Chris McCormack
@chrisrmccormack.bsky.social
Composer, caffeine enthusiast. http://chrismccormackcomposer.com. Views my own.
Dropbox is so much better than iCloud it isn't even funny.
I will never, ever use iCloud for anything.
I will never, ever use iCloud for anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dropbox is so much better than iCloud it isn't even funny.
I will never, ever use iCloud for anything.
I will never, ever use iCloud for anything.
same tbh
Goodnight.
"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."
Franz Kafka
"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."
Franz Kafka
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
same tbh
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Everything definitely closes too early in Central London especially, but it would be nice if clubs and similar venues could receive special dispensations to make them harder to shut/convert into luxury flats.
Everything definitely closes too early in Central London especially, but it would be nice if clubs and similar venues could receive special dispensations to make them harder to shut/convert into luxury flats.
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Everything definitely closes too early in Central London especially, but it would be nice if clubs and similar venues could receive special dispensations to make them harder to shut/convert into luxury flats.
Everything definitely closes too early in Central London especially, but it would be nice if clubs and similar venues could receive special dispensations to make them harder to shut/convert into luxury flats.
lol love being blackmailed by YouTube I do I do
October 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
lol love being blackmailed by YouTube I do I do
Hallucinations are a feature, not a bug.
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hallucinations are a feature, not a bug.
The new Sennheiser HD-25 lights are something of a bargain. Really good for 70 quid!
September 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The new Sennheiser HD-25 lights are something of a bargain. Really good for 70 quid!
My laptop screen has failed during the middle of something extremely important.
Now I have to ensure everything is backed up both to a drive and to the Cloud, and use my old, miserable machine for a week.
Does any other company on Earth fail as predictably as Apple?
Now I have to ensure everything is backed up both to a drive and to the Cloud, and use my old, miserable machine for a week.
Does any other company on Earth fail as predictably as Apple?
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My laptop screen has failed during the middle of something extremely important.
Now I have to ensure everything is backed up both to a drive and to the Cloud, and use my old, miserable machine for a week.
Does any other company on Earth fail as predictably as Apple?
Now I have to ensure everything is backed up both to a drive and to the Cloud, and use my old, miserable machine for a week.
Does any other company on Earth fail as predictably as Apple?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Every single article like this is essentially an exercise in advertorial. The OpenAI stunt of asking GPT5 to write a eulogy for previous AIs is a grift, and nothing else.
Every single article like this is essentially an exercise in advertorial. The OpenAI stunt of asking GPT5 to write a eulogy for previous AIs is a grift, and nothing else.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Every single article like this is essentially an exercise in advertorial. The OpenAI stunt of asking GPT5 to write a eulogy for previous AIs is a grift, and nothing else.
Every single article like this is essentially an exercise in advertorial. The OpenAI stunt of asking GPT5 to write a eulogy for previous AIs is a grift, and nothing else.
NVIDIA is apparently now 8% of the S&P 500. Really not sure this is a good thing.
August 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
NVIDIA is apparently now 8% of the S&P 500. Really not sure this is a good thing.
I know I’m supposed to be more grown up than this, but it’s very amusing watching right wingers become apoplectic about the voting age change.
July 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I know I’m supposed to be more grown up than this, but it’s very amusing watching right wingers become apoplectic about the voting age change.
fortune.com/2025/06/10/s...
'Hey you guys, the beans are so good here. This beautiful harvest is coming your way too, once Starbucks figure out how to make them taste like a corroded Range Rover exhaust pipe like all our other beans. We can't wait to share them with you!'
'Hey you guys, the beans are so good here. This beautiful harvest is coming your way too, once Starbucks figure out how to make them taste like a corroded Range Rover exhaust pipe like all our other beans. We can't wait to share them with you!'
Gen Z dream job alert: Starbucks will pay lucky people $136,000 to travel the world and post about coffee on TikTok
The job has a six-figure salary and bonus, doesn’t require a college degree, and is completely remote—a perfect fit for chronically online Gen Z.
fortune.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
fortune.com/2025/06/10/s...
'Hey you guys, the beans are so good here. This beautiful harvest is coming your way too, once Starbucks figure out how to make them taste like a corroded Range Rover exhaust pipe like all our other beans. We can't wait to share them with you!'
'Hey you guys, the beans are so good here. This beautiful harvest is coming your way too, once Starbucks figure out how to make them taste like a corroded Range Rover exhaust pipe like all our other beans. We can't wait to share them with you!'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Genuinely hilarious. I would like to ask Google to have the old Google back, but it's quite literally impossible now, as so many websites are now procedurally generated.
Wild, isn't it? We're heading towards not knowing anything with any certainty, ever.
Genuinely hilarious. I would like to ask Google to have the old Google back, but it's quite literally impossible now, as so many websites are now procedurally generated.
Wild, isn't it? We're heading towards not knowing anything with any certainty, ever.
High court tells UK lawyers to stop misuse of AI after fake case-law citations
Ruling follows two cases blighted by actual or suspected use of artificial intelligence in legal work
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Genuinely hilarious. I would like to ask Google to have the old Google back, but it's quite literally impossible now, as so many websites are now procedurally generated.
Wild, isn't it? We're heading towards not knowing anything with any certainty, ever.
Genuinely hilarious. I would like to ask Google to have the old Google back, but it's quite literally impossible now, as so many websites are now procedurally generated.
Wild, isn't it? We're heading towards not knowing anything with any certainty, ever.
I love the future
May 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I love the future
Switching back to ProTools after this project - Logic is absolutely useless and has only got worse.
May 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Switching back to ProTools after this project - Logic is absolutely useless and has only got worse.
There are extremely useful and interesting applications for AI, but the dash to incorporate it into absolutely everything to extract maximum capital is wrong-headed and counterproductive. The worst thing tech can ever do is make itself look uncool, and this is precisely what big firms are doing.
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
May 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There are extremely useful and interesting applications for AI, but the dash to incorporate it into absolutely everything to extract maximum capital is wrong-headed and counterproductive. The worst thing tech can ever do is make itself look uncool, and this is precisely what big firms are doing.
Logic Pro is really becoming quite unacceptably buggy. It used to be pretty solid!
April 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Logic Pro is really becoming quite unacceptably buggy. It used to be pretty solid!
Reposted by Chris McCormack
Always a good day when the albums arrive. Especially when they're as smart as this! Now for the pleasant task of sending them out to our many project supporters. If you want one, there will be plenty left... www.exaudi.org.uk/product/jurg...
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Always a good day when the albums arrive. Especially when they're as smart as this! Now for the pleasant task of sending them out to our many project supporters. If you want one, there will be plenty left... www.exaudi.org.uk/product/jurg...
Went onto the other place earlier for a bit. Genuinely like sticking one’s head into a blender. Christ almighty.
April 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Went onto the other place earlier for a bit. Genuinely like sticking one’s head into a blender. Christ almighty.
I hate this. Please make it stop.
March 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I hate this. Please make it stop.
Reposted by Chris McCormack
Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
March 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
Although Melodyne with Direct Note Access has been with us since 2008, I simply cannot get over what an utterly amazing invention it is.
A truly ingenious piece of engineering.
A truly ingenious piece of engineering.
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Although Melodyne with Direct Note Access has been with us since 2008, I simply cannot get over what an utterly amazing invention it is.
A truly ingenious piece of engineering.
A truly ingenious piece of engineering.
Convinced that that Bryan Johnson guy is a performance artist. Amazing commitment to the bit.
March 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Convinced that that Bryan Johnson guy is a performance artist. Amazing commitment to the bit.
Reposted by Chris McCormack
Collecting all the complimentary earbuds left on my flight to add to my wire tangle
February 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Collecting all the complimentary earbuds left on my flight to add to my wire tangle
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM