snatch my data back now that Apple belongs to Trump.

Reading about Escitalopram, and I see something: Hyponatremia, or low blood sodium level. Would that possibly explain why I occasionally have episodes where I feel I have to rapidly binge on high sodium foods? Google is next to useless and immediately leaps to eating disorders.

Whee, Discord client has major bugs when displaying channels which are almost entirely consisting of blocked people messaging nonstop. Like, it doesn't know what to do when there's 55 messages in a row from a blocked person all being collapsed, as it tries to perpetually unload and reload them.

Gee, Abigale, my little kitty, does the bunny thumping thing sometimes, usually at my bedroom chair mat. She'll be trying to get my attention, and when it isn't working, thump-thump-thump-thump goes her foot on the plastic mat in rapid succession. #cabbit

https://musictech.com/news/industry/spotify-suing-annas-archive-shadow-library-scraping/ Eat shit, Spotify