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New comment by DrJokepu in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

DrJokepu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:02:26 +0000

So this kind of music has a name, it’s called production music and it’s been long expected in the industry that AI-generated music will compete with the lower-end production music, basically elevator music or background music for corporate training videos etc. It is unlikely, however, that it will get much traction in scripted long form productions, partly because studios believe it’s a legal minefield, and partly due to resistance from creatives (whether justified or not).

New comment by DrJokepu in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

DrJokepu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:28:05 +0000

Kind of, but there are some subtle differences in my opinion. Oracle is top-to-bottom evil, whose business model basically boils down to screwing over their clients and everyone else at every possible opportunity, comparable to the likes of McKinsey or Accenture.

IBM is a bit more nuanced. My wife grew up in an IBM town and a lot of her family and her friends’ families used to work there in the 70s and 80s. People, especially the engineers, used to take pride in their work there.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

DrJokepu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:19:48 +0000

I only ever worked with the Linux/Windows variant. I can’t believe I am saying this about an IBM product, but I found it to be actually rather pleasant to work with.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

DrJokepu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:21:09 +0000

There was also DB2. DB2 was (still is) an excellent database that IBM has completely fumbled.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank"

DrJokepu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:41:02 +0000

A spy steals secrets. Credit can be stolen from you by your boss. Your competitor steals your ideas. In colloquial usage, theft is the act of stealing. The legal term is copyright infringement.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

DrJokepu — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:41:12 +0000

That already exists. That’s the men’s category. There are no rules forbidding women from competing in men’s categories at Olympic events.

New comment by DrJokepu in "AI coding is gambling"

DrJokepu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:49:18 +0000

Eh. You want a good mix of experience levels, what really matters is everyone should be talented. Less experienced colleagues are unburdened by yesterday’s lessons that may no longer be relevant today, they don’t have the same blind spots.

Also, our profession is doomed if we won’t give less experienced colleagues a chance to shine.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

DrJokepu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:21:46 +0000

> Models aren't deterministic

Is that really true? I haven’t tried to do my own inference since the first Llama models came out years ago, but I am pretty sure it was deterministic: if you fixed the seed and the input was the same, the output of the inference was always exactly the same.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

DrJokepu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:36:00 +0000

But… You could transfer the account after age verification too. The only way to be sure is to ask for ID every time people use the website / application, then children will be truly finally safe from the horrors of the Internet.

New comment by DrJokepu in "I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS"

DrJokepu — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:29:18 +0000

I mean it would be nice if the Claude and Codex CLIs had a setting to default to plan mode, every now and then I’m trying to put together a plan, only to realize that it’s not in plan mode and already making changes.

New comment by DrJokepu in "You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now?"

DrJokepu — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:59:34 +0000

Yeah the world is not going to end if some teenage boys get to see some naked breasts. All this effort could be invested into providing decent sexual education to teenagers instead.

New comment by DrJokepu in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

DrJokepu — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:26:14 +0000

>The word Senate is etymologically related to "senior", it's a place where you _want_ people to be able to develop a lot of institutional experience.

I’m not disagreeing with the rest of your comment, but I’m going to challenge the notion that this etymological connection carries meaning. The word comes from Roman Senate, and in that context in Latin “senior” really meant people with higher status rather than age. Latin is full of these weird double meanings. Compare to seigneur in French or señor in Spanish. Also, the House of Lords in the United Kingdom.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

DrJokepu — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:09:34 +0000

I’m not an attorney or anything, but the relevant federal statute is explicitly about unauthorized access of computer systems (18 USC 1030).

Opening someone else’s laptop and guessing the password would absolutely fall under that definition, but I think it’s very much questionable if poking around a document that you have legitimately obtained would do so.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?"

DrJokepu — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:03:59 +0000

Why not address the problem at its real source and just block emails entirely?

New comment by DrJokepu in "Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way"

DrJokepu — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:28:13 +0000

In the US, you actually have to register your business as a foreign entity in every state you operate in (foreign in this context means “out-of-state”) and it’s a minor annoyance, it can and does delay business.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Microsoft Edit"

DrJokepu — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:43:01 +0000

It’s right there in the readme actually:

> The goal is to provide an accessible editor that even users largely unfamiliar with terminals can easily use.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Apple losing over $1B a year on streaming service"

DrJokepu — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:18:32 +0000

Amazon MGM is like that too

New comment by DrJokepu in "The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony"

DrJokepu — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:10:46 +0000

I’m fairly certain that this was one of those so-called “jokes” I’ve read about.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens"

DrJokepu — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:59:41 +0000

That’s called a Controlled Foreign Corporation and it won’t work, because its earnings & profits need to be included on the Subpart F income of the shareholders.

Uncle Sam will get his share. Unless you’re a large corporation, that is.

New comment by DrJokepu in "Apple to Debut 'Passwords' App, in Competition with 1Password, LastPass"

DrJokepu — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:22:38 +0000

iCloud for Windows already includes a Passwords app, that syncs to the same Keychain database in iCloud that the new macOS Passwords app will sync to.

iCloud for Windows does not include a Messages app.

Not really sure which part you're confused about?