Spencer Alves @impiaaa@octodon.social

Dear potential sneepsnopper! I'm sorry my "interests" was minimal! You're more than welcome to snoop through my posts to get ideas, and also my previous accounts at http://dev.glitch.social/@impiaaa and https://mastodon.social/@impiaaa .

this effect happened by accident but I like it, kinda abstract

I'm not giving my phone number to anyone I haven't met in person, but if you need something more or less immediate than Mastodon, you can try my same username on Twitter, Reddit, FB Messenger, Gmail, cybre.space, and maybe others.

Now that that's official, I should do a re-​#introductions​:
Hi, I'm Spencer! I do a bunch of things; often with programming, sometimes with games, and almost always on a computer. Check my website for some of that. On Mastodon, I'm known for my bots @doctormccoy and @domainhacker​​​, an emoji importer script, the little 🗨️ in the corner of Glitchsoc statuses, for being a geometric shape, and for the dont_at_me emoji.

On Mastodon, posts can be a reply to other posts, but do not notify the other user unless there are mentions, which are totally separate. Mentions are in-line and notify. *Replies* are only indicated in the UI if they are to the same person, in which case it says "show thread." So, "show thread" does not actually refer to a thread, and replies are not actually distinguished any way, except for mentions, which are not the same.

Everyone following me probably already knows this, but I like explaining things.
On Twitter, posts can be a reply to another post. If they are by different people, the second one notifies the first poster. If that post was also a reply, the last post can also notify the previous poster, and so on, but this is optional. A "thread" is where multiple posts all by the same person are strung together, one after another—all w/ "show thread". Mentions also notify users, but are in-line.

(DMs are another good example of this)

would be nice if, when Mastodon copies Twitter, it actually did so thoughtfully instead of leaving with a mess of conflicting ideas

would be nice if "Show thread" in Mastodon actually showed which posts were threads

Dear potential sneepsnopper! I'm sorry my "interests" was minimal! You're more than welcome to snoop through my posts to get ideas, and also my previous accounts at http://dev.glitch.social/@impiaaa and https://mastodon.social/@impiaaa .

well, that and sound spreads through its medium in all directions, not in a ray. maybe add some (unnecessarily expensive) volumeterics? :P

I know sound environment simulation uses a lot of the same principles as a(n optical) ray tracer, but I wonder if you could just reuse a ray tracer for audio without any code changes (just with an adapter program to change sound to light and image to sound). I think all you'd need (aside from authored materials) is a multi-angle camera.

Hm, so if I were implementing an audio simulation system, what properties would materials have? Well, reflectance, absorption, transmission, diffusion… Hey wait a minute, these are all properties of how a material interacts with light too! What a coincidence.

(it's not a coincidence)

https://vuo.org/ looks very interesting. unfortunately this was something I was hoping could be (at least partially) open source. also doesn't seem to emphasize audio.

inspired by LB and https://xkcd.com/1406/ : make a "universal adapter" that's actually an arduino or raspbpi or something that just has bare pins and machine learns all the connections so it can actually convert anything to anything

annoying that, since nobody on this server follows my alt account, the posts that did make it here were not deleted when they should have been. Is there some way to force their deletion, like there is to fetch a new status, or are they now permanently in a ghost-like limbo and can never be removed, now that the originating server says 404?

AND it was raining the whole time!

yay, had a productive day today. Got three gifts at the craft fair, met a friend for dinner during their flight layover in Oakland, and took them to a record store where I got one more gift as well a heck of a deal for myself.

So… what actually is MIDI meta event 0x2E and where did it come from? Closest I can find is http://n64devkit.square7.ch/pro-man/pro19/19-04.htm , which is for a "compressed" format, but it also has a 0x2D event that isn't listed in any of the multiple libraries that I found 0x2E in.

It's fun to go through the RT list in a popular tweet, to see a timeline of how it passed through different subcommunities. like, we can see this one that started in furry twitter, then branched into leftist twitter and artist twitter, where it then spread into anime twitter, etc. etc…