It would be interesting to follow them. Find out where they live or where they go in their off time. Then call the ICE on them.

The postal service in Denmark was opened in 1624.

It was privatized in 2009. It will shut down at the end of 2025.

it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

Well… how’s that going?

Before doing any slowing down and looping I’d make sure that I know the chords for that section. It’s easier to hear if a certain note is in the key (harmony) or not (dissonance), thereby limiting the available choices. Also it might be easier to identify an interval than a single note.

Knowing some theory definitely helps. If you can find a transcription as sheets or tabs that’d be a good idea for reference, even if they’re not always correct.

Having this context, it’s usually enough to slow down the part in the YouTube player. I use New Pipe, no ads and speed/pitch are separate.

For a more detailed analysis, Audacity is great for loops and zooming. It’s quick and easy. However, looping a single note can sometimes be deceiving, so I’d also loop a few of the notes before and after just to get some context.

Getting the clip into a full DAW can also help for very tricky sounds. Running it through a pitch correction effect can show what it detects. This works best if the clip doesn’t have a lot of other things at the same time. Another method if you have a midi keyboard is to play along with a basic tone like an organ or just a sine wave. Program the melody into the midi sequencer and you’ll basically have it transcribed. This is also great for long weird sections where it’s difficult to remember everything. Might as well write it down as midi instead of on a paper.

I disagree. The pointlessness creates a liminal space.

Yelling is idiotic.

Like all aggression, resorting to yelling is an act of impotence.

When someone is attacked by aggression they will defend themselves. They will counter attack whatever it is you’re yelling about and make up reasoning to justify their own stance. Even if it’s wrong, because in their mind the actual topic is less relevant than fighting your aggression.

Yelling is only useful if you are trying to prevent an accident and you’re unsure if they can hear you.

public shaming is s powerful tool - which could lead to reflection

Have you ever seen this happen? In my experience, the idiot is more likely to double down.

Exactly how big’ve deal is it?

It was also Windows 98.

I don’t think free will can be dismissed just because the framework that it runs on is deterministic.

Let’s say you program a text editor. A computer runs the program, but the computer has no influence on what text the user is going to write.

I think that consciousness is a user like that. It runs on deterministic hardware but it’s not necessarily deterministic due to that. It might be for other reasons, but the laws of physics isn’t it, because physics doesn’t prohibit free will from existing.

Consciousness is wildly complex. It’s a self illusion and we really have no good idea about where decisions even come from.

If it is deterministic, it would have to involve every single atom in the universe that in one way or another have influenced the person. Wings of a butterfly and light from distant stars etc. Attempting to predict it would require a simulation of everything. That leads to other questions. If a simulation is a 1:1 replica of the real thing, which one is then real and what happens if we run it backwards, can we see what caused the big bang, etc.

So, even if this is about free will, the enquiry falls short on trying to figure out what even causes anything to happen at all.

If we are happy with accepting that the universe was caused by something before or outside the universe, then it’s really easy to point in that direction and say that free will also comes from there - somewhere outside the deterministic physics.

Of course the actual universe and the laws of physics are really not separate as data and functions. The data itself contains the instructions. Any system that can contain itself that way is incomplete as proved by Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. Truths do exist that can’t be proven so perhaps the concept of free will is an example of such a thing, or maybe it’s not. The point is that we can’t rule it out, just because it exists in a deterministic system.

Personally I don’t think it matters all that much. Similarly to how we can only ever experience things that exists inside of the universe,or see the light that hits our eye, we can also only ever hope to experience free will on the level of our own consciousness, even if we acknowledge that it is influenced by all kinds of other things from all levels from atoms to the big bang.

I don’t want to.

It can be difficult for coops to play on the capitalist market.

A company with a top-down hierarchy can make decisions much faster than an organization where the decisions are made ground up through internal democratic policies. The democratic process also very likely limits the co-op from doing shady stuff.

It’s possible though, but it requires a really good community backing.

It’s like that chip tune webpage where the entire track is encoded in the url.

This question is really wide. You’ll have to narrow down what the challenge really is.

Start by doing a mind map on a piece of paper.

You’ll need one for the product, but you’ll also need one for the business.

Once our have the entire idea spread out like that, you can start researching the things you don’t know or contact people who do know those specifics.

The relevant video on poison pilling audio: https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

For text, I suppose it’s similar to writring nonsense in background color instead of spaces or by using an invisible font. AI could probably figure it out and filter it.

The reason it works for music is that AI doesn’t really understand the “grammar” of music, so it just treats it like an image.

Speaking of books, my only experience with Linux in the 90s was seeing the Red Hat books. I don’t know anyone who actually made it work.

Everything is a table if you’re brave enough.

When Reddit changed the layout (new/old) some ten years ago, I started using a 3rd party app, because “new reddit” was everything that I hated about other sites. I stopped using it when they killed 3rd party apps, but that was really just the final nail in the coffin anyway. It was rotten to the core long before that.

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Maybe n Roblox. I haven’t bothered trying the games, but I know Adopt Me started as something like that.