So, does this post end up in the fediverse?

Trying to figure out whether this blog has posts that end up in the fediverse. Just saw a post from someone that seems to have linked their blog (WordPress?) to the fediverse. And need to check whether comments to those posts end up back here.

Still can’t figure out why the SD card that has all my music on it isn’t recognized by the Raspberry Pi 4. It worked until the first software upgrade on the Pi. I guess that’s the first thing to dig into. Next thing to check is the music server itself, although I don’t think that’s the main problem. Maybe it’s time to dig out an external hard drive to see if the problem is storing the music files on the SD card instead of the drive. Baffled.

Well, everything worked for a while.

I transferred all the music files from my iMac to a SanDisk SSD card and was able to mount it on the Raspberry Pi 4. Then shortly afterwards, the Card wouldn’t mount on the Pi. Tried to figure that out and didn’t get anywhere. So I moved onto other tasks.

About to try digging into it more. Wish me luck.

Now I’m getting spurious error messages from WordPress about not being able to upload posts. This is from with the Jetpack app on my iPhone. Jetpack is more of a clusterfuck than the almost as horrible WordPress.com website. You can hardly ever compose a post on either without major hassles. 

I sprung for a Pi 5 kit from Canakit. Yeah, I know I could get the parts cheaper elsewhere, but I’ve never had issues with the hardware when I purchase this way.

I also bought a hat that outputs audio because I want to make an attempt at building a place to put my extensive audio collection and am getting antsy about the iMac that I purchased back in 2015. Apple just toasted iTunes, replacing it with the Music (which just sucks). Gonna use one of the Raspberry Pi 4s I have laying around.

I’ll have a progress report later.

I just had to tune out an interview on YouTube with Tristan Snell plugging his new book “Taking Down Trump”. The thing that really turned me off was his assertion that the marks that the Trump Organization and Trump University screwed weren’t stupid people. Yes, stupidity and greed underlied every thing these people were motivated by. Quick rich scams are prevalent in society and people are suseptible to conspiracy theories because they’re uneducated suckers. These suckers fell for the con that there are secrets that the establisment doesn’t reveal, and for a few thousand, the conman will reveal them. Then it turns out, the “secrets” are readily available with an internet search.

The latest of these schemes is the “AI” craze. Children, Chat GPT is an extension of Elisa, a psychoanalyst program I was first introduced to in 1972, and has been around since the sixties. Sixty years of time has passed and at least Elisa didn’t dole out misinformation like Chat GPT does. And if you weren’t either lazy or stupid or both, the information Chat GPT divulges is readily accessable via a true search engine. Not those “AI” jokes so prevalent today. But the average person is a mark for unscrupulous operations parading as “progress” or “time-saving”.

Liberal media is afraid to address the fact that people are stupid and lazy. They are suseptible to unscrupulous operators because they don’t want to do the work that necessary to be successful. My side job is creating music, and I see lazy people all the time. They have an inflated sense of self-worth, and think that people are just supposed to flock to their attempts to make music. This is especially prevalent in hip-hop/rap music.

I’ve noticed that Zuckerberg’s Meta has continued its slide into the Far-Right sphere and that slide is accelerating. Increasingly Meta, including Facebook and InstaGram have been silencing speech that is even slightly left-wing and allowing conspiracy theorists and other right-wing nutcases free reign. Trolls have been given free reign on the platforms and reporting them is almost impossible.

Any criticism of the far right elicites a threat to muzzle dissent. This comment is an example:

IG warned me that language was against their TOS and might be flagged for deletion. But they continue to encourage trolls like this account that espouse right-wing inflammatory posts. This poster is so much a coward, his account has been marked “private”. Not surprising to me, righties are the epitome of the gutless  losers that hide in the anonymity of the web, with the connivance of garbage like Zuckerberg.

Here’s an example of a troll account on IG:

It’s not amusing that Zuckerberg supports slime like this. They’re unAmerican, race-baiting authoritarians.

More screwing around with Lisp derivatives has been my focus over the past month. This is a picture of my programming tab on my iPhone:

As you can’t see, there’s a couple of Lisp interpreters, a Clojurescript tool that’s quite limited, and apps for Scala and Haskell. That’s my limit for Lisp-like apps on iPhone. I really wish the Clojurescript tool had more functionality, I happen to be a fan of Clojure. I first was exposed to it back around 2010, I have an extremely dog-eared copy of “Programming Clojure”, which was published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I guess the book is now in a third edition, and I think it’s one of the better books on the subject.

It’s long past time to abandon Substack. Substack is no different from Twittr, a harbor for Nazis and other far-right agitators. All are determined to trade the US democracy for a totalitarian regime, with no more elections and military control. Most military and police are sympathizers for this kind of country. Fuck the Fascists!

Well one of my sound explorations was included in the compilation called Antihistamine 2023 on Bandcamp. Check it out.