The thing that will always, always get me is that there's relatively few actual sociopaths in the world, and yet (by their own acts, by designing scaled sociopathic systems, by instilling the notion that sociopathic conduct is normative, and by compelling everyone else to adopt a posture that will anticipate and counter sociopathy) they manage to ruin things for everyone.

Safety loaf

@ododopress Yes! That would be them! (Bijlmer bookstore)

They are a wonderful local bookshop, they really do so much community work here in my neighbourhood.

@david_chisnall
Does the ML produce an deterministic algorithm to read the data?

It may be not future-proof to require the next reader, whom might be equipped only with a primitive microscope, to have to do ML computation by an abacus.

@benjamingeer @kevin

My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art.

https://mastodon.social/collections/116777306758391615

@hipsterelectron You dare revel in my suffering?

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117159662819871806

This is a really good article.

I very recently tried to record some tutorials that I had _subscribed_ to (tutorials on how to play a musical instrument). I wanted to purchase the tutorials outright so I could use them to practice over and over, but the company requires a continual monthly subscription - even to watch the same video over and over.

I figured I have video and audio on my Linux computer.

It should be easy to capture that video and audio.

Well, it's not. Screen capture without audio is easy, but audio capture is not intuitive up front. There are some methods to use the program FFmgep to capture some audio/visual by pulling a video link from the source code of the streaming service, but this service used a codec that actively prevents that. (edit: read - uses some heavy DRM)

I tried to find a decent program to just screenrecord audio and visual as it played on my monitor, but I didn't have much success.

I need to try again.

Otherwise I'll be paying a monthly fee to play the same handful of videos over and over and over again.

And that's silly.

(Edit to add: Absolutely please please please suggest methods to do this in the replies! This is a call for help and all replies and suggestions are requested and consented to! Hahaha!)

Mein unpopulärer Kommentar zum Internationalen Hundetag: Es gibt viel zu viele Hunde, die viel zuviel Futter verschlingen und damit der Umwelt schaden, viel zu oft in ökologisch sensiblen Gebieten freigelassen werden und deren Besitzer sie viel zu oft in die Landschaft kacken lassen, sogar auf Weiden. Gilt in abgewandelter Form auch für Katzen.