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dried

@dried@sonomu.club

Experimental sound practitioner primarily working with really quiet sounds. Weird instrument builder. Sometime front-end developer and coder of other things. Bassist. Enjoys cycling.

He / him / his. Settler Canadian of Frisian & Dutch heritage.

Avatar pic: me performing double bass with unusual technique.
Header pic: a top-down view of a wooden string instrument (a Sympath) on a cluttered workbench.

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rysiek, to Facebook
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We are getting ready to expand our Torment Nexus experiences in your region.

To help bring these experiences to you we will kidnap your firstborn, based on our legitimate interest.

This means you have a right to object. If your objection is honored we might return your firstborn at some point.

We have updated our firstborn policy. Pray we don't update it any further.

#Facebook #Instagram #AI

dried,
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@rysiek "by loading this policy, you agree to the terms expressed herein"

dried, to random
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Kicking the tires on the latest Hyper8 again. The web UI is super slick and the output is good even in pre-alpha. Background re-encoding is rad. Can't wait to really fully integrate this into my website and move other videos off of Vimeo. Excellent work @freebliss !

dried, to diy_instruments
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Gayle pointed out over the weekend that in addition to his books, Bart Hopkin edited a 15 year run of a quarterly periodical devoted to experimental instruments, which is available in its entirety on the internet archive here: https://archive.org/details/emi_archive/0-START-HERE

@diy_instruments

freebliss, to random
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The upcoming #faircamp release will feature "unlisted releases", that is, you can add the flag "unlisted" to the release manifest/section to hide it from all publicly accessible pages, while still being able to visit the page if you know the permalink.

There are some minor implications for label mode though, which I'd be happy to have double-checked - if you're a (current or potential) faircamp site operator, do you have any thoughts on this?

"An unlisted release is never visible on the home/index page.

In label mode there are some additional intricacies: An artist that has only unlisted releases is not visible on the home/index page, but in turn, all of these unlisted releases are visible on the artist page, as the artist page itself is implicitly unlisted then. If however, an artist has even just a single listed release, it becomes visible on the home/index page, and on the artist page itself all unlisted releases are not visible anymore."

(this can also be commented on in the issue: https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/issues/84)

dried,
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@freebliss @lislegaard it might be tricky to keep a link from being crawled though. I can imagine use cases for this that would result in a crawl, eg asking for peer critique by posting the unlisted album to a small forum or emailing it to a friend who uses big G services.

dried,
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@freebliss @lislegaard I think using the noindex meta tag is the right solution for this, not robots.txt. Regardless of the likelihood of the crawl-index-leak scenario, I still think it's intuitive that if something is described as unlisted then it indicates that it does not want to be listed (ie, indexed). I don't think there's a downside to using the meta tag, but if something ends up in Google's index db it can be a headache to get it removed or even updated (been there before with clients).

dried,
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@freebliss @lislegaard otherwise I think it should be made clear to users that the page could still end up in search results and that "unindexed" only means that it's not linked from the rest of the faircamp site.

You're right that this isn't a substitute for properly private communication. Maybe it's not clear whether an unindexed release is supposed to be a staging / preview page or a production page that is simply independent from the site... tricky.

dried, to diy_instruments
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The new #Sympath build is out the door so fast I almost forgot to take a photo. Gayle will be performing this instrument at our events later this week, I'm excited to hear what it sounds like.

More info in today's build log post: https://www.daveriedstra.com/sympath/blog.html#2024-04-09

@diy_instruments

dried, to blender
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I got my feet wet with #Blender and put up a page breaking down the anatomy of the Sympath:

https://daveriedstra.com/sympath/anatomy

We also have Sympath events coming up in April in #Toronto and #Hamilton, I'll post more info about those tomorrow 💤

dried,
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My collaborators (Mitch Renaud and Gayle Young) and I will be showing off the Sympath at two free events in southern #Ontario:

#Toronto - April 12 7PM at the Canadian Music Centre

#Hamilton - April 14 1:30PM at the Art Gallery of Hamilton

We'll be demoing the instrument, discussing its function, history, and some tips for building it, then performing with the Sympath and wrapping up with hands-on time.

More info: https://www.daveriedstra.com/sympath/events

:boost_requested: cc @diy_instruments

dried, to random
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Hey @freebliss, is there a way to disable the waveforms on a #faircamp release page? I think they're really visually appealing but they can also "give away the ending" to a recording in a way that's not always desirable. (This might be a feature request if it's not currently an option.)

freebliss, to random
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#faircamp musing on reducing server cost and resource usage: 1) Faircamp generates the site without any download files/archives at all (only streaming assets are written to the build directory). 2) Instead it generates an additional local/client-side directory - not to be deployed - that contains all releases for download with torrent files. 3) Visitors on the faircamp site can exclusively download releases via torrent/magnet links, and the artists seed the downloads from their own machine (whenever they're online).

Nothing about this is new (on the contrary - file sharing renaissance galore :)), but I really like the idea of mashing up a (cheaper and less resource-demanding) always-on streaming server with a P2P download delivery mechanism (which is entirely re-using existing computers and infrastructure, i.e. avoiding data center proliferation and idle infrastructure). Also fans are downloading music directly from the artist then - literally from their computer. ^^

(Thoughts anyone? Note that this would of course be an additional option, not a replacement of how faircamp handles downloads so far)

dried,
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@freebliss I'm a fan, love that it normalizes torrenting and p2p. There's also something nice about the possibility that the downloader might need to wait for the torrent to finish if the seeder isn't online. It may not be feasible for all users (eg, downloaders on networks that block torrenting or uploaders who can't manage the uptime) so I agree that it has to be an additional option.

freebliss, to random
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Introducing ...

The Hyper 8 Video System.

https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/teaser/

Yaaaaaayyyyyyy ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

dried,
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@freebliss Thanks for making the alpha for this available so soon! I used the generated output as a reference for a video page on my site just now, which made it super quick & easy.

https://www.daveriedstra.com/video/sympath/2024-03-27-sympath-promo-video.html

dried,
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@freebliss thank you! I'm eager to update it with some of the video processing things that (I think?) will be in hyper8. But already I discovered the video preload=false flag from it, which is great, I was really worried about preloading

dried,
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@freebliss oh super, thank you! The transcoding thing is definitely the bulk of what I was thinking of. I'm also curious about transcripts & subtitles, but don't know what an implementation would look like (just that more videos online should come with transcripts for various reasons). Embeds will be rad too!

dried,
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@freebliss again you're several steps ahead :)

Subtitles: awesome that it's already in place! For ppl like me who don't know how to prepare a subtitle file, it would be useful to have a set of prompts for text and timecode (maybe showing the video frame at the timecode) to build the file.

Transcript: agreed, good use of ML, but I'm just thinking of how they're presented on the public video page (& normalizing transcripts like alt text). You've probably already got an idea for this :)

dried,
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@freebliss ack I wish I had the time to build the subtitle editor, that really would be a great standalone project. You've got a good point about scope creep, as well.

dried,
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@freebliss sure is a nice door

dried,
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@freebliss I built out a really simple proof-of-concept for manual transcript addition & presentation: https://codeberg.org/dried/hyper8/src/branch/ft-transcript

no pressure to use it but it's there if you want it

dried,
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@freebliss @silmathoron digitalocean's S3 is my use case so I might have a hack at it eventually. (CDN is included as a simple toggle option, but I have it switched off for now as I don't think I really need it.) Til then my deployment is manually rsyncing the hyper8 output dir, so having S3 built in would be a big win.

dried,
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@freebliss also thanks for being so transparent & responsive!

dried, to diy
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Yesterday I updated the Sympath build log ("blog") with some techniques for DIY string slotting:

https://daveriedstra.com/sympath/blog.html#2024-03-02

I also added a few items to the DIY instrument building resources page (a massive PDF handbook on working with wood and a sweet website dedicated to harp building):

https://daveriedstra.com/sympath/resources.html

If you have any comments, tips, or corrections, I would love to have them!

#DIY #Sympath #Lutherie #Woodworking @diy_instruments

suonoreale, to random German
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Anyone using a tool like , , etc) - do you really use the graph view and what does it help? How do you integrate it into your workflow?

I first thought I'd try it because I love mindmapping a lot, but I couldn't really make use of the graph so far.

dried,
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@secupriv @suonoreale @obsidianmd +1. In Obsidian, returning to graph view shuffles everything, so there's no chance to learn the topography. It can still be useful to explore connections (if you've made links), particularly in the local view, but for me there's enough friction that I still have to make myself use it.

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