@psilocervine@mcc very weird rollout. i guess they were using Premium subscribers as a testing crowd? good for people into them that they're not actually shutdown. i never touched them, but got an email or notification like you mentioned. weird.
@mcc@psilocervine a similar thing that's wrong with me probably. i've watched literally dozens if not hundreds of hours of game dev/lore/story/etc. type videos over the last 2-3 years but have played....maybe like 60 hours of games in that same span of time
It is annoying in #mastodon to still keep missing a lot of interesting posts by people in my list, which live in an almost specular time zone. although I have put them in dedicated lists, if I forget to check them regularly, their stuff is just lost to me.
So the only thing is to click on the 🔔 for each of such profiles. That however messes up with the notifications.
ffff....
@franco_vazza i think an algorithmic feed that populates with very granular settings, that could be turned on then turned off at will, would be great and help with these issues. i’ve started trying to sort via lists too, but lists aren’t available on the main Mastodon app on mobile so… 🤷♂️ (i also often forget to check the lists when on laptop browsing!)
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
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.
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.
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.)
@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
@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!
@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.