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If you've got a server running node Javascript you may want to skip Linux kernel 6.14.6. I've installed it on about 25 machines and it's been stable on all but two, and two which have been unstable also happen to be the only two running node applications. I do not know exactly what is wrong with the kernel because the failure mode is one where it locks up hard, does not reboot, does not response to magic-sys-request, thus there is no way to get a kernel dump to see what it was doing when it dies.
I'm no longer a Hydrasynth owner. It's a great synth and I'm sure I'll miss it to some degree, but it just never inspired me the way the opsix or Pigments does, and since I have both of those and they cover nearly identical territory, I decided to sell it a few months ago.
Well, didn't end up selling it (everyone is broke rn!), but I did end up trading it -- so now I have a Roland TR-8s instead.
I used to have a TR-6s until I traded it (for some Eurorack modules), so I'm familiar with the 8s (same engine, but the 8 has individual outs, more/better controls, and more voices). I was very reluctant to trade the 6s back then because I thought it was a great drum machine but part of my logic justifying it was I could always get a TR-8s to replace it since I know the engine was good and could use the extra features.
one of my friends has been rolling on the tr-8s and they always do good work with it. i suck at composing on a drum machine, but i can attest that the controls on it are great. a lot of ground covered with that box there.
@benda The 6s was my main drum machine on Psychedelic Ghost Stories (altho that album used 3 or 4 different drum machines, plus samples and MPC drum synths), and having more voices and control, plus better I/O, in a larger/easier to play interface is very tempting. I tried to trade it (and other stuff) for a Syntakt and intended to keep that, so who knows. If I can sell off both my other digital drum machines (Model: Cycles and Volca Drum) maybe I can justify keeping the Tr8s as my digital.
@benda Pretty certain I will be keeping my DrumBrute Impact (which is the only drum machine on Mechanics of Mysticism, altho there are some sampled drums as well) as my analog machine. (I was going to consider selling it if Syntakt's analog section was a suitable replacement).
Sometimes, I wish I lived in a fantasy world where magic was seen as normal, and that channeling powers caused real things to happen, if I had magic like that, I know I'd use it for good. #Books, #Bookstodon
This rascal named Lukas, more frequently called Lukee because I experimented with variations on his name containing more high frequencies (ee being a higher vocalization than us). I did this because cats have good hearing in the 1khz-60Khz range, less so below 1Khz, and he indeed does respond better to that.
I also have a Siamese female named Tulip, but what is interesting about Lucas is that he has observed me building / repairing computers and thus knows I use wire ties, so when his food gets low he goes around finding wire ties and sets them in or next to his dish in payment for his food.
So it turns out that ChatGPT can't generate sheet music from audio. I assume it could given that it can generate LilyPond files. So I have to use some specialized tool to generate MIDI files for instrument conversion.
The AI tools are all proprietary and are subscription-based. My only other option is some online MP3 to MIDI converter.
It shouldn't be too hard because all I need is to record a short fanfare for my game. I already have a kazoo ordered which I will use to record it and then convert the thing to MIDI so it can be played with better instruments.
So it looks like the plan to record a fanfare with a kazoo and convert it to midi to play with better instruments didn't work out.
Most online audio to MIDI converters suck and the ones that don't are proprietary and expensive. They add extra notes to the outputted MIDI files and no matter what instrument you use to play the file, it sounds terrible.
Not to mention that playing the kazoo is actually a skill in of itself. I thought it was the easiest instrument, but it took me a while to realize that you are actually supposed to hum into it and not blow in it.
But it turns out that there is a decent FOSS desktop program known as NeuralNote. It it's 100x better than those subpar web apps because it doesn't output any artifact notes.
And here is the result, recomposed as a full orchestra. This is based off of a victory screech my siblings and I would make when we accomplished something or received something good.
@beardalaxy Yeah, I'm not using it. I need to come up with something better but my head always associates certain situations with copyrighted songs that it's hard for me to come up with something original.
Hot damn. Trump just posted a video insinuating that Hillary Clinton had JFK JR killed, suicided White House counselor Vince Foster, and that Seth Rich WAS the DNC leaker.
So, what will be DONE about all of this, then? Are we going there? Will we overturn the 2020 Stolen Election, and will President Trump be given the rightful win, long after the fact...
Hold the Treasonous Illegitimate Usurper, Lyin' ChYna Joe Briben Accountable, and his Auto pen too...
It's all connected. 😉
"President Trump on Saturday morning went off on the growing Biden autopen scandal after disturbing audio of Robert Hur’s interview with the former president was released.
The President said the autopen scandal was a “major part” of the real crime” that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged and stolen.”
Trump also slammed “Dirty cop” James Comey for spying on his 2016 campaign.
“Whoever had control of the “AUTOPEN” is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN! Millions and millions of people knew that, but the Radical Left Democrats waged a campaign of inoculation and innocence like none that had ever been waged before. THIS IS WHY THE UNSELECT COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL THUGS, WHO WERE GIVEN A FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON BY THE PERSON WHO WIELDED THE NOW ILLEGALLY USED AUTOPEN, DELETED AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM THEIR CORRUPT AND VICIOUS WITCH HUNT AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE LIVES WERE COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DESTROYED BY THIS HISTORICALLY CRIMINAL EVENT. Remember, it all began with DIRTY COP James Comey, Obama, a hapless and cognitively impaired Sleepy Joe Biden, and my now very famous ACCUSATION that,“THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!” Whoever had control of the Autopen is just the beginning. The biggest crime of all is that THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED! I (MAGA!) WON THE ELECTION BY MILLIONS OF VOTES, AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA, FOR THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN!!!” Trump said on Saturday morning in a Truth Social post."
President Trump on Saturday morning went off on the growing Biden autopen scandal after disturbing audio of Robert Hur’s interview with the former president was released.
i need some of that liquid tape electrical sealant for my spliced ABS sensor wires. probably will be bad if liquid from the road ever sneaks past my heat shrink tube into the solder joints i did on those wires
We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting.
Vicious, Soulless FBI Agents File Suit Demanding Their Identities Remain Anonymous After They Terrorized, Stormed Their Homes, Busted in Doors, Harassed Children of Innocent J6ers
@Lady MountainJay I have two cats, we adopted a new rescue dog, a Doberman, and one of the reasons we adopted this particular Doberman is we needed a dog that would be okay with the cats and the foster said that her cat slept on the dog. We previously had another Doberman with these cats, so they were used to dogs and this breed specifically. The relationship the old cats had was our grey tomcat loved to get the dog to chase him around the house where the Siamese cat didn't like this sort of play. Our new dog caught on right away and knows when the grey cat is in the mood to be chased and they play good together. Occasionally the dog tries to goad the Siamese into a chase, but she just lifts a paw and displays her claws and then the dog gives up.
@Lady MountainJay Yea, when my previous cat Monster (a real sweetheart huge grey tabby) died, shortly thereafter I went to PAWS intending to get another kitten (I had adopted Monster when he was already 12 years old, and undoubtedly he may have lived much longer but he was infected with feline leukemia and that took his life several months later), this time I wanted a kitten, as much as there was a sense of gratitude for being given the opportunity to give an old sick cat a good home I just didn't want to go through that grief right away so looked for a kitten. PAWS had no young cats at that point but suggested I check back in March or April when they typically have kittens so did so. They had a cute Siamese and a grey Tomcat about 7 months old, I hadn't intended to get two cats but they had been together nearly since birth so I took them both, now I've had them close to eight years and glad I did take them both as their interactions provide quite a lot of entertainment and with two cats, if one is in an aloof mood the odds are good the other won't be.
Dinner tonight was some lasagna and a salad and while the lasagna was very good the salad was actually better. But both were quite flavorful and delicious.
We need a Constitutional Amendment that says an Impeached President: - Loses Presidential Immunity - Loses the ability to make Presidential Pardons - Has any Pardons they may have already issued Invalidated - Forfeits Secret Service Protection - Forfeits any Presidential Pension - Not entitled to a Presidential Library - All appointments to the Judiciary subjected to cancellation and removal and all cases decided to be re-opened for re-decision if any Judge is removed - Name, likeness, and list of any "accomplishments" (if any) erased from the Public record - Must be referred to as "the Impeached President"
Call it the The Inability to Profit or Grift off the Office of the Presidency Amendment and make it retroactive to 2016.
Maybe a dumb question. But is this just a matter of copying over? I have 6 hdds I've accumulated and want all the data from them on one big drive now. They are all ntfs as they are from windows, but I am going to boot from my mint drive to move the files, just so windows isnt running or accessing anything on the drives while I move the data. I'm transitioning to full linux, but I want to consolidate these drives first. I dont want to clone drives, so no dd here, just copying files from 6 different drives onto 1.
@applemao Yep, I would just mount the windows partitions on /mnt one at a time and copy the data where you want to go, cp -a /mnt/data/ /newlocation/data/
Have you looked into building a simple NAS? Storing files on single disks is generally bad since it is inefficient and can lead to data loss and theft.
It might sound like overkill but it gives you a lot of power and flexibility. Get an old desktop with at least 8gb of ram and then install a few drives. Next install TrueNAS, configure the disks, configure file share and call it a day.
@Possibly linux @applemao I wouldn't worry so much about efficiency as redundancy, better to have at least two drives and set up a RAID1 array, and given that the Linux kernel already has RAID, NFS, etc, I don't see the point in being dependent upon additional software such as TruNAS. That said yes it's just a matter of copying files to move the data over BUT a windows executable often will not work in a LInux environment even with wine, particularly if it contains what is known as a rootkit anti-cheat. You can however fairly easily setup a windows vm under linux.
@Possibly linux To be sure, but I assume since he was formerly running Windows performance wasn't an issue. No, it's obvious he is more concerned with getting the clutter factor down so he stated a preference for a single large drive, and if data isn't important or backed up some other media fine. If not, then you risk losing your data because sooner later drives fail. If performance was really the goal he'd raid a bunch of nvme drives together. This, by the way, is what I do for the system that runs this friendica node, along with an 18 core processor and 256 gb of RAM.
Youth in the Highlands of Chiapas: Between Hurt and Hope
On Saturday, April 19, the double femicide of the Tseltal sisters Valeria and Deisi Gómez Méndez, murdered with bullets and found in the community of Cruz Obispo, in the municipality of Chamula, was made public on social networks. They were 18 and 14 years old, respectively. They had been kidnapped days before in San Cristóbal de Las Casas (SCLC). Their murder adds to the eight that have occurred so far this year and the 32 reported during 2024 in the state.
Violence doesn’t end in an environment where the security strategy imposes despotic and authoritarian police force to publicize what seems to be a long campaign act of the current governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez. Has a peace pact been made? The prosecutor’s office in charge of the investigations has a past of torture and fabrication of guilty parties that raises doubts when femicides continue and human trafficking, mainly young women and children of indigenous origin, has been established in improvised brothels between SCLC and Chamula.
“Why don’t they report it?” asks a visitor. Some cases of abuse are found in the family environment, others are forced to let their daughters come and go on weekends under pressure from organized crime gangs that persist at the local level. The truth is that little is known about the power networks that sustain the abuse, but it is an open secret that coincides with the ferment of criminal governance in the region, and that along with other factors of hopelessness, affects the mental health of young people who commit self-harm and even decide to end their lives; as documented by the Network for the Rights of Children and Adolescents in Chiapas, youth suicides in indigenous communities continue to increase.
In addition, since the end of last year around twenty men have been arrested on charges of belonging to local armed groups known as “motonetos,” including a couple of alleged leaders. However, the criminal network remains active and continues to recruit young men in public schools by branding them with tattoos on the back of their heads with the initials of the armed group to which they belong. At the same time, the consumption of drugs such as crystal meth is increasing among this population. Gang membership has become part of their youth identity. It is only a matter of time before the fragile pacts of criminal governance dissolve.
But hope also flowers in this land. In recent days the Rebel y Revel Festival: Art, Rebellion and Resistance Towards the Day After” was held in the recently constructed Jacinto Canek caracol, in Tenejapa, where the constant, as in past spaces convened by the Zapatistas, is the participation of hundreds of young men and women support bases who attend, organize themselves and also take advantage of the space to meet and fall in love.
Wearing their traditional costumes with tennis shoes, a trio of young people take the microphone to sing their songs of struggle to the rhythm of hip hop; a young woman with her face covered declaims poetry in Tsotsil, others show the paintings they have made illustrating the common life of their grandparents and great-grandparents made with natural materials. These are the third and fourth generations, heirs of the Zapatista resistance, who dress up as bees with balaclavas, polar bears, stilts, dolphins, parrots and other animal species to represent the play “Nature rebels,” originally called “Bichos,” where they show the importance of the organization for the defense of Mother Earth. Among more than five hundred participants of diverse arts in the meeting, this play was positioned as one of the main ones of the event, directed by Subcomandante Moisés, was praised by playwright Luis de Tavira, who called to learn from the hope that the Zapatistas hold as an antidote against the fear that results from a violent society.
The hope of flourishing in resistance and sustaining the organizational structure that the Zapatistas call “the Common,” an old practice of the indigenous communities, is a call to defend life, to continue believing that another world is possible, one where young people can live with peace and dignity.
El sábado 19 de abril se dio a conocer en redes sociales el doble feminicidio de las hermanas de origen tseltal Valeria y Deisi Gómez Méndez, asesinadas a balazos y halladas en la comunidad de Cruz Obispo, en el municipio de Chamula.
The Iraqi prime minister said #Baghdad rejects “the forced #displacement of #Palestinians”, calling for an end to “the massacres in #Gaza, the attacks on the #WestBank and the occupied territories”.
Moody’s Ratings has downgraded the nation’s credit rating one notch from #Aaa to #Aa1, leaving the U.S. #government without a top #grade among any of the major #rating agencies.
Many of the #crypto #investors preparing to attend an exclusive gala dinner with US #president Donald Trump have offloaded the coins that won them their seats.
Surprise: After the #meeting with Trump, the coin is no longer worth anything.
BI found 200 "podcasts" that advertised the sale of opioids and other #drugs — often without a prescription, in violation of federal #law — and directed users to websites posing as legitimate online #pharmacies.
The IDF announced coordinated airstrikes and ground operations in the Strip, saying that the past two days of air raids were the "opening moves" to then "seize control of areas in the Gaza Strip."
What if the most shocking truth about our past isn’t in what’s been found—but in what’s missing? We uncover the eerie absence of toilets in the world’s grand...
@japananon I'd assume a good part of it is labour costs, and I think he's got a Patreon or some subscription service shit along side the Google Ad payout and sponsors which can add up to a good chunk of change
@tinfoil-hat Maybe if he'd invested a portion of that 150k instead of blowing it all on cocaine he wouldn't have to be living in a trailer, or a van down by the river.
@tinfoil-hat Having listened to a bit of AI music, I am convinced there will be a role for human developers. AI is good for solving some small problems but lacks any sense of aesthetics. Granted so do some Microsoft programmers, but that aside...
Slide into your Saturday evening with a dose of The Mechanics of Mysticism. It's a full-ride scholarship to higher realms of consciousness that pairs great with whatever entheogens you have handy. Works great on its own, too!
Hello! I've been considering a separate Fedi account for my musical nonsense, so I reached out to @luka , they accepted my request, and here I am. I'm Simon, and I make noises as Bedlam Steps. I've done music most of my life, but I'm always learning new stuff and one of my uses of this account will be to share what I do and how I do it. #introduction #electronica #ambient #music
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