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@keefmarshall @xenogon That’s a vocal plugin? I’ve been wondering whose voice it was. Wow.
Two vocal plugins on that track - the lead is Emvoice Keela (from before they went AI - it's a real singer's voice manipulated, the newer ones are AI slop) and the choir is Aurora (again, real sampled voices), which for some reason I got at about 95% discount over their list price, otherwise it would have been somewhat overpriced!
healthy masculinity is being gay for your air traffic controller
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We know…
Just amused by the juxtaposition, obviously they weren’t contradicting you (or replying to you). lol.
I’m easily amused. :)
TIL i learnt that MySQl has moved to calendar versioning. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/26.10/en/mysql-releases.html
@bob I will never, in my life, understand the point of calendar versioning for individual bits of software. OSes, maybe, but for specific things? Just lazy.
Miller is a white nationalist fascist, and makes that clear every day. Don't expect America's ever-normalizing Big Media to say it, thought. https://popular.info/p/major-media-outlets-sanitize-stephen?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=224060612&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1aumh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
@dangillmor Miller's appointment is Donny Boy's way of throwing the middle finger to the results of the mid-term elections and the Democrats.
If you are using an iPhone and would like to contribute to OpenStreetMap in a very easy and gamified way: @streetcomplete is now out for iOS!
Your contributions will not only improve CoMaps, but a whole range of OSM-based applications:
Calling all chatmail, Delta Chat and webxdc hackers and communities! FOSDEM happens in Brussels end January 2027, and together with our friends from XMPP and Matrix we are co-organizing a "Decentralized Messaging Devroom". There also will be a stand and stickers, and then starting monday "Delta Community day(s)". See the full announcement and also a channel you can subscribe to for fosdem related news.
https://delta.chat/en/2026-11-11-fosdem27-and-community-days
@delta Please edit your post and add hashtags in front of keywords like:
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Wikipedia is proof you are wrong, it is possible to run large-scale services with no profit
@mpjgregoire Would you say Hitler was not a fascist prior to August 2nd 1934?
man im always thinking im such a linux noob but thats just because im surrounded by experts lol
#Nissan reduces petrol car production as EV sales boom in #China - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/11/nissan-reduces-petrol-car-production-as-ev-sales-boom-in-china the same will happen in europe, which is going in exactly the wrong direction on #EVs
@glynmoody
Short term help for a dying industry. Who does that benefit?
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
I had kind of a rough Tuesday, got some unfortunate professional news that soured my day. Wound up procrastinating an already late Starbase 118 post until early Wednesday morning and not getting anywhere near enough sleep.
But today is looking up so far. Got some good news professional news to counter yesterday's bad, and some very lovely feedback on my Starbase 118 post.
Yeah so turns out when you centralize profits and the company who centralized those profits loses a bunch of money, your money goes missing
omg the best falafel place in the neighborhood (fairly competitive scene) just lowered their prices AGAIN? starting to worry this isn't success but a death spiral
@window Minze?
"The steering wheel is the one component nobody has bothered to instrument."
One of the things I miss the most about working with the Flow team - apart from being @grimalkina -adjacent for almost a whole year, that part was amazing - was the part where the Flow product I was working on, ostensibly an engineering process metrics tool, was secretly a way that you could gauge, backed with data, how effective your managers and leaders are.
And: let me tell you.
https://www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-seen-a-game-fail-because-artists-too-slow
iOS version is finally out!
@Lunaphied @gsuberland @erincandescent @0xabad1dea I think their threat model doesn’t generally include their user per se
@jaseg@chaos.social @Lunaphied@provably.online @gsuberland@chaos.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange HSMs by default will not restrict a sufficient quorum of admins from doing stupid things
And, let me show you something else @grimalkina introduced me to, a genuinely terrifying thing called Simpson's Paradox.
If you're measuring individual performance and then aggregating that data into a single number, without understanding scope and context - and making decisions based on that number - this is the name of the gun you've pointed at the foot of your company.
"Give me one number" is the tell. That is always the tell.
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/09/measuring-up/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00513/full
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StreetComplete on iOS
If you are using an iPhone and would like to contribute to OpenStreetMap in a very easy and gamified way: StreetComplete is now out for iOS!
Your contributions will not only improve CoMaps, but a whole range of OSM-based applications:
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