so this local mess thing is a pretty huge deal.

also, if youve ever wondered "how the fuck does instagram know this shit, are they listening to me?!"

well.. yes, they are (https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone)

but they, until the 3rd of this month, were playing hot potato with their tracking pixels that live on millions of sites, your browser, and fb/ig apps on your phone

https://localmess.github.io/
[edit] oops, had the wrong link for localmess writeup

You can now translate print text to Braille and back-translate Braille to print text using the new API AXBrailleTranslator in your app!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/axbrailletranslator

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

correlating a lack of critical thinking in 18 year olds with chatgpt instead of the holistic failure of the education system is such a joke and insult to kids, honestly

the failure didn’t start when they were 15 and chatgpt became commonplace

the failure started at the start of their education, when the sole intention of the system is to produce malleable workers who do not question authority

we are failing our kids and have been since long before chatgpt. stop acting like it’s not the fucking design of the education system to make a complacent public.

it's called ssh-keygen but doesn't even play cool tracker music?

@fireborn @TheQuinbox They only host the changes.html it appears. Blah.

@fireborn Yep, I figured you couldn't pass that one up.

Funny error message from old Intel webcam software. Apparently in 2001 they never thought anyone would have more than 2 GB of RAM in Windows XP, so on my ThinkPad X60 with 4 GB of RAM (3 GB usable by the OS) it wraps around and reports a negative number.

If you use REAPER/Kontakt8 and you'd like a well produced free drum kit that's probably best suited to rock/metal, I've hacked around a limitation of Krimh Drums Free from Bogren Digital and made multi-out track templates. There are 12 drum maps so I've saved a template for each of those. These come up nicely balanced and ready to play straight away, with all the MIDI going to an armed track and the individual microphones routed out for mixing. Just pop open the drum bus folder to work on the individual microphones if you want to rebalance 'em or do more processing.

Hope it's useful!

https://hoard.reaperaccessibility.com/Templates%20and%20Miscellaneous%20Settings/Track%20Templates/Krimh%20Drums%20Free%20Multi-out,%20Kontakt8%20by%20Scott?get=zip

@jonathan859 @TheQuinbox @Jonathan Ah yeah. I've never messed with JAWS on those things. Would be fun to take 20 minutes and check them out.

@jonathan859 @TheQuinbox @Jonathan Yeah. Less to load and such, plus that edition is meant to be ran on low-powered IoT terminals with ~4 GB of RAM or so, if that.

If you’re going to be on Mastodon, it’s important to understand Content Warnings.

A Content Watch indicates that conditions exist that are favorable for the formation of content.

A Content Warning indicates that content has been sighted either visually or on radar. Fedizens in the affected area should seek shelter immediately.

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ActivityPub is the network with the highest percentage of Firefox users, and also the highest percentage of people mad at Mozilla all the time

@jonathan859 @TheQuinbox @Jonathan Yep.

@jonathan859 @TheQuinbox @Jonathan Yeah, that'll be fine. You may check for updates afterwords but I think that's the right build.

@jonathan859 @TwoThousandStu @TheQuinbox @Jonathan I'll be around, too, but yeah it all should work fine without much other input. Oh, https://btprojects.samtupy.com/blog/post1.htm

Postman is dropping off the #Braille books I requested from the library as I’m coming home carrying my smoothie -
Postman: “You read a lot of books.” *sets down 7 volumes *
Me: “Thanks for dropping off the two books I’m looking forward to reading.”
Postman: “What?”

Root shell on a credit card terminal

Link: https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803

#AudioMo

I probably won't post every day this month, but here's something anyway.

Today's topic is my particular brand of synesthesia.

One odd aspect of it is that I get these things I call syno sequences in my head, which can be associated with any number of things.
They're usually pretty short. They can be musical sequences, random unexplainable pseudo sounds that may or may not have grounding in reality, or sometimes even both.

Here, I focus specifically on internal sonic associations with the years 1980 through 1989.

I sequenced things with my Ableton Move to try to get things as close to what I hear in my head when these associations inevitably are triggered by something.

This is by no means comprehensive, because we'd be here all week long. It's just a little snapshot of how some of my quirky internal processing works sometimes.

@munchkinbear Yup. I am happy to report that simplicity and technology have stopped mixing, or something. Enjoy!