Welcome to my site. Since my last server broke in spectacular ways, I switched things up. Which means that this website is kinda broken right now. But, good news: You still can read my texts just fine!
Things I wrote
Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Starting in 2017, Ultimate Guitar – then a guitar tabs website developed from a Kaliningrad office – 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. Today, they’re known as Muse Group, have abandoned their Russian…
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: The idea that corporations can be understood as an AI isn’t new – I got introduced to it by Charles Stross in his “Dude, you broke the future!” talk. They are slower to act than computer-based AI, but in return,…
Leo Wattenberg 