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haskal tech tip!

despite what Big MPAA will tell you, there is nothing morally wrong about piracy

So, yeah. Your fun fact of the day: the Casio CTK-2550 does not have a very good soundfont. Similar to this, "Whistle" is just a sine wave. And, well, in the synths, they have a bunch of "Square" and "Sawtooth" synths, but no pure square or sawtooth. I actually joked that the Ocarina setting was a better square wave than the actual square waves. But, hey, what do you expect from a $100 keyboard?

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And, okay, maybe you don't believe the scope. Well, here's the audio:

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So, I recently bought an oscilloscope and I decided to scope my keyboard. Check this out: here's some traces. The first is from setting 168 "SqrLead3". The second is from setting 164 "Ocarina". Notice anything peculiar? Is it just me or do those waves look awfully similar? (Spoiler alert: They're awfully similar"

Gender oof 

Alright. Crisis averted. There was no one in there.

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Gender oof 

I have never had a moment of "Oh, shit!" greater than realizing I needed to use the bathroom and the nearest gender neutral one was too far away

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Gender oof 

Hey, so guess what I didn't think through when I decided to wear a trans pride shirt to class today! Using the bathroom! So, anyways, I'm now writing this to buy enough time that the women's room will hopefully be empty.

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Thinking about her…. <3

Credit goes to cathodegaytube over on bird site :)

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Survivor bias, mental health, people getting hurt, misc violent content, gendered violence 

thinking about survivor bias, where some guy thinks recent issues that people are now having discussions are "new" simply bc they didn't affect him

"in my day we didn't have mental illness. We just toughed it out." (but they did know a guy who seemed healthy and happy, then suddenly killed themselves "for no reason.")

very incredibly mild subtoot 

Sometimes, I wonder who someone's audience is. Like yeah. We get it. The American two-party system is bullshit. Both parties feed their constituency lies. Why is your post phrased as though any of those lies are targeted to us? Who exactly is your post actually targeted to? And, well, I don't know the answer to that latter question. Maybe it is targeted at those who need to hear it. I dunno. Anyways, keep on keepin' on, I guess.

(And I should mention that that repository isn't all of it. As I say in the readme, I haven't figure out subrepos yet, so bear with me.)

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Well, folx, I done went and did it. I put the FENIX source code online. Did you ever want to see it for yourself? Maybe thoroughly scrutinize my code and make fun of how bad it was? WELL NOW YOU CAN!
gitdab.com/auravulpes/FENIX_ma
And, if you act now, in a bonus 2-for-1 deal, you can also help! (Isn't that fun?)
Anyhoo, I've put most of what I've got online. Let me know if you have any issues with it.

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cold take but it fucking sucks whenever siivagunner gwts a fresh new funny joke motif and then they drive it into the fucking ground and every rip is just the same song with a different soundfont. so funny right? fuck off lol

I am laughing hysterically at this. This is so stupid. Why did I make this?!

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FOSS hot take 

"free as in free speech, but not as in free beer" is just dishonest.

Feel free to sell support services, proprietary extensions, etc. for your FOSS project.

Don't sell the mere convenience of building the damn thing -- especially with a pretentious "I did all of this work" attitude. You committed to making the current version a matter of freedom, and you probably picked a license which carries the same commitment for any future releases.

*glares at Ardour*

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