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If you build something and put it on the internet and have it doing it's thing by default then yes you need to be responsible for the consequences of releasing that. That's moral rights, and law needs to keep that intact.

Shoving unwanted experimental AI down everyone's throat is a bad idea and absolutely should have consequences.

Having AI peppered everywhere that can hallucinate or amplify damaging falsehoods is dangerous. AI results really should be something one specifically requests and not supersede search results as a default.

I also worry about the possible side effects of an overcorrection, like if AI companies embed a "Don't say any bad things ever" rule which would suppress critical perspectives.

Back when studying top-down AI in the 90s, everything we did was examined through a precautionary principal and liability was rule #1. It blows my mind how far we have moved away from those principals.

Anyone reading this who was part of the Toronto Flickr Meetups, just sayin Howdy! Long time, no see.

Yup, I've seen some of their stuff. They mostly make conventional music with unconventional instruments which is cute but doesn't quite interest me. I prefer music that is a bit more experimental and works with the texture of the sound more than melodic structure.

Thanks! I have some albums that were made using the electroduochord.

This one was created autonomously using a feedback algorithm controlling the speed of the rotary magnetic bow. https://stefanpowell.bandcamp.com/album/autonomous-drone-lul...

It's an album meant for falling asleep.

I build weird experimental instruments and then play them at the local electronic music open mic nights.

My main instrument is the electroduochord, a stereo two-stringed instrument played with a drone motor rotary magnetic bow. https://youtu.be/G1ftvw-Y6pk

I've also hooked up audio jacks to small solar panels to convert vibrations in light into sound. https://youtu.be/ZF2Rn5YfBC8

Now I'm working on cybernetic drumming and rhythm synthesis. https://youtu.be/oJZeP4Naqxo https://youtu.be/NwNrJLvHuAE

This post seems yo raise speculation, not end it.

Is LibreOffice at risk?

I like this idea of building your own software to run your own business rather than trying to sell software.

My wife and I run a small chain of second-hand clothing stores that buy from the public, and we run it on our own custom software built on top of a rails e-commerce engine. (Solidus) We don't do anything online, but instead use the engine to run our point-of-sale and credit system. We have one part-time developer who works from home and occasionally comes and works directly with the staff in the stores, and now she leans a little on Claude for assistance.

I would never want the hassle of trying to make our system work for other companies. I love that we have a system that can adapt and change based on our needs without being beholden to some else's SaaS.

If we were to rebuild it all today, we'd probably lean even harder on Claude, but still work using a good open source e-commerce framework.

BeOS had the BEST icons.

This is me. It's like a super power.

What a coincidence... I was just in my backyard shed playing with my robot chopstick. https://youtu.be/BhBXliscj0I

Yup, has been for a while but it seems a lot of people were waiting for the dust to settle with Windows support. With that now released and the APIs locked down, there are some things starting to happen, such as JUCE now supporting MIDI 2.0.

Well that's just beyond.

How about a button?

I'd prefer to physically press a button on an intercom box than having something churning away constantly processing sound.

Here is the petition for Canada to standardise on standard time.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Peti...

Health research supports staying with standard time. Staying with daylight savings may be good for business, but businesses can adjust, while our bodies can't.

This seems geared towards make a microcontroller do that one thing, so that's fine if you are aiming at having lots of little boxes all connected on your pedalboard.

That's cool, but I'm curious about the whole virtual pedalboard thing to make it all more affordable, adaptable, and easier to change between setups while playing live.

Here is a project that seems to do a pretty good job at creating a UI for all this virtual pedal stuff... https://rerdavies.github.io/pipedal/

I've only dabbled with it a bit. I'm still trying to figure out good robust hardware setup for this that works for how I play shows.

A bit like the ANS synthesiser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer

And with sonograms you can do live manipulation like this... https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU

Now THAT is a nice looking device!

For years I've been so close to ordering one of their previous generation phones, and now I feel like I've dodged a bullet by not buying from this company. This new phone is a huge step in the wrong direction.

Can someone please release a nice Sidekick like device with physical keyboard that supports Signal.

I've been experimenting with rhythms like Euclideans but using oscillators in Pure Data. One main oscillator for BPM, and then up to 5 oscillators with frequencies set ratios of the main oscillator. Adjust the amplitudes and phases of the oscillators, add them all together and stike a beat at the zero crossings. This makes for a very interesting way to play stuff morphing between rhythms.

Recently, I've has some success at working out ways to derive some of the Euclidean rhythms by solving for the zero crossings, so now I'm pretty sure that this continuous rhythm synthesis is also capable of all the Euclidean variations.

Experiments: https://youtu.be/zeHJXyyhJ70 https://youtu.be/zILWhOu--Go

A little performance using a Gametrak controller. https://youtu.be/SlSujIOGamk

Did I miss a Black Mirror episode?

I use a google spreadsheet. Shortcut on my phone home screen so I can add items any time easily.

I log all my lab work and how many hours I've worked in a day and it calculates my hours in a separate tab automatically. Items I need to follow up on are in bold, and get unbolded when I've followed up on them. When I have to write a report, everything is there in chronological order and it is super easy to take the relevant lines and write out the path of my work. When I get into the lab, I open my sheet and bam! I'm right where I left off before I can have the first sip of coffee.

This has been a complete game changer for me.

I've never been so organized in my life.

You can find Bill Atkinson's open-source instructions for Jaguar (5-MeO-DMT) Vape Pens from a link here: https://boingboing.net/2025/07/10/apples-bill-atkinson-creat...

Thank you for the confirmation.

Oh wow! I think I found part of the problem. I replied earlier about algorithmic accountability, and the need for Algorithm Impact Assessments, and I got a snarky reply and down voted like I've never seen before. I guess accountability hits a nerve.

So I'll just say...

Algorithm Impact Assessments

Algorithm Impact Assessments

Algorithm Impact Assessments

Algorithmic Accountability. Not just for AI, but also social media, advertising, voting systems, etc. Algorithm Impact Assessments need to become mandatory.

Oh wow! I was just thinking the other day about a similar design to build for my second-hand clothing stores where we have a lot of lint that is constantly clogging HVAC systems that I maintain.

I'd like to create laminar-flow across the floor so all the dust travels to one wall for easy sweeping and also capture dust in a vortex system tucked away in the basement.

I remember a project I did in undergrad with Prolog that would fit connecting parts of theoretical widgets together based on constraints about how different pieces could connect and it just worked instantly and it felt like magic because I had absolutely no clue how I would have coded that in Pascal or COBOL at that time. It blew my mind because the program was so simple.

Whoa! Fortran! I was not expecting that. I'll have to clear off some very dusty brain cells to understand this.

Awesome!

I used similar software to create this piece... https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU

I look forward to giving this a whirl.

The big ah-ha! moment is finding a hidden service spec sheet hidden inside the door control panel. That sheet reveals a lot of useful information that should just be in the owner's manual.