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

handbanana_ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:07:17 +0000

It's because the dataset is all algorithmically lossy compressed music, and not the real source

Basically made with pirated mp3s

New comment by handbanana_ in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

handbanana_ — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:40:24 +0000

Comes and goes? Webmin would like a word

New comment by handbanana_ in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

handbanana_ — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:35:33 +0000

I am so over reinventing the wheel in tech, I feel as if that's 99% of where the money and time goes

New comment by handbanana_ in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

handbanana_ — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:51:55 +0000

I have pro edition on multiple home systems, definitely have had more issues with my corporate issued Win11 laptop, but it's also many major versions behind what I have at home.

New comment by handbanana_ in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

handbanana_ — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:00:16 +0000

I really don't understand what is different about my installs of Windows 11 compared to what I read in all these types of articles.

I have zero issues with the platform day in and day out with heavy workloads like Pro Tools and Unreal Engine devkit. Games run without stutter and issue, all my features are snappy, Explorer loads instantly, etc. Even search is performant and gives decent results. I have tweaked a few settings but nothing you can't find in settings menus.

I'm not sure a lot of people having issues with pretty damn stable platform are going to have a better experience in something they have zero familiarity with and isn't exactly going to be intuitive when things go sideways, as they most undoubtedly will.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

handbanana_ — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:35:32 +0000

Windows is still very present in the Enterprise, for many more reasons than AD/Exchange.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

handbanana_ — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:34:20 +0000

This 100%. These threads are the same shit I was reading on Slashdot in 1999

New comment by handbanana_ in "Windows ML is generally available"

handbanana_ — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:45:51 +0000

In the last 25 years I have never gotten this vibe from devs, DirectX likely enabled a ton of games that would have never seen the light without it.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

handbanana_ — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:19:21 +0000

Getting chills from a recording/generated sound isn't indicative of talent in any way.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

handbanana_ — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:14:50 +0000

Personally for me I wouldn't be able to reconcile the fact that these generated stems are basically the same as generated AI images--built from the digital bits of existing tracks/music/recording that someone else spent the time and hard work making and then sharing only to have it unexpectedly hoovered up by these corporations as part of their giant data training set.

New comment by handbanana_ in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble"

handbanana_ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:47:58 +0000

I mean they would provide it--you would think this is something the AI coding businesses would be highlighting. "Here's an app tends of thousands use every day built with our AI tools!"

Heck they did it with languages for the longest time. Here's twitter, we built it on Rails, everyone use Rails! Facebook, built on PHP, everyone use PHP! Feels weird that if these AI tools are doing all this work that no one is showing it off.

New comment by handbanana_ in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble"

handbanana_ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:24:43 +0000

>While established developers debate whether AI will replace them, these kids are shipping. Developers who learned their craft in the age of pull requests and sprint planning sneer at their security failures, not realizing that 'best practices' are about to flip again. The barbarians aren't at the gate. They're deploying to production.

Shipping where? What production? What kids? I've yet to see this. I see the tools everywhere, but not anything built with them. You'd think it would be getting yelled about from the mountaintops, but I'm still waiting.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Steve Jobs' cabinet"

handbanana_ — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 04:40:54 +0000

The quote assumes that "good looking" wood is inherently "good" which is not always the case. You could have a very ugly piece of wood facing the wall but it could be the most structurally sound and durable wood ever. Value isn't always in appearance.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Atari Means Business with the Mega ST"

handbanana_ — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 01:47:59 +0000

Midi is used heavily for guitar patch and lighting automation as well as triggering backing tracks in a DAW running on stage. The use of MIDI (over USB) has only increased on stages.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Atari Means Business with the Mega ST"

handbanana_ — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:45:52 +0000

> A trained musician can feel time difference as small as 1 ms

No they cannot.

New comment by handbanana_ in "Atari Means Business with the Mega ST"

handbanana_ — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:44:49 +0000

> because Windows is unusable for MIDI

This is simply not true. Many performers use Windows laptops and MIDI to control their stage equipment without issue.