I’d call it a race to the bottom, personally, but it certainly is a strong contender in intellectual impotence.

Cyanide and Happiness: Contractions

That fix has a lot of side effects that might break something. Unless you’re intimately familiar with their setup and use case, destructive solutions aren’t a safe recommendation.

Nothing, probably. The whole thing is a fun side project for messing around with audio processing, and he decided to outsource the visualisation part (not even the logic, just the visualisation) because he knows jack shit about python and learning it for just one cosmetic part of the project doesn’t make much sense.

These are – like the analog circuits that started my journey – toy effects that you shouldn’t take seriously. The main design goal has been to learn about digital audio processing basics. Exactly like the guitar pedal was about learning about the hardware side.

Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters – and that’s not saying much – than I do about python. It started out as my typical “google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do” kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man – me – and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

So this isn’t some paid ad for Google, it’s a busy man pursuing a hobby to learn something and taking a shortcut for a part of the hobby he’s not interested in.

As I understand it, he doesn’t actually know how to do it himself in python. It also seems like a little side project he’s bullshitting together anyways, so I guess it’s a nice testing ground for trying what it can do. I don’t really see Linus investing a lot of time into learning python.

He’s also made it very clear that he doesn’t want AI slop in the Linux kernel, which is what I’d be more concerned about.

Edit: The project is an attempt to learn about digital audio processing. The visualiser part, not the actual logic, was hacked together from the outset, probably because he’s more interested in the actual processing.

These are – like the analog circuits that started my journey – toy effects that you shouldn’t take seriously. The main design goal has been to learn about digital audio processing basics. Exactly like the guitar pedal was about learning about the hardware side.

From the README of his project, emphasis mine.

Remember: Peaceful protests are like barking - annoying, but by itself harmless. It’s the fear of the bite that makes the barking scary.

You don’t have to jump straight to violence, and I believe that it’s more effective to start with non-violent demands. Once you escalate, there’s nowhere left to go. But the threat of it is what makes the peaceful option less destructive.

As the saying goes: Nothing will meaningfully change until the rich fear for their lives.

IDK, there have been a lot of dumb wars. I don’t think that’s a competition worth grading though.

FixUrSh1t!

When the plaintext-stored password inevitably get leaked at some point, I hope whoever actually reads through that list gets a laugh out of it.

t’s prbbl t kp wrds rcgnzbl. Hw ls wld knw wht h s sppsd t b?

That, or wearing conspicuous amounts of fabric such as a toga in a time when producing it was very time-intensive and accordingly expensive, particularly white fabric since keeping things white without modern detergent was a little harder and even more so when dyed in colors only attainable with exotic materials such as purple. Either you had the leisure to do these things yourself (because you don’t have to work for a living), or you had the wealth to pay someone else for it.

I can see why people would attempt to abuse a bug bounty program for easy price money, but that’s just another case of greedy people fucking over everyone else by pissing on whatever trust and assumptions of good faith people might still extend to one another.

Wanna bet that the old hag has some stakes in handbags?

Actually, peer pressure from the fashion elite might be enough. They all wanna sell as much bullshit as possible, so of course they’d want you to have clothes in a dozen different color shades with fitting large handbags, small handbags, clutches, shoes, shades…

Yeah, I can see why she’d be allergic to unprofitable convenience.

Out of the frying pan…

Actually, they’re all working for the profit of someone else who had the capital to afford the tools they need and extracts labour from them without giving them anything beyond the most basic necessities.

That’s capitalism.

Ain’t that the ugly fucking truth

Didn’t watch Qatar either. Breaks my heart a little more every time I think about all the shit FIFA is endorsing, because I used to love watching world cups, but the more I become aware of the sheer corruption around it, the more it taints those sweet memories with a bitter aftertaste.

Why the fuck does greed have to ruin everything.

Unexpected in the same way as you don’t expect leopards to eat your face…

*Microslop

Their CEO hates it when we call AI slop slop, so guess what we’re doing

That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.

Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.

Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.