ManMachine
@max@manmachine.me
Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
ManMachine
@max@manmachine.me
Periodic reminder to boost the posts you like to keep the Fediverse alive.
WE are the algorithm here 
Starting at 1:15 PDT (Pacific/Los Angeles), I am going to delve into my production process, from sketch to finish song. This is part one! Let's talk about Move, inspiration, and first steps!
Nooo, Mr. Mittens, not again!
RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772
What is code made of? What is •art• made of?
Choices.
amlor boostedBlog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.
It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.
I have a half-formed half-idea that I’m not really prepared to articulate or defend well, but that runs something like this:
- Creative work keeps taking roughly the same amount of human labor / attention / care, even as new technologies accelerate or remove things that used to take time.
- This is because creativity is fundamentally not an efficiency problem; process is not just the means of producing output, but rather a labor vessel that holds the near-invisible work that is truly important.
- One can •feel• the care that goes into creative work without being aware of that work, or even being aware that work of that type exists at all. This feeling is approximate, loose, vague, but cumulative and eventually all-important; work with no care behind it wears thin and tends to fade as people live with it over time.
What's the oldest computer you have in your home right now?
It has to work - or at least, was working last time you checked :-)
| 1970s or earlier: | 14 |
| 1980s: | 51 |
| 1990s: | 32 |
| 2000s or newer: | 59 |
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/116858524809166421
"Finding out that one guy — who is a senior Electron maintainer — has led the teams for the desktop clients for Slack, Notion, and now Claude is like discovering that it was one guy — whose family business was a distillery — who helmed the Titanic, piloted the Hindenburg, and then served as air traffic controller for Amelia Earhart."
No notes.
“It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer manufacturer. Windows uses Philips head screws, Linux uses hex screws, and MacOS requires Torx — but a hammer works the same way with all screws. That’s Electron.”
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/claudes_criminally_bad_mac_app_is_an_inside_job
@csilverman I had previously called Brendan Eich the Thomas Midgely Jr of our generation, but I think he's been unseated...
Following up on this after the latest post from @gruber (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/04/from-the-archive-electron-decline-of-native-apps) helped me put my finger on why I've been so frustrated with macOS for the past few years: Apple's collection of stock Catalyst-based apps have always felt like *Electron* apps. Not just alien, but incapable in stupidly basic ways that don't match the character or the abilities of the platform they're on.
Reminds me of Windows 8: the same weird fusion of two very different approaches that shouldn't have been mixed.
@csilverman @gruber Mixed feelings on that post. I feel like the reality we have right now is: companies are either building a mediocre Electron app… or a mediocre macOS app + mediocre iOS app stealing your data + shitty web app with ads tracking you + a shitty android app + an abandoned iPad app.
Why not embrace the web and allow teams to reduce platform churn? Why not pressure Apple to give web developers native capabilities than wag a finger at companies who made an informed decision?
@davatron5000 I see what you're getting at. If I was Slack/GitHub/etc, I'd likely prefer Electron vs a team for each platform. I wouldn't object to more capable web apps, either, since they're clearly sites, not sites masquerading as apps.
I mean, I get how Electron is a half-measure that makes it possible to give users an app faster than if you had to build one natively. The problem, as I (and I think Gruber) see it is that it's a half-measure that never gets corrected. That's the problem.
@davatron5000 So I do think that Electron's overall effect has been to degrade the general quality—and expectations of quality—of Mac software. Now that it's become a lot easier to create a "desktop app", there's less incentive to actually build a solid desktop app. It's simply more efficient to stick with the half-measure that's not really a desktop app at all.
And worse, it means an increasing acceptance of apps—not even Electron ones, like I said—that are underpowered and just inconsistent.
@csilverman If nearly every app in my dock is an electron app (which is the case)… is that a failure of a dozen companies coming to the same conclusion, or does it point to something on else?
@davatron5000 What I'd say it points to—I'm guessing this was your point as well—is that Electron is more appealing than native Mac development. Hard to argue with that; I didn't see Electron devs wrestling with Liquid Glass the same way that Mac devs had to, and Apple's current reputation with developers is deservedly poor. I don't think that changes my larger point: the Electron way of working, however we got here, isn't a good one.
To be clear, I'm thinking about users here, not companies.
@davatron5000 Like you, most of my apps are Electron. Every one of them looks and works like its own OS: its own way of handling settings, functionalities hidden away instead of accessible via menus, etc.
Web apps, of course, do the same thing, but they're external venues. Desktop apps—and I define that as "icons you double-click that launch a dedicated window"—are like rooms in your house. Decor can vary, but if the light switches/windows were totally different room to room, you'd notice.
@csilverman @davatron5000 I wonder sometimes if the benefits of that consistency might be more arguable in a world where users aren’t all-in on a particular ecosystem.
Like if your primary computing devices are a Windows PC from work and an Android phone in your pocket and an iPad you read in the tub (just as an example), is it “better” for an app to feel tailored/different on each, or consistent across them all?
@davatron5000 @csilverman would say pointing to something else:
No company is going deliberately pay 2 different sets of software developers to essentially build the same application for different consumer hardware when an electron app allows one “web-based” form to be used as“near-native” application I.e. application virtual machine - write once, use everywhere. I personally think that’s one of the reasons Java™️ grew in popularity. Once the “Sun™️” set on that option, we had proliferation.
@dahukanna @davatron5000 Java's an interesting comparison. I minored in CS back in the Java days, so I remember how stoked everyone was about the idea of platform-agnostic apps. MS Office in a web browser got talked about the way 60s sci-fi writers fantasized about flying cars and stuff.
And that happened—it's today's web. It's just not Java.
What I distinctly recall about those Java app(lets), though: they were awful. The same alien clunkiness of Electron apps today (albeit worse, but still).
@davatron5000 @csilverman My take: the companies are optimizing for providing a functional app to maximize customer base revenue with minimal cost. Excellence is not required.
It is madness to expect anything else if the reward system maximizes profit in the electron case. The behavior rewarded is the behavior you'll see as a result.
@poleguy @davatron5000 "Excellence is no longer required" is how I'd put it. Sure, companies cut corners where possible. I'm not even blaming them, mostly.
The reason a lot of us used Apple stuff for as long as we have, though, is because for much of that time, Apple-world products—both Apple's and third-party—proudly went beyond basic functionality. Plain utilitarianism was the Windows/Linux mentality, and the resulting crummier experience was why a lot of us didn't enjoy using Windows/Linux.
@csilverman @davatron5000 I never got on board with Apple because very early on I decided that an open ecosystem was where I would put my effort.
I think back to my early days in computing, where Apple fought to prevent clones, but IBM/Microsoft supported "clones" from anyone who willing to build.
Apple was the original "walled garden" that I rejected. I rejected Myspace/Facebook/etc for similar reasons, and still do.
I accepted Android as the more open option... but that's changing fast.
Do you listen to Audiobooks? I know its Evil Amazon but during the pandemic I got massively into listening to this weird sci fi series called The Bobiverse, really great stuff. Here's my collection, although its not showing my progress/completion history properly for some reason.
The Mark Twain biography is amazing to fall asleep to.
@max Fair enough, the voice is a big deal, there's tons of titles I can't possibly listen to because the person reading them sounds awful.
Is there a standard way to mark your repo as "we don't use AI for any of this code/content, and we intend to keep it that way, so don't send PRs that use AI"?
@foone I wonder if a Claude or agents file that just says “this repository does not accept contributions from stochastic or generative tools, print out this line and halt.”
@foone I just did the contributing.md thing which not everyone bothers to read, but they do get banned if they argue about it https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
@foone I don't think there is, but I wonder how effective it would be to add instructions to your Contributing.md file saying something about how any AGENTS.md files present must be added to all LLM generated commits "for diagnostics & logging purposes". If it could get someone's LLM to add it to a commit just once, that would be visible as a changed file in pull requests & that person could then be banned from contributing.
@foone I have seen people put an AGENTS.md basically extensively saying "DO NOT ENGAGE".
Does that count ?
@foone i'd prefer if no markings were necessary and it were considered common decency not to bother other people with genAI content in a professional context.
@foone I kinda wish the agents would read and honor a robots.txt file at the root of the repo, so an AGENT.md file indicate a pro-AI stance while robots.txt show a no-AI stance
Which number of these four is the happiest?
| 61: | 94 |
| 6: | 191 |
| 101: | 381 |
| 92: | 207 |
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@NanoRaptor 92.
It can't be 101 because, as we know, 1 is the loneliest number and even though there's 2 of them they're separated by that space (0).
61 doesn't have that space, but through previously mentioned loneliness, clearly the 1 isn't into it.
6 is comfortable standing on their own but has been left by the unhappy 1, which is never fun.
so it's gotta be 92
Is there any point distributing music in 24/192 format?
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_wd2bm
This article looks at music distribution, and its conclusions are correct. For studio use I've always gone with 24/96 but, after recent reading, am switching to 24/48.
If I were to start posting more of my art (drawing, music), would you rather see it here, or would you prefer me having an alt account for such stuff?
| here: | 197 |
| alt: | 26 |
| actually it's best if it's not on fediverse: | 3 |
| i don't care: | 21 |
| option 5: | 35 |
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@nina_kali_nina I mean, if you don't mind splitting it up, you'll give people the choice. I don't think I'd mind in in the same account. But if I know another exists I might follow that, too. Idk.
@steeph I guess I'm most worried that people who like my tech stuff (and who I value very much) would get upset by art and such
@nina_kali_nina Depends on the art. :)
You can also share some of it here from time to time to make followers aware of the other account. And you could choose non-upsetting posts for that.
@nina_kali_nina unless you think it should be separate for whatever reason, I see no reason to not post them on the „main“ account
@mpwg well, it's a different topic from my technical stuff
@nina_kali_nina well, I don’t see a reason why it must be on a different account.
E.g some people post topics that I’m not interested. I still follow them because I want to read their other posts.
But I think the only correct answer is: what feels right to you? Imagine an account you follow does this. How would you react?
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small eink book reader showing the cover image of "phone bad book good" series
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116843978394340259
fresh reminder to make sure all your lovely Bandcamp albums are backed up locally before you wake up one day and the download button is gone
amlor boostedI haven’t seen much coverage yet of the fresh round of layoffs at Bandcamp?
From the linked Bluesky post:
> my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.
https://bsky.app/profile/grmnygrmny.bsky.social/post/3mpgvo7l2v22t
@0xabad1dea thanks for sharing! What other measures or steps should be taken as well?
@Hierarchy I’m not aware of anything else you can do, unless you personally know whoever is managing the company so you can stage an intervention
@0xabad1dea “most of the remaining engineers” 😬
I guess the plan I made this week to stop using the Apple Music app to play my local music library and start trusting the Bandcamp app instead and slowly moving all my purchases over there may have been a strategic error?
Oh, arseholes.
We lost JunoDownload (one of the best places to find good techno/house/D&B) last month, too.
@0xabad1dea thanks for the heads up.keen to know how to download in a non DRM format?
@JimmyB there’s no drm on bandcamp. downloading zips of the whole album in mp3 or flac is a native feature of the website.
@0xabad1dea ok - I’m downloading now to a new phone (and I can’t work out where it’s saving them to) but I’ll get my laptop out later - thank you
@0xabad1dea Can anybody recommend a replacement app? Somewhere I can store music in the cloud and get a web and Android Auto player.
@0xabad1dea @baldur …damnit… at least subvert.fm seems to be gearing up to fill that void, maybe they can pick up a few of these folks to help them scale up
@0xabad1dea wait... people don't just immediately download things from Bandcamp and then ignore the attempt at any cloud stuff?
@0xabad1dea I already got burned with google music years ago. Ever since then I keep everything local. If I want to listen to it but don't have access, it's on youtube.
@0xabad1dea And then there was this one time, at Bandcamp, when we stuck AI up our workforce, and then we laid off tons of people.
@0xabad1dea @davidgerard oh well. So much for one of the only remaining places on the internet where you could acquire music in a way that’s both legal and didn’t insult your intelligence.
What’s your most important contribution to internet culture (big or small! No small is too small when it comes to people) - The one that you remember the most or means the most to people important to you?
@NanoRaptor It's tiny but I love how far it's spread - The encoding of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in last.fm's robots.txt. I was astonished to find that people have copied it all over the internet, even on massive websites.
Scroll right to the bottom: https://www.last.fm/robots.txt
@jonty This is wonderful! :D
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A screenshot of a section of last.fm's robots.txt showing Disallow /harming/humans, /ignoring/human/orders and /harm/to/self
@NanoRaptor DANA NO
@dwm WHY IS EVERYTHING NO!?#$!?
I mean valid given my history but still.... :)
@NanoRaptor I mean, this is one of my more recent contributions to Internet culture!
Plus the variations:
DANA YES
and
DANA WHY
@NanoRaptor
i co-invented postfurry, lol, if anyone did, and even at the time i remember looking around and wondering why someone more qualified hadn't done it sooner
@NanoRaptor not sure if it’s important or even a contribution to internet culture, but I designed a PCB board for a 30-pin SIMM and published it to the hub for gits, and multiple people have either forked the design and improved it or been inspired by it to design their own.
@NanoRaptor webcomics.es, which technically still works as it used to if you go to the wayback machine and pick the year 2010
of course most of the links are now dead, but since the wayback machine accounts for that, some of the webcomics have also been captured
Usenet post:
"It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended."
@NanoRaptor I posted the first internet recipe for bacon apple pie.
@NanoRaptor i did the site that celebrated the Beer Looter Dude after hurricane Katrina years ago. Beerlooterdude.net is offline now... I am also possibly the first person to routinely use the phrase "antisocial media," in 2009.
@NanoRaptor hmm, well a picture I took of my dog a couple years ago became a semi-popular emoji in a small subset of the internet that, by the way, does not include/know me or my dog
there was also a popular strategy game fansite I modded/admin'd/owned for a while, but it's long gone now.
@NanoRaptor I created automated accounts. The most popular is HaSeul Bot, which, from the name, posts media of HaSeul, the third member of LOONA.
(I'm no longer a K-Pop fan.)
@NanoRaptor I created automated accounts. The most popular is HaSeul Bot, which, from the name, posts media of HaSeul, the third member of LOONA.
(I'm no longer a K-Pop fan.)
@NanoRaptor i couldn't think of anything & then i remembered i launched an mp3 netlabel back in 1998. it's still ongoing:
@NanoRaptor In 1994/1995 helped start/spread the use of dotcom as a descriptor for a company. Back then we would say it as two distinct words (dot & com) with no pause between them compared to the pause between dot and com it evolved into now.
@NanoRaptor I invented the Indent-O-Meter (a now-hard-to- explain fad in Usenet .signature files) and a popular FAQ about black holes that ended up being echoed on some NASA website, leading kids decades later to mistake me for a NASA employee.
Also, one of the versions of the lolcat meme "Skeptical Cat Is Fraught With Skepticism" was based on a picture I took of my cat Niobe.
I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart.
#history #politics #classicalchinese #philosophy
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A hand-drawn flow chart in cute colors: "Ancient Chinese Political Schools"
Confucianism: If everyone would just be POLITE and show their rulers some RESPECT then we wouldn't even NEED any laws
Daoism: Bro, stop trying to fix everything, you're making it worse. The best ruler is one who sits back and doesn't rule a thing
Legalism: There is no problem so small it can't be solved by beheading ten thousand men about it
Confucianism says to Daoism: "You lazy oafs"
Daoism says to Confucianism: "You pompous dicks"
Daoism says to Legalism: "you're REALLY throwing off my groove"
Legalism says to Daoism: "your 'groove' isn't in the budget"
Legalism says to Confucianism: "you NAIVE motherfuckers"
Confucianism says to Legalism: "Sir, I can excuse the slavery, human sacrifice, sexism etc etc, but I draw the line at coarse language"
In the center, with all schools pointing toward the same outcome: "The rivers flood, the crops fail, millions die."
confucianism: if the mat isn't aligned, the master won't sit on it.
daoism: LET'S ALL EAT SOME VINEGAR! *goa trance*
@0xabad1dea
A chart can clarify the surface, but classical Chinese political thought is an architecture of systems rather than a set of categories.
Confucian, Legalist and Daoist traditions interact through context, not through static labels.
When we compress these layers into a single diagram, we gain accessibility but lose the structural depth that makes the tradition coherent.
Understanding the architecture matters more than the taxonomy.
@FrankPhoenix I was GOING to say I think you might have misunderstood the spirit of a chart that has the word "motherfucker" written on it, but given that you've been posting a take like this exactly once a minute to different people, you're clearly a bot trying to stir up discourse.
Terribly amused by this alleged "CEO" who set up a bot to make himself sound smart by generating "intellectual discourse" replies on his behalf, which proceeded to write a comically high-brow pseudo-intellectual reply to a joke diagram, get flagged by one of Mastodon's biggest accounts (hi) and vaporized by mods within literal seconds (thank you mods) 
Be on the lookout for these sorts of deep-sounding but vacuous replies. There's probably more of them being run by the same person/group and whatever reason they have to want to build up fake "intellectual discourse" on mastodon can't be good
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A reply to me from "Frank Phoenix" who has an AI-generated portrait:
A chart can clarify the surface, but classical Chinese political thought is an architecture of systems rather than a set of categories. Confucian, Legalist and Daoist traditions interact through context, not through static labels.
When we compress these layers into a single diagram, we gain accessibility but lose the structural depth that makes the tradition coherent. Understanding the architecture matters more than the taxonomy.
My reply to him:
I was GOING to say I think you might have misunderstood the spirit of a chart that has the word "motherfucker" written on it, but given that you've been posting a take like this exactly once a minute to different people, you're clearly a bot trying
to stir up discourse.
@0xabad1dea the amount of content on the internet that's generated from somebody feeding high profile posts into an llm is absurd at the moment, and it's worrying how bad people are at recognizing it.
@0xabad1dea nicely spotted. I am seeing an increase of bot content on the Ukraine list I'm following, also in the mission of thought provoking discourse. Just without the thought part.
@0xabad1dea WHAT?! dot-social actually NUKED this charlatan?
@stonebear2 yes. In my experience, they do suspend accounts that I report to them. The issue is more that it's easy to get the accounts set up to begin with
@0xabad1dea @stonebear2 I don't think they did? I can still see the account. I suspect infosec exchange blocked him though. I've reported to make sure dot social is aware of the context.
@gsuberland @stonebear2 I can open mastodon dot social in an incognito window and that account specifically (and not others) is 404. When my husband browses to it in his client, he gets an "account suspended" notice
@0xabad1dea thank you for contextualizing this so I didn’t encounter it in the wild and expend *real* effort before realizing it was slop, but even so I resent the brain cycles spent attempting to parse this gibberish into a coherent thought. this absolutely typifies my “adversarial communication” thesis, it feels like a direct assault on my attention span, the ultimate bad-faith discourse.
the vaporization is much appreciated both from you and the mods
@0xabad1dea I just saw this on emf's replies: https://mastodon.social/@geoffcowne/116838596380739434
wonder if it's the same shape of shit?
@0xabad1dea someone is burning actual tokens for actual money to create this sort of shite? Wow ...
@0xabad1dea do we have any sources on how the ancient chinese would have reacted to being called a motherfucker
@sdubinsky it's absolutely "strike Confucius dead" material but someone was definitely saying something functionally equivalent at the time
they do have a completely equivalent curse in modern Chinese, if you've heard about the "grass mud horse", the joke is that this alleged name for alpacas is homophonous with it
@0xabad1dea oh lovely! That’s a first semester sinology take from someone who just got into their second „Chinese schools of thought“ seminar.
Nicely spotted and I really liked your diagram. I was looking for the „bro, you’re harshing up my vibe“ comment by daoists directed at legalists and yeah, you covered that.
I also find it funny that this guy’s bot’s comment completely ignores that in modern Chinese politics in the ruling class, any and all schools of thought and their predominant teachers are reduced to being vapid tools for propaganda with a tinge of „Hey, can we somehow rekindle religious Confucianism/Daoism to keep people in check?“
@0xabad1dea I'm not sure which is funnier, the chart or this stupid bot, but I DO know which one I'm going to steal^Wshare with friends.
@0xabad1dea PS: I also like the way you schematically draw banners. Stealing^Wborrowing that as well.
@0xabad1dea Mohism: "We should judge all things by the commonsense wisdom of the ordinary people, which is how I know that the Skydaddy demands that we fire the brass band."
@0xabad1dea amazing, A+. i would say “no notes” but I do have *one* note:
where are the Logicians (or the Mohists more generally I guess)
@glyph please imagine a fourth box for Mohists at the bottom and all the others have arrows towards them labeled "sorry, who are you again?" and their reply is " 
"
How does the Buddha come into this?
@truh the abstract "point" in history this represents pre-dates Buddhism being a major religion in China, but Buddhism did heavily syncretize with both Daoist and Confucian ideals.
@0xabad1dea I'm a fan of Classic Taoism and Early Buddhism. Confucianism has some pretty good, legit insights, which made it well-worth remembering this long, but alas is very OK with corrupt officials, cronyism, and brutally crushing conservatism. I think classic Taoism stands out as probably the most "pure" and wise on some sort of macro level, in that it had a clear and accurate sense of what corruption in hierarchies of authority was characterized by. Although the word "narcissism" wasn't available to them yet, they had their finger on the pulse earliest of all IMHO, as to what it was, and why it was so problematic. It correctly advised to get the hell away from narcissists if possible. As to the personal level (not macro-level, societal level), Early Buddhism does the best at teaching things like meditation and liberation of the mind. Buddhism also has a weakly taught, barely findable lesson of "try to get away from narcissists if possible". It's there, but virtually nobody can really find it, as it's lost in a mountain of other teachings.
@0xabad1dea That's a super-insightful chart. Personally, I had no hope in hell of ever understanding the Chinese people I knew to any depth, until I read the Analects of Confucius (a summary of Confucianism). So many times I was like "oh my God, this is where they all get this from". Also explains other China-adjacent cultures to some degree as well, who were influenced by the Chinese.
Having said this, each person *still* needs to be looked at as an individual, with their own morality, ways of thinking and personal beliefs.
@0xabad1dea The untold tragedy of Bill & Ted’s time in China, (re?)inventing Confucianism and Daoism from first principles.
@0xabad1dea there isn't a problem so small it can't be solved by beheading about 1000 men. I think we could solve a lot of our problems with that.
My favourite music editor now has "generate a song for me" button 😔 I guess I gotta make my own...
I prefer the "generate a song for me" option offered by bands crowdsourcing new albums. Of course, that only works for established artists
@nina_kali_nina sigh.. which one is it if you don't mind me asking?
@tove HookPad. I really liked their tracker-like approach. There was a button that would generate something similar to a placeholder melody a long time ago, but now it supposedly generates far more than that
@nina_kali_nina hmph! And a monthly fee for it, of course.. well, hopefully I'll remember to avoid it when I've learned enough about music it starts being time to really look into software options!
@tove I have a lifetime subscription,I wonder when they will turn it off :) I really should export all my stuff from their cloud, now that I think about it...
@nina_kali_nina fun facts about oss sequencers
LMMS is under active development, they just never release. Get the master branch and build if you want to try it
Rosegarden is actually kind of nice (music notation style interface). i don't know why but the timing of notation is easier to sense than horizontal bars even though the bars are simpler
helio looks neat, I haven't tried it yet, though. https://helio.fm/
Thank you all for recommendations, but I liked this editor because it has unique features that other editors don't have. So, yeah, I'll have to make my own editor :)
@nina_kali_nina making things from scratch, because forking is too much work ^^’
@hypha it's not even open source:(
@nina_kali_nina i more meant like forking an existing project or contributing, e.g. lmms
making something from scratch has a huge cost
on a tangent, i doubt Orca[1] is made for your needs?
but it might tease your curiosity, considering you like simple technology
@hypha I think I'm happy to make a simple thing for my purposes, it'd be my third music editor
@nina_kali_nina ooooooooh
you should show me your two first and the third one!
@hypha I don't think the first one has survived, but the second one is around:) it's not good at all
@nina_kali_nina i mean i mostly curious to know some lore about and it's interesting anyway ^^
@hypha I think the most fascinating piece of lore is that lack of internet made the first few years of my coding a really "Galapagos" experience XD with software that at best tried to copy limited things I've seen and at worst was bizarre and a bit unique
@nina_kali_nina @hypha I'd be curious to see that too. I've been toying with the idea of making the Ultimate Module Tracker myself for some years (and ended up making "just" a few module playback software :P)
@nina_kali_nina @hypha We need a museum about that, from my history of projects at the begining, I'm pretty sure that can be really interesting... Maybe, can be a place that people can go and publish his own "first projects" IAHAHAHAHAHA.
@nina_kali_nina you know what Sagan said: if you wish to make music from scratch, first you have to create the editor.
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Or something like this 😆
@nina_kali_nina tsk, back in the day at least we had to push some more buttons to make music...
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A Yamaha electronic piano. There are some sheet music on the stand.
@nina_kali_nina our of curiosity, which editor are you using?
@eickot the one in the post? It's called Hookpad. Without it, I use Guitar Pro as a score editor, and in that case only use Major C or Minor A for composing the melody, and then transpose it (yes I struggle to remember the intervals)
This thing is so adorable
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A teeny tiny e-reader that’s about the size of a credit card
@thomasfuchs There's a new system update available. XT V6.0.15 Lots of polishing and fixes if you're not using a 3rd party like CrossPoint or CrossInk.
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Photo of the XTEInk 4 e-reader device in white displaying the Settings screen and showing the Update XT V6.0.15
Conflicted over how much of the future understanding of the PC and Apple industry ok the 80s is going to be poisoned by AI and how much is going to be poisoned by @NanoRaptor
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) » 🌐
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
All of Nanoraptor's posts are historically accurate, just not necessarily from this timeline.
[The Ident-I-Eeze] encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and it therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
(Sharing the credit for this one with @quixoticgeek ):
Tom Bombadil is the Jar-Jar Binks of Middle Earth.
can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"
@jwz a deep and sincere thank you for making Dali Clock available as an iPhone app. I was away from the house and didn’t have my glasses. And I had to coordinate on an exact time to meet up with someone
I hate how the Apple clock app works to get to the time, all I want is the time in big numbers, but even in world clock it’s still kinda small
In a fit of inspiration I remembered Dali Clock. I downloaded it on a lark ages ago. Years later, my eyes suck, and let me tell you this app is perfect
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jwz » 💀 🌐
@jwz@mastodon.social
@crazybutable Thanks! Glad you like it. I imagine you're one of about 7 people total using the app...
@jwz a few years ago it was my 4 year old’s favorite app
I think he called it glitch clock or something like that. He thought he had broken the phone and was delighted and slightly mystified when I told him it was on purpose
Thanks to my friend S. for providing the initial recording.
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