Notices by Randulo.com (randulo@mastodon.social)

#USPolitics

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/03/30/france-slams-us-interference-in-firms-diversity-programs-france-and-europe-will-defend-their-values_6739659_19.html

My wife's book and two of our friends have books that were sucked into this database.

Has this made it over here yet?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGYDRoX8kfg3ZQZL6J-W0kQE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Can AI Replace Live Music?

https://randulo.medium.com/can-ai-replace-live-music-170d1e9df093

@SergeMedoff AI can improvise, and with enough power, it could simulate a group improvising. But I don't think it will ever simulate a live group improvising. Actually, the title shouldn't be replace, but simulate.

#Music I'm 28,341 days old. For 21,347 of these, I have been playing professionally (=paid for it). I have been in the music industry from the late 1960s until today. My first vinyl was on Epic, in 1972, when I joined BMI. Some pocket change still comes from that recording, 53 years later!
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@skinnylatte I prefer savoury, personally. Donuts are poison.

On the way to shop, in had to stop and look at this!

I did it!
Thank you, California, for making it easy.

Our new babies will open up soon, then, the same day wilt. It's a beautiful spectacle I'll share with you. Cerus, once a year.

Lately, people in the public eye, politicians, tech bros, artists, all walks of life, are saying, and sometimes doing absurd things. II have lived on the planet as a working adult over 20,000 days.

Some people get distracted, join cults, drink the koolaid.
Others continue to THINK THING THROUGH

@dec23k @anilmc My question is this:
It should be obvious to ANYONE Brexit was sold to the people with lies and malice.
Are the British public going to be more skeptical moving on to future issues?

Coming up to 7 years on this Mastodon instance, although not always active. I've tried many federated platforms but always come back to #Mastodon for its many great features.
#introduction I was into #tech from vacuum tubes to Today. PC from 1980 with TRS-80. Internet from 1987 at work. I've written some (https://strictlybeta.com) and a book, and almost 60 years of #Music. I'm also into visual creation with my tea stains and street photos.
Music, bio, book: https://ffm.bio/randulo

Alt Text question:

Should color details be added when appropriate?
"A woman in a red dress in front of a purple wall is saying "I can't do this anymore!" holding a baseball.

"A woman standing in front of a wall is saying "I can't do this anymore!" holding a baseball.

Include the colors or not?

"Artificial Intelligence" irony:
One of the meanings of the adjective "artificial" is "man-made", human made, not natural. With AI, the I part is just a machine looking up existing or prior art very quickly and imitating it.
AI can't invent anything new, but can be very good at medical diagnoses, as it can know everything we currently know about medecine. It can be good at chess, as it can enumerate all possible moves and the results.
That's not intelligence, it's CPU, memory & throughput.

@paninid As I look at little solution to little problems, I'm positive that no "AI" we know about now could solve these until somone actually does.
If asked how to prevent screws from falling off a table as you take something apart, it will not think of putting something sticky on the table until a human does this and documents it somewhere (even if that's on IG).

@tchambers Isn't that how Bluesky feeds work? Or am I missing something?

@lightweight Most of the early days, I had no experience with graphics software, so I didn't have any basis for comparison. There is free software out there now that is world class and usable, but if #libre is the same as #foss, it's not open source; I think the plan is to upsell later, keeping a free tier.

@lightweight Again, I don't disagree with anything you've said so far, but what I do is use what works for me. If I have to pay $30, I might. If I have to pay $129 a year, no!

@lightweight I agree 100% with that. My experience is totally anecdotal and subjective, and although I learned and use many languages, I am a horrible coder. Still, I get the difficulty of doing certain things that people complain about, especially with regard to mobile apps. As for Adobe, I had to go spit three times in the street when I saw the name. 😂