A very interesting variation on Franklin's glass harmonica - the Cristal Baschet. The metal resonators make all the difference.
https://youtu.be/9RZg-AP3zM8

Owner of a Lonely Heart - Cover by Hindley St. Country Club
https://youtu.be/mTK5-l7FAvk?si=Sd_1MP5vlbjnvy9A
/nosanitize
#CoSoMusic

I got the urge yesterday to familiarize myself with #Fortran 2018 and bought a book on it. I installed gfortran in WSL and started editing in VS Code. The experience was delightful. I learned Fortran IV in 1970 and became expert at optimizing and debugging code on various architectures. I really appreciate the features in modern Fortran and look forward to experiment wiht co-arrays and teams.
#progamming

Bruce perens drafts a new open source license to guarantee an income stream to maintainers for projects that generate more than $5 million when used by corporations.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/30/bruce_perens_post_open_license/
#software #oss

TIL that the word 'delve' occurs 10-100x as frequently in material written by ChatGPT than it does in ordinary writing. It has been traced back to RLHF (Reinforcement Learning Human Feedback) in LLMs because #AI companies use Nigerian English speakers to save money. Delve is much more common in Nigerian English than in other variants of English.
#linguistics

I often use the word 'seldom'. I'm feeling old after reading this.
#linguistics

#advertising #web
We've all been there.
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/woman-who-visited-furniture-website-served-ads/

#politics #US
How quickly the people who get their news from social media forget.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/continued-trump-admin-turnover-forces-expansion-of-departure-wall-1224576067610

I really don't want any smart devices in my life.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/i-m-watching-you-bitch-how-even-the-smart-fridge-is-being-used-as-a-weapon-of-family-violence-20240427-p5fmyu.html

#humor #dadjokes
https://omg.blog/account-may-have-just-out-dad-joked-you/

Cory Doctorow writes of the many accomplishments of the Biden adminsitration from Monday through Thursday of this week.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/25/capri-v-tapestry/
#government

Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/24/wyden_government_interoperability/

Voice services are excluded. Has Wyden not used these services for a voice-only meeting while driving?
#interoperability

@th3j35t3r The 'X' to close an image is too close to the 'fold-back' widget in the top-right corner. Half the time i end up activating teh fold-back instead of landing on the 'X'.

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/ring_ftc_settlement/
#CoSoSec #cybersecurity

#Politics #SCOTUS

Not discussed much today - HOW WE NEED IMMUNITY FROM DONALD TRUMP.

This is what happens when you train an #AI LLM exclusively on the writings and speeches of Reid Hoffman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgD2gmwCS10

How Google’s Location History Program Could Upend Digital Surveillance Law.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-google-s-location-history-program-could-upend-digital-surveillance-law

The court thinks that you made an affirmative decision to be tracked, because Google told them so.

#legal #privacy #surveillance

Questioning the Conventional Wisdom on Liability and Open Source Software.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/questioning-the-conventional-wisdom-on-liability-and-open-source-software

#legal #FOSS

#AI #politics
Facial Recognition Technology and Human Raters Can Predict Political Orientation From Images of Expressionless Faces Even When Controlling for Demographics and Self-Presentation.
https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2024-65164-001.html

This is good seed material for a dystopian novel. I'm sure researchers are already trying to find the genetic basis for these facial differences. When I read the initial report on Fox News I thought that they were sensing the lack of empathy in one group.

I went to the dentist for my bi-annual cleaning this morning. My Garmin Fenix watch auto-detected a nap while I was lying there, relaxing. 😂