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New comment by themusicgod1 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

themusicgod1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:09:22 +0000

astronaut #2

"do what scares you...that's why I'm [on artemis]"

clearly very risk-aware.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

themusicgod1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:05:45 +0000

from one of the artemis astronauts on livestream:

"It is very risky, and we are intimately [aware] of that risk"

ie It's not perfectly safe, and the astronauts are well aware of this fact.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

themusicgod1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:46:30 +0000

> aims to be perfectly safe

obviously that isn't true -- it aims to be relatively safe

...but in any case - it aims to bring humanity to the moon. That's the aim. Keep your eye on the prize.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

themusicgod1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:32:58 +0000

>It doesn’t make any sense to spend that much money on something that’s still Russian roulette for the astronauts.

Sure it does.

We've got billions of humans to spend on getting humanity out of its gravity well. We can and will spare a few more.

Getting humanity out of our gravity well is the most important task this species faces, along with stabilizing our use of the resources in this one. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/astronomical-waste/

If you're not willing to spend a few lives on this problem you're not serious about the problem.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Backing up Spotify"

themusicgod1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:46:59 +0000

> this will hurt artists a lot as they need the fees paid by Spotify to make ends meet.

Anyone using DRM/paracopyright to "make their ends meet" deserves what they get. This is de facto theft from the public domain.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Backing up Spotify"

themusicgod1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:45:46 +0000

> Spotify is $12/month at most to get unlimited ad-free access to virtually all music.

Until they decide to silence the artist you want to listen to because emperor god trump decides to unperson them.

Putting what music you listen to in the hands of a US corporation is such a dangerously stupid idea that it is amazing to me that there are people here who are OK with it.

>I think Spotify wins over pirating because of its relatively low cost and convenience

Spotify isn't "convenient" if you want to control and understand the media and software in your life. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/spotify

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Backing up Spotify"

themusicgod1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:41:59 +0000

I am. Copyright is fucking cancer and is one of the worst things if not the worst things that exists to make creating new things harder.

Making bits available isn't "taking artists ability to live in a financially viable way" any more than radio, LPs and player pianos was. If you are an artist who is trying to make art and live do more of that and don't waste peoples time arguing for copyright restricting other people's activity on websites like this one.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code"

themusicgod1 — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:52:10 +0000

"very easy" if you have access to the correct dependencies which outside of microsoft's walled garden, and access to a free LLM (https://elevenfreedoms.org/) which is not guaranteed at all

all of this looks very different when you have to patch in rust dependencies by hand outside of github.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "You wouldn't steal a font"

themusicgod1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:00:08 +0000

Copyright has always been based on moral principles. 'Moral rights' have been part of copyright longer than "encourage innovation and hustle" has been something the government has considered worth promoting. The original copyright laws were about controlling who could print the bible, and the statute of anne was about encouraging learning while controlling what booksellers could and couldn't do. Copyright if anything was about preventing innovation from the very beginning, and slowing the hustle of culture down so that incumbents could edge out newcomers - a drama that has played out generation after generation

New comment by themusicgod1 in "It is as if you were on your phone"

themusicgod1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:48:54 +0000

yet another github project. STOP USING GITHUB

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Bring Back Shortwave"

themusicgod1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:46:58 +0000

seems like shortwave can come back if 2 things come back * access to electronic components [ie something like radioshack used to be being accessible] * local governments stepping back of regulation of airwaves a hint

unless you have one or both of those things, shortwave is useful only iff the government collapses

New comment by themusicgod1 in "A new home for Python-build-standalone"

themusicgod1 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:21:45 +0000

Publishing to Github should be considered a crime.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "A new home for Python-build-standalone"

themusicgod1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:49:10 +0000

> With those modifications, it then builds Python from source across a wide matrix of Python versions, platforms, and build variants (e.g., optimized vs. debug builds), and publishes the built distributions to GitHub Releases.

This should be illegal.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Uncensor any LLM with abliteration"

themusicgod1 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:19:38 +0000

> But even that open source model needs to have basic ethical protections, or else I'll have nothing to do with it.

If you don't understand that the eleven freedoms are "basic ethical protections" you have already failed your responsibilities. https://elevenfreedoms.org/

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Jan: An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs on the desktop"

themusicgod1 — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:59:47 +0000

Github does not count as open source: this is not actually open source.

New comment by themusicgod1 in "LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices"

themusicgod1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:41:57 +0000

github only

  = this is not open source

unlike, say, wormhole

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative"

themusicgod1 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:50:58 +0000

damn you're not joking

New comment by themusicgod1 in "Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative"

themusicgod1 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:49:32 +0000

codeberg are censors. People should be migrating elsewhere. https://codeberg.org/themusicgod1/codeberg-is-corrupted-dont...

New comment by themusicgod1 in "X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation"

themusicgod1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:55:48 +0000

[work in progress, if you see any others let me know]

@zei_squirrel@mastodon.social

New comment by themusicgod1 in "X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation"

themusicgod1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:35:55 +0000

anyone got a list of recent-purged-from-X left-leaning journalists fedi accounts?