@cat totally agree, but I don't make the axes

@Scatterfilter No (fortunately). I just keep hearing not-good things about it

@budley I'm sure really. Needs to be LGBTQ friendly, but mostly I post about music

It seems to be time to move off mastodon.social. But I've no idea where to go

@cat coffee

I have no idea why I'm so wound up about this, sorry :)

Also, they only show short pieces.

I sat through a concert of the Christmas Oratorio (around 2 hours) and was entranced for the whole time. When it finished it felt like it had only been playing for 30 minutes,

Match THAT

All these "Can ChatGPT compose like Bach" articles & videos are missing the point. Bach composed like that BEFORE THERE WAS BACH!

Show me ChatGPT (or other LLM) composing something as brilliant and NEW, then I might* listen.

* but probably won't.

@andijah I used to do this at school in the 70s!

Thinking of adopting a rescue cat but the RSPCA system is insane.

You have to register on their website before you can even look at a real cat, and the info the want is a data breachers dream. All your personal and home info PLUS photos inside and outside your house!

Yes, of course I want to publish photos of all the things in my house and the best way to get in and steal them....

I've been tasked to record a "Banshee Scream" for a theatre production.

I might just point a microphone at next-door's kids on a non-school day. They do a pretty good one frequently

@alisynthesis Linux scales ridiculously well. Bear in mind that it runs on phones and also huge datacentre servers (like most of them running the big services we all hate)

@alisynthesis I have zero knowledge of the differences between windowses.

I do know they keep piling stuff in and can't remove old things.

I also know a lot of the Linux kernel developers and they are SCARY smart people who really care about performance

@alisynthesis Use it.

is it faster - it's better
if not - it isn't :)

@alisynthesis Yes, it has got bigger and bigger as more feature are added (and old ones not removed because .. legacy code). and yes, Debian is almost certainly smaller. in part because it's easier to trim it down to what you actually need, whereas windows and Mac OS (which I do use), just give you everything

@alisynthesis I can't give you a lecture on virtual memory systems here, but...caching is good. let the OS do it.

@alisynthesis seriously - you do. That's what spare RAM is for.

@alisynthesis I didn't say it was usable - I said I didn't hate it!

The last Windows I used was NT 4.0

@alisynthesis with my pedantic 'OS programmer' hat on: %age RAM use makes no sense as a measure of efficiency. All modern OSs use RAM to cache things off disk so they are faster to access. if Debian is not using much RAM, all that means is that it's not cached much yet - but it will eventually.

There is no point in RAM sitting around unused when it can be put to work caching things :)

* I work on Linux for a living but don't hate WIndows (though I've not used it in decades)

@alisynthesis It's a good question! I saw Kraftwerk mentioned and I like them too (I saw them at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago).

A lot of repetitive music I hear these days seems to lack 'style' (whatever that means, but Kraftwerk cerainly had it). Just having something interesting in a sequencer isn't enough I feel.

When I've done repetitious music myself I try to vary it either with a Rondo or other structure, or by building on it graudally.