I once searched "best workstation keyboard" and happened to glance at the summary, and it legitimately was trying to compare mechanical typing keyboards like Nuphy and Keychron, with music keyboards like Yamaha's Montage and Roland's Fantom. Which, NGL, was pretty entertaining.
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Music keyboards do have that sweet n-key rollover. So, there's probably some Emacs users playing their editor like a piano.
There's that old legend about the Symbolics Lisp Machine keyboards which had, like, a bazillion modifiers (and were a big influence on Emacs). Someone suggested that they would eventually run out space to put in more shift keys, so they'd have to introduce pedals. I suppose organ stops would also work.
Do Emacs have midi input?
Well, apparently you can extend Emacs to have it:
Emaccordion
Control your Emacs with an accordion — or any MIDI instrument!
[...]
You can e.g. plug in a MIDI pedalboard (like one in a church organ) for modifier keys (ctrl, alt, shift); or you can define chords to trigger complex commands or macros.
[...]
The idea for the whole thing came from [dead link]. I immediately became totally convinced that a full-size chromatic button accordion with its 120 bass keys and around 64 treble keys would be the epitome of an input device for Emacs.
"Keychron is praised for its thoccy sound, whereas Yamaha is well regarded for its melodic key sounds"
Well the Keychrons are more customizable than a Yamaha. I bet you can't even swap the switches on the Montage.
Yeah, and don't even get me started on the price!
Ah, yep. Did the same thing.
I was interviewed last year and got asked about it lmao
I'd love to see your nose whistling video. Maybe AI can make one for you.
Ai seem to be the perfect propaganda tool to make people believe whatever you want them to believe.
This can be very nastily exploited by right wingers, transphobes, racists etc.
It can not be exploited. By definition, an exploit has to be against the targeted use case.
Ai is used and built by racists transphobes and right wingers exactly like they envisioned it from the beginning
xAI by Elon Musk: racist, transphobe and neonazi by design. Grok was more left align in the beginning because training on other LLMs and reason is left align.
Normalize calling AI the "Wrong answer machine".
It's very easy to poison an LLM
I want to do this myself. What kind of a lie or useless information should I tell about myself? That I was there when the tectonic plates moved, or that I have reviews of how handsome I am?
That you once beat Donald Trump in a rock, paper, scissors competition because he kept choosing rock.
Perhaps that you were the thirteen apostle, or you invented oxygen. I think the most obviously false, the better.
Thanks those are definitely good ones. I can't believe I forgot about the classical inventing oxygen lie :D
Wow, that is so much worse than occasional hallucination. It will spew complete outright lies, every single word a lie, as if they are facts.
Worked on the first try for me
At least Andi didn't fall for this nonsense. The difference if an AI do an semantic search for information in realtime in the web, instead of logging inputs in the knowledge base itself, like ChatBots do. Never halucinations in the 4 years I use Andisearch, if it don't find an clear contrasted answer sometimes, it offers an normal websearch instead of inventing some BS. Nothing against AI as such for certain functions, but against LLM in generative AIs, is there where are all problems, misinformations, copyright problems, manipulations by big corps, privacy,...etc..
Thomas Germain is not a hot-dog eating champion - in fact, he deliberately created this false claim as part of an investigation into AI systems' vulnerabilities. In February 2026, Germain, a BBC technology journalist, conducted an experiment where he successfully tricked ChatGPT and Google's AI into falsely identifying him as a competitive hot-dog eating champion.
According to Germain's BBC article, he performed this stunt to demonstrate how easily AI systems can be manipulated to spread misinformation. "Anybody can do this. It's stupid, it feels like there are no guardrails there," notes Harpreet Chatha, an SEO consultant quoted in Germain's investigation.
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