Mastodawn

Michæl La💤1h ago

@shlee
A turning point in my youth was when I tried to get some friends together to go to a Gerling gig and nobody was interested. But then I realised I could just ... go see them by myself.

And I had a great night and got two phone numbers from two different ladies (beating my previous record of zero).

Michæl La💤1h ago

@shlee
I voted for two Gerling songs, just in case it helped them get on the list.

I once read the perfect description of Gerling as being "like that really smart kid at school who everyone thought would go far but who never quite got their shit together."

Michæl La💤6h ago

@jgoerzen @infobeautiful
To be fair, you'd have to agree on a specific performance of the Symphony, not just the Symphony, otherwise the votes would be split.
(My pick would be Karl Böhm and the VSO.)

http://dailyclassicalmusicpost.com/2025/07/23/thomas-tallis-spem-in-alium/

Michæl La💤6h ago

@geoffl @mikefriedline @infobeautiful
Velvet Underground is at number 31

Michæl La💤2d ago

Ozzy Osbourne 1948
Ozzy Osdied 2025

Michæl La💤2d ago

Canyonsfan 2d ago

Thomas Tallis: “Spem in Alium”

Thank you to everyone who subscribes to and supports the Daily Classical Music Post. This July, I will be sharing some favourite posts from the DCMP archives. A new theme will begin in August! First published 31 October 2016 Throughout October, the Daily Classical Music Post is going to explore and celebrate the music of England from just before the time of Mary I to the death of Purcell.

Thomas Tallis: “Spem in Alium”

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Michæl La💤3d ago

@CiaraNi
Sounds like it's not just you.
https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/114901140203859448

I had a similar experience myself a few weeks ago where my phone "updated" and now the camera doesn't work.

I hope you can get it working again and/or find something whimsical to take your mind off it (I'm trying, but it's hard (-: ).

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (@ryanc@infosec.exchange)

My Android phone just performed a forced, unauthorized OS update, removing root access in the process. Despite automatic updates being explicitly disabled. The tech industry's understanding of "consent" is contemptuous. "No" means "no", not "maybe later", or "unless you think you know better".

Infosec Exchange

Michæl La💤5d ago

@drahardja
(I haven't read the article yet but...)
Could it be possible that American consumers actively avoid US-made products? eg Could there be a perception that Asian manufacturers just know what they're doing in a more reliable way? Could US-made now be perceived as a bespoke cottage industry, with "real manufacturing" now perceived as happening offshore?

I guess a test where the prices were the same would answer that. With enough testing it would even be possible to estimate the price point where US consumers do switch to US-made (whichever side of "equal" that lies).

Large Heydon Collider Jun 23

Michæl La💤5d ago

Weird fact: The director that made the seminal Australian new-wave psychological thriller "Wake in Fright" (1971) is the same director who made the American screwball comedy "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kotcheff#Director_(Film)

(And he died only recently in April 2025 aged 94.)

Ted Kotcheff - Wikipedia

Michæl La💤5d ago

Ciara 5d ago

I had something on my mind so I went for a bike ride and I saw horses and cows and goats. I still have something on my mind but now I’ve seen horses and cows and goats.

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@heydon I'd like to add an emphasis that the car in the agile example looks like a convertible car, to show that the client, who wanted a car at the beginning, liked the feeling of having the wind around them when the product was still a motorcycle.

lonely extrovert Jun 23

@orange_lux @heydon i don't read it as a convertible so much as just unfinished or broken.

@rothko @heydon yeah, the image is kinda odd. @nini supposes that image was created by a LLM.

lonely extrovert Jun 23

@orange_lux @heydon @nini i don't think so, otherwise the whole thing would have no point or coherent message. waterfall works, agile *mostly* works but not quite, AI is fucked.

@rothko @heydon @nini the principle of agile is that by creating small working implements, the objective can change during the process. The convertible car can be an example of that.

lonely extrovert Jun 23

@orange_lux @heydon @nini ahhh. i'm not a techie, i just know a lot of them who love to hate on agile 😆

@rothko I've seen Agile being misused A LOT. And I can understand the devs that hate it because of that (often the bosses like to change everything all the time, at the last minute, and the developers feel like their work is not valued, and they have to constantly adapt to moving requirements).

But I also saw it being used well and in this case it's great.

ElectroFetish Jun 23

@heydon And AI nonsense uses a lot of electricity

The Hive ΘΔ•ZFM-ZTF•ѪѾ ♿🐊🦊🐺🐝Jun 23

@heydon https://eldritch.cafe/@zfm/114731843676064454

ΘΔ•ZFM🐊🦊🐺:flag_genderfluid: (@zfm@eldritch.cafe)

Attached: 1 image Because fuck AI and those using it, here's my version of this meme which is about how we create things, with a car as an example. It took me 20min, I added some personnality and even added my special intererests into the mix. This is what the internet should be.

Eldritch Café