@reillypascal@hachyderm.io
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reillypascal

@reillypascal@hachyderm.io

Composer and audio programmer in Rochester, NY // I like noise, code, electronics, and nostalgia // lecturer in music tech and film/game scoring at SUNY Geneseo

Messaging: Matrix, Signal, Discord (feel free to ask!)

#Blog #Composer #ContemporaryClassical #CPlusPlus #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #FountainPens #IndieWeb #JUCE #Leftist #Maker #MaxMSP #MechanicalKeyboards #Microtonal #Musodon #NoiseMusic #Shitposting #WebDev

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MLE_online, to random
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Anyone have any favorite PeerTube instances they can recommend? My instance, Diode Zone, is going away soon and I need to find a new place for my videos or just let them exist only on YouTube

reillypascal,
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@MLE_online I'm on https://makertube.net/, and they seem to be doing well on fundraising and keeping enough storage space! I like the people there as well.

skinnylatte, to random
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I’ve been invited to a pride party whose tagline is, drink chai be gay, be a chai slut

reillypascal,
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@skinnylatte love it! It's not anything fancy, but I drink multiple cups of this tea every day, so I would definitely enjoy these kind of queer events

reillypascal, to streaming
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"The CEO of Spotify thinks music is made for free and is his to sell, promoted as ‘content’. Please always try to buy records (‘vinyl’), cds, T-Shirts and go to gigs where you can afford to support bands you love."

#Streaming #Spotify #PayMusicians #MusicNews #Music #PhysicalMedia

https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-fans-and-artists-hit-back-as-spotify-ceo-claims-the-cost-of-creating-content-is-close-to-zero-3761004

rasterweb, to art
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My latest batch of handmade paper is done. There's one sheet on the left that has not been pressed, and a stack on the right that has been pressed and has a very smooth surface. (Ready for more relief prints!)

Handmade paper, showing an unpressed sheet.
Handmade paper, showing a stack of pressed sheets on the right side.

reillypascal,
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@rasterweb that's super cool! I remember doing something similar as a kid. My mom had made some deckles with window screen/wood, and we would grind up colored construction paper to get different colors for the pulp.

reillypascal, to Meme
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"While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade"

Tamsyn Muir did the meme. (From "Gideon the Ninth")

#Meme #Memes #Fiction #SFF #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

molly0xfff, to web
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just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

reillypascal,
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@molly0xfff nice! Yeah, I finally got my own domain at the end of last year, and I'm really glad I did it

limebar, to random
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What is the weirdest account you follow, so I can follow it too?

reillypascal,
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@limebar z@jorts.horse (or really most people on https://jorts.horse) has some delightfully cursed posts

skinnylatte, to random
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When we first moved here, 45 made it impossible for foreign spouses to work. So my wife went back to school and today, she’s graduating with her Bachelors in Psychology. Next stop: grad school! (Thankful for California’s excellent public universities system, and resident tuition!)

Sabrena felt she got an excellent education at SF State, and is looking forward to start the clinical psychology masters program to be your friendly multilingual culturally relevant therapist in a few years

reillypascal,
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@skinnylatte congrats to her, that's awesome!

reillypascal, to Blog
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Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:

"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/is-substack-exaggerating-its-network

#Substack #Newsletter #Blog #Blogging #Writing #Algorithm

reillypascal,
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I already don't like Substack and massively prefer reading things on the writer's own website, and this kind of manipulation to keep people there just confirms my dislike

I appreciate that Molly White (for example) self-hosts her newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/

n3wjack, to random
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WTF Logitech?

reillypascal,
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@n3wjack yeah I switched to LinearMouse (sadly Mac-only) as soon as I heard about this nonsense

reillypascal, to Blog
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I did a write up of setting up Webmentions on my site! I had mentioned it earlier, but there was one stumbling block that took me longer to figure out.

Webmentions let me get notified when people share my posts, respond to my comments on other sites, etc., and lets me use my site for a lot of the kinds of interactions I'd otherwise have to do on social media.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-21-2024

#IndieWeb #Blog #Webmentions #Microformats #WebDev #WebDevelopment #Programming #Coding

reillypascal, to SmallWeb
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We usually call a blog on the Gemini protocol a "gemlog," but what if we followed the same pattern as "web log" → "blog" and called them "glogs"?

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Gemlog #Blog #Shitpost

J12t, to random
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.

Anybody else see what he apparently sees?

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

reillypascal,
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@J12t his most recent idea for a "better Internet" was blockchain nonsense, so I don't see him actually doing anything good with it

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt

reillypascal, to ai
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"This whole AI cycle was fueled by fantasies, and when people stop falling for them the bubble starts to deflate. In The Guardian, John Naughton recently laid out the five stages of financial bubbles, noting AI is between stages three and four: euphoria and profit-taking."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

#AI #AIHype #AIBubble #Tech #TechNews

skinnylatte, to random
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My hobby (film development and printing) is really only possible because of the density of burned out hardware and software engineers with time and money, and a deeply autistic interest in making things work (just spoke to the people who set up my community darkroom. They bought out gear from labs which closed, and fixed it up.. this doesn’t really exist anywhere else)

I have a color darkoom I can use! (They rebuilt some color processors, it was pretty gnarly)

reillypascal,
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@skinnylatte as an autistic person I really love when people have these kinds of intense interests in things

mxtthxw, to random
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The boss just came back with this for re-amping….

reillypascal,
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@mxtthxw looks like fun! I love megaphones — this piece of music actually uses them as instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYiG2DDVS7Y

reillypascal, to MaxMSP
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Some sound combos I'm trying out

#MaxMSP #Musodon #NoiseMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Feedback #Noise #SoundArt #ElectronicMusic

A screen recording of Max/MSP with an inset of me placing a tin with a contact mic on the speaker of a small amp to make feedback

reillypascal, to SmallWeb
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I'm at an odd place with my personal website. Before Dec. 2023, it was a "professional portfolio" for my compositions. Now that I'm interested in the IndieWeb community, I want to make something more personal. I don't think I want to make two sites, but I do still need a portfolio for my composition work.

I just read @maggie's post on "digital gardens" and I really like that idea. (1/n)

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

reillypascal,
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I definitely want to add more pages, and once I add dropdowns within the menus, that'll be easier to organize. My main thing is that I don't know how to strike a balance of "personal" and "portfolio" in the content I put on my site.

Does anyone else have experience/thoughts on this? (2/2)

reillypascal,
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@mattly something I didn't mention but that I've been thinking about is how much I like some of the early "net art" or other experiments with hypertext, e.g., Olia Lialina's "my boyfriend came back from the war" (http://www.teleportacia.org/war/).

I don't know what would be a way to make something like that today that was fresh and original, but I'm thinking about it

reillypascal,
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@alabut ooh I love this! When I get around to releasing a record, I might do this. I did some ASCII bubble letters on this instruction .txt file that comes with the performance materials for this recent piece: https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

reillypascal, to Spotify
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"'It appears Spotify has returned to attacking the very songwriters who make its business possible,' said David Israelite, the NMPA’s president and CEO [...] 'Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move [...] We will not stand for their perversion of the settlement we agreed upon in 2022.'"

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-songwriters-less-mechanical-royalties-audiobooks-bundle-1235673829/

#Spotify #Streaming #MusicNews #TechNews

reillypascal,
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@vincentbiret the ones I mentioned focus on selling downloads to listeners. Bandcamp is the one I'm most familiar with, and if you buy something there, it also becomes available for unlimited streaming on their app/website.

I also use SoundCloud for my portfolio stuff that I'm not selling, and Jamendo sounds cool for free streaming/licensing purposes.

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