• MuseScore 4 is a (the!) free music notation software. It is genuinely fantastic. It’s also a lot of fun, if you know some notation basics and want to play around.
• Darktable is a Raw photo editor in the vein of Lightroom. Except where lightroom is sleek, polished, user friendly and Adobe (🤮), Darktable is FOSS, and clearly so both in the design and functionality: it could easily make a UX designer cry, but if you’re willing to give it a try, there does not exist a more potent raw editor on this earth. Lightroom is a toy in comparison. (Now whether you need that is another question… But I’ve been using it for more than 10 years, and am still finding new, incredibly useful sub-menus, drop-down contexts on hidden sliders,…)
• rmpc is a really cool TUI music player

Wait wat. Then how am I supposed to express exactly that? I only realized I was trans close to graduating high school. All my close friends up to that point had been male. Male gender stereotypes influenced what I did in my free time, how I behaved in class, how I saw the world.

It took effort to shed some of that. Maybe it’s because I haven’t heard it used in a transphobic context yet, but “I was male socialized” is, I’d have said up to this post at least, very apt.

Ah, I’ve hit an extremely satisfying professional milestone and thought I’d share:

“Being acquainted-enough with the codebase to be able to, with full conviction and a lot of glee, answer my LLM-head colleague simply: ‘Claude is wrong’”.

(Claude was extremely obviously wrong once you spent more than half a second thinking about its claim.)

Why! Why are media so uncritical in their reporting!

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/openai-ki-hackerangriff-100.html

Sorry, this is in German. It’s about the marketing stunt open ai pulled vis-à-vis “oh no, our new model breached containment and went ahead on its own, yep all by itself, and hacked huggingface! So scary! BTW we’d like to IPO soon and-”

The outlet above, if you’re not aware, isn’t a German news outlet, it’s THE German news outlet. They’re independent of financial interests, in that they’re publicly funded. They have an incredibly solid history of factual reporting.

Which is why it’s so aggregating to see them parrot OpenAI’s claims 1:1.

Also, don’t go in the comments. For every sane “this is obviously a marketing stunt” comment there’s 40+ “we’re cooked” comments sincerely believing this shit.

I’m getting more and more convinced that in the minds of most people, LLMs are alive, waking, thinking beings with intents and an inner life of their own.

You know.

Compared to the much more boring “expensive side-effect free function taking string as input and giving string as output”.

I hate all of this.

How about take turns.

Hm. I’ve been om HRT for, idk, 9? years now. Took Progesterone additionally for a couple of months some time after starting HRT, but didn’t really notice much difference and stopped it again.

Tbf though, my sex drive is incredibly low now. I just… Can’t be arsed to do amything about it 😄

Oh wow… First proper use-case for blockchain technology discovered! (/s… Kind of)

Ahhh come ON

Unfortunately I’m just going to have to continue using it for now, otherwise that’s months of work and (mostly) upload time that I can’t waste at the moment. Also, what’s the alternative…?

They saved lifes.

Glad to have cleared that up for you 👍

No

That’s not a physics statement btw. I just think that you, personally, are too slow to be able to do that. Offense intended.

So in highschool, I was one of those annoying kids that went “why do we have to learn how to analyze poems? We’re never gonna need this in real life” in English (well… German, but doesn’t matter) class.

I’m deeply grateful for my teachers back then to patiently get me to do these things anyways, because there came a point in my life years later where I suddenly understood that those “useless” lessons and hours “wasted” analyzing Goethe and Borchert and Fitzgerald handed me the tools to understand media (and not just literature!) instead of just consuming it.

I hope it’s clear how that relates to the screenshot. More than that though, I sometimes feel like the slew of shit media over the past decade is at least in part to blame on writers/studios/… now assuming people do in fact merely consume. But that’s a rant that’s completely off-topic here, so I’ll shut up now.

I don’t know. I had never seen another magical girl anime before, and it still stood out to me.

The Dvorak symphony or the Yusuke Kishi novel?

If the former, how dare you.
If the latter, … sorry I haven’t read it. おすすめですか。

Yeah, truly.

It’s a beautiful encapsulation of “what the fuck”.

“Madoka Magica” might as well be my trigger phase by now.

LMAO, I might have missed the six fingers, mainly because my eyes went directly to the map with everything from France, Belgium, Germany,… simply labeled “Russland” (Russia).

Ah right, I forgot:

bottom, too

bottom two

Femboyhead Martin pls.

Das wirkt wie ein Du-Problem, wenn du nur sowas schaust.