Eric Casteleijn

@mumpsimus
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I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from
pronounshe/him
To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

Also finished the screaming demons of 2025 list:

https://www.mixcloud.com/thisfred/2025-weinig-wol/

and the instrumental / ambient / dub one:

https://www.mixcloud.com/thisfred/2025-diepe-gronden/

2025: weinig wol

also on bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/ericcasteleijn/playlist/2025-weinig-wol

Mixcloud
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@wilbowma Dear Jack Davidson, Wayne Graves,

The ACM Digital Library provides an important service to computer science, facilitating access to the primary research literature.

I am dismayed to see that it now, rather than showing the author-written and peer-reviewed abstracts of papers, displays an AI-generated summary. To add insult to injury, it moreover does so in a way that will very easily be misread to be the authors' text.

This is antithetical to the practice and progress of science, and misrepresentation of the author and of the peer-review process. It is also a waste of ACM resources. The hazards should be clear to anyone involved in the scientific process.

Please remove this feature immediately.

best wishes,
Peter Sewell

Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge. FRS

2025

List of songs I like from albums released in 2025. Also available on: * youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR7YkYu82DJKM580NvdyrTJP-OWhRDxo- * bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/ericcasteleijn/playlist/2025

Mixcloud

A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

GitHub - grimthorpe/clbre: A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out.

A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out. - grimthorpe/clbre

GitHub
I wouldn't have thought so in advance, but it's turning out to be pretty challenging to build a best songs of 2025 playlist that's not 8 hours long. Currently at ~1000 tracks.
a casual reminder

This is why so many fought back against JTTF tie-ups

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

Ken Klippenstein
Oh right it's Bandcamp Friday https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ so if you buy music on Bandcamp today https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115243834597904702 the artists get more money than normal and the mysterious holding company that owns Bandcamp gets less
Is it Bandcamp Friday?

Is it?