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ignoring me (andor shdaow-banning) me will not make what I point out go away; but it may well make ME go away
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muscomposter··on Crawl Order and Disorder
based on what you said, and my assumption that Elixir (thanks to Erlang’s VM) is pretty good at concurrency, then yes Elixir would be good for crawling
muscomposter··on US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
Money is the only free thing in America

so an American citizen’s freedom is directly correlated with their net worth in USA dollars

muscomposter··on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
smells like PR/marketing
muscomposter··on Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go
culture works backwards from how you think it works

the mystery to me is how people like yourself do not realize the scarcity your intentions lead towards

muscomposter··on Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks
we are quick owning less and less things

all that remains is we become happy. where’s my soma?

muscomposter··on When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
what else? profit by means of doing work that benefits first and foremost the private proprietors of the closed source

if they gave it away (which used to be unfeasible until the digital era) they feel they’re loosing their valuable effort which they’re wont on concentrating, not diluting.

muscomposter··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
but 69 is lame because it merely is 3*13

I don’t care about sex jokes. 42 (or 72) OTOH are cool because both are surrounded by twin primes!!! how cool is that? (semiprime coolness is significantly smaller than twin prime coolness)

muscomposter··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
this just gets my conspiracy nutjob of a mind flying.

how about the NORTH versus SOUTH team contests? ugh

muscomposter··on Anonymous defaces Russian website to avenge hack on Taiwan
no longer anonymous. clearly part of them Western five? eyes
muscomposter··on The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800
nepotism is a natural mammalian instinct, it propels us to take care of our children

but it has a negative implicit meaning because institutional power should somehow transcend lowly animal instincts (or something like that)

muscomposter··on FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications
set them free!

and hope they freely decide freedom is best for them and us

muscomposter··on Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history
British Petroleum would beg to differ

but it is getting silly, all these two-letter acronyms to indicate before or after the non-existing Julian or Gregorian year zero

muscomposter··on Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
which by this point, is nowhere at all.

we cannot even go die and just drop dead in a ditch like the animals we are oh no.

now we need a certificate, and we need to essentially buy, a lot of land for our rotting remains to rot in, lest a single lot of land go unclaimed…

muscomposter··on Software possession for personal use
we are right now in the stupidest era of software

reality must surprise me for this to get worse than I fear

however in my view, the underlying problem is not exclusive to software but extends all all kinds of digital assets. in short, digital property has brought out the worst of capitalism; marx had no idea.

assuming it does get a lot worse; human life will abandon city life. I like to imagine this is why Einstein allegedly said that in a fight between humans and technology, humans were going to win. then again, maybe in the future the city will be rid of humans same as we are (were?) trying to destroy all insects

muscomposter··on Does Astrology Work?
my take is that astrology works because as kids growing up under the current offset between regular year and school years have a statistically similar experience given the time of the year they were born

so I’m blaming the homogenity of school experience as a way to explain away the personality similarities between people sharing a “zodiac sign” i.e. born around the same time of the year

but I do hope I got shadowbanned already

muscomposter··on Turkey bans Roblox for 'child exploitation'
does this mean they know about roblox utilizing children as training data for their own LLMs?
muscomposter··on Russia has started a fire at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
You’d be surprised how little not-the-USA supports them
muscomposter··on Russia has started a fire at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
> At what point does the world say enough and deal with this threat to humanity

immediately after ‘they’ stop Israel

muscomposter··on Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers
I have an easier “solution”

just pretend PCM is notation and that’s that. problem solved

the new problem introduced, however, is that now a “musician” (interpreter) is just a wav player

and a musician creator (singer songwriter, or composer, or producer of some sort) must choose zero or one way too many times in order to “write” one track.

muscomposter··on Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
we should just embrace digital copying galore instead of trying to digitalize the physical constraints of regular assets

we should just ignore physical constraints of assets which do not have them, like any and all digital data

which do you prefer? everybody can access all digital data of everybody (read only mode), or what we have now which is trending towards having so many microtransactions that every keystroke gets reflected in my bank account