FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

thinking of changing my server naming scheme to major arcana (it's currently anime girls, and not v good)

Cloudflare is the only company that has ever given literal nazis my mother's phone number, so my opinion of them is slightly worse than my opinion of hot garbage.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112887890911515501

‪btw… if you want to experience a very accurate version of the heights that dream had reached by the end of the 1990's, Roland's “Sound Canvas VA” plugin is $69 for a lifetime license and will be discontinued on September 1st. just saying.‬

‪but now there is a thing you can (fairly) easily download which, effectively, puts a perfect replication of the original and most legendary General MIDI hardware synth from 1991 right onto your computer. a new chance to experience what it was meant to be. and maybe appreciate it.‬

‪if you care about the General MIDI era and that type of synth like i do, it's very depressing to read about it online. misconceptions abound everywhere. especially for people coming at it from a software perspective, living in a software age, most people won't “get it” i think.‬

i'm really glad that nukeykt made Nuked SC-55, a fully accurate software emulation of the Roland SC-55. the SC-55 is a very important device: it's the original General MIDI and GS synth, used for e.g. DOOM's OST. but most people know it only through bad imitation soundfonts

even the humble SC-55 from 1991 could do a lot more than your average soundfont player. it has many extensions to General MIDI: a song's MIDI data can adjust the parameters of the reverb and chorus effects blocks, remap MIDI controllers, route LFOs, edit envelopes, etc.

I fucked up my repo so bad

And they said memory management in C was hard 😏

i think it would be funny if, should i eventually learn guitar, i only play it through a hexaphonic pickup into a midi converter.

I'm a bit annoyed that non-"smart" gadgets get often called "stupid" or (worse) "dumb"
Can we start using "simple" instead?
I don't have a smart thermostat / fridge / washing machine, I have a simple one!

‪i am sure the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but a side effect of github's awful handling of all this is to promote lock-in to the platform. if the git commit history only makes sense when viewed on github dot com, it makes switching away from it less practical… ‬

‪- github just assumes your display name on your github profile should be attached to commits and gives you no option to change this‬
‪- github just assumes that that your primary login/password reset email address should go in git history and you can't completely disable this‬

‪- the fact it hides git committer and author names and emails everywhere means people do not notice when they are wrong or inconsistent, whether that's because of git or github dot com configuration‬
‪- you cannot fully control what email it attaches to commits attributed to you 🙃‬

if the purpose of a system is what it does then the purpose of github dot com is to make git commit history useless

I just found my old periodic table shoes after being missing for about ten years and the disappointed look on my husband's face implies he's the one who hid them.

While we're on the subject of nerdy accessories, I also have a TV test pattern scarf.

by the way if you are in the #uk and you need your #retro #computer or #video #game #console repaired i am a highly skilled technician that cannot be legaly employed in the uk so send me a #paypal donation of a #symbolic ammount and ship your computer to the southwest devon and i will repair it for you i have clients who can vouch for me thank you. i have an oscilloscope and everything, which is more than some thousand-follower retro tech youtubers can say. ​