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What I'm listening to today: "The River - 3 guitar ambient jam with drones and synths in the forest w/Sam Bell and Pete Ferguson"
The YouTube channel "drone-in-the-woods" is truth in naming. This is some gentle ambient post-rock and it is, indeed, performed live in the woods by three guitarists. I'm not usually one for "happy music" but I dig this. It's like if Godspeed You Black Emperor had worked their issues out and got real into Boards of Canada.
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What I'm listening to today: "Musica Ricercata no.7", György Ligeti as performed by Grégoire Blanc
This is from a set of twelve piano pieces composed in 1953 by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, as arranged for analog synthesizer and dual theremins in December 2023 by Blanc. (The mood is enormous, the future that 1981 promised us.) Ligeti would go on to write the "Monolith music" from 2001. Grégoire Blanc would go on to do his laundry
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts
Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here
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@dosnostalgic oh hype
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@dosnostalgic We gotta figure out how to embed a wasm mod/xm player in a web player like Jason Scott does with DOS games
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@dosnostalgic oh, ok. the crushiness is actually my favorite thing about it lol
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@dosnostalgic @Ertain that'll be phase shift coding tho which is much less interesting to a human ear
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@jbo ever since the update where they made the notifications display taller than the status bar I have liked each version less than the one before i
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As you may remember from me talking about it once a week, the three things I most want out of a cell phone are
1. RECTANGULAR screen with NO HOLES OR ROUNDED EDGES ON THE DISPLAY CANVAS
2. Big bezel/bevel/whatever it's called so I can hold it without activating the touch screen
3. Headphone jack
I search and search and even for high prices I usually cannot get these things
But the $35 carrier branded temp replacement phone I bought at the Wal-Mart by the airport?
All three
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I don't like lying. I really, *really* do not like it when a software program requires me to lie
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2. In the process of setting up my new phone, I at one point had to answer a nightmare CAPTCHA where the question was "Please select all objects crafted by humans", and then all the options were either fish or clocks, and that was was a fine question, except one of the clocks I was clearly required to select was *clearly* an image generated by "AI", meaning no it was *not* crafted by humans,
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Meanwhile in dystopia news:
1. In Android 13 they made it even harder to disable Google Assistant. I activated it by accident like 3 times trying to disable. The first thing I did was uninstall Google Assistant, but this turns out not to disable Google Assistant instead it shuts you out from disabling Google Assistant. That is, to disable Google Assistant you must first install Google Assistant. Then you have to be careful not to tap it— that activates it— you MUST long-press and tap "Settings"
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In other news, it turns out on stock Android now, disabling animations adds an additional, extremely disruptive animation. Everytime you home button it flashes the icon of the app you're leaving huge, blurry and screen size for exactly 1 frame. It's glitchy and photosensitivity-unfriendly
I thought this was an Android 13 thing, but no, appears it's stock Android and Sony had somehow disabled it on my main phone. People have been flagging this issue for two years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/tkci6q/new_minimize_animation/?rdt=59271
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It feels like a loyalty ritual
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Anyway sorry I spend so much of my time on this account complaining about computers, but is just the thing is, there are so many horrible things about them,
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I like limiting animations, but the reason I HAVE to disable animations is the grotesque, nauseating full screen overscroll animation in Android where everything stretches oddy. So now it's like they give me a Pavlovian punishment for doing that. Periodic bright flashes in my eyes. I'd consider this frustrating but acceptable if this happened because I used the "Developer" reduce animation options, which naturally aren't QAed, but it happens with the builtin accessibility "reduce animation" too!
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It may be that after all the many gross indignities I have solemnly endured at the hands of Google, Android 13 is the thing that finally drives me to build my own rom.
The full screen flicker is enough by itself, and on top of that, the thing where it displays a mandatory popup you must swipe to clear every time you copy anything is *really* bad. I thought it was gonna be bad and it really was
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@dosnostalgic Oh snap!
Are these modern scene arrangements or were people rearranging this stuff for PC sound cards at the time? (Though I guess 97 is new enough for people to have 44.1k PCM systems.)
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What I'm listening to today: "Funky Stars", Quazar
This is a poppy eurodance DOS tracker tune from 1997. Feels good, slick production, moody 80s/early 90s feel.
After 2000 the artist behind this .xm went on to have a conventional career as a producer, making club techno remixes for a bunch of hip hop artists plus Madonna under the name "Axwell", then cofounding Swedish House Mafia ("Don't You Worry Child").
This track is listed on some mod archives as "Hybrid Song".
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What I'm listening to today: "Zularic Repetitor's best friend Befaco Percall Modular Techno Jam featuring Kickall & Noise Plethora", tiimoik
This is a 20 minute industrial techno performance with a really good chilled (distinct from chill) feeling to it. The rhythm is alive and constantly evolving throughout— the "repetitor" applies an algorithmic form of African music theory.
(The video confuses me—it appears to be a 4-second loop of just one part of the performance.)
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