TheRealKuni

Why are so many people in FOSS weird fascists?

The difference between 7/4 and 7/8, in my mind, is one of pacing. Similar to how 4/2 and 4/4 are counted the same, but with different notation because the composer or engraver wanted to make the tempo intrinsic.

Money is a much slower song than the examples I gave, more of a laid-back pace, which shouts 7/4 in my mind. I still love it, but it feels more…I dunno, like walking with a jazzy gate rather than tripping forward, if that makes sense. And when Money does get faster it’s in 4/4.

4/4 is the workhorse! The majority of music is in 4/4 time, nothing wrong with it at all.

Certain rhythms become really weird if you try to write them in 4/4, which is why other time signatures become useful. Just now I tried to “conduct” a waltz in 4/4 and quickly devolved into laughter.

Adding my personal favorite, 7/8 time. (My wife and I bonded on our second date because we share the same favorite time signature…we’re dorks.) I love it because our brains are expecting an even number of beats, and since it’s missing just a single eighth note when the next measure begins it almost feels like the song is falling forward or rushing.

You CAN count it sequentially, but it’s much easier to count like this:

1 2 1 2 1 2 3

or

1 2 3 1 2 1 2

Or if the composer was feeling spicy, both alternating back and forth.

Example 1: I Am The Doctor Song begins in 7/8 time, it begins quarter quarter quarter eighth if you want help counting it.

Example 2: Subdivisions by Rush I count this one as beginning in 7/8 time, quarter quarter dotted quarter, and I especially love it because it seamlessly transitions into 4/4 time at about 19 seconds in.

Weight. I remember very well seeing an overweight man when I was a teenager. He had his shirt tucked in and it was very obvious that his belly flopped over his waist, and I thought, “How could someone let themselves reach that point? Surely they’d notice they’re getting heavier and do something about it!”

Now I’m the fat man.

Lot of things didn’t go right in that crash. Mentour Pilot has a really good video on the subject.

My LG TV is essentially a dumb TV now. Factory reset, no network access allowed. And data privacy has long been part of Apple’s sales pitch, whereas LG will straight up ask in the EULA if they can spy on you and then keep asking every few days. I’m content with my current setup.

It’s so fucking annoying how often they ask to spy on you. Very much a dark pattern. Pretty shitty of them. Made me buy an Apple TV so I don’t ever have to use their remote and risk their bullshit.

I will never buy another LG product. Which is sad, because the panel is very nice.

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Maybe you can’t.

Fun fact! Arrival used On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter to such powerful effect that it cost them a shot at the Oscar for Best Original Score. The Academy determined that this non-original-to-the-film piece of music had too much of an emotional impact and would cloud judgement of the actual original score, so the film wasn’t nominated in the category.

(That song is so beautiful. It gets used all the time in media because it so perfectly encompasses the feeling of hope in the face of despair. It was one of the first songs I listened to after the 2024 US election to try to make myself less catatonic.)

Guess I’ll be switching to Android.

By all means, buy a device whose operating system is designed by an advertising company who also sucks Trump’s cock. After all, Google caved on this before Apple did.

Cool! I’m glad that works for you. My usual use case is on phone or TV apps, so I’m limited.

I think the idea was that within an image the noise in red would match the noise in green and the noise in blue, because whatever system they were looking at picked a single noise map per image? Something like that. And yeah, it was reasonable because it was absolutely true of the laziest stuff out there (which is most AI stuff, which is why we use the word “slop”). But my counter-argument wasn’t that the method couldn’t work, it was that it couldn’t always work. Because image generation is done in thousands of different ways and post-processing exists.

The thing that I wish was better understood is that “slop” = “low effort.” Artists can make some pretty amazing stuff when AI is merely a part of their toolset and they still put effort into their work. But that means that not all AI is slop, and thus if you really want to detect AI, you can’t rely on it always being slop.

Even two years ago, I remember someone telling me they saw a YouTube video that said you could always tell an AI generated image because their noise map would be the same in R, G, and B. And I tried to explain to this person that that depends entirely on how the image was generated, on what platform, by what model and method, what post-processing was done, etc.

And I was told I was ignoring their evidence. 🙄

Or people like music and video streaming and don’t like ads, and they consider the price acceptable.

/shrug

They raised my price here in the US a few months ago. $27 for the six adults on our family plan. Probably four who actually use it. Totally worth the value for my situation.

You do you, though, I genuinely could not possibly care less whether someone else does or does not pay for YouTube premium. It’s weird that you do.

It’s hilariously sad to me how many rubes easy marks people are still paying Google for the pRivIlEge to have their eyes and brains assaulted by ads.

What ads? If you mean normal YouTube ads, no, Premium removes those. If you mean sponsor sections of video, it’s no SponsorBlock but now if you start skipping ahead during those sections of a video you can click a button that jumps you to the end of the ad. This is a Premium feature.

Edit: Oh, I forgot they added a “Premium lite.” I can understand why that might appeal to a subset of users, but that’s definitely not for me.

Either use a front-end without ads

Easy enough on PC, but my usual use case is the video playing on my iPhone, so…no.

or stop using it

Why? It’s a service I enjoy and find valuable to me.

“but it’s such a value!” no it isn’t

I’m pretty happy with the value I get for premium. I watch/listen to a shitload of educational content and political commentary on YouTube. It also includes YouTube Music so I have my music streaming covered there, too. I probably get more value-per-dollar out of my premium subscription than my Nebula subscription (which is also fantastic, by the way).

you’re just gullible and naive.

Yeah, how dare I spend my money on something useful to me and in the process help support the people who make the shit I watch. (Though admittedly, while premium views are worth far more than ad views and literally infinitely more than ad-blocked views to channel creators, that isn’t the bulk of their revenue, which comes instead from sponsor deals and Patreon/channel member subscriptions.)

Or complicit. Which is worse.

Complicit in what?

You do you, my friend, but don’t act like you’re better than others because you disagree with how they consume content compared to you.

Really? I very much enjoyed 5 and San Andreas (except that stupid train mission).

all it does is impair readability

It also provides a marginally fun experience for the few of us who like learning new glyphs. I am one of those people and I enjoy that guy’s posts. I’m not saying you have to, I’m just saying your experience isn’t representative of everyone’s. Neither is mine, obviously.

(I taught myself to read Aurebesh and have it loaded on my ereader so I can read with a different alphabet for fun. I’m well aware I’m not representative of the greater population in this regard. 😅)