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tsrono

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mostly music: https://tsrono.bandcamp.com/
i follow the #astrophotography tag & favorite a ton of great photos there. if you find yourself here because of that, please keep taking & sharing great photos!

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tsrono, to random
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one of the better bits from some edits last a week or so ago

mcc, to random
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Irene Pepperberg's theory is that parrots do not learn words by hearing the word in proximity to an event, rather they learn words by hearing flock members use a word during an interaction with another flock member https://mastodon.social/@JoeKozinski/112394735459907294

tsrono,
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@mcc a purely social understanding of language? interesting.

mcc, to random
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"Sorry, you can't read a book right now. The library is tired"

tsrono,
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@mcc 1985

mcc, to random
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Decided to try making a higher-quality encode of the "music video" I made and uploading it to Vimeo. Discovered Vimeo now has a "weekly limit" of 500MB upload unless you upgrade to a pay tier, which effectively means it is totally impossible to ever upload a video of larger than 500MB unless you pay. Even the "just okay" encode was 720 MB. (The high quality one, which I'm not sure I picked efficient settings for, is like 3GB.)

tsrono,
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@mcc you'd think they could offer a lowcost tier for a combo of rare HQ uploads & more common LQ uploads, something like that for just a couple bucks a month might attract more casual users

tsrono,
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@mcc "make it just inconvenient enough you upgrade" the mantra of the last 10 years in tech

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@TruthSandwich got me interested in the vibrational modes of bells. They're not harmonics with frequencies 1, 2, 3, 4, ... times the lowest frequency: they're much more complicated! That's why bells sound clangy. This chart shows how they sometimes work.

The lowest frequency vibrations are called:

• the 'hum' (the lowest frequency)

• the 'prime' (with frequency roughly 2 times that of the hum)

• the 'tierce' (roughly 2.4 times the hum, so a minor third above the prime)

• the 'quint' (roughly 3 times the hum, so a major fifth above the prime)

• the 'nominal' (roughly 4 times the hum, so an octave above the prime)

and so on. If you think these names are illogical, join the club! One reason it's tricky is that the loudest vibration is not the lowest one: it's the 'prime'.

The numbers I just gave you should be taken with a big grain of salt. They really depend on the shape of the bell, and you'd have to be great at designing bells to make them come out as shown here. It's not like a violin string or flute, where the math is on your side.

This quote helps explain the chart:

"Modern theory separates the modes of vibration into those produced by the "soundbow" and those produced by the remaining bell "shell". The bell vibrates both radially and axially and the principal vibrational modes are shown in the diagram together with their classification using the scheme proposed by Perrin et al. This scheme consists of the mode of vibration (RIR - Ring Inextensional Radial, RA - Ring Axial, R=n - Shell driven), the number of meridians (where “m” is half the number of meridians) and the number of nodal circles (n)."

Starting to sound like orbitals in quantum mechanics!

(1/3)

tsrono,
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@johncarlosbaez this bit caught my interest "It is believed that some medieval founders cast eccentrically shaped bells so that the frequency pairs were so far apart they would not beat." but the cited paper (Group Theory and The Bell, Journal of Sound and Vibration (1973) 31:411-418. R. Perrin, T Charnley.) seems to be paywalled everywhere.

eccentrically shaped medieval bells searching i go.

tsrono, to random
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noticing my food costs a lot more lately & starting to wonder how well i could get along at my age just living on sandwiches & ramen.

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Joe Biden just banned Tik Tok.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/biden-signs-israel-ukraine-tiktok-bill-into-law.html

If America can do this to Tik Tok, America can and will do it to whatever internet thing it is you like just as easily. Don't imagine China itself was the point of this. (The ban[s] cover ByteDance plus any company 20%+ owned within a country on this short list https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872#:~:text=metals%20and%20alloys.-,(2)Covered%20nation,-.%E2%80%94The%20term but given how easily this passed it seems a precedent is set for Congress to add whatever other company, organization or country it feels like to the list.)

tsrono,
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@mcc interested if you’ve got a read on what the point is…you’re stating you don’t think China is the point, but if it’s not China, & TikTok technically could still exist here after sale of the American version’s operations to another company besides ByteDance…then i’m not sure what that leaves as ‘the point’

you’re insinuating control of software (which very wel may be the case!) but taking on TikTok seems a big swing with guaranteed pushback, seems a bad strategy out of the gate.

mcc, (edited ) to random
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I twice made, then deleted, a post about the Tik Tok ban being signed into law. I deleted it the first time because the bill was less bad than I described the first time and deleted it the second time because it was worse than I described the second time. I made myself a promise I wouldn't try to do like real-time Posting About Politics on Mastodon and I'm kinda breaking my rules.

However I'm really, really angry about this bill so I will make a third attempt

EDIT: Bleh https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112327478848274607

tsrono,
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@mcc i am curious to hear takes on this from legit, in-depth reporting, maybe some sharing of sources like that could be good

tsrono,
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@mcc @msbellows i’m curious to see how the courts side on this, i’ll say that’s all i know for certain right now. part of me wonders if Congressional/Presidential push on this is expecting the courts to temper the decision ultimately…and the courts may bring some of the behind-the-scenes data to light as to why this is going through at all. anything getting widely bipartisan support right now perks my ears up as to what all is really going on.

tsrono, to random
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a couple of months ago i wasn’t even sure if i was going to keep the Squarp Hapax, & honestly i’m still not 100% locked in on it, as good as it is…but they just dropped a silver faceplate swap for it & im so close to nabbing it, looks pretty fuckin sweet imo.

black faceplate version of Squarp Hapax

tsrono,
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will my music sound better if i buy this?!? yes, obv, duh. it will sound more silvery.

tsrono,
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silver era entrenched

the Squarp Hapax with the stock black face plate installed, on a desk with various music equipment slightly visible around it

tsrono,
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pls ignore the cat hair, i have 4 of them, it's unavoidable.

yes the project name is JFFMLLOOXX which was like the 4th version of an idea i had while vibing to some Jeff Mills live set me or someone posted a week ago. last live clip i posted recently is one of those versions.

also, anyone need an ethernet cable? no? okay, i've got like 12 in case you ever did. like everyone else does.

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For rainy days we have a treadmill but it's locked into the vendor's subscription service if you want to watch videos.

Except...tap the bottom left 10 times, wait 7 seconds, tap 10 more times, up pops a number, use that as a seed to generate a number with lrand48, reduce modulo 999999 (not 1000000!) and type that number back in, and now you have an Android tablet with web browser and access to YouTube.

tsrono,
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@dpiponi the number selections of the left & right columns really irks the hell out of me. i'm sure there's some reasoning but wow

mcc, to random
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So was there a study over the last couple months showing evidence that the strength of dark energy is not consistently isotropic/homogeneous in space and time?

And if this study happened… how reliable/definitive is it?

I saw a popular press article that seemed to be saying this, but it was a popular press article and those mangle physics studies all the time.

tsrono,
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@mcc zero info about dark energy is reliable/definitive.

some evidence which some scientists interpret as 'dark energy' is reliable/definitive. dark energy is just a blank placeholder until they figure out what the evidence actually means.

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Heard some fabulous pop music waiting for a takeout burger. Is neo-soul a thing? Only heard the exit chorus, a singer drowned by a vast gospel choir, every upper-range instrument clear through the mix, even in a noisy shop with ceiling speakers. I never listen to pop music so had no idea who that was, but it was a production masterpiece, plainly expensive, with a groove that's stuck with me all evening. May never know, but I was there and it was fine.

tsrono,
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@StarlingW pop/r&b/soul production is often top notch highest quality stuff. always interesting to listen for those reasons alone, lots of great stuff in there just composition/performance-wise as well tho.

tsrono, to random
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playing around with @curved_ruler 's Bugs app: https://curved-ruler.github.io/webgl-sketches/bugs/bugs.html

zoomed in central portion of circular central golden shape with arcs splaying around in jagged and curved fashions, gradients show intricate linework traced by tiny squares

mcc, to random
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Hm. Pine64 is making a bone conduction headphone set which is in some sense open hardware. https://pine64.org/2024/03/17/march-update-making-waves/

(They are soliciting suggestions on a name.)

tsrono, (edited )
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@mcc open sourcing my bone vibrations / it is the year 2024 and plans have begun to open source the vibrations of the general populace's bones.

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

tsrono,
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@mcc some glitch art from last year with a nice interesting variety of colors. happy birthday!

mcc, to random
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I am in a terrible mood and I will tell you why: C++

tsrono,
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@mcc pinned-post-worthy

mcc, to random
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This is the only good thing that has ever been posted on YouTube Shorts https://youtube.com/shorts/Fkshp4Ikk6Y?si=99urETpXRHQX4dxd

tsrono,
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@mcc oh don't fret too much, we all know Shorts will change in 70 different ways (up to and possibly including being retired) over the next few years anyway!

mcc, to random
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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

tsrono,
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@mcc i thought that stuff had come from a Twitch stream he did a few times back around ‘21/‘22? i could be misremembering tho, i never payed a hell of a lot of attention to that behind the scenes stuff, it felt a bit weird to me. there was definitely a lot of stuff shared on Twitch streams around that era as well tho. would tag him here but not sure he cares to track all that info just for posterity’s sake. cool shit tho

tsrono,
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@mcc @tsrono yeah he’s at: @ sean_ae @ post.lurk.org

(remove spaces obv)

not sure if he’s private or not, doesn’t post much akin to this but is chatting at times. just a normal dude 🤷‍♂️ lol

tsrono,
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@mcc Oracle is a really good album for what it is…been a long time since i gave it a spin tho, need to get back on it one of these days…so long since i listened to this track. sounds so big.

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