If it works despite being a mess, I think there should be a somewhat less protective term than slop. Goulash?
I meant to say "pejorative", not "protective", sorry.
Readit NewsUhhrrr commented on Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline github.com/Jordan-Townsen... · Posted by u/Subtextofficial
Uhhrrr commented on Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline github.com/Jordan-Townsen... · Posted by u/Subtextofficial
Maybe I'm missing something but it's not a self contained file if it has external imports. It appears to be using unpkg CDN for CSS and JS. There's also multiple files, no license file, a server in python (???) and many, many indications that this is just AI slop.
If it works despite being a mess, I think there should be a somewhat less protective term than slop. Goulash?
Uhhrrr commented on What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024) nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/Hooke
Consider 4'33".
"Universal music cognition" requires a strong exclusionary premise about what counts as music and more importantly what doesn't count as music.
Sure maybe you don't consider 4'33" music. That does not mean other people do not experience it as music in the normal ways people can experience music such as buying tickets, putting on fancy clothes and sitting in a performance space at an appointed time and as an excuse to go out to dinner and/or on a date.
But if your musical interest extends much beyond a Methodist hymnal, there are probably people who will opine that the subject of those interests are not "real" music.
To be clear, I am not opining that *4'33" is or isn't "real" music. Only that in a scientific context, there is no objective way to distinguish between music and non-music. Some cultures have practices that we can label "music" but within the culture they do not play a language game that includes the label "music."
Which is to say that any ecumenical approach to music in a scientific context is so broad as to be meaningless.
433 was more of a statement/exercise in listening. It's interesting to explore the edges of what counts as music, but in practice, people can tell when something is music made for enjoyment by other people.
Uhhrrr commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
I recommend to read the source:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...
This supports my initial reaction. The "antichrist" indicators he points to are things like authoritarianism and homogenization, not burning bushes and bints with swords.
Uhhrrr commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
To me this piece just looks like someone who hates wealth and willfully misunderstands metaphors.
Do we actually know that this is only targeting Americans? If I were a state actor who put this thing together, I would use it on everybody. with one exception; someone in the US might not think about doing it in other countries
Uhhrrr commented on Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025 osnews.com/story/143570/l... · Posted by u/birdculture
UNIX was available for x86 systems for several years before Linux was released.
I worked in EDA while the transition happened. We and our customers had been big buyers of Sun and/or HP workstations. The switch happened several years after Linux was released. When x86 performance started to look competitive, there was a lot of interest in switching to NT, and very little interest in paying for SCO Linux etc. It wasn't until RedHat came out with an enterprisey amount of support that companies started to switch en masse.
Do you honestly believe these people are advocating for slaughtering half the human race and damning the rest of it to extinction? Or is there some hyperbole that is going over your head?
In your comment above, you said that the less-hyperbolic version is killing all "bad" men, including the president. If one is trying to get all non-"bad" men on board with this, why would you use an alienating slogan like "Kill All Men?" It's such a big messaging fail that I can't really credit them with any thought process.
This is why I asked how you managed to extract something other than "Kill All Men" from the phrase "Kill All Men".
No, it is only referring to men who are, you know, evil to other people. Of which there are plenty of examples. One of them is our president.
I confess, I'm not very bright and am having trouble decoding the subtleties of "Kill All Men!" as you have done. Could you explain how you got from "All" to "just the bad ones"? Would you interpret "Kill All Women" in the same manner?
Tangential question: do you advocate death for all bad people, a group which according to you includes the president?