'bit rot' would be a cool band name
― flopson, Thursday, 5 October 2023 02:59 (seven months ago) link
some future civilization being able to interpret binary code than its being able to interpret musical notation.
eh, to interpret the binary code of an MP3 would require knowing either the algorithm that produced it or else the piece of music that was encoded, just as decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics required a Rosetta Stone with the same text in other, known languages. musical notation is a much cruder system of encoding to crack. mainly it would require guessing that it recorded musical notes and figuring out the notes were in the octave scale.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:13 (seven months ago) link
which musical notation, and what about jazz
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:25 (seven months ago) link
there have already been revisions upon revisions of “we deciphered this ancient tablet and here’s what it says!” and eventually we get to what might have been
on another note, the thing about storage media and archiving is that we still have a healthy culture of reverse engineering. with six or seven sketchy adapters from alibaba and a bunch of weird file system drivers you can probably attach any random hard drive and get some data from it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:28 (seven months ago) link
why yes I do have the “best cd ripping drives ever” in a box in my basement and have considered a modern pci->legacy pci->scsi card from late 90s chain to get them back online
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:30 (seven months ago) link
these are important questions and must be answered in due course, but they can wait until we've addressed which animal skins we should use
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:30 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, you can "read" binary easily enough but given it can be used to be encoding ANYT SORT OF INFORMATION AT ALL in ANY SORT OF ARBITRARY WAY you're not going to just interpret it easily at all. Whereas musical notation gives you some pretty obvious clues to start with (physically higher notes being higher, etc)
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:31 (seven months ago) link
Optimistic to think there will be future civilizations
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:37 (seven months ago) link
some other civilization from well beyond our galaxy find a single binary data stream in our burnt husk of a solar system billions of years from now and it turns out some Elon type of guy encoded the “all your base” meme into a stream of sequential rocks orbiting the one remaining gravitational mass
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:41 (seven months ago) link
Civilization will be reduced to that Kevin James meme/pic and nothing more.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 October 2023 05:19 (seven months ago) link
in college i did a film course where i shot on tri-x film, transferred to beta, edited on a computer (OS 8 iirc), then output to VHS for playbacki don’t know where any of that stuff is obv but i imagine the VHS tape would be barely viewable now
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 October 2023 08:11 (seven months ago) link
> animal skins we should use
UK laws were still recorded on vellum until 2016
― koogs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 08:15 (seven months ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, October 4, 2023 11:30 PM (yesterday)
which is it? i've got a box of CDs and a fresh download of exact audio copy ready to go
― 龜, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:14 (seven months ago) link
by best I probably mean “best at the time and have bizarre sentimental value”plextor ultraplex drives iirc
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 12:51 (seven months ago) link
uh guys can you post more on X please? I'm locking the doors now so you'll post more. No, I won't open them if you post more, you just have to get used to posting more. Forget you had another life once.
Interesting. Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X, so links don’t get as much attention, because there is less time spent if people click away. Best thing is to post content in long form on this platform.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:48 (seven months ago) link
its known that links dont perform well on twitter anyway hes really scraping the bottom of the barrel
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:49 (seven months ago) link
yeah that's why people post screenshots
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:51 (seven months ago) link
lol yeah we meant to do that
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:52 (seven months ago) link
never gave too much creedence to the theory that Elon is tanking Twitter on purpose but this move is so blatantly dumb that I'm starting to wonder
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:53 (seven months ago) link
i think that hes tanking twitter in that he has an ideological project thats not aligned with making good business decisions, and then also his pure business decisions are very bad too, but i dont think hes thinking "haha im destroying twitter" i think hes thinking "im creating the twitter i want and obviously everyone else will like it too because im the best guy in the world"
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:56 (seven months ago) link
reading Elon's tweet and lag∞n's post makes me think:
OI MATES SOME WOKE JOURNALIST IS ALL OVER OTHER NEWS SITES, I"M GONNA MAKE ME A 'ORRIBLE TWEET ABOUT IT TO ME BLUECHECK CHUMS, ALSO BLOOD DIAMONDS ARE DELICIOUS
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:38 (seven months ago) link
right I mean I've said this before but Elon's lived the last two decades of his life getting to do everything he wants at all times and is constantly receiving credit for things he had nothing to do with, not only that but he actively removes everyone from his life who criticizes him in the slightest, and I think having a long period of that being your reality for so long actually does physically change your brain to the point where you've got more in common with lizard than man
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:43 (seven months ago) link
entirely untrue and unnecessary lizard slander tbh
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:49 (seven months ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/f1gbBornF29GmWggbEVdux4puWf_18-H5yDQhopGurI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:569/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0MDYx/NzQ0LTE1NjcwOTY3/OTktMjkzMy5qcGVn.jpeg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:50 (seven months ago) link
shd be noted too that tanking twitter is bad for him beyond all the money hes lighting on fire, most of the current valuation of his business is based on the idea that hes a singular genius, publicly demonstrating that hes not in fact a genius threatens that situation
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 October 2023 16:01 (seven months ago) link
I think he just overestimates the public's affection for free speech
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 October 2023 16:05 (seven months ago) link
Aww shucks
Elon Musk found dead at Twitter HQ of apparent suicide https://t.co/CwuEgpaPTA— ACABylon Bot, LLC (@ACABylonBee) October 5, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 17:14 (seven months ago) link
LOL are headlines back on Twitter now?
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 6 October 2023 08:42 (seven months ago) link
No, only on embeds, because nothing this cunt does works consistently.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 6 October 2023 08:45 (seven months ago) link
this headlines thing is working opposite to its intent, i'm clicking on the pictures out of curiosity now whereas before i'd read the headline, roll my eyes and scroll on
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2023 08:54 (seven months ago) link
Twitter/X will remove the ability to see interaction counts (likes, reposts and comments) from posts on the timeline. pic.twitter.com/Ee7d2YpvIT— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 6, 2023
check out the bootlickers in the comments
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2023 11:43 (seven months ago) link
that's elon's martingale strategy
― 龜, Friday, 6 October 2023 11:45 (seven months ago) link
Plz let me know when Musk eliminates the ability for users to post content as the newest special feature of x.com
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 October 2023 13:09 (seven months ago) link
there are already enough posts tbrr
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 October 2023 13:12 (seven months ago) link
they're all getting ratioed while the people dunking on him are getting a bunch of likes, guess it makes sense now
― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2023 13:14 (seven months ago) link
all in all pretty sad state of things when virtually every change you make gets a universally negative response. i know this has been said a zillion times but its really astonishing how much this dude is just Lowtax with an even worse sense of humor
― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2023 13:17 (seven months ago) link
say what you like about lowtax, he had a proactive approach to problem solving that musk could learn a lot from
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 October 2023 13:21 (seven months ago) link
I think Musk deleted that Tweet, so even he sees it's a bad idea
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 6 October 2023 13:41 (seven months ago) link
i wouldn't take it as a sign that he thinks it's a bad idea, he's just a sulky mf
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2023 14:21 (seven months ago) link
Seems almost certain that Musk tweets this shit out on a whim and then whoever's left at Twitter has to try & find a way to make it work.
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 October 2023 15:51 (seven months ago) link
He has some thing now about wanting to make people click into the tweets--like he's going to hide the likes and comments numbers inside--I guess because if you do then you're more likely to read the comments and get mad and reply and etc.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 6 October 2023 15:57 (seven months ago) link
does anyone really care how many likes some tweet got, feel like it works the other way around if you see a tweet has a ton of interactions then maybe you look at the comments
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2023 17:25 (seven months ago) link
I'm sure Elon cares
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 6 October 2023 17:26 (seven months ago) link
i don't know if it's a massive deal except when you're looking to see whether there's a stramash to pile in on, but i'm baffled if i can see how those little counters interfere with readability
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
― Alba, Friday, 6 October 2023 17:33 (seven months ago) link
obviously you're late to the party
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2023 17:40 (seven months ago) link
usually the bootlickers are commenting under Musk's posts
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 6 October 2023 17:41 (seven months ago) link
always a good sign when you break out the chum box
Twitter / X is serving users with a new ad format that can't be blocked or reportedthe ads aren't even actual X posts & aren't connected to any X accounts. they do not disclose that they are adsit appears the ads are connected to clickbait ad networks https://t.co/5BbxToARIg pic.twitter.com/aSoUfiSMV6— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) October 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2023 17:52 (seven months ago) link
meanwhile the only email twitter-alerts i get are from someone i have never followed
he's a jazz pianist who's written a book about china so it could be worse but no alerts wd be preferable
― mark s, Friday, 6 October 2023 18:45 (seven months ago) link
Oh my god. When Linda Yaccarino said that Visa was a “returning advertiser” she meant the company spent $10 on Twitter ads in the last 12 weeks.Not ten million. Not ten thousand.Ten dollars. pic.twitter.com/FrqTctoA27— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2023 21:49 (seven months ago) link