reillypascal

skinnylatte, 1 day ago to random

When we first moved here, 45 made it impossible for foreign spouses to work. So my wife went back to school and today, she’s graduating with her Bachelors in Psychology. Next stop: grad school! (Thankful for California’s excellent public universities system, and resident tuition!)

Sabrena felt she got an excellent education at SF State, and is looking forward to start the clinical psychology masters program to be your friendly multilingual culturally relevant therapist in a few years

reillypascal, 15 days ago to SmallWeb

I'm at an odd place with my personal website. Before Dec. 2023, it was a "professional portfolio" for my compositions. Now that I'm interested in the IndieWeb community, I want to make something more personal. I don't think I want to make two sites, but I do still need a portfolio for my composition work.

I just read @maggie's post on "digital gardens" and I really like that idea. (1/n)

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

#IndieWeb #DigitalGarden #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Blog #Composer #Musodon

skinnylatte, 9 days ago to random

My hobby (film development and printing) is really only possible because of the density of burned out hardware and software engineers with time and money, and a deeply autistic interest in making things work (just spoke to the people who set up my community darkroom. They bought out gear from labs which closed, and fixed it up.. this doesn’t really exist anywhere else)

I have a color darkoom I can use! (They rebuilt some color processors, it was pretty gnarly)

mxtthxw, 10 days ago to random

The boss just came back with this for re-amping….

J12t, 7 days ago to random

I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.

Anybody else see what he apparently sees?

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

reillypascal, 16 days ago to Spotify

"'It appears Spotify has returned to attacking the very songwriters who make its business possible,' said David Israelite, the NMPA’s president and CEO [...] 'Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move [...] We will not stand for their perversion of the settlement we agreed upon in 2022.'"

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-songwriters-less-mechanical-royalties-audiobooks-bundle-1235673829/

#Spotify #Streaming #MusicNews #TechNews

reillypascal, 3 months ago to random

Hi everyone! I'm a composer & audio developer. I also like fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, software-defined radio, leftist politics & learning new things.

My music tends toward the glitchy, noisy, microtonal side of things, and I like to use Max/MSP and incorporate audio samples from my software-defined radio hobby. You can find my music at my site, SoundCloud & YouTube:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
https://soundcloud.com/reilly-spitzfaden
https://www.youtube.com/@reillyspitzfaden

#Introduction #Introductions #NewHere

n3wjack, 4 days ago to random

WTF Logitech?

reillypascal, 3 months ago to privacy

"But Meta’s version of consent offers users a Hobson’s choice — of paying at least €9.99/month for an ad-free subscription (per each account they have on Facebook and Instagram); or agreeing to its tracking.

No other choices are available, despite the GDPR stipulating that for consent to be a valid legal basis for processing people’s information it must be freely given."

#privacy #DataPrivacy #gdpr #tracking #regulation #TechRegulation #tech #TechNews

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/no-consent-or-pay-pls/

limebar, 14 hours ago to random

What is the weirdest account you follow, so I can follow it too?

reillypascal, 5 days ago to SmallWeb

We usually call a blog on the Gemini protocol a "gemlog," but what if we followed the same pattern as "web log" → "blog" and called them "glogs"?

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Gemlog #Blog #Shitpost

reillypascal, 1 month ago to classicalmusic

I have a new track out today! https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

It's a glitchy, experimental trio for flute, clarinet, and MIDI keyboard/Max. There are Morse code and other ham radio samples, electric piano, and bowed cardboard box, and it's surprisingly groovy.

The full album has 11 different composers, and you can find it here: https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/album/oxalis-triangularis-vol-2

#ContemporaryClassical #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #ChamberMusic #Clarinet #Flute #MIDI #MaxMSP #HamRadio #AmateurRadio @synths

reillypascal, 4 days ago to Blog

Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:

"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/is-substack-exaggerating-its-network

#Substack #Newsletter #Blog #Blogging #Writing #Algorithm

reillypascal, 3 months ago to fountainpens

Here's my current collection of fountain pen inks. I've been collecting them for about a year (and some of them were presents from my partner and family). They make me happy.

#fountainpens #fountainpen #ink #fountainpenink #stationery #hobby #collection

reillypascal, 16 days ago to internet

I've been feeling exactly like this comic, but I got a cheap retro alarm clock and started keeping my phone in the living room at night. It's really nice

#WebcomicName #SocialMedia #Clock #RetroTech

A small white circular alarm clock with a classic 8-segment LCD and a blue backlight. It also gives temperature and date.

reillypascal, 1 month ago to 3DPrinting

If I had the money for a 3-D printer I would absolutely do things like this

#3DPrinting #Shitpost #Crocs #Maker

https://laughingsquid.com/3d-printed-giant-crocs-hat/

reillypascal, 1 month ago to space

@skrishna is super cool and I love this newsletter! https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112332886203206306

It's about the latest news in space and astronomy, and the RSS link is here: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/BX2SPZ0naG.xml

#Space #Science #Stem #RSS #Newsletter

reillypascal, 24 days ago to ExperimentalMusic

@radiofreefedi is looking for donations to cover hosting costs and keep the station running. I really like their mission — I'm listening to the experimental hour on their specialty channel, and I just discovered this cool track from @cmdr_nova: https://eyeshadow2600fm.bandcamp.com/track/degradation

https://blog.radiofreefedi.net/2024-rff-infrastructure-fund

#RadioFreeFedi #ExperimentalMusic #Radio #InternetRadio #CommunityRadio #FediMusic

reillypascal, 21 days ago to CASIO

I got a new watch! I realized having a basic digital watch would let me leave my phone in my bag more often, which helps me spend less time checking it. Plus this looks extremely 90s and I love it

#Casio #Watch #Retro #RetroTech #80s #90s

reillypascal, 2 months ago to Blog

I finally have an RSS feed for my blog! I was initially trying to figure out a way to automatically generate it based on my posts, but I found it was actually quite easy to type it out by hand.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/feed.xml

#Blog #RSS #Syndication #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #NoiseMusic #SoundDesign #MaxMSP #CPlusPlus #JUCE #WebDev #IndieWeb

reillypascal, 3 months ago to ExperimentalMusic

A chamber orchestra composition I recently put on PeerTube! One of the percussionists is placing a contact mic on a large speaker to make flabby feedback; the pianist is using a contact mic/transducer against the piano strings; and there's lots of microtonal/noise sounds from the rest of the ensemble.

#Musodon #Orchestra #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #ContemporaryClassical #ContemporaryMusic #Microtonal #Xenharmonic #NeueMusik #PeerTube @contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/fz2qPi51xAQAXWjBboT1DL

reillypascal, 5 days ago to Blog

I did a write up of setting up Webmentions on my site! I had mentioned it earlier, but there was one stumbling block that took me longer to figure out.

Webmentions let me get notified when people share my posts, respond to my comments on other sites, etc., and lets me use my site for a lot of the kinds of interactions I'd otherwise have to do on social media.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-21-2024

#IndieWeb #Blog #Webmentions #Microformats #WebDev #WebDevelopment #Programming #Coding

reillypascal, 9 days ago to ai

"This whole AI cycle was fueled by fantasies, and when people stop falling for them the bubble starts to deflate. In The Guardian, John Naughton recently laid out the five stages of financial bubbles, noting AI is between stages three and four: euphoria and profit-taking."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

#AI #AIHype #AIBubble #Tech #TechNews