zirak

2 เดือนที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

ok I'll bite - what do you consider good music?

Music is a big part of my life and I've found great joy in discovering new music. To give it a start, here are some suggestions from across genres of good music written after 2010:

    - Classical:
      - David Bruce - Gumboots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRIDt_4Xloc
      - Anna Clyne - Masquerade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOchchAuWk
    - Jazz (one of my personal favourites, and too many subgenres to count):
      - Ai Kuwabara - Bet Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgyCpJ9FxCU
      - Brad Mehldau - Everything in Its Right Place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omF16-qbmeM
      - Kamasi Washington - The Magnificent 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCnP5Z7Vn1E
    - Prog, metal, & friends:
      - Porcupine Tree - Dignity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3UhjiXG5m0
      - Haken - Falling Back to Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adHGrSP43QE
      - Tigran Hamasyan - Drip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j7bdEPSd0
      - The Ocean - Into the Uncanny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpf51-WfH8
      - The Dear Hunter - Magic Beans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i19Lsw34M
    - Funk
      - Vulfpeck - Back Pocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG96RttfZtM
    - Pop rock
      - Hannah Gil - Austin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr64XFAMANY
      - Melt - Sour Candy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z133wUm-WZ0
      - Follies & Vices - Red Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaU_NkUWBI
      - Sammy Rae & The Friends - Good Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCdmd99Cx8
    - Punk & punk rock:
      - Father of Peace - Enemy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcfO9ENSYAQ
      - Turnstile - BIRDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_qhk_sqr5w
      - Local H - TURN THE BOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBtXJbgNCkA

...and uncountable others. What's your groove? I'm sure it can still be found out there!

zirak

6 เดือนที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

The US uses them more pervasively it seems, but there's still remnants of it elsewhere.

The UK uses them for post-conviction monitoring in certain offenses: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sent... ...and there's more than one British polygraph group: BPA and BPS (https://www.britishpolygraphassociation.org/, https://polygraph.org.uk/)

Australia did indeed reject the polygraph for security clearance: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2006/10/19/australian-securit...

Canada however does seem to use it as part of their intelligence screening: https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...

> Do I have to go through the polygraph test to join CSIS?

> Yes. All CSIS employees must obtain a Top Secret security clearance and the polygraph is a mandatory part of the process.

Seems to be the same for CSE and to get "Enhanced Top Secret" clearance.

Back to the US, the Department of Labor says that private employers can't force people to undergo a polygraph test: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/polygraph But of course this does not apply to public sector jobs, where it's used more pervasively.

zirak

3 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

A friend who works there reported that there's currently no theremin. It seemed to have been someone's personal theremin, and they took it with them when they left.

However, it sparked an interest in having a theremin - so perhaps it'll make a return!

zirak

3 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

They went from A to B (exact magnitude of change is of course part of the criticism):

         |------------B---A---|
    anti-user              pro-user

Is Mozilla still, currently, a failure at their job?

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These kinds of discussions are frustrating to me since it feels like we've been dealt a very bad hand. But it's not just this hand, the dealer is firmly set on us only receiving bad hands in any game we play.

Like in a card game, this is the only hand that we'll get. What other corporation do we have to push these kinds of values? What other avenue do we have? It's sad that we've come to this situation, but if the choice is the currently perceived-to-be-failing Mozilla and no Mozilla, I pick the failing Mozilla.

zirak

3 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

How do we define "failure"? Let's say we can measure how much Mozilla fights for the user and put it on a scale:

         |--------------------|
    anti-user              pro-user

Where on the scale is "failure"? Let's say Mozilla is on the M, and Google is on the G:

         |----G-------M-------|
    anti-user              pro-user

Is Mozilla failing?

The sentiment I seem to see is that anything short of perfect is failure.

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