Some year/decades ago Prague was the best place to experience fantastic jazz for cheap money. Probably still is to some degree.

This was because they had a lot of people enrolling in universities (music conservatories) due to poverty. They even have a one of a kind conservatory for blind musicians.

The entire countryside was a dead end, so anyone with a remote talent for doing the hand whistle would move from the villages all over the Czech Republic to take the chance in Prague. Education gave them a low but steady income and a chance of getting into an orchestra. Much like Hollywood, right? Except these people got paid to do it, so it obviously attracted many to do so.

However, orchestras and universities only need so many players and teachers, so once they were educated they ended up playing on the streets or in small dive in bars if they were lucky.

Mind, these were the state-of-art and most talented people at that in the world. Competition was fierce. Only the best could survive on that.

As an ignorant tourist not knowing the reasons, this was heaven. The street artists were more talented than the professional orchestras at home.

I myself had a dream of becoming a performing musician at the time but I gave up that dream after seeing a guitarist at a jazz club in Prague play the most magnificent solo while attempting to keep the band aid shut on his finger to avoid the blood dripping over the stage from playing ten gigs before on the same day.

Soon, if things continue the way they are, we will find the best computer programmers on the streets, making code for nickels while wearing casts to keep their mouse stain injuries from stopping them.

Anyway. Romans didn’t do that, but gladiators, musicians and coders are still just people trying to make living.

In my opinion that’s a band aid that has to come off.

We shouldn’t take the high road to avoid backlash. The populists are going to go lower regardless of where we set the bar. This is how it has already gotten so low that we’re even debating straws.

We should set the bar much much higher, so they can bitch and moan about hundreds of issues instead of finding unity in single issues like straws.

I don’t think people are limited to bitching about one thing at a time, so we definitely shouldn’t hold back the discussion of unsustainable meat production until they’re done bitching about straws.

I just stopped using it. No ban necessary.

I did get one or two temporary bans some years ago. First time was for criticizing their censorship. The second time was for sending the middle finger emoji to Spez.

I’m not going to go out of my way to delete my dead user or posts or anything. It’s not my problem. Quite frankly, I just don’t give a shit about their site.

We aren’t supposed to learn anything from the giga-fucks of data.

It’s the AI that will learn everything about you so it can invent new ways to throw marketing at you.

Most pictures of flamingos are the Florida kind because of the color.

Flamingos (even American ones) aren’t born pink. They’re bright gray and look like ugly storks.

The main difference between American and African/Eurasian flamingo is the food that they eat. The American shrimps have pigments that are toxic to most animals. Flamingos basically made this into a chili eating contest, where the most red (and surviving) bird won the right to evolution.

The color goes away if they’re fed other things for a while, so Zoos actually have to dye the food.

I just want people to think.

I asked Google about it and it clearly didn’t understand what half a centaur is, but it did confirm that it is an even number.

X Mod 2

It returns true if X is odd and false if X is even.

A more computational efficient method would be to use: AND 00000001

A luxury resort is the perfect cover for a lot of criminal activity.

It’s gated off, so nobody from outside can see what’s going on. It’s basically an entire city, so they use all kinds of services and nobody asks why they need weird pool cleaning chemicals or expensive art which may or may not even exist. Clean money comes flowing in from guests who prepaid the entire stay, and nobody can audit what services were actually provided.

They can also house all the illegal immigrant workers, so they don’t need to go outside in the real society. These workers can also be moved to other locations easily, when the “Illuminati” needs new blood in MarLago or Epstein island.

So if you want to whitewash money to pay assassins and dispose of dead bodies while cooking meth and trafficking prostitutes: A luxury resort might just be the thing for you.

I think it’s an update from January. The first produced R5s doesn’t seem to have the camera on the A-pillar. It’s part of the media system which is used in other models as well.

I can’t imagine that rentals or fleet cars will throw a warning every time someone new uses the car, so I want to bet that the warnings can be disabled somehow with the right access to the ECU.

Renault uses their own ECU computers, which are quite expensive, but previous versions have been accessible using an OSB dongle with other software.

I’m sure someone will eventually figure out how to get into the system once these cars get old enough to reach the used market.

It’s an EU decision. It will be coming to many more cars as it will be mandatory from July 2026 for all newly registered vehicles. Renault 5 is simply one of the first new cars to feature it.

According to the same law, it is illegal to use the system in a way that can identify the person, it may not save biometrics, and it must function in closed loop without sharing the data. It’s looking for things like head nodding or looking away from the road for more than 3.5 seconds while driving over 50 km/h. The camera is likely using infrared lighting as it should also work at night.

Anyway. According to the manual, it can be disabled by double tapping a button on the steering wheel or through the touch screen menus, though it will default to being enabled everytime you start the car as per the legal requirement.

If you cover it with tape, wear a mask or drive somebody else’s car in which you don’t have a profile saved, it will simply use the last previous profile and show an icon in the dashboard as a warning that the function isn’t working.

Diet Pepsi and Mentos. Cabbage and baking soda.

I want my dead body to explode and spread foul smelling shit all over the place.

Ok, so Sunvox is also an instrument, and can be used for jamming. Sometimes the simplest sounds can inspire you to make more.

It is a lot like trying to write the first words on an empty page. However once you get started, one sentence leads to the next.

I like to draft a track by using a basic sound. Build up more stuff around it and eventually remove the draft. Like, the important part isn’t the sound design, it’s the structure and progress of the music, and just getting started on something that is more than a one pattern loop.

Sunvox takes a lot of time in comparison to other DAWs. This kills the initiative.

If you want to write music, I would suggest forgetting about DAWs all together for a start. Get an instrument instead. Piece of paper and a pencil.

Only open your computer when you have something that you want to put in it. If you start with the DAW you’ll be twitching knobs all day without getting anything done.

Ukraine just bought a shit load of them today. Can’t be all bad.

I too have an old bottle of champagne. It probably tastes like piss, but my plan is to open it when something once in a lifetime great happens.

Lately I’ve been thinking that Trump isn’t worth it. He can go to hell without fanfare.

The difference between Finland and Spain is greater than the difference between Seattle and Miami.

Anyway, a passport is not required in either case.

Confidence in self-sustainability.

I don’t know what a better word would be. I’m not talking about making some self sustaining homestead or whatever, just the act of creating, building, repairing or designing something without having a guide to tell you how to do it.

You know, “draw the rest of the owl”, but I’m dead serious. Just draw that fucking owl. You don’t need someone to show you how or to guide your hand through all the steps.

I wonder if it possible to design a maintenance free car, and if the market would even reward it.

It’d take the consumers a decade to even notice that they didn’t need any maintenance.

Ok, I will eat an ice cream in a waffle cone sandwich then.