FourPacketsOfPeanuts

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Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it I'm not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

I don't get it. They were rich beyond most people's wildest dreams. Why did they jump aboard the enshitification bandwagon?

AMA: I had cause to use the word "aglet" in a non contrived everyday situation, AMA in c/[email protected]
Why the revised Julian calendar wasn't widely adopted? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Oh we know lol

Why the revised Julian calendar wasn't widely adopted? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

People with their birthday on Monday are not going like that their birthday is always on Monday..

Why the revised Julian calendar wasn't widely adopted? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Things seem to work fine with the calendar we have anyway.

programmer's eye twitches

Anyone else feel like humanity has too much apathy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe globalism was a bad idea? Maybe we should just create a lot of monkey spheres and each find our own local and relative level of happiness?

Anyone else feel like humanity has too much apathy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The battle against global starvation is one of the few things that's actually going well...

https://assets.ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/03/Famine-death-rate-since-1860s-revised-768x540.png

Twitter sees largest user exodus since Musk takeover in c/[email protected]
CompareBooleans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's dependent on is-odd which is dependent on is-number which has 88 million weekly downloads...

checkmate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

GIMP can't draw 2d shapes. What's that all about? It almost motivated my inexperienced ass to work out how to add it myself..

checkmate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Scrum master: alarm goes off oh.. well, guys, this stand up's been going so long our next one started so let's just slide on into it..

Senior Dev: dies

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Who popularised the 1980s ballad upward key change? (lemmy.world)
 

Modulation / key changes have been used in music for ages but the style I'm talking about is the distinctive last verse (or chorus) sudden key change up to power through to the end. Seems to have come about sometime in the 60s/70s and was everywhere in the 80s onwards.

Examples:

Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle

I will always love you - Whitney Houston

But who popularised it? What was the first big song to do it and set the style for the genre?

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