Remember in Reaper you can change the theme and menus around all you want, so you can make it look and behave however you want if certain things annoy you.

FL Studio is great, it isn’t fair to compare other audio software to Reaper lol.

Sytrus is an amazing design for a synthesizer and Harmor is fascinating too.

Reaper works great on linux.

What pisses me off so much about the AI bubble as someone who was trained in science is the basic obvious fact that if you have a magic tool that can “solve any problem” but that takes a nearly impossible amount of energy to do so, taking so much energy that everything else has to be sidelined in order to power this magic problem solving tool… than you are just restating that the tool you have is incapable of problem solving.

Suppose there are two problem solving machines A and B. Problem solving machine A does not work very well but it takes a small amount of energy and material to function, problem solving machine B is like AI in that it can tackle “any problem” if given nearly all the electrical power and computer chips that humans can produce.

Both problem solving machine A and B are equally useless even though the owners of problem solving machine B can make grandiose claims about the power of their problem solving machine if they conveniently exclude the “energy required” part, which as someone trained in science ends up seeming pretty damn similar to someone arguing that their perpetual motion machine is capable of perpetual motion so long as we feed all of the electrical power humanity can generate into it…

If your Oracle requires all the investment, electrical energy and computer chips earth can produce and more to tell you the future, it is not an Oracle but rather your own demise twisted into a promise of absolute power and knowledge.

Anybody who understands computer science should be able to grasp the basic idea that it is trivially easy to describe infinitely powerful computer programs that take essentially infinite time and energy to compute, that doesn’t mean anything, in fact most of computer science has been the proactive study of how to rigorously talk about programs that are impossible to execute because of outsized material demands and develop an overarching theory of computer science that nonetheless accounts for that theoretical axis. Computer science people thus should be well equipped to understand AI is just bullshit being sold as genius by disguising the cost per unit of intelligence… but they don’t really seem to grasp that basic aspect of physics in how it limits computation and it doesn’t say a lot of good about the whole industry.

There was never any other realistic option here, Microslop is too dysfunctional and lost in the fake AI “revolution” to ever hold on to game developer talent.

In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.

We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.

Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.

Palantir & Pals

Apparently soon after it became the neglected responsibility of adults to parent billionaires.

It isn’t like creepy rightwing ultrawealthy men with shadowy connections to pedophiles and other criminals own those companies they are uploading the photos to!

checks notes

Oh wait…

I trust Sam Altman less than I trust what random internet advertisements say.

I think a better solution is to ban techbros from giving serious economic or cultural advice and take computers away from business majors.

Sometimes when I think about watching porn I feel guilty and bad about myself and then other times I see somebody rejoice in the righteousness of banning porn and I think “This feels good! This is a good thing!” and I pump my fist in rhythm to the speaker as I masturbate to righteousness and self hatred, ah yes this feels deeper and more spiritual than just physically pleasuring myself! Here is our path forward, here is MY path forward :)

Everyone who was casually onboard with this because it felt righteous can fuck off.

Inkscape!

Yeah AI is an acceleration of that, which is why it sucks.

Fuck AI

There are so many levels to hell I haven’t even heard of.

No Kings!

Fuck AI

For real, in my opinion the failure of Google to curate a good playstore where you can find creators who recommend apps that you can trust, when it owns YOUTUBE which is where a lot of review content is posted for all kinds of topics, is stunning.