reillypascal

reillypascal, 1 month ago to privacy

This guy made a tool that beeps every time a website sends data about you to Google. The beeps blur into a continuous buzz: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

I use Privacy Badger (https://privacybadger.org/, blocks trackers), uBlock Origin (https://ublockorigin.com/, adblocker), Firefox, and the SearXNG search engine (https://searxng.ca/ or find instances at https://searx.space/), but it's annoying I have to.

#Privacy #Tracking #Google #AdBlock #uBlockOrigin #Security #SearchEngines #SearXNG

A video of navigating various popular news sites (Daily Mail, nu.nl, telegraaf.nl) in Chrome. A terminal is visible in the background, running a program that beeps ever time the site reports back to Google.

reillypascal, 19 days ago to opensource

Music platform @mirlo is raising funds to keep running! They let listeners buy directly from musicians, with only 7% going to the platform. They're owned by a worker co-op and open-source too

I really appreciate what they're doing, especially with the instability at Bandcamp

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

#Musodon #Mirlo #Bandcamp #Kickstarter #Fundraiser #OpenSource #Coop #WorkerOwned #WorkerCoop

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

reillypascal, 3 months ago to random

If a post on Twitter is a "tweet" and one on Bluesky is a "skeet," one on Facebook should be a "feet"

reillypascal, 8 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

reillypascal, 24 days ago to workersrights

Happy international workers day! A friend shared this on another platform and I thought it was cute

#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #Socialist #DSA #WorkersRights #Cats

reillypascal, 12 days ago to MaxMSP

Some sound combos I'm trying out

#MaxMSP #Musodon #NoiseMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Feedback #Noise #SoundArt #ElectronicMusic

A screen recording of Max/MSP with an inset of me placing a tin with a contact mic on the speaker of a small amp to make feedback

reillypascal, 1 month ago to fountainpens

I got a new fountain pen, and it has the trans flag colors! It's a Hongdian N9 with a "long blade" or architect nib. The nib took me a bit to get used to, but I find it gives particularly nice shading to my inks, and has a wet flow, which I appreciate.

Here I'm using Sailor Studio 024 ink and Cosmo Air Snow paper.

#FountainPen #FountainPens #Hongdian #TransPride #Stationery #Pen #Writing #Handwriting

reillypascal, 21 days ago to Blog

New blog post! I talk about making this "broken radio" sound I posted about a few weeks ago: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal/112242684024114281

The sound is pretty involved, so this week I'm talking about just the glitchy looper part. I will make a part 2 soon, to talk about combining the looper with radio noises.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-04-2024

#Blog #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Glitch #MaxMSP #SoundDesign #Composer #RSS

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, 4 months ago to sounddesign

Demo of some sounds from a piece I'm working on

The [fftz.ether~] object is comparing two sounds bin-by-bin and picking the bin that's quieter. One sound is microtonal (20-EDO) synth chords, and the other is a bunch of chopped snips of a noisy, lofi piano loop.

I also have snippets of FM radio static frequency-modulating the resulting sound, which I find sounds convincingly like the sounds are on a radio.

#sounddesign #maxmsp #xenharmonic #noisemusic #electronicmusic #glitch

video/mp4

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, 1 month ago to Musicproduction

"What made me put my coffee down this morning was 'synthetically generating music', which apparently now falls under 'needs to disclose'.

Them’s fighting words.

Let’s say I fiddle with some knobs on my Eurorack setup (that’s a music synthesizer if you don’t know), and decide to upload it in the background of a video. Am I now making 'altered content?'"

#MusicProduction #MusicTech #AI #Policy #YouTube #Deepfakes

https://vkc.sh/youtubes-bad-ai-disclosure-policy/

reillypascal, 3 months ago to fountainpens

I just got a really pretty new fountain pen! It's a Hongdian N7 "Peacock" with a medium nib and piston filler.

Notebook is Tomoe River 68gsm from Goulet, and the ink is Robert Oster Sydney Lavender.

#fountainpen #fountainpens #bulletjournal #bujo #hongdian #peacock #pen #pens #stationery #writing

reillypascal, 27 days ago to ExperimentalMusic

Chair scraping (slowed + reverb)

Unfortunately he's not on here, but this guy Petr Válek/the VAPE has some pretty wild noises

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6S477pKrKh/

#Noise #NoiseMusic #Reverb #PerformanceArt #ExperimentalMusic

Two people standing on either side of a wood chair in a large, white, reverberant room with tile floor and stone carvings on the wall. They drag it slowly and theatrically back and forth, making reverberant scraping noises.

reillypascal, 1 month ago to ai

"We must think more deliberately about which technologies are necessary to build a better world and where it actually makes sense to roll out digital tech or AI tools. Those democratic deliberations can’t just be based on the marketing claims of tech companies, but need to account for the real impacts and material footprints of those technologies."

#AI #DataCenter #DataCenters #eWaste #ClimateChange #Sustainability

https://disconnect.blog/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom/

reillypascal, 4 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, 2 months ago to Blog

Here's the latest post from my blog! I discuss making "composite" sounds using FFT spectra for part of a current composition project.

My site is all hand-written, but I found that drafting as Markdown in my Joplin notebook, and then converting to HTML in the terminal makes me much more inspired to write.

#Blog #IndieWeb #SoundDesign #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic #ComputerMusic #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #Microtonal #Xenharmonic #Synth @synths

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blogposts/02-27-2024

reillypascal, 29 days ago to listentothis

"Sounds a bit like early Scanner collaborating with a handful of classical musicians, but everyone is on datura (in a good way)."

Thanks to @etherdiver for a lovely review! You can read the blog post here, and make sure to check out the other musicians as well: https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/25/opm-electroacoustic-magic-and-more/

#ListenToThis #MusiciansOfMastodon #Musodon #ExperimentalMusic #MaxMSP #ContemporaryClassical #ElectronicMusic #SoundArt

reillypascal, 3 months ago to bluesky

The CEO of Bluesky is named Bluesky

#bluesky #wikipedia #SocialMedia

reillypascal, 21 days ago to internet

"Ecologists have reoriented their field as a 'crisis discipline,' a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a shared story of where we want to go."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

#Internet #Web #Enshittification #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Infrastructure #Tech

axwax, 23 days ago to selfhosted

It's not #BandcampFriday quite yet, but #FairtradeMusicFriday is all go!

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).

Simply make a direct comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

🔈🎶

limebar, 5 hours ago to random

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

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