Can a reasonable person believe regardless of evidence in ghosts, in deities and gods, in folklore, in aliens, in superstition, in the importance of themselves, in their culture or nation, in their position in society and their gender roles, in mums cooking being better, in bad luck treating them unfairly, in the importance of their habits and rituals, in sticking to how they’ve always done it, in any number of irrational things that they hold close to heart?

I’d say apparently they can. People are not logic processors. People are people.

Oh boy. I was wondering the other day how Bcachefs is progressing but a casual search didn’t hit anything in the nerd news. A quick browse on the dev page didn’t really inspire looking further either. I guess this is why and that this is the end of Bcachefs then. At least no wives were killed in this filesystem.

The bigger concern should be that this is how badly coded and how little concern there is about security there is with smart appliances in people’s homes.

Working as a consultant and seeing the code that runs online services made me realize how fucked up everything is and to accept that nobody knows or cares about what they are doing with other people’s integrity. AI in coding is barely making a dent in it.

Sweden. It is common with Chinese students here in the universities. I don’t think anybody thinks much anything of them. They are just people.

Napalm Death was what popped up first in my mind. I remember it being a bit weird at the time with a band that swapped every single member.

There are addons for Firefox and other browsers too to clean out all the unwanted junk on Facebook. When I go on Facebook now it shows almost exclusively stuff that people I know have posted and groups that I follow. SocialFocus is one of them. Try it, it makes a huge difference.

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This was in the nineties in Sweden. We had a small infestation of loser nazi skins, as was common at the time. They were loud and violent. The most loud and most violent was an adopted black guy. The rest of the nazi skins tolerated him in the group because of said qualities. Or maybe because he’d beat the shit out of them if they did not.

And before skinhead apologists enter the chat, yeah there are not neo nazi skins in the world. However in Sweden at the time it was their main attribute and main reason for shaving the head and wearing the uniform, despite a few outliers that hung around indiscriminately with the nazi ones anyway.

Going for a walk with my dog and several of his besties that are mostly ladies. Together we get attention from the girls.

Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.

Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth and keeps pushing the limits of what is doable and eventually what is normal.

I can make up a compound word in Swedish for you. Osannolikhetsförlägenhet. Osannolik means improbable. Förlägenhet here means an embarrassing situation. So the word would mean something along improbability-embarrassment-situation.

That is some Temu garbage body double. Not that the original was any better.

Nobody cares about your history when you are spamming click baits for your videos. Raging about it not being appreciated makes you no favours either, princess.

It is used where it is applicable. For regular web pages it is overkill that only complicates everything with no gain at all.

Click bait marketing of some shitty YouTube channel.

I think Qobuz feels much more premium than the two others. And at least for me, Qobuz Connect works like what I was missing from Sp_tify Connect when using Tidal.

I made the same journey. Used Tidal 1-2 years but never felt quite comfortable with it. The one that shall not be mentioned have got a lot in the UI right.

I’m still quite new to Qobuz but I like it much better. Their recommendations are much better, the search is much better, more info about fringe artists and sometimes albums too. Some bands/artists with the same name have confused albums but it’s expected and okay I think.

Over all I’d say that Tidal is a great streaming service but Qobuz has music nerd appeal that reminds me of walking into my favourite record stores and chatting about new releases and recommendations from somebody that actually cares.

Getting back to you question, I see room for improvement but I’m much more comfy with Qobuz than I ever was with Tidal.

That is me putting it in embellished words of amusement instead of saying that the software ran numbers through the dongle if it was present so that the logic on the dongle would correct it but if it was not present it would allow the run and save except the altered numbers would have a unnoticeably tiny miscalculation that would accumulate over the numerous edits and saves during the project duration.

Because I assumed that people would put it together themselves. Which apparently most people did. But some people still need everything spelled out for them. Ironically those that credit themselves more intelligent than everybody else.

Welp, I heard the story back in the mid nineties from someone that worked in an architect office. One save or a few without a dongle makes basically no difference but systematic license abuse will make you have to spend man hours to redraw the entire thing before delivering it to the customer. Considering how absolutely hysterical some corporate anti piracy measures were at the time I would not say it is not unbelievable, this being very early internet era and all.

I recall some other corporate oriented software that would after some time only print blank pages without explanation if it detected a crack, there were a few console games that would corrupt your entire memory card with all your saves from everything, and music software and VSTs that would spread a cracked warez version to “the scene” that would have a trojan do other nasty things to your computer as a pre-emptive revenge.

But you do you and have all the smarts. Who knows, I’m probably AI too.