I’d be delighted to do some QA consulting for you! I’ll throw in some pentesting as well. Hell, I’d give you a few hours’ free trial so I get to piss you off legally you can get an outside confirmation fueled by a shared passion to see you reach the acclaim you deserve.

That fix has a lot of side effects that might break something. Unless you’re intimately familiar with their setup and use case, destructive solutions aren’t a safe recommendation.

Nothing, probably. The whole thing is a fun side project for messing around with audio processing, and he decided to outsource the visualisation part (not even the logic, just the visualisation) because he knows jack shit about python and learning it for just one cosmetic part of the project doesn’t make much sense.

These are – like the analog circuits that started my journey – toy effects that you shouldn’t take seriously. The main design goal has been to learn about digital audio processing basics. Exactly like the guitar pedal was about learning about the hardware side.

Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters – and that’s not saying much – than I do about python. It started out as my typical “google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do” kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man – me – and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

So this isn’t some paid ad for Google, it’s a busy man pursuing a hobby to learn something and taking a shortcut for a part of the hobby he’s not interested in.

As I understand it, he doesn’t actually know how to do it himself in python. It also seems like a little side project he’s bullshitting together anyways, so I guess it’s a nice testing ground for trying what it can do. I don’t really see Linus investing a lot of time into learning python.

He’s also made it very clear that he doesn’t want AI slop in the Linux kernel, which is what I’d be more concerned about.

Edit: The project is an attempt to learn about digital audio processing. The visualiser part, not the actual logic, was hacked together from the outset, probably because he’s more interested in the actual processing.

These are – like the analog circuits that started my journey – toy effects that you shouldn’t take seriously. The main design goal has been to learn about digital audio processing basics. Exactly like the guitar pedal was about learning about the hardware side.

From the README of his project, emphasis mine.

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I can see why people would attempt to abuse a bug bounty program for easy price money, but that’s just another case of greedy people fucking over everyone else by pissing on whatever trust and assumptions of good faith people might still extend to one another.

Unexpected in the same way as you don’t expect leopards to eat your face…

That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.

Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.

Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.

Abbreviations don’t strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you’re describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.

My best guess for pfp is that it’s an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.

That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn’t an initialism.

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I spent these last days building a spreadsheet app for managing resources in a city builder / survival sim (Medieval Dynasty). I’m pretty sure there are plenty of ways to improve it, I know that other people have already built solutions for it that I could have used instead and I know that a much better solution would involve a proper database.

But it was fun, dammit. I need to deal with spreadsheets for work and it was a fun effective way of honing my skills with them.

Most people like to feel like they’re better than most. Mediocrity is an insult to them.

Blessed are the simpletons that never realise or just don’t give a fuck.

My aunt already falls for every religious scam under the sun. Donate for this good cause here, help build a church there, God told me to do whatever and I need some assistance…

Religion is one hell of a drug and I’m not surprised that a community convinced of their divine protection would contain enough gullible victims to make it worth the effort. They might not all be that stupid, but it’s like MMOs: some whales are enough to make it profitable.

https://hamsterdance.io/ is shilling a meme cryptocurrency though