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willsoon··on The metre originated in the French Revolution
10 days a week? Why. Because we have ten fingers, oc. 13 months was a year in the matriarchy, the lunar months... 12 was the monarchy and the church. We are back to 12 bc it is divisible for more numbers. But the metre was the great FR's legacy. It is under a dome, and you pay if you want a copy of fraternity. A inch does not exists. It's a just a fraction of the Paris' metre.
willsoon··on How to Make a Living as a Writer
I can't write erotica or porn no matter how much I practice. I have read some great writers fails like a champ when they had tried to do the same. So, what if I fail. Sometimes I fall in erotica/porn scenes like not wanting to go that way. A detail just spontaneous popupping in my mind. And yes, then It's good. But is not erotica if it happen every 100 pages. PS: practice to write erotica, admin.
willsoon··on National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records
oh come on, comrades, why the down-votes? I am with you
willsoon··on National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records
It's all fake, just a prop to distract people with a poor judgment so the people with highest minds, like us, from raising a revolution against tyranny. Or sort of that.
willsoon··on National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records
Ok. I got it. It's fake af. Why you mad, tho?
willsoon··on Nick Cave's thoughts on a ChatGPT poem (2023)
Maybe 'like x' won't return 'x'.

This is a suno song asked by me: https://suno.com/song/57c5d409-e800-4a64-9fd4-beaa0c17c91a?s.... I like the bridge part.

willsoon··on Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds
Perhaps Musk needs to come to terms with the fact that the Teslas are not so safe. Maybe he needs to come to terms with the fact that his successful business model does not include customer satisfaction at all. Elon, just cope.
willsoon··on Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds
Consider, my friends, this elegant plot twist. Musk is a secret blue agent infiltrated to make that government database disappear.
willsoon··on Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
Participating in a thread that makes me feel a little better about myself.
willsoon··on Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
HN already take a side.
willsoon··on Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
The article specifically argues about the ex-hypothesis of Durov's involvement in these crimes.

And maybe I misread it, but this thread also argues about that possibility.

willsoon··on Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
1. Is encryption itself a crime?

2. Presumably Durov was in a meeting with Putin.

2. 1. But there is no war, the war against Ukraine is not a war in legal terms.

2. 2. And there is no charge of meeting with the enemy or anything like that.

2.3. So you are saying that we are talking about the charges in vain, because the political underground is obvious.

2.4. Yes, you are right, that is why we are talking about the charges.

willsoon··on Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
>Legal request

A legal request comes from a legal authority: a judge.

>Cooperating with law enforcement

Law Enforcement (that's the police, right?) are not judges and are not authorised to rule on legal matters.

Hate has not logic.

So you are trying to cover the whole spectrum of things to ensure your belief that Durov is being legally detained.

Sorry for editing instead of answering. Reddit says I "post too fast".

willsoon··on Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
No, he won't, because there is no back door. Or yes, because his torturer-contractor thinks there is. Either way, the last part of your sentence doesn't hold water.
willsoon··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
Yes, because Russia is totalitarian. But they have a law against shitposting. OK. But it hurts my feelings.
willsoon··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
We need forums in my town. Anyone can set one up in minutes if it has already been done. But even if the site is about engines, you can't be sure that some data is not what it seems. It could be a plot to burn down Parliament, or it could offend people from a peaceful country who humbly want to reconstruct the map of the world back to 100 BC.

You just don't know. And so we do not even have a single local forum.

willsoon··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
This is a big problem. Why are we talking about "cooperation"? What does it mean? A judge doesn't ask you to cooperate, he seizes your servers. Ah, it's not a court. It's the police? The state? It's not a free country, sir.

In principle, the police can tell if a song infringes copyright, or if a message spreads hate (I'm trying to sound American here). Or if a picture is really a "cheese pizza" or just a strange artistic depiction of youth. Not because the police don't know about music or TC/IP, or don't care about art or reading. Everyone knows they care. But because it is a legal problem.

In my country, let's call it a republic, at least it was a long time ago, even the state can own all your bases because you don't pay taxes, the police can only arrest you for six hours while they call the prosecutor to check that the 200 grams of white powder is what it is. They knew. They had already stolen the rest. If the forensics aren't quite sure what you're bringing them, it's the stuff that makes the stuff what the stuff is, you're free to go.

The prosecutor can make a case and send the 100 grams of white powder the same day, claiming that the stuff is the same stuff that other similar stuff is made of. He expresses his strong conviction. The judge then sends an arrest warrant to the police. You've been arrested, you have no money, the judge imposes some restrictions on you: you can't leave the country, you can't contact certain people, you have to go to court every week to sign a book. The investigation is open.

You have access to all the documents. Nothing happens without your approval and control.

This is how it works if SIA (yes, the singer) is not involved. If it is, you will be dead for a week and no one will ever find your body.

willsoon··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
Yeah. Go ahead.
willsoon··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
What? It's that a encyclopedic article?

Well, it seems that this happens too in the free world. I thought it was only my shitty hole barely third world puppet state.

We are doomed.

willsoon··on Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
Bad English case. It just is. I pay a lot of attention when I write English, but you can always tell when someone isn't a native English speaker in about two words. Je suis désolé.
willsoon··on Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
Wants to be. He reads a lot of code and tries to understand it and write his own. She will probably never be one of you, like and expert. But she's interested, she works laterally in the field - she's done a lot of hours on the intranet at her job. So I think she can be a developer in the future, a good developer. Now she has a degree in the field and... Wait. But then... she is already a developer. I don't know, man. It's a philosophical question.
willsoon··on 'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think
Comrade, what about the A.I. already doing some of our work? I recently read only the title of an article here that pointed out that drawing leaves less of a carbon footprint when it is done by the A.I. It is not a long way from there to getting paid for not going to work. This is how A.I. kills you (3x), not with a laser gun, but with a lullaby.
willsoon··on Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
My wife - she's a future developer, I'm a lawyer - has had enough of me explaining some of these details in the form of concerns. I am somewhat satisfied to know that my perplexities are not imaginary.
willsoon··on Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader
Oh yes. I know 'the others'. Works well.
willsoon··on Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader
I used to download with yt-dlp -x. But the sound is not good at all. I am not using a re-encoded format, so some yt videos may not have good sound quality.
willsoon··on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
Reading is a solitary activity. I stopped reading when I was in a relationship, so I have to spend some leisure time together. It was terrible at first, then I found Lars Von Trier films and the burden was a bit better, so... that was it.

Also, society has changed so much.

I grew up in a time when there was no such thing as "children's books". My first reading was some pulp fiction, then some bestsellers, then Dracula. I got to Wuthering Heights when I was n. I found it gripping, but I understood almost nothing. Luckily - crazy luckily - I have a friend, a n-year-old girl, who also read Wuthering and introduced me to it. So I read it again.

willsoon··on In Praise of Idleness (1932)
That's true. Ideas comes from total idleness or come from being under total pression. Maybe ideas just... comes.
willsoon··on Climate Pulse
It looks like anything to me.
willsoon··on Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation
>labelling approach

I see what you did there.

willsoon··on The internet is slipping out of our reach
Gods of he internets: tell me how I'm reading a text that declares it's was hidden. I don't even English.
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