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Issue opened:
Add a timeshift tool · Issue #6155 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
Havenât used timeshifting in Audacity in a while and wow this is so finicky:
The time shift tool is missing! Yes, that is intentional. Audio clips can now be dragged using the Selection tool (or any other tool) in the âClip Handleâ
What used to be a 200 pixel tall field is now like three pixels. And the vertical alignment line is gone.
Not being knee-jerk âall change is badâ, this change just really actually is bad.
See Palestinians? We care about life, and we are happy. You on the other hand, are at the bottom of the list. Maybe time to care about your own lives more than about killing us?
Theyâre at the bottom because youâre killing them, you blockhead!
Ticket to Ride har ett finskt namn (âMenolippuâ) men varför har det inget svenskt namn? âBiljettspeletâ önskar jag att det hette. Jag tycker generellt dom flesta spelnamn ska sluta med suffixet â-speletâ. Kamelspelet, UbĂ„tsspelet osv.
Menolippu betyder enkelbiljett; den engelska orginalet Àr en anspelning pÄ Beatles-lÄten (fast Vanilla Fudge har ju gjort en mycket bÀttre version) som handlar om en tjej som reser ivÀg men Menolippu Àr en annan sÄng, först inspelad av Neil Sedaka 1959, om att sjÀlv resa ivÀg. Den har spelats in mÄnga gÄnger pÄ finska.
Det tyska namnet Zug um Zug betyder tĂ„g om tĂ„g men i mĂ„nga lĂ€nder (ex vis Frankrike) heter spelet âĂ€ventyrarna pĂ„ rĂ€lsâ
Fun few days of games. This Monday was three visits to the lands so rad (i.e. playing Radlands three times) with Barney (and one game of Netrunner with a deck I borrowed from him). Yesterday I played War for Arrakis a four player game with a friend against Simon and someone I donât know very well. We clumsily miscalculated our Sand Dwellers track and couldve won one round earlier than we eventually did. Round after we did wrap it up but Harkonnens were at 9 supremacy. We went for a dice starvation strat harassing their harvesters and using planning cards that took away dice, especially movement dice.
And today a games marathon with Halo; my new painstakingly built rebuild of Harmony Medtech got schooled 0â3 (and he was salty not getting to play corp but he had Lotus Fields against my Yog.0/Datasuckers so it wouldnât even have been fun, Netrunner doesnât work very well as a constructed game, maybe we should make draft cubes), then we played my favorite game, which is Focus (2â1 but kudos to him for playing so strictly with the touch move rule), then I won two games of Meridians and finally we played Ticket To Ride and that was awesome!
I kept two tickets and never drew more and I got the cities confused. I had BergenâTrondheim and BergenâNarvik. But I accidentally built OsloâTrondheim and OsloâNarvik and then had to scramble to go to Bergen. But that happened soon enough that I then started blocking him most cruelly, just guessing where he might go (and also taking some routes that I was pretty sure he wasnât heading but I wanted to zerg rush out the train cars as soon as I could. I ended up 83 points and he had the globetrotter bonus so before his negative tickets he was at 103.
But after subtracting the negatives I ended up winning with only one single point! I got completely schooled when last I played against him so that felt awesome!
âWhat a week, huh?â but in a good way since I have things I love scheduled every day and did awesome things yesterday and Monday. Now all I need to do is not jinx it
I want to practice being relaxed even in a game without takebacks. The less I care about the outcome the easier it is for me to accept touch-move style strictness, but for high-stakes games I get really salty and wish I could take things back more fully. I wanna learn to have that slack and that detachment at any level of play. In that sense, no-takebacks indicates the ultimate relaxation, letting go of everything and really remembering that itâs a game, itâs for fun, itâs not like a painting where I need to erase or paint over stuff. Since games are âprocess artâ rather than âartifact artâ, I just wanna go forward. Dance is also process art. When practicing a new kind of step or choreography you might do one step over and over but when just dancing for fun, for the enjoyment of it, Iâd rather just follow the rhythm forward.
NSG stole Netrunner from the corporations, but not for the people. Only for themselves.
PDK nailed it:
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, thereby it becomes its enemies.
Ah, here are the MIDI values for SmplTrek, this wasnât in the reference manual:
SmplTrek_manual_MIDI_en.pdf at Sonicware
I set up a Rozeta XY to control the insert effect parameters (such as an amp simâs gain, level and tone).
What tripped me up for a while was that those go on the project channel, not the track channel. So setting Rozeta XYâs channel to fourteen (or whatever the current SmplTrek project channel is set to) while keeping AUMâs note keyboard to whatever channel Iâm playing is one way that can work.
But mainly just having the Rozeta XY to control this stuff without having to menu dive into the FX section.
I also wanna map something for selecting insert effect type but for that I want something with more control (i.e. set specific value and inc/dec by one) than the XY pads (which are great for gain and level). Nothing I already have installed in AUM comes to mind.
Dammit, Safari! I hate all five of the default search engines so much! (Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.) And stuff I type in the URL bar and hit RET and isnât an URL or bookmark sends me to one of them and that canât be disabled. Just please let me set my own đ
Right, doing it with WSS is also only a few lines:
let socket = new WebSocket("wss://url.example/chat/here");
socket.onmessage = function(event) {
document.getElementById('messages').append(event.data);}
websocket#chat-example at Javascript
You donât have to do a whole new key checking handshake for every line of text in a chat, and you donât need to poll manually.
In recent years, the standardisation and widespread support of WebSocket and Server-sent events has rendered the Comet model obsolete.
Huh. Maybe WebSockets and pals has less request overhead than htmz?
When you load a URL into the htmz iframe, the onload handler kicks in. It extracts your destination ID selector from the URL hash fragment and transplants the iframeâs contents (now containing the loaded HTML resource) into your specified destination.
htmz only runs when you invoke it. It does not continually parse your DOM and scan it for special attributes or syntax, nor does it attach listeners in your DOM.
OMG yes!
What the heck!
JOSH DION (PARIS MONSTER) | UK Drum Show 2018 - YouTube
A guy playing drums and a synthesizer at the same time (juggling the drumstick), and after a while he starts singing also.
BreadTube video essays can sometimes be really bad about burying the lede for the sake of tension. Super vague and clickbaity, and fans taking step to not spoil the video. âIâm not gonna help spread the important part of the information that people need to know so you can have fun watching the video.â
Some of my faves on there are my faves because theyâre instead (for the most part) pretty upfront with what theyâre gonna say.
And as always when I go and look for news on this I find page after page of knuckle-scraping troglodytes who are attacking diaspora Jews out some misguided us-vs-them frustration. Hell no to that!
To our friends in the international community, I say: is your memory so short?
Over 2300 killed, 70% civilians.
Feels like the bridge tone knob doesnât do anything even after I had the pots replaced đ”âđ«
YouTube put an Audrey GBG song on an Audrey MX channel. But PirateBay was illegal. đ€Šđ»ââïž
One fair criticism of Dune Imperium is how tame most of the deckbuilding cards are. âHere, you can maaaybe have one extra persuasion on Thursdays between 1830 and half past sixâ Even Friday has more going on and thatâs super spartan for a deckbuilder. For a game with basically a pretty sparse waterâspiceâmoneyâpoints economy the cards are not very interesting. Even base game El Dorado which mostly has âmove three stepsâ has cards thatâjust from the numbersâare more exciting than the super marginal gains on Dune Imperiumâs cards. The intrigue cards are more powerful but theyâre one-shot and random.
I need pretty much one bookmark per book since I hate finishing books, itâs much more fun âkeeping them aliveâ than âwrapping them upâ. I did finish two books yesterday, Ninki Goes To The Arcane Academy and Wise Blood. Although they were digital so I didnât need physical bookmarks for them. They were great; it seemed like the former was close to running afoul of my âweird frameworkâ hangup for a stretch in the middle but I guess itâs fine for world-building purps; all the main tension drivers were about human interactions or experiences, which is what Iâm into.
A weird framework is not itself a compelling mystery
I also read a liâl over eighty pages in NOS4A2 (I was already on page 200, so around 285, 290 something now) after finishing Ninki but before starting Wise Blood. Iâm had to take a break since it got so scary. Although that book absolutely has the âweird frameworkâ problem so far.
I guess I just was in a reading mood. Iâve also been reading a chapter a day in BlĂ„ Koral, Iâm a liâl less than halfway through. And I re-read both of the Strange Stars books; Iâve got a lot left to do prep-wise. And then in the morning I read three tanks of No Longer Heroine. Sometimes I canât read a single page and other days I read like five books?!
Tonight the plan is to start a re-read one of my fave comics of all time, Joanna Hellgrenâs Frances. Havenât read it since it first came out.
(Audio books Iâm doing Bells Hells [I wanted to listen to Daggerheart but the music is loud and headache-inducing even for CR. The damage/HP system seems great and Iâm definitively giving the game a closer look after initially dismissing it after Candela Obscura was not great] and Blood Sells (since Iâve got the Holly hardcover which I donât wanna start reading until I finish listening to Blood Sells). But audio books are slow going for me since I canât listen to them on walks any more.)
TL;DR:
Spikes want the decisions to be meaningful strategically, others donât need any decisions at all. Iâm bored to tears by the latter but think the former is stretching it too far: Iâm OK with decisions that are only meaningful thematically. đ€·đ»ââïž
This âgames need decisionsâ is also where I sometimes butt heads with the players in my D&D group for how I wanna shortcut things, say a four-day journey I wanna roll all the encounter checks at once then all the foraging etc etc.
Especially after we spent fifty sessions trying to find Omu on Chult, youâd think weâd be eager to go to a more âletâs spend our game sessions on breaks from routine rather than repeating routineâ mindset. đ€·đ»ââïž
It might be a liâl unfair that Iâm docking Nature Fluxx for revolving around Drought while I have zero problems with Radlands revolving around the Raiders card. The Raiders event in Radland is basically just an externalized game mechanic, an elegant way to introduce one more attack vector in a tight and clean game design, and the same could be said for Nature Fluxxâ Drought.
I also think the mission cards in Star Wars Rebellions are amazingly elegant for encapsulating a lot of what otherwise would be âuh you need to memorize these default actionsâ onto cards. Especially the four returning ones (our nickname for them are âbananasâ since the returning-arrow looks like a banana. We also call one of the roles in The Cure âBanana Boyâ because he has a die face with three arrows), just like the Raiders card is a recurring event in Radlands. Also the other event cards (for the most part) suck in Radlands. They just clog up your raiders lane.
But itâs just that some people sometimes feel that Fluxx can outstay its welcome a liâl bit and Drought exacerbates that, while the Raiders in Radlands make the game end a lost faster usually.
Iâll keep exploring the game with Drought still in, I donât like judging things too hastily, this is just âfirst thoughtsâ.
I played Dune Imperium. I had a bad time with the game but a very fun and good time with the group with lots of laughs. As I was telling âem: âDidnât like the game but really loved hanging out with yâall!â
And as I also told âem: Iâm not sure what percentage of my dislike of the game is only my dislike of my own badness at the game. Maybe 99.9999% and if I get better at the game Iâll start liking it.đ€·đ»ââïž
I also was not prepared that it was gonna be a war game, killing other human beings (in the game) and stealing money and melange from them. I mean I like the Radlands game with the cartoonish antics of Molgur and Vera &co so thatâs not in and of itself a showstopper, I just wasnât prepared. I was more ready for that the second time we played. Both theme-wise and the more direct-in-your-face conflict compared to something like Mottainai.
In Swedish, itâs very easy to express âI didnât like the game [meaning one single playthrough from start to finish] but juryâs still out on the game [meaning the boardgame as a whole, all times we might play it in the future]â. But the word âgameâ in English means like five completely different Swedish things (âspelâ, âlekâ, âpartiâ, âvillebrĂ„dâ, âhaffa guzzâ, probably more since English is what it is).
We played twice, alternating with Nature Fluxx as a palate cleanser. I have been wanting to play Fluxx again for a decade; last time I played it was one of the first times I visited DanCon and that was over a decade ago. Itâs a game that the typical Stockholm glued-to-BGG groupthing crowd kind of are down on but itâs fun and easy. First time the game was completely borked because A. I forgot that thereâs only one goal in play at a time so all the possible consequences of playing a keeper got super messed up with twenty rules on the table, and second of all we shuffled sloppily so first we drew mostly goal cards and no keepers. Second go (after one match of Dune Imperium) the game worked as intended and was really fun. It was a longish game though, kind of got close to outstaying itâs welcome.
I had gotten in my head that EcoFluxx, which was the first edition of what now is called Nature Fluxx, was the best version of Fluxx (among the first handful of Fluxxes, now there are several dozen ones and maybe among them some better ones have come out now). The eco theme makes it so that a lot of the keepers make more sense and the âeatsâ mechanic, unique to this Fluxx, adds a liâl bit of strategy & tactics while keeping the game mostly a lolrandom luckfest. Itâs just enough strategy & tactics to be fun.
One thing that might be a step in the wrong direction is the addition of the new card âDroughtâ. If someone draws it they must play it, and while itâs in play no one can win, and there are only four cards in the entire deck that can get rid of it, and those cards might be in the discard pile already. (Scavenger or Composting might get one of those anti-Drought cards (âWaterâ) back if itâs near the bottom or top of the discard pile, but there are also other cards like Pollution that can mess up the water. I guess itâs realistic that droughts and water management is a big problem for the ecosystem to deal with but it makes games a liâl longer and a lot sameier.
Looking forward to playing Nature Fluxx again, I enjoy it as a fun lolrandom luckfest with decisions. âSpikeâ-type gamers want games with meaningful decisions, and look down on the casuals who like games with no decisions like LCR or tic-tac-toe or Candyland. But between those categories are tons of game players who have fun with games that do have decisions but the decisions only matter a little bit. My classic example for that category is Afrikan TĂ€hti. That was a fave game in the nineties when we were babysitting the neighborhood kids because it had waaay more decisions than mosts of the other roll-and-moves in their game chest: even though itâs 99% luck thatâll ultimately determine the winner, you have lots of routes to explore and a good sense of exploration and travel planning.
Contrasted with Dune Imperium where the game felt like one big IQ test that I was failing. đ”âđ«
One of the things that have turned things around in Netrunner is⊠I used to think of House of Knives as sort of a âit can do one extra damage and maybe flatline in a clutch situation, but scoring an entire 3/1 for that is a liâl expensiveâ. What I was missing was that using all three counters is a reverse Diesel. In other words, House of Knives is a strong econ card. Now, the synthetis of those two perspectives means: use the tokens selectively but donât hoard âem.
Every good narrator knows you save the punchline for last. In a story. But when trying to teach or convey something, that skill can get in the way.
Momoko KĆdaâs blog:
We also had a rules question. New Angeles Sol, if they could replay the same current that just went away. That was the question.
This game is a liâl too complicated for me đ
Thanks to practicing Netrunner with Barney the other week, I finally managed to defeat my friend Halo! 3â0! First with Replicating Perfection (âWhite Treeâ), then with Kit âHoly Shitâ Peddler, then with RP again. First corp win was on a snare when the runner had no stack left and only two cards in grip. Then with Kit I had a six point lead but then fell behind (so tied at six in the score areas with the last Beale on the table) to some bull Troll / Heinlein Grid combo (but I managed to out-trace New Angeles Sol after only taking credits for a few rounds and then Stimhack). And then last corp win was off a Future Perfect psi game on last click.
And also before we brought out the Netrunner cards, Halo won against me in a game of Meridians.â„ïž We went 1â1. I was overly wishfully thinking throughout the whole game.
Nintendo bad!
This wasnât a precedence-setting case since it was settled out of court. Hack on! But also Nintendo can heck right off!
The sans-hating mind of whatever crocodile head decided that compiler flags should be -I and -l and itâs deathly important which is which and what order they go in đ
Joanna Chen writes.
For two weeks after October 7, I was unable to focus on my translation work. [âŠ] My volunteer work with Road to Recovery came to a full stop. [âŠ] Two weeks after the present war began, I took the plunge and again began driving children to hospitals.
Translator who also volunteers driving West Bank kids to hospitals.
Timeline of Gaza âevacuationsâ, also:
Analyses by CNN, The New York Times, and Sky News all found that Israel had bombed areas it had previously told civilians to evacuate to. The Sky News investigation also concluded that Israelâs evacuation orders had been âchaotic and contradictoryâ, NYT found that Israel had dropped 2,000-pound bombs in those areas, while CNN stated it had verified at least three locations Israel bombed after telling civilians it was safe to go there.
Nu Ă€r jag i avsnitt tre och det kommer fram att i berĂ€ttelsen som dom ringer in đ har hon först sagt att det inte var meningen. Det Ă€r Ă€ndĂ„ inte OK sĂ„klart, vi ska vara varsamma om varandra hĂ€r pĂ„ jorden, men det förklarar Ă€nnu mer nĂ„gra av dom mer suspekta svaren. đ€·đ»ââïž
Men jag Ă€r generellt sĂ„Â trött pĂ„ upplĂ€gget att âprogrammet ska vara spĂ€nnandeâ. Har ibland klagat pĂ„ brĂ€dspelsprogrammen No Pun Intended och Shut Up & Sit Down för att dom hĂ„ller inne med sin Ă„sikt till slutet av rec:en som om det vore mördaren i en Agatha Christieâroman men dom Ă€r Ă€ndĂ„ underhĂ„llningsprogram. NĂ€r dokumentĂ€rer gör samma grej, vilket oftast Ă€r fallet, sÄ Àr det pĂ„ bekostnad av den upplysande aspekten av dom.
VĂ„r kultur försöker hela tiden vara sĂ„Â himla âfinurligâ och bygga upp spĂ€nning och komma med vĂ€ndningar och aha-upplevelser. Orkar inte. SĂ€g som det Ă€r direkt istĂ€llet. Det finns absolut ett vĂ€rde i spĂ€nnade berĂ€ttelser men blanda inte ihop drama med information sĂ„hĂ€r.
Jag tror inte pĂ„ att âdet blir mer engagerandeâ, inte tillrĂ€ckligt för att det ska vara vĂ€rt risken för missförstĂ„nd. Folk halvlyssnar eller kollar bara början osv.
Kollar pÄ Uppdrag Granskning nÀr dom ringer runt till moskéer och frÄgar (med en uppdiktad historia) som en kvinna som undrar om hon ska berÀtta att hon slagit sin son. Dom flesta sÀger ja, vilket Àr jÀttebra. Varje slag mot en annan mÀnniska, speciellt mot ett barn, Àr alltid fel. Det fÄtalet rÄdgivare som inte direkt ger det rÄdet lyfter programmet upp och spelar upp flera gÄnger och anvÀnder som avsnittsteasers och repliker blir avsnittsnamn.
AlltsÄ det skulle ju ha varit mycket meningsfullare om dom ocksÄ hade gjort samma test hos kristna eller sekulÀra stödlinjer som en kontrollgrupp eller vad man nu ska sÀga. Hur dom skulle hantera en kvinna som uttrycker sin Änger och kontaktar dom och vill ha tips pÄ hur hon ska navigera en allvarlig situation. Nu efter att programmet har visats Àr det för sent för en sÄn undersökning tÀnker jag.
Datajournalistik Ă€r inte det lĂ€ttaste. đ°
Ăr nyfiken för jag tycker det jĂ€mt finns ett sĂ„nt testande och stickande i allt som Ă€r utlĂ€ndskt, trots att det finns misshandel Ă€ven i en del svenska familjer. Sverige var det förstna landet dĂ€r det blev förbjudet, 1979, och det Ă€r jĂ€ttebra för det Ă€r fel. Men det hĂ€nder trots det ibland att barn blir slagna. USA har inte samma lag vilket Ă€r jĂ€ttekonstigt.
Grognards: âD&D lost its wild creative spirit once it started being inspired by fantasy inspired by it, like a snake eating its own tail. It was better when it was inspired by the pulps and not just Tolkienesque EDO.â
The D&D millenials & zoomers: âOK, hereâs some wild fauns & furries & blue tieflings & dragonborn monks & water-spirit frog people.â
Grognards: âNo not like that.â
However, here was the problem: The study did not assess all sources of global emissions worldwide (which includes agriculture, transportation, buildingsâ heating and cooling systems) but rather only analyzed the output of fossil-fuel producers, specifically.
In other words, that â71% of global warming is caused by 100 companiesâ is not true.
Hereâs whatâs going on: a study looked at companies (including state actors) producing oil, gas, coal and cement, and then calculated out that within this particular sector, 100 companies did 71% of the harm.
And those companies are indeed super bad and we need to stop them as soon as possible.
In addition, there are other causes of climate change like transport, housing and food. Here, the richest need to change the most! Storm the palace! But everyoneâs life is gonna have to change.
âThe Guardianâ published this misleading headline leading a lot of people towards inaction and âenh not my problemâ.
Jaaa! Jag Àlskar tÄg!
Roxetteâs âLook Sharp!â album was made on Atari, with Lengelingâs âCreatorâ DAW:
Roxette - Donât forget youâre a rocker (The making of Look Sharp!)+Extra - YouTube
In EMI Studios in Stockholm.
From âWhat effects do I put in the loop?â:
Much as reverb and delay almost always work better in the loop, your dirt boxes almost always sound better in front of the amp.
it was curious to think that the sky
was the same for everybody
in Eurasia
or Eastasia
as well as Oceania
and the people under the sky were
very much the same
How do I GPG sign commits for a Forgejo PR? Is that something I do in the web UI or in the CLI at home?
Well, Woods explains, Exxon is a molecule company, by which he means itâs interested in transforming moleculesââand they happen to be hydrogen and carbon moleculesââto âaddress the needs of our society.â What heâs saying, quite explicitly, is that Exxon is not an electron company, i.e. a company interested in building out wind or solar power. And when Fortune asks him why not, he lets slip the basic truth of our moment: âwe donât see the ability to generate above-average returns for our shareholders.â
For everyone whoâs ever asked themselves, why isnât Exxon (and Chevron and the rest) leading the charge to renewable energy, thereâs the answer: you can make money doing it, but not as much as theyâve made traditionally. Thatâs because the sun and the wind deliver the energy for free, and all you need is some equipment to turn it into electrons.
Thatâs really understating the problems inherent to market capitalism, which is that it rewards exploiting loopholes like under-accounted-for environmental externalities.
Overall great article.
(But get off Substack.)
Will this mess with my self-signed TOFU cert for Gemini?
Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) - Letâs Encrypt
Swedish govât want DST all year round. Thatâs less bad than falling back and springing forward every year but what I really want is for 12 AM to be noon and 12 PM to be midnight. (Or abolish timezones entirely, beats style.) DST is the âwrongâ time.
More of an issue with Letâs Encypt than with XMPP itself but:
Snikket Blog | On the jabber.ru MITM attack
Even more homework: đ€Šđ»ââïž
Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) - Letâs Encrypt
Running a VPS is all the work of having your own server but almost all of the downsides of having a corporate overlord. (Being able to supposedly migrate away easily is the one upside, but then why canât I easily just download the backup snapshots Iâm paying for?)
I donât know how to send & receive photos over bitlbee đ€Šđ»ââïž
As nails-on-a-chalkboard as the name is, this seems to one of the best messaging apps for a mainstream audience:
(Or so it seems. I havenât used it personally because I use Prosody and bitlbee. But Snikket is supposedly compatible with those.)
This is one of the oldest functions in my .zshrc. It might even be the very first one:
function fcff () {
dc -e "3k$1d $2 100/*+f"
}
To turn the course/fine params into real freq ratios.
What would a fifty-foot acoustic guitar made out of glass sound like?
Love Emmyâs art:
In Netrunner, me and Barney started calling the first card drawn for free by the corporation each turn âgetting blessedâ since I was kvetching that âmandatory drawâ sounded so negative.â„ïž
Article from ten years ago about how itâs a liâl iffy to trust web apps for encryption:
Do programs in the browser represent the interests of the user? According to Commander Douglas Crockford (image at the top of this post) the answer is a resounding NO. This is not the traditional threat model of the browser.
Man, I love Dragon Quest:
Tales of the Lunar Lands: 20 Encounters from Dragon Quest III
Ja! Fast vad dÄ blÄgröna? Dom Àr inte speciellt gröna.
That becomes easier now that Iâve set it up to do both from Emacs, both start as markdown buffers. I can add a headline, a slug, and a category and weâre off to the races. And by both I mean it all, I guess. Email, IRC, fedi, tinylog, and breakfast.
Alex Schroeder has a post about why blogging:
One speaks to an imagined audience.
One liâl trick I have is that many of my essays do start as a letter to a friend or as a tinylog reply that then goes on longer than intended so Iâm like âOK, this one goes to the gemlog instead.â
We just had a session where they had been teleported to an unknown area đ°
People with West Marches play styles: how exactly does the party get home at the end of session?
I increased the posts here in this liâl tinylog from 25 saved to 75 (currently not that many yet but itâll fill up gradually).
I want it to save at least a few days of posts and Iâve been posting so unhemulishly much lately.
I did some searching and it seems that the reason peeps dig their four operator FM synths is to approximate the constraints of older video game hardware for nostalgia. The DX7 approach to use FFT sines to emulate real instruments got deprecated by layered romplers.
OK, I can understand that.
I just donât like the 16 bit era audio very much. NES and gameboy is more my jam. The one 4 operator FM retro video game soundtracks I really loved was The Secret of Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. But itâs the melodies and mixes inspite of the synths, not because of them. Of course, Iâve heard sound artists use 4 OP FM well, like the modern day âPier Solar and the Great Architectsâ, but theyâre the exception. No slag on Sonic fans but I donât get hyped for the audio. I just wanna go in there and mess with the attack rates and modulation levels đ”âđ«
Whereas the DX7 method of making more supposedly-natural sounds is limited but has its own eerie appeal. I learned synthesis from Kymatica in his old studio programming his rackmounted TX 802 (and then kept exploring in Hexter as soon as I got home). Really enjoy the rate/level approach to envs. Thatâs the biggest head trip to get over if youâre used to trad ADSR; once you get comfy with the rate/level envelopes the rest is a liâl easier. But I have full sympathy for anyone whoâs a liâl intimidated by them since itâs like a completely alien language, reversed compared to ADSR.
Rich gets richer:
spotify-reportedly-will-start-paying-less-royalties-to-less-popular-artists-news at Mixmag
â#VimesBoots
Main reason I like using DX7 derived synths is to mitigate vendor lock-in a liâl bit. The other iPad synth Iâve been liking, âZeeonâ, is proprietary so patches I make there get stuck there.
I set out to make a DX7 drum kit today but instead I stumbled over this organ lead that I really liked:
PreshTears.mov at Idiomdrottning
Hereâs the patch:
PreshTears.syx at Idiomdrottning
Assign a controller to the level of OP 6 (currently 70) so you can dynamically make the sound more pure by turning that down to your liking đ€·đ»ââïž
(I tweaked a generated patch which is why some of the envs are a liâl nonsensical like sequential parts with the same level.)
Patches like this is why I canât understand why so many FM synths only have four operators.
Ditigal minimalism:
Dinosaur Comics - March 8th, 2024 - awesome fun times!
In practice, Iâve been enjoying epub novels, email, and Gemini more than web pages for the past several years. đ€·đ»ââïž
Not sure Iâd call it âno UGCâ. Readers arenât users and there is content from at least one person. But thatâs semantics.
bacardi55 on not putting web mentions and comments on the blog:
This site doesnât allow to add or display any user generated content (UGC). One could argue that I canât because this is a static site, but it could be easy to add comments via discuss or an opensource alternative like Isso or Chirpy.
My own lack of that kinda stuff on my own webpage is not meant as a deliberate decision. Itâs just something thatâs been on the backburner for decades, I âhavenât gotten around to implementing itâ. Especially putting email or Fedi comments would be interesting, Iâve thought. But maybe itâs a good thing I havenât? I sometimes quote feedback directly in the posts and that has been fun and worked well.
I do for sure agree with this part:
Every blog without a contact section makes me sad. Please, dear bloggers, allow us readers to reach out to you :).
[On the web] I can avoid the self-important arrogant contrarians with superiority-complexes, unlike on Gemini and Gopher.
But apparently some level of moderation and community-curation are good things (since thereâs stuff on here you wanna get away from). Same here. Thatâs why I couldnât get behind full free speech extremism.
Now clseibold (AuraGem dev) is leaving Gemini.
Canât say I agree with his distaste for moderated communities or for left-wing politics but one thing I agree with is:
The common sentiment was that difficulty in writing and uploading documents to Gopherspace/Geminispace is a bonus because it excludes non-techy people
Yeah, Iâve always hated that.
Delta Chat and Thunderbird both seem more afraid of accidentally sending an unreadable encrypted message than accidentally sending an unencrypted message. I kinda would want the opposite philosophy ideally.
Really the only âstyleâ I wanna add to the older, pre-style web pages is max-width on the text but that shouldnât have to be server-side. There should just be a good default, narrower max-width for the body text on older, unstyled web pages. Server-side styling (the font-size tags and friends) was a mistake. Gemini did the right thing by keeping all styling userside.
Styling and typography are good things! But it should be clientside.
Antenna seems to be back up.
Oh, nice, AO3 has an epub export: