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The Verge: Nobody wants to tell me why they only listen to their own Suno slop
Which might explain why nobody wanted to talk to me. The Suno subreddit is a safe place, filled with people doing the same thing. They don’t feel insecure or embarrassed. They have their bubble where people are supportive. And, look, I get it; nobody wants to be called lazy or a narcissist.
Of course, there is a third option: They don’t actually like music or care about art, and they don’t care to defend their low-effort relationship with it.
I don’t know. I think it’s a little unfair to expect people to like every form of art out there, regardless of what the provenance may be. Why should they defend their so-called “low-effort relationship” with music? Just because someone told them they should, because this music was made by a human and that one wasn’t?
I don’t like AI music, but I’m not going to turn my nose up at people who do. There are certain genres of music made by humans that I don’t care for either, and no amount of history behind the genre’s going to change that. Let people like what they like, and don’t be judgy.
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Hmm, after using this new laptop for about a week, it turns out that the only thing worse than having a Touch Bar is not having a Touch Bar. I’ll miss the lock button I added, not to mention sliding to adjust the volume (I can take and leave the rest).
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Hmm, either Steven Pressfield’s blog got hacked, or he’s decided to diversify. 😏
Also, props for being the first instance of RSS spam I’ve encountered in a long while.
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Using YAML is hazardous to your health. Or at least, hazardous to the health of your Kubernetes cluster (which translate to your health if you’re responsible for fixing it).
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Tried launching one of my apps on MacOS Tahoe, just to see if my icon would get put into squircle jail. Good news: my icon’s a free citizen (it’s the orange one).
You know what this means: I can never, ever, ever touch that Affinity Designer file ever again, lest I break something.
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Enjoyed Gruber’s post on The History of ‘OK’. Got me reflecting on how use “Okay.” Basically, just like that: fully spelt out with the -ay. Yes, that includes messaging apps. I rarely use “OK” unless a UI calls for it, or I only have time to type in two letters.
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Oh wow! Discovered in Android that if you select some text, then press the Shift key, the text changes case. Cycles between title, upper, and lower case. Pretty nice feature.
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The on-again, off-again Godot project is still going. Most of the levels are done. Now it’s time to finished the backdrops and SFX, add the meta-elements (which I’m not looking forward to), and just spit and polish. Trying Affinity Designer for the backdrops, which feels more right for me.
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I knew that E-class tram I saw travelling down route 12 this morning was too good to be true.
— Sent from an A-class tram.
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Took a small detour on my way to work to enjoy a home-made banana cake made by my barista. Enjoyed it on a bench outside Anzac station looking towards Albert Park.
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I think all these city planning YouTube videos are radicalising me. Of course, drivers not stopping for pedestrians crossing the road isn’t helping matters.
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Wrap Cobra Commands In Functions
Using Cobra for CLI apps is more efficient and organized when each command is wrapped in its own function, improving clarity and maintainability compared to the documented approach. Continue reading →
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Then again, maybe to become someone who doesn’t need LinkedIn, you need to leave LinkedIn. Maybe the cause and effect are the other way round: not to do because you are, but to become because you did.
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I do wonder if LinkedIn is dead centre of the smiling curve of white-collar technical workers. Those at the top don’t need it as their abilities are self-evident through their work, or they have the necessary connections. The bottom would probably consist of entry level jobs or those that don’t need any experience, and could accept anyone who knows their way around a computer. It’s those in the middle that are reliant on the platform. Those with some skills and experience that are in demand, yet are still interchangable from anyone else with those same skills.
I don’t know. This could all be just the imagination from someone who’s not believed anything else other than needing to be on LinkedIn.
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Just read a post about someone leaving LinkedIn. Wish I had the courage to leave LinkedIn. I hate being there but being where I am now professionally, it feels like leaving would have an impact on my career prospects. Is this how people who can’t leave Facebook feel. 🤔
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Argh! I really could pick the days to do laundry. It’s supposed to have been 19°C, 20 km/h northerly winds, and partly cloudy. Instead, it’s fully cloudy, still, and (checks Bureau website) just under 12°C. Guess I’ve got an appointment with the dryers at the launderette.
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Dear Apple™,
I never heard of Apple™ Inkwell™ until I’ve heard of Manton constantly getting rejections for his app that shares that name. Congratulations on pissing off your customers with some legal B.S. for a trademark that you’ve not used since the 2000s.
Sincerely,
An annoyed Apple™ customer
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Okay, after my first few hours of using MacOS Tahoe, I concede that it’s not as bad as I was expecting. The rounded corners are… tollerable. They do make the title bars are little large for my liking, but most apps put controls there anyway, so it tends to balance out. I even like the transparent menu bar.
I did have to seek out the icon-laced menus. Most of the apps I typically used — those not from Apple — are pretty restraint in their choice about which menu items get icons. Zed does pretty well in finding a good balance. Vivaldi has very little, outside those that come from the system. But the Finder? Yeah, maybe dial it back a little next time, Apple.
I’m not in a rush to upgrade my personal system just yet, but I think I can live with Tahoe.
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Me? I’m a
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Went down quite the rabbit hole trying to discover when
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On the Character of Objects
Some random musing about the difference between an object with character, and one that just has damage. Continue reading →
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Ah, I guess it’s inevitable. A new laptop means upgrading to the latest version of MacOS. Will have to cut my teeth on an OS with window corners that can’t cut a single thing.
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Jeroen Sangers: You never learned to delegate. AI just made it obvious.
Delegation and management were once skills for people who had teams. […] That changed.
If you work with AI in any meaningful way, you are now managing something. You are setting direction, communicating intent, and evaluating output. The same skills apply, and the same gaps get exposed.
The irony for us techies that preferred staying in a technical role over a managerial one is that the technology has made managers of us all. 😏
Via: Hunter Gatherer 21C
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Also, kudos to Apple for making it super easy to pair the keyboard and mouse to this new laptop: just plug them in using the Lighting cable. They pair and operate wirelessly after that. Pretty nice!
