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I make music when I can. I own too many synthesizers. I program C++ for money, but it's usually reasonably fun.

he/him or they/them, as you prefer.

#nobot

My music on Bandcamphttps://arcseconds.bandcamp.com/
Discographyhttps://arcseconds.net
My 18-month-old daughter couldn't sleep because she was too excited by the existence of water.

Title of a Lobsters post: "Beagle SCM URIs and HTTP verbs with git". These are not words. This is gibberish to normal people. Hell, so is Lobsters.

I don't remember what scm stands for. Something content management?

Reorganized the spice drawer with new bottles. So good.
In re: the Keep Android Open campaign, which protests Google's coming requirement that all Android apps are signed by Google via the play store... what's Apple's analog to this? Like, I assume all iOS apps, even when side loading is allowed, have been signed by Apple. Is that right?

RIP soon to the Project Gutenberg gopher server. I definitely used it in the 90's.

https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116731808775549671

Our car navigation system was upgraded with LLM stuff. But they didn't upgrade the terribly broken voice recognition. So now when it misunderstands you it no longer says "sorry I didn't get that", it just runs with whatever it hears.

So halfway through the ride instead of failing to play some music on Spotify, it instead started telling us a story about the Terminator. And it wouldn't listen when we told it to stop.

There's an accessibility feature in Android where you double tap an image or screen area and hold the second tap down, and you can then zoom the content with one finger.

Once you learn this, your ability to use a phone one handed goes up immensely.

But soon after you discover how many app developers don't know about this feature, and break it all the time. Whatsapp is a prime example. In the middle of zooming, reaction emojis appear. What a mess!

IEA estimated the current annual freshwater resource footprint of all humanity's AI data centers : somewhere between 312.5–764.6 billion L

Whereas the most recent estimate I could find of annual global water footprint for animal production (meat and dairy) was 2422 Gm3. That's a cubic gigameter...but how many L is that? 2.422e+33. So 2.4 septillion billion L.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212371713000024

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788

https://www.conversionunites.com/converter-cubic-gigametre-to-liter

For some reason I'm reading headphone reviews again.

"This particular model comes with a 1m cable and a 3m cable. Note that the 3m cable sounds better."

Help.