Starting in 2017, Ultimate Guitar – a Russian guitar tabs website – started going on a shopping spree: They acquired MuseScore, an open source notation program, Audacity, the Audacity audio editor, Hal Leonard, a sheet music publisher, StaffPad, AmpKit, and others. Throughout all of this time, they have continuously enshittified their offerings with unethical and illegal… Continue reading Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Download Audacity with ASIO
Download Audacity 3.7.5 with ASIO support.
Corporations are agentic AGI
There are some good arguments in favor of understanding corporations as artificial, intelligent meta-(or super-)organisms: Corporations are aware of their predators (government agencies) and aim to extinguish them (see regulatory capture) Corporations prioritize their own survival over secondary goals (profits, growth, etc). To avoid death, it may shed massive amounts of its body (close stores,… Continue reading Corporations are agentic AGI
How to balance copyright and the freedom of the arts
Copyright law is unfair and a bit silly. We can fix it to be the tool creators deserve. And now might be the time to get ready to take action.
Even the institutions are waking up to the fact that copyright law is unfair
The balance between the freedom of the arts and rewarding existing creators with exclusive rights is manifestly wrong
Getting Ollama to run properly
Today I tried to do something which apparently is silly: Use Ollama on my Windows machine to run gpt-oss:20b, use it in VSCode's Copilot-chat, and also use it on WSL for my Linux (web) projects. This is, apparently, difficult. To document my findings instead of a "nvm fixed it", here's the stuff I did: Tell… Continue reading Getting Ollama to run properly
Thermite as grid-scale energy storage (and gemstone production method)
Thermite is a fancy name (actually a trademark) for a quite simple reaction: Just take some rust (iron oxide) powder and some aluminium powder, smash them together, and watch the fireworks. Or to put it into a formula: iron(III) oxide + aluminium → iron + aluminium oxideFe2O3 + 2Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3 This… Continue reading Thermite as grid-scale energy storage (and gemstone production method)
City Villages: Desirable public housing for a greener future
We are currently facing several issues: A housing crisis – housing in places which are desirable (ie: cities) is very short, and not much appears to be done to actually alleviate it. A loneliness crisis – people have a harder and harder time connecting to others. A climate crisis – resources are wasted on things… Continue reading City Villages: Desirable public housing for a greener future
Refutation of Video Games Europe’s position paper on Stop Killing Games
Video Games Europe has published a position paper to the Stop Killing Games initiative. Many of its arguments are missing the point. Recommended prior reading: https://leo.wattenberg.dk/2025/07/05/a-response-to-video-games-europes-statement-on-the-stop-killing-games-initiative/ TL;DR There already are various licensing mechanisms in place in EU law which can easily be extended to also cover online video games. Making private servers available to the… Continue reading Refutation of Video Games Europe’s position paper on Stop Killing Games
A response to Video Games Europe’s statement on the Stop Killing Games initiative
As we all know, when it comes to games, the dialogue is rarely level-headed. Gamers might be one of the most passionate crowds out there, and once the rally cry has brought the wheels in motion, they'll keep turning for years to come. With that in mind, I'd like to address Video Games Europe's statement,… Continue reading A response to Video Games Europe’s statement on the Stop Killing Games initiative
Leo Wattenberg 