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karschsp

@karschsp@jawns.club

Dad, husband, musician, web nerd. I geek out regarding the following:

#Music
#TheBeatles
#Drupal
#Tech
#PhillySports
#Songwriting

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karschsp, to Instagram
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Why is Instagram auto-applying filters when I upload photos? See attached with Instagram upload on left (no filter applied by the user, just some crappy insta-auto-applied filter) and same photo in photos.app on the right.

karschsp,
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As a follow up: I added one of my posts to my story and it looks like this.

karschsp, to random
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I figured out how to get to the photo that’s displayed in “Standby mode” in iOS. If you tape on the time, it displays when/where the photo was taken and a link to “open in Photos.” I don’t know when they added this, but now they just to need to do the same/similar for the Lock Screen. @waynedixon

waynedixon, to random
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I'm one of those people who watches things with the subtitles on, not because I need them but because sometimes the volume changes too much and the speech is too low.

It is mind blowing just how bad some of the closed captioning is on a lot of media... I mean, like horrendous. Incomplete sentences and misspellings, all that make it impossible to actually watch something if you need closed captioning.

I don't mean an occasional misspelling either, it's constant.

karschsp,
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@waynedixon Movies/shows or live tv/sports? I turn them off during sports because I mostly don’t care what the commentators are saying.

mdmrn, to music
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Okay, Jukebox Friday Night's theme is "Up In the Sky."

All I can think of is Superman, which is nonsense, but that's how my brain works. "Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's..."

...Superman by Goldfinger https://songwhip.com/goldfinger/superman

What?

karschsp,
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@mdmrn “Up In The Sky” - Oasis https://songwhip.com/oasis/up-in-the-sky

karschsp, to bandnames
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Band name: Screaming Cicadas.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-broods-of-screaming-cicadas-will-emerge-this-spring-in-a-once-in-a-lifetime-event/

karschsp, to random
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Restaurant idea: Rube Goldburger’s. When you order your burger, it is automatically prepared by an elaborate, overwrought, mechanical contraption.

jonhicks, (edited ) to random
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Used Spotify for the first time since since March (been using Apple Music).

As much as I hate Spotify's attitude to paying artists, promoting Joe Rogan, bizarre UI changes etc etc - it is so much quicker and easier to 'get around' than Apple Music. Search works better, Album/Artist names are links. Same goes for Plex. Apple Music feels slow and fiddly, and the ‘Apple Music/Your Library' switch doesn’t help.

Which makes me wonder about trying out Tidal in Plex - anyone do this?

karschsp,
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@Solomon @jonhicks Interesting. I’ve found Apple Music’s recs to be pretty good. I pretty regularly find new or new-to-me artist by listening to “my” station. I feel it does a pretty decent job of mixing my regular rotation music with stuff it thinks I would like.

Meyerweb, to random
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It’s been 30 years since I typed my first HTML tags. Sometimes I wonder how many more years of that I have before me, but I do kind of hope I at least make it another 20. Anyway, here’s a two-minute read about that night and what, exactly, I was marking up — including a link to a copy of that very first page.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/06/three-decades-of-html/

karschsp,
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@Meyerweb “... which was the style at the time” Did you also tie an onion to your belt? :D
1993 was the start for me, as well. I sometimes wish I had archived copies of the mess I made back then.
Anyway, thank you for three decades of pushing the web forward. 🙏

karschsp, to random
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Remember those “record your own song" booths in the malls/boardwalks of the 80s/90s? Are those still a thing?

killyourfm, to random
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Last night I watched a video logged out of YouTube (on the TV app) and the frequency of ads was horrifying.

karschsp,
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@killyourfm I've basically stopped using YouTube since they started cracking down on ad blockers. I use FreeTube instead or yt-dlp if I really need to see the video.

killyourfm, to Spotify
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Major labels get more profit, smaller indie labels and unsigned artists get less.

"A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool."

https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-changing-how-pays-artists-stream-thresholds/

karschsp,
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@killyourfm to paraphrase Spinal Tap: “How much more 'less' can we pay them? The answer is none. None more ‘less’”

waynedixon, to apple
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Apple Quietly Increases Prices for Some of its Services

Today Apple has quietly increased the price of some of their services.

https://www.waynedixon.com/2023/10/25/apple-quietly-increases-prices-for-some-of-its-services

karschsp,
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@waynedixon Honesty, this is still probably the subscription I get the most value from (Premier family+).

karschsp,
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@waynedixon Yeah, we’re an Apple Music fam now (it took a lot of convincing) and I enjoy some shows on Apple TV+, iCloud and Apple Arcade has some nice stuff as well! Don’t tell Apple but I’d probably pay up to $50 for all that. ;)

karschsp,
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@waynedixon Oh yeah, we use Apple Fitness too…not religiously uhhh…yeah. Hm. (see also: every other gym membership I've ever signed up for)

karschsp, to random
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Went out to the kitchen during a commercial break to mash some avocados. Phillies scored a run so I guess I know what I’m going to be doing for the next 2 hours.

karschsp,
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I ran out of avocados.

killyourfm, (edited ) to blink182
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Green Day debuted a new song at their show last night after announcing a world tour with Rancid and Smashing Pumpkins.

The Rolling Stones released a new album today.

The original lineup of Blink 182 released a new album today.

A new 2D Mario game launched today...

karschsp,
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@killyourfm Don't forget the Stones!

karschsp,
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@killyourfm yup. and it's pretty dang good IMO.

zachleat, to random
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Watching this play out again and again. Caveat emptor if you ignore HOW something is funded. Relying on—let alone building a business on top of—VC-funded hypergrowth-or-bust dependencies is decidedly risky!

https://mastodon.acc.umu.se/@pettter/111249022267794376

karschsp,
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@zachleat Trees don't grow forever, neither should businesses.

But I know these folks think that with enough money and bullshit they can bend the laws of nature.

Meyerweb, to random
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For my own peace of mind I am not going to read the Techno-Goatse essay, but from what I’m seeing in my timeline, it makes sense that Marc has gone with an Alex Jones look. https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

karschsp,
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@Meyerweb Conehead-vibes.

https://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/hdphotos/9350/009350/009350_807x454_74774_019.jpg

killyourfm, to random
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I don’t know how to feel about the situation. It certainly doesn’t decrease my disdain for Epic Games, and I’m disgusted by Songtradr’s stance of “supporting the band camp community is our top priority but let’s fire half the staff.”

But what’s the alternative? Isn’t it the only well-known music platform that doesn’t screw over musicians? Are there other places where I can launch a vinyl release for no upfront cost? Control my pricing?

Musicians need to take back this industry. how?

karschsp,
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@killyourfm I saw someone earlier mention this: https://resonate.coop/

I know nothing about it but plan to look into it…

karschsp, to random
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Remember the Journey (band) arcade game and the subsequent Atari 2600 version?

Has there ever been another arcade video game (not pinball) solely devoted to a band?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(1983_video_game)

karschsp,
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@skyfaller oohh nice. I was actually thinking of them and Kiss when I put the pinball qualifier in. I didn’t realize they also had an arcade game.

And let’s not forget the Rock n Rollercoaster in Universal Studios!

jonhicks, to random
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This is such sad news. Bandcamp is a haven for both artists and fans alike, but being resold after only a year and then losing 50% of the workforce doesn't give me hope for it's future.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr

karschsp,
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@jonhicks It sucks. This leaves a huge void in the "how do I make literally anything off of my music without being part of the soul-crushing streaming machine..." market.

Not that I have/will/or care about making money off my music but still...

Also, it was a great place for fans to show support for artists that they truly care about. Now instead of spending $5 on an EP, a fan will have to stream said EP a billion times (thereby also making $ for the soul-crushers). :|

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