synkr3tyk

Daojoan, 8 days ago to random

Peak cringe of the post-COVID era was watching two petulant man-child billionaires, drunk on ego, publicly chest-thumping about cage fighting each other.

Daojoan, 15 days ago to random

I wrote something today about rethinking life and meaning in a youth-obsessed culture.

Despite what the myths and popular ideas telll us, there are still accomplishments and achievements worth celebrating, even after 29

https://medium.com/westenberg/i-am-not-a-prodigy-472c1f846588

Mrfunkedude, 18 days ago to random

I can't prove it yet, but I'm fairly sure that cats don't always land butter side down.

flockofnazguls, 26 days ago to random

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synkr3tyk, 1 month ago to modularsynth

#Eurorack #ModularSynth
Current status:

synkr3tyk, 1 month ago to music

Okay, it's time. Time to change servers. Time to have local & federated timelines that don't make my eyes bleed. Time to support an indie effort.

Does anyone want to share about their server? My main interests are #Music - I play #Eurorack #Synth, #Guitar, #ChapmanStick, and software, with varying degrees of skill - and #Mathematics - I'm attempting to get into grad school for #Math to facilitate a career change. I'm also liberal af, if that matters one way or the other on your server.

etherdiver, 1 month ago to random

After just more than two months in the new house, I'm finally in the home stretch of setting up my living/working space the way I want it. Still haven't done much/any decorating, but the functional pieces are nearly all in place (just ordered the last two pieces of furniture/storage/organization I'll need for at least a while).

That might seem like a long time to some of y'all, but I think it's the fastest I've ever been set up 🫠...

sommer, 2 months ago to random

Hey Mastodon - I'm doing a little "research" for my upcoming talk with @DeepDishSwift.

What's some "one line" advice you that resonates with you? Stuff like "do what you love" or "hustle!" or "don't love a your job; it won't love you back" -- what are the one liners that have really suck with you when it comes to work, life, love etc?

shoq, 2 months ago to random

I swear, we are still talking about this platform stuff all wrong. There is absolutely no comparison between my mastodon engagements and those anywhere else. People here are just far more interested in engaging people and ideas than any other site where the biggest activity seems to be following celebrity accounts and popular influencers discussing very little. It’s a completely different kind of experience.

mattly, 2 months ago to random

perhaps overdue, I’ve finally cleaned up some printable cheat sheets I made for some Eurorack modules & put them on my website

• MI Marbles
• MI Tides v2
• MI Plaits v1.2

I’ll probably make & post more. I’m curious what people think of the format

https://lyonheart.us/music-making/

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Wow and I thought I was hard on Apple

rasterweb, 2 months ago to random

You know those little cloths you use to clean your glasses? Why don't they just make shirts out of that stuff?

yurnidiot, 4 months ago to random

watch out F1, treadmill GP comin for ya

:youtube: @theTreadmillGuy

a bunch of toy cars (delorean, speedracer, etc), two rolls of tape, a baseball, and a coke can "racing" on an inclined running treadmill

synkr3tyk, 4 months ago to random

I'm sure it's because I'm only using it half-correctly, but wow is the Ableton piano roll a PITA. (This would probably be easier if I could trust my timing on a keyboard well enough to just record the MIDI and quantize.)

synkr3tyk, 5 months ago to soundcloud

What are people using for #SoundCloud alternatives? I don't need distro or anything else, just a place to host audio where people can easily stream it. I'm game to host my own, if setting it up isn't a huge pain.

More and more I'm finding SC to be a magnet for spammers and scammers, and I'm looking for an out.

synkr3tyk, 5 months ago to random

The mastodon.social local timeline has convinced me that maybe it's time to switch instances... If I can do it without blowing up the little network I've started building here.

flockofnazguls, 5 months ago to random

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synkr3tyk, 5 months ago to random

Does anyone in my Fedicircle know anything about the color vision of crows - specifically, what breadth of wavelengths they can see? @ct_bergstrom, perhaps?

Daojoan, 5 months ago to random

Doesn't the fact that the US constitution has amendments mean that it's not a perfect document and it can be, like, amended?

synkr3tyk, 5 months ago to random

I started re-reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and I really do find it creepy how Conseil calls Aronnax "master". Blah blah different time, and maybe there's loss in translation, but... Ick.

synkr3tyk, 6 months ago to modularsynth

Overdue intro post:
• I live in the US Midwest
• Married with cats
• This is my music alt; I make music with #ModularSynths in #eurorack hardware and in software, plus some regular instruments, including guitar & Chapman Stick
• Hit me up for modular synth lessons
• I've made a living in #software for 30 years, including #AI work recently, but am on a hiatus
• I studied #physics, and still take an interest in the frontiers of the field
• I study #NumberTheory for fun
• I am #ActuallyAutistic

synkr3tyk, 7 months ago to random

I've stopped worrying that we're living in a bad Neal Stephenson timeline and now worry that we're in a good Warren Ellis timeline, which I think is scarier

synkr3tyk, 7 months ago to foss

Unenforceable, ideologically-driven software licenses that have obviously never been reviewed by an IP lawyer just make me roll my eyes.

#FOSS needs more grownups.