Molly White writes, more-eloquently than I would've, almost-exactly my experience of LLMs and similar modern generative AIs:
...
I, like many others who have experimented with or adopted these products, have found that these tools actually can be pretty useful for some tasks. Though AI
ai,
music,
blogging,
technology
scatmania
Jan 25, 2024 10:04
This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is:
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?
Boo to this prompt! This Bloganuary already asked me how I like to play and about five things I do for fun; now it wants me to choose the thing I "enjoy most" from,
bloganuary 2024,
mum,
children,
music,
parenting,
bloganuary,
blogging
scatmania
Dec 06, 2023 18:41
A Birmingham-based punky trio, Luxury Nan Smell, have released an EP called (Derogatory). The first track on that album? freedeedpoll.org.uk. Named in reference to my website of the same name.
Naturally, I was delighted, not least because it gives me an excuse to use the "deed poll" and
music,
deed poll
scatmania
Dec 07, 2022 18:23
You don't really see it any more, but: if you downloaded some media player software a couple of decades ago, it'd probably appear in a weird-shaped window, and I've never understood why.
Mostly, these designs are... pretty ugly. And for what? It's also worth noting that this kind of design can
mp3,
software,
music,
nostalgia,
technology
scatmania
Oct 02, 2022 12:25
Somebody shared with me a tweet about the tragedy of being a Gen X'er and having to buy all your music again and again as formats evolve. Somebody else shared with me Kyla La Grange's cover of a particular song .Together... these reminded me that I've never told you the story of my
mp3,
computers,
history,
music,
nostalgia,
audio,
piracy,
technology
scatmania
Jun 09, 2022 19:54
This blog post is also available as a video. Would you prefer to watch/listen to me tell you about how I've learned to enjoy doing what I'm bad at?
There are a great number of things that I'm bad at. One thing I'm bad at (but that I'm trying to get better at) is being more-accepting of the fact
automattic,
music,
study,
work,
piano,
imposter syndrome,
coaching,
covid-19,
education
scatmania
Dec 17, 2020 14:43
Now that Google Play Music has been replaced by YouTube Music, and inspired by the lampshading the RIAA did recently with youtube-dl, a friend asked me: "So does this mean I could download music from my Google Play Music/YouTube Music playlists?"
I'm not here to speak about the legality of
userscripts,
hacking,
music,
javascript,
youtube