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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "Ghosts", 潘PAN

Taiwanese trap music. On this track Pan Wei Ju raps in Mandarin about generational trauma and domestic violence*, over booming, ominous beats produced by Clams Casino. Just a really grippingly chaotic piece of nightmare music

* It was only after I listened to this song a bunch of times I realized the official music video, linked below, has an English translation in the expanded YouTube description. It hit me really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIedFzs-8s

mcc, to random
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YouTube thumbnails with ominous energies

mcc, (edited )
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Watched another one of this guy's videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdU7AkH6QM ) and they're really good but also at the very start of the other video he disassembles a microwave to remove the transformer so he can use it to demonstrate something, and I was just like "ah… I see… your Thing as a YouTuber is casually doing things that if I tried to do them I would immediately get myself and probably at least one other person killed"

mcc,
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Oh god

I watched the next video in the same series, also at the beginning of second video he begins by disassembling a microwave to remove the transformer, but this time once the transformer is out he stops, holds it up, looks directly into the camera and says "If you ever want to get a LOT of comments on YouTube… bother one of these guys"

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Via toothedgoose on tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/752672809471377408/image-description-two-pie-charts-divided-into?source=share

mcc,
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@futurebird one way to look at it, i do a lot of computational art and in the genart community we LOVE our bugs. like we domesticate our bugs and keep them around as new features

(…on an unrelated note there is also a very interesting cellular automata adjacent algorithm named Langton's Ant. So I personally refer to all single-cell agent algorithms as "ants" but I can't seem to get this to catch on.)

mcc,
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@futurebird Ah, I was wondering if you had encountered it before. This makes me so happy to hear, that's a great class project

mcc, to random
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Hm.

So my cell provider has no good plan for roaming to Europe. So the last time I was in France, I got a local phone number and a SIM card so I could use Internet while I was there. It was a bit of a pain to get the SIM so I put it somewhere I'd be able to find it* when I next needed it.

Now I can't find it.

Can anyone think of a way to get a French cell phone SIM either without leaving Toronto, or without leaving Charles De Gaulle?

  • Probably in that one purse I threw away a few years ago.
mcc,
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Ok thank you to everyone who replied to this I now have a plan

mcc, to random
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Should I read "Water Margin"?

mcc,
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Got a hold on "The Water Outlaws" from the library, opened it up and found an explanation at the beginning that it was a retelling of "Water Margin". Wondering if it would make more sense to read the original first

mcc,
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@distinct I have definitely had the thought that reading one or more of the classical Chinese novels would make a LOT of Japanese/Sinophone media suddenly make a lot more sense to me. Christine read Dream of the Red Chamber at some point and she pretty frequently spots characters from it interpolated into other stories.

mcc, to random
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A THING I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ERROR MESSAGES

Language: NullReferenceException, the object was null on line 37

Me: Which object?

Language: The one on line 37

Me: Yes, but which of the objects on line 37?

Language [patronizingly]: It was null

mcc,
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(In this particular situation, after investigation, the answer to the question turned out to be "the one on line 39".)

mcc,
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@ratsnakegames as far as I'm aware modern Java improved a TON of stuff and that's very academically interesting but if you actually USE Java now Oracle will just sue you so what's it help?

mcc,
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"The greater Line 37 area'

mcc, to random
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I have objects

mcc,
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@vadhakara The ergonomics on the button are very satisfying

mcc, to random
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My foot is bleeding. I do not know why I am telling you this but it is happening. I wish that my foot were not bleeding

mcc,
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@Tijn Thank you.

tojiro, to random
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I apologize in advance, but I had to get this dumb thing out of my head:

mcc,
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@tojiro Proposed third circle: "The Cardassian Union"

mcc, to random
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In my opinion you should watch the movie "Thief" https://mastodon.social/@onelson/112577141681889266

mcc,
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I can't speak to this but as far as I know it is true https://mastodon.social/@ChateauErin/112577274745150724

mcc, to random
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Instructions from websites

mcc,
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@zandra Optimizing gender…

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glennf, to random
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Adobe did the thing companies that host and sync data keep doing: they updated their terms in what is a reasonable way without a) giving advance warning and a thorough explanation and b) realizing that the legal niceties sound horrifying to an average person. Adobe can’t legally safely host your content without a license. This updates mostly adds compliance issues that are govt focused—and should be examined. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use

mcc,
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@glennf I don't think this "explanation" helps at all. They don't justify why this data needs to be on their server rather than at rest on the user computer, and I don't see where they make it clear what you'd need to do to prevent exfiltration to "the cloud" or applicability of the bad terms. Some of the justifications they give as to when and why they apply tos terms are either so elastic they could mean anything ("to improve the service") or are the exact features people are afraid of ("AI").

mcc,
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@glennf A bad power granted for a reasonable reason can be used for a bad reason later. I don't see anything convincing in this post that they're even granting for reasonable reasons. I do not feel convinced reading this that if I used Photoshop I would have control over when Adobe uploads my data off the computer. And none of this helps with the widespread alarm that Adobe may unilaterally push new tos terms on users overnight and they cannot decline, not even to uninstall the program.

mcc, to random
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My memory's not so good so I deal with this by making lots of lists. My to-do- list for this week has a line that simply says "f". I have no idea what this was. It's most likely that it was such a short-time task I was certain by the time I looked at the list next the lone letter "f" would jog my memory into whatever it was I was trying to remember but, I guess it's also possible I just literally accidentally typed an "f" when I thought some other window had focus and it means nothing at all

mcc,
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@onelson One assumes it was erased by telekenesis (possibly from the future)

mcc, to random
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An intrusive thought I return to often is how "I want a pony" is the canonical example of an unreasonable request but, like, if you look into it even a little you'll find it's not hard at all to acquire a pony. On raw purchase price a pony is far cheaper than a car and probably not much more than a good ebike. You're gonna have to invest time and money into pony upkeep but, of all the aspirational goals you could set yourself in life "a pony" is one of the more attainable ones

mcc,
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Now THIS truism, I will accept https://infosec.exchange/@DaveMWilburn/112571839735840463

mcc,
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@ratsnakegames You hereby grant us an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit the cake in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented

mcc, to random
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A funny thing about Google's terrible "AI" is that sometimes when people try to defend it, they say "but if you don't want Google to use 'AI', wouldn't that mean they'd have to remove 'Featured snippets' also?", and this is extremely humorous because featured snippets are also consistently terrible and I've been watching people make fun of them constantly for like ten years

mcc,
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@Ash_Crow I guess, but if they didn't show us the AI result wouldn't that mean they have room to show us the featured snippet plus the first n pages?

mcc, to random
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Shout out to the World Naked Bikeride

mcc, to random
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@pablor hi5 on the avatar

mcc, to random
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@apaleslimghost i need to pet the bird

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