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dukeitch

@dukeitch@assemblag.es

Hi my name is Colin, I work for a non-profit in Munich, Germany organizing cultural workshops and activities for children, youths and young adults. I'm a musician with a strong bent towards the electronic and the experimental. Interests: Technology and society, music technology, literature, music, film, games.

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dukeitch, to random
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Hab vor einigen Tagen begonnen, Raus aus der Autokratie von @SheDrivesMobility zu lesen. Deprimierend und hoffnungsspendend. Danke!

janbeta, to random
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My trusty (well, until recently) 20 year old car suffered from a rapid unscheduled disassembly on the rear axle a couple of days ago. Thankfully, it broke down while it was parked. It’s gone to the trash compactor by now and I’m going to try to live without owning a car. Better for the climate (and my wallet) anyway. Cycling, public transport and car sharing it is from now on. Farewell, old rustbucket! We had some good times! 🫡

dukeitch,
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@janbeta minecraft and sandwiches does sound cool though

amadeus, (edited ) to Musicproduction
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44100 Hz or 48000 Hz for ?
Personally I usually go with 48000 Hz because it somehow feels more "natural" to me than 44100 Hz (as half of 96000 Hz or a quarter of 192000 Hz). Made my life easier a few times when I wanted to for too.

dukeitch,
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@amadeus 48k just because it‘s pretty much standard for post production and Mastering. People say there‘s mathmatically more headroom but that might be a bit esoteric

SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    dukeitch,
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    @SheDrivesMobility danke, habe gerade beim Buchladen um die Ecke geordert und freue mich auf die Veröffentlichung!

    janbeta, to random
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    I'm going to be interviewed live on German radio station Radio Eins in a bit (around 11:20 my time today, I was told). You can tune in if you are in the Berlin area, or via the internet. My nerves! https://www.radioeins.de

    dukeitch,
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    @janbeta ha! I‘m working but I‘ll tell audio hijack to record the stream! Very cool

    PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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    Warm, sunny spring Saturday in Malmö, so I've got the windows open and am reacquainting myself (and the neighbours) with the first Audioslave album.

    It's probably four songs too long, but IMHO it's not only Cornell's voice at the peak of its power, but also his getting-clean album, to go by the lyrics. Which makes it bitter-sweet, given, well, you know.

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven there are great moments on that record and some amazing lyrics even though it‘s a little too polished for my personal taste. But what a singer and lyricist Chris Cornell was! And may the music help you decompress

    janbeta, to random
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    Well, I know this is a bit of a controversial one and I couldn’t bring myself to listen to for years after what Morrissey became (or always secretly was?). The music still works though. And at least Johnny Marr seems to be a decent bloke still. So I’m just focusing on the genius guitar parts while listening. First time in a long time I spin this album.

    dukeitch,
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    @janbeta i‘m not a die-hard Smiths fan and oh boy Morrissey, but There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (from a different album, i know) is one of the most majestic songs ever written. Superhuman. Gets me every goddamn time. And thanks for making me enter Rick Astley and The Smiths into a search engine, WOW

    PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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    The wheels of academic publishing grind very slowly indeed. A chapter that I started work on in (I think?) 2021 has finally dropped.

    The Way Out Is Through: Co-produced Critical Utopia as an Antidote to Anthropocenic Academic Melancholia (Raven, 2024)

    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-50510-2_16#citeas

    (Not Open Access, I'm afraid, as I was unfunded by the time the thing actually went to press, and no fucking way am I paying Springer for the privilege of publishing my work. If you want a copy, let me know.)

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven wow the whole book seems REALLY interesting. Would the authors, you included, profit from me paying that huge sum for the entire book or am I just funding Springer?

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven thanks for clearing that up, much appreciated

    slanderoid, to books

    I'm currently reading "The Master and Margarita" and I'm really digging it. I'm going to get a black cat and name them Behemoth

    @bookstodon

    dukeitch,
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    @slanderoid @bookstodon ah fond memories!

    PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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    Ugh, god. It is uncanny the way my somewhat unstable upstairs neighbour manages to pick the days when I really need some peace and quiet as the days on which she's going to play Balkan turbofolk at volume levels which would shame a 500-head nightclub venue

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven i feel you, having lived through a 14 hour bus drive from Serbia with said music

    PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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    @fragmad Watched a handful of Hainbach on your recommendation last night; what a delightful chap. An unexpected sweet spot between "earnest German nerd" and "so laid back you could put a carpet on him".

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven @fragmad his patreon is actually a good proposition too as he offers multisamples of the machines he talks about in his videos

    janbeta, (edited ) to commodore64
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    Streaming some "To Be On Top" from my in about half an hour. First stream in a long while so there MAY be some technical issues (very likely). Catch me on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/thejanbeta

    dukeitch,
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    @janbeta subscribed!

    PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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    In the name of holding oneself accountable for one's own crazy plans by way of making them partially and tentatively public:

    One of my projects for 2024 is a monthly podcast on worldbuilding, and the interstitial zone where science fiction, (social) futuring and speculative/critical design overlap.

    I've already got three folk who work and/or wander that zone who've agreed to take part, which is a pretty good start! But I'd like to know who you think I should be talking to.

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven hm maybe Darran Anderson?

    grumpygamer, to random
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    Farmout! I think its time @tjmcfar and I filmed a sequel to Tomorrow Never Came.

    https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/super-8-camera/

    dukeitch,
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    @grumpygamer i think i remember being excited for this a couple of years ago. I hope this makes it to market and won‘t cost a fortune

    PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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    Spending what is probably an unhealthy amount of time (thinking about) refactoring my task-management systems, and realising that I really am on the far side of the "folders vs. search" dichotomy. I grew up fossicking in libraries and DOS filetrees; I can see the value in e.g. filtering by tags, but I still want--and I assume will always want--a master hierarchy, defined by me, through which those rhizomic relations can be overviewed.

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven sounds like something like Obsidian could be your game

    dukeitch,
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    @PaulGrahamRaven haha great

    textfiles, to random
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    dukeitch,
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    @textfiles ❤️❤️❤️

    dukeitch, to random German
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    I just had to search the internet for half an hour in order to find out how to loop a section in Garageband for IOS, which tells you everything you need to know about that app

    dukeitch,
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    And I have decades of experience with music sequencers, including Apple‘s own Logic and Garageband for Mac

    dukeitch,
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    Also: Please don‘t make me explain how to do it, I‘m not sure it‘s reproducable

    annaleen, to random
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    What is everybody using as their link organizing app? Asking because I use Evernote basically for creating archives of links for research that I'm doing. And now Evernote is going away ...

    dukeitch,
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    @annaleen i actually started using Evernote again a couple of weeks ago for dumping documents, audios, scans, links. Notion is great with its flexible databases but you still can‘t record audio or scan from within the app. For your usecase, Notion would be great, and I can also recommend Obsidian with its new canvas feature. But honestly I‘d stick with Evernote a while longer and see how it plays out, that‘s what I‘ll be doing

    textfiles, to random
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    They didn't have to put the wheels on the bottom of the massive Donkey Kong machine but they did

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    dukeitch,
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    @textfiles i want to be there!

    textfiles, to random
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    When I started working for the Internet Archive, I had to stop working on a documentary about Arcades. But I gave the ARCADEDOCUMENTARY.COM domain to a filmmaker who has gone off to work on a good one. Recorded my interview a week or two ago, and look at that sizzler.

    dukeitch,
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    @textfiles I‘m a huge fan of every thing you do, and godspeed my friend, but in another reality I sure hope to see another Jason Scott flick, even though that doc sure looks mouthwatering. On the other hand, get lamp still is the gift that keeps on giving, and that coin a prized possession

    mcc, to random
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    So today is "Bandcamp Friday" https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

    …the magical day Bandcamp (Epic Games) takes a 0% cut & every purchase gives a bit more money to the musician.

    Back on Twitter I had a very, very long list of Bandcamp music recs I built out over two years of Bandcamp Fridays. I don't like linking to Twitter anymore so I've now moved the entire thing, plus five new recs, into a Cohost megapost:

    https://cohost.org/mcc/post/922976-bandcamp-friday-reco

    Click here for somewhere over 90 album recommendations (I lost count)

    dukeitch,
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    @mcc very welcome!

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