Notices by Jack Daniel (often offline) (jack_daniel@mastodon.social)

I have just learned that this exists, and now you must see it, too. Advertised as "the grand piano of banjos"
(you may need to take a moment here to digest that phrase, or possibly regurgitate it),
I present the Deering 12 string banjo.
Just imagine Stairway to Heaven or Hotel California on this bad boy.
Or don't, if you are watching your mental health.

Are your guitar skills rusty? Well then, I have just the thing for you. Fresh off the ArtiFictions luthier’s workbench, my latest creation.

AI is truly fucking over all kinds of creators and artists. Not really new forms of theft and fraud, but at scale and speed previously unimaginable, with relative ease. Just saw an up and coming musician have all their songs copied, run through ai to remix, batch uploaded to streaming sites, copyright applied and:
Boom, they were flagged and lost the income on their streaming. It was corrected, but fucking Meta took down their post about it for "violating community standards".
#FuckAI
#FuckMeta

Checkpoint Charlie in NOLA is gone. Abruptly closed and the building has been sold. Now where can we do our laundry, listen to live music, eat, and get drunk, all under one roof?
(It's NOLA, so there may be other options).

Monday foolishness for you
I don't know why people say we look alike.

@prettygood https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmemes.ucoz.com%2F_nw%2F1%2F47692223.jpg&f=1&ipt=760664d54e3ce22fc761b3469618b919d747e6a9812ea82b72d26c27ae5becd4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jack_daniel/115599160952274592

Here's the thing about this, if MS can override or ignore Group Policy settings for Copilot, it can do so for anything else and that seems bad.
It seems bad, because it is bad.
Further proof MS can not be trusted.
I say this as a long time Windows user and admin, going back even before my MCSE+I in NT4.

Bluetooth is amazing, every version is better and better- but it never loses it's roots of being an unreliable piece of shit with a myriad of shitty implementations.
USB-C follows in its stumbling footsteps.

@ryanc that went from "oh no" to "oh yes!"

Just told my ISP "May the backhoe of despair forever hunt your underground fiber"

I love how Waze‘s time estimates are based on you having enough money to afford felony speeding tickets.

predictive text used to suggest the word "doing" if I typed "how are you". It has updated to predicting the word "coping" instead. I think that sums it up, doesn’t it?

Windows 11 may finally usher in the year of Linux on the desktop.

Totally normal Sunday morning, ended up with getting a sobbing hug from a woman because I was kind. All I did was help her load a few bags of gravel into her car.
In case you were wondering how much the hatred has infiltrated everyday life here in the mortal remains of the US.

Overheard yesterday:
"May he die surrounded by friends.
You know, like Julius Caesar."

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"

Quoth the Nac Mac Feegle in The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Oh my, the annual Festival of Cyber Avarice that is RSAC, ugh. With more ugh than usual this year.

R.E.M. led me to believe I would feel better about this.

Imagine if you, your cronies, and your benefactors all had lots of money to play games in the stock market, and had the ability to manipulate the market into bust and boom swings, that would be wild, wouldn't it?

Watch HR 9495
“Under the bill, the Treasury secretary would issue notice to a group of intent to designate it as a “terrorist supporting organization.” Once notified, an organization would have the right to appeal within 90 days, after which it would be stripped of its 501(c)(3) status...
The law would not require officials to explain the reason for designating a group, nor does it require the Treasury Department to provide evidence."
Weaponized tax law, already looming.