wohali 💯 @wohali@octodon.social

Yamaha SY99 synthesizer owners, listen up!

You can now get a true 8MB expansion board for your SY99 to max out sample memory from me. I'm calling it the Magic Memory Board.

Batch 1 (very limited quantities) will ship NEXT MONTH. Batch 2 will ship first quarter next yeasr.

Full details here: https://www.wohmart.com/sy99-mmb.html

Boosts very much appreciated

I'm being more selective with who I let follow my account - especially people I don't really know.

I'm not eager to discuss some topics here - especially politics and other "hot button" topics - especially with people I haven't gotten to know better. This is more my sanctuary than the average Twitter account.

If I don't know you and you follow me, a predominance of those subjects in your TL is more likely to get a reject from me, at least initially. Sorry, try again later.

If you were looking for these links that vanished from your Getting started panel, here they are:

Pinned toots: https://<your-site>/web/pinned
Muted users: https://<your-site>/web/mutes
Blocked users: https://<your-site>/web/blocks
Hidden domains: https://<your-site>/web/domain_blocks

I am back! With a very important announcement!

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did u know boobytrap backwards is partyboob

not sure I ever did an #introductions actually

I'm a living-type person with one foot in my #tech job (open source, #CouchDB, #OfflineFirst), one foot in #electronics (analogue design, synthesizers, etc.), another in #music (currently participating in A Whale's Lantern) and another in relaxing stuff (#comedy #scifi #cats).

Oops, that makes me a quadruped Well, you get the idea.

My timeline is mostly politics free and inclusive. Come here to #relax. Look forward to meeting you!

He was also a virulent racist. I'm not endorsing the man. It's just notable news for people in infosec and related fields.

Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/lucky.green.73/posts/10155498914786706

The manifesto: https://activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html

a e s t h e t i c

I feel lost in the fediverse right now...

...my stream isn't full of nasty, corporate, and politics like it was on birbsite

...but it's also full of a lot of people whose experiences I find it hard to relate to

...and a few shitposters

..and not much real connection between people anymore, at least, not like it was when I first joined.

what changed? is this just what happens when a place becomes popular?

#MastoMusic so I told myself that I'd get another album out in 2018, after enjoying the heck out of doing A Whale's Lantern with @js0000 .

I waited and waited until I felt right, and suddenly it was just too late. December arrived. I got the studio set up and running.

And I have been staring at a blank DAW screen for 15 days nwo.

I have nothing. And the pressure to get *something* done, *anything* is making it worse.

This didn't happen with FAWM 2016. I don't get it.

love to get email

> Subject: Laptop not charging unless connected to the charger

someone out there HAS to be making awesome memes with the video from this paper.

Maybe it'll be you?

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aclegg3/projects/LearningToDress.html

#OH #IRC

"twenty years from now, kids listening to "Baby it's cold outside" are gonna find it really, really weird. We're gonna have to explain that it has to be understood in the context of its time.

"You see, it used to get cold outside."

for you space fans:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/physics-nova-star-satellite-mount-allison-lovekin-1.4941445

This is huge. Their CubeSats were able to be reconfigured into different array architectures on command, which allowed them to survey the sky individually, then work together once they saw the signs of a nova happening.

Fantastic science.

uhhhh Australia what are you doing?

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/you-bunch-of-idiots-australias-tech-industry-savages-labor-for-backing-the-governments-encryption-bill-2018-12

So now, if you are a tech employee in Australia, police can force you to code a secret backdoor into your app, and you tell your employer, you can be sent to jail.

h/t to birbsite https://twitter.com/freegnu/status/1072094580366065664

*taps mic*

is this thing on?

https://www.blog.google/products/translate/reducing-gender-bias-google-translate/

So Google says it is a reality that gender bias exists, and because it exists, we are able to train machines to learn it, and that they are taking steps to correct this in the algorithm.

Just like how people also pick up cultural norms and think it's the proper way to frame reality.

Nice that they're stepping in.