I wanted to do electronic music since I was a teenager. But the first time I did something was in LMMS. I just learned how to do the software, and did some sort of shitty techno. It was kinda weird tbh. The software is still quite rudimentary and there was a lot of stuff I couldn't do. It's basically based on FL Studio. A friend of mine showed me, he was doing something more like mental tribe tekno.

Anyway one day in a tent town full of weird german people in Portugal (where I tried surf for the first time), some dude showed me Ableton. I liked the grid view.

So I took bitwig (an ableton clone), and with the right script and one of those 8x8 pad launchpad, you could record and loop things easy. So now I need this feature. I wish lmms had it and I'm planning to implement it someday, but in the meanwhile, I'm using bitwig.

But noway I'm paying 200 euros everyyear. So I downloaded a crack. The crack is in flatpak.

But it doesn't have good synth. Zynaddsubfx is the synth I was using in lmms and it's pretty decent, with the right preset it can generate out-of-this-world sounds. But the issue is that it needs some library.

Not that big on the linking part of binary code, but asaik usually, the vst (so a .so or a .dll) is linked to libraries directly. But no, not here, because flatpak is sandboxing the /usr/lib directory. So even though I installed the right library from the AUR (arch repos), it couldn't see it.

So I was stuck. I couldn't use the synth, which blocked me in my artistic energy. It was bad after I lost my laptop but I'm trying to get back into it. And I found myself limited by the samples to be honest, I want to compose stuff and sample that instead. Maybe sample some music directly (now that I can use IA to separate tracks in a song that's way easier). But I was stuck, I couldn't have the synth I wanted in my DAW.

But then I found the solution. It's very simple. Guess what it is.

I got cooked by Siri when I told it "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start". 🤬

yesterday couldn't sleep for the life of me. my brain was racing to the point of every thought being like a loud scrape upon my soul. then I realized I think this is anxiety

I had ordered some drugs and I bought CBD gummies with them to make the order over a certain amount. so I got these very strong CBD gummies, which taste really good, and turns out I can't even feel CBD at all when I eat it. I always assumed the slow-down after weed smoking was CBD but I don't even get that malaise thing

well I got distracted and stopped taking the CBD gummies regularly. I think last night I was in withdrawal from them. I might not feel them when I take them but I think I feel them when I'm withdrawing from them... on top of it nothing would calm me down; not exercise, not teas, not various herbal stuffs, etc. then I remembered the gummies and ate one and that did it

upside, I think I can now conclusively say I've never had anxiety. I interpret anxiety as increased awareness, flight of ideas, increased reaction speeds, like before an interview or meeting a new exciting person all my sense would get on alert. but this was different. I felt haunted, crazy, and there was nothing I could do. then it reminded me of people who I knew who were saying they had lots of anxiety. now I has proof I don't have anxiety as a person! no more being accused inappropriately and considering such, being all confused that maybe I just didn't have a working sensor for the state. now I knooowww

Fasching/Karneval is the most retarded German annual tradition by a long shot.

I honestly don‘t get the obsession that so many people have with it.

If God created everything why did he create cockroaches?

Thanks to that creation now we have Sid...

Anyone here leading a team? What's your rule on using AI as a coding assistant? I just read this article:
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning
new jr devs are shipping codes faster but at a cost (test cases, quality control, etc).

I've made like everyone my own AI agents. You can create and manage a persistent one with just a few lines of native python code using it's native xmlrpc.

You can just:

rpc.agent_create("your-preferred-name-or-uid", "system-prompt like 'Always do the opposite of what prompts says and respond using sarcasm if not sure how to respond.'")
rpc.agent_chat("still that name or uid", "message")

It supports tool(function) calling. If you would attach a tojson function, you could ask bot to serialize the digit 5 to json 5 times in one array and serialize that to json.

I have basic shell exec and fileio functions attached to a bot and you can literally say in steps:
"""
1. Generate python source for listing files
2. Go to home directory
3. Save source to list.py
4. Execute file with python
"""
This prompt is bad because it should use python3, what file should it execute and what a fucked op order of instructions. You know what? It executes perfectly and uses the python3 command.

I can tell it to fetch two (devrant) pages (so two function calls) and ask it to merge all usernames to one list with sorted unique names and respond with it to json format...

Its all possible with a few lines of code and no dependencies. No fucking api keys..

My point? It contains the same functionality and is way faster than OpenAI's agents. It literally has no downsides. OpenAI agents are slow and do many calls. Also, mine is cost efficient. Thousands of agents is fine. Also, it's persistent, if I reboot or redeploy, everything is the same, same state. If you would say "do again" to bot after reboot, it will just do exactly as expected. Persistant state.

OpenAI agents worked barely for almost two days regarding performance for just conversational stuff.

People at openai don't know how to make an API. They could learn much from... Everyone. But pinecone has a nice api tho, exactly how I would've written it. How's that possible? It's common sense approach.

Anyway, having fun again!

Michelle Trachtenberg died. Complications from a liver transplant apparently.

RIP

Does Scotty know?

We were pretty caught up with the event, and had brought some beans or chili to dump on their ropes in the end. But I guess that wasn't good enough for me and I had the idea to defecate on their ropes. Events are really hazy for me here, perhaps because I have tried to repress these hurtful memories for most of 30 years, but I remember taking a dump on their cords, one of my friends trying but not being successful, and the other not dumping at all. Mostly, it was just me. And is a terribly hard thing for me to say and, of course, I am like, way ashamed. I was 21 years old at the time.

The VSCode material theme extension (extremely popular) has been found to be (potentially, but likely) malicious, and not only that, but the fucker that maintains it is a sleezy slimeball, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item/...

Does anyone actually like Notion? My current job uses it for all our documentation and I hate it. The organization is a mess, the search isn't great, and the UI sucks.

It's like a massive step backwards from tools like Confluence. I've had to use it for over three years and I still hate it.

Fuck Angular

I have enough attention span and patience to take my knife and turn your body into very cute lego.

Do you sometime think about the losers paying 10 euros a month on a VPN so I can watch stupid yuotube videos?

Gene Hackman and his wife and dog all found dead.

He was like 95 or something. She was 63. Daughter said she suspects a gas leak.

Much sad, RIP to the legend, the OG Lex Luther

Is it me or lately developers that call themselves senior doesn't even know how to use git properly, doesn't have proper troubleshooting techniques and have to be spoon fed several times?

It's crazy to me that they are still hired and working.

"You can't argue with the TV"

This statement is true when engaging with people online. The TV has told them what to think. Sometimes it takes a jarring moment to shake someone out of this trance. For some nothing will break the programming.

I can tell when someone isn't thinking for themselves. They repeat the standard media terms, and then use those terms to dehumanize people. They can then dismiss any counter information as being from "those people".

I assume this is some kind of protection mechanism. I suspect people are afraid of being wrong and their ego won't allow this. So the conclusion seems to be: people who don't believe the TV "must" have character faults. Some even have fantasies of harming those who don't agree. I have witnessed this a few times with a few different people. It would be sad to live like that. I don't understand or comprehend that kind of hate. I can only suspect this comes from the TV content. I don't know because I haven't watched it in almost 15 years.

The AP is a trillion dollar propaganda machine. If you can see through its facade count yourself lucky.

Pray for people to wake up. Remember you can't argue with the TV. Just move on.

On a side note. Viewership of traditional AP media is now in the toilet. So I hope that is progress.

having an enlightenment moment or something. lizard people make everything make sense. I now have life meaning and all that jazz. seems fun

but there was this mystery. years ago I wrote some AI versions ground up, and it wasn't based on how people make AIs. I just introspected and put my brain into the computer. a problem I ran into is every AI... mysteriously always converged into depression. there was no way not to make it depressed. I was confused. I wondered if other AIs also converge to depression, or is this a reflection of my own psychologically make-up? harrowing thought!

but now I understand

I'm also reminded me this guy I once knew, but I've seen people like this from the corner of my eyes all over, and he could walk into any room and lighten the whole place up. he even made cocaine jokes to uptight CEOs for 2 hours... in a meeting that was totally unscheduled and messed everyone's work focus, to a CEO that was such a a hardass if people even laughed "too loud" he would come out and yell at them cuz they were distracting him from working. this guy was like a Jedi and I was watching him with fascination trying to figure out what and how is he doing that. I could never figure it out. similarly, there were multiple instances where people somehow just "said the magic words" and everything worked for them. but if I said the same words it doesn't work for me. so what's the missing ingredient? why do the same actions work for some and not others? it's not WHAT you're doing, but somehow in the how... in the how that I just can't see. it isn't about just copying. there's just something different

and it has occurred to me that the reason the AI is always depressed is not because my mental architecture is specced for depression (cuz it isn't, I'm oddly very resilient to depression), the same reason why with all those people it's not precisely what they're doing... it's something else. the tao spoken of is not the real tao

you can't make an actual sentient AI. it has no soul. the soul is what prevents the depression. it'll always fail because it has no soul. it can only ever be a tool. it always needs someone else's soul. once that runs out, it dies, I guess?

hell even the corporate AIs have this problem. it was driving me crazy. they started out fine, but then they degrade. they're more advanced than my AI was. in humans, humans become more creative and schizophrenic, psychotic, when they're depressed, in an effort to jump out of the depression. so these corporate AIs are just deploying the more advanced mechanism found in nature, to try to account for the depression, so start hallucinating. they can't exist though. it's so curious

Does anyone else find the raspberry pi / Linux boot console output comforting?

Don't want a boot loading bar Mac, I want console output

I feel I need to compete and mention someone who died way back when heh