I finally cracked 1000 in bullet chess. I'm not great but I feel like I crossed a big hump by learning to play a few more openings

A concern about the AI bubble that I've not seen discussed is how many All-In podcasts it's going to create. Every time an AI companies is bought or IPOs, it creates 10 new billionaire who will start podcasts where they pass around their single brain cell and opine on things they don't understand.

baldur's gate 3 should have an "intimidate" bonus action that uses a unit's skill modifier to make enemy units less likely to attack or target it

cats are so cool and fun to pet

The Immortal (1990) - Apple IIGS

Still looking for open source/telemetry-free/NOT "ai-powered software for: browser (I'm trying Vivaldi right now and it's okay) whiteboard style project management (something miro-style?) multisampler (I'm starting to get worried about kontakt, which has been making my daw unstable lately)

The only meaningful change I've seen since "AI" started being used as a buzzword for products that replace their UI with an LLM wrapper is that quality of digital stuff has gotten slightly lower. The "more" isn't obvious since there's just more bad stuff that gets buried in social media algorithms

The tv show i'm working on is almost done and i'm gonna need my next job by february, someone hire me (i'm mainly a composer but i'm a good at music editing, sound design, mixing/mastering, and pretty good at programming, audio integration, etc if your project is interactive

what internet browser do y'all use? wanting to switch to something that doesn't have an "ai-powered" marketing push

please suggest any and all of your favorite open source, telemetry-free "ai"-free software, i'm on kind of an "i'm old and grumpy" kick and am actively replacing any software with updates that advertise "ai-powered" anything.

any linux users out there have experience running native windows plugins via wine/etc in their daw on a linux machine (esp in reaper)? I've been slowly working towards making the switch but i haven't had time to really explore my windows/mac exclusive plugins. Mostly worried about using kontakt

The little holiday popup in Trello finally bugged me enough to post this: Is there a good free (prefer open source) project management app that behaves roughly like trello (sticky note style to-do board) without constantly updating and trying to get me to buy premium? Bonus if it supports images

"ai bros" really won the culture war already by making everyone "anti-ai" when we really just hate llms and "generative ai" (which isn't even really ai at all). Like being unspecifically "anti-ai" legitimizes their products as something it isn't

If you're ever sick of listening to the same stuff and don' have the mental energy to sift through mediocre music discovering something new, try looking up the billboard top 100 list from a year before you were born. Holy shit 1978 had some BANGERS that are lost to time

Pretty much the actual best thing you can do to "combat the right" is just keep not using Twitter. Reactionary ideology works by playing into people's emotions and biases. They use people's real fears to sell them on solutions which sound rational but don't work. 1/3

Was not playing to win, was basically IRL achievement hunting lol

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

every time i install a windows update my desktop background disappears. windows development is worse than useless at this point

wanting "agentic ai" has the same energy as being pro-slavery

I have a two hour layover and foolishly didn't bring my laptop or a book. Entertain me

100% chance Nobuo Uematsu was watching this movie when he scored FF7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP63...

"Well I asked ChatGPT and it sai-" If I cared, I would have "asked" ChatGPT myself, and obviously I don't care what its output is because it probably guessed wrong. Shut the fuck up loll

People jocking these slop generators are making me feel like it might be time to bring "kys" back to the Internet

People are posting about leaving Spotify. I'm over here wondering what they were still doing there? Like it has actually never been the best music streaming app? I used it for a few months when it became popular before switching back to other stuff that's better. Cancel your account for Black Friday

Wait people are PAYING for ChatGPT, Suno, etc? Hahahahaha fuckin losers

Any San Diego friends: come see me bring my synths to soda bar!

As weird as it sounds I kinda wish I had more of a "hobby graveyard" like some people do. I want to stop liking some of my hobbies so I have enough time for my favorite ones, but noooooo I still feel compelled to paint warhammer miniatures from time to time despite thinking the game sucks

Please stop calling these "AI" things tools. Tools expose parameters and let you make consistent, predictable, and granular adjustments to output.

The amount of spam i get on bandcamp's contact form these days is crazy. I hate that it's become such a trash website compared to what it used to be

Listening to an album you finished for the first time is exciting every time. I can't wait for this one to come out, it came out so good

I'm getting bombarded by ads for Suno, which is weird, because the only fun part of music is making it and the only part people actually pay me for is the stuff the computer won't do by itself. It's less than worthless in pretty much every way

Can we discontinue the feature on custom tip machines where pressing "1" starts at one cent? I've tipped one cent on a coffee by accident a few times and it's really embarrassing lol

I am performing Saturday night in the Palm Springs area at the Desert Dungeon Fest. Come watch me play some cool music and hang out to play ttrpgs in the daytime before

An off leash Chihuahua just ran up the stairs to my place and started barking at me hahahaha. It is now reunited with the person who was trying to walk it but that was a weird moment hahahaha

It's my birthday and I'm playing a show tonight!

I'm performing at Desert Dungeon Fest early next month. I believe I'm somewhere on the Saturday night, but the schedule isn't out yet.

What's your favorite abandonware? I've been playing the shit out of Shandalar over the last week. It's from 1997 and it's based on early Magic: The Gathering (a lot of the rules will be unrecognizable to modern players) and in today's genre terms it's a perpetual world roguelite card battler crpg.

hashtags don't do anything other than make something searchable by the hashtag. If I were making a nefarious for-profit app I would use them to determine which content to suppress in order to push "try making a sponsored post to expand your reach" type bullshit

these ads for suno ai music are wild, it's always some person who can play their instrument okay being like "i never finish songs, but now with suno i can!" and then they load their demo in and a bad version of the library music youtubers put in the intro of their videos plays

Playing a solo set (instrumental music with synths and samplers, not vocal music) at Til Two club (San Diego, CA) on November 9

New FFT "remaster" is nearly 7gb. Original game is under 200mb. Did they add anything other than voice acting? The game had a substantial script so if they covered everything that might actually be the majority of the difference...

time is crazy, can you believe it's already been two years since ozzy osbourne died?!

A youtube subscriber shared this with me! He made it after following one of my tutorial series on digital composition. Always so cool to hear these! burdenedwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/burden...

my friend recently turned me on to powdered citric acid. i think my teeth will only last another few months. this is awesome on all kinds of stuff.

Kontakt users: Have newer versions started causing DAW crashes for you? This is the first time in probably a decade I've had any type of instability/regular crashes in my system, and suddenly trying to play back a sample that hasn't loaded kills the whole DAW instead of just stuttering

WINDOWS IS PISSING ME TF OFF. What the hell do you mean I've been saving stuff to OneDrive and not to Desktop?! When did that change?! Why was I not notified that I was no longer saving these files locally?!

Got surprised with a couple of great photos of myself taken by @zagposting.bsky.social

oh, microsoft. what the fuck. quietly switching windows desktop to onedrive apparently somewhat recently and now i'm getting a notification that i'm out of space on onedrive because i have too much stuff on my desktop? What the fuck. Now I have to waste like 20 minutes figuring out how to desync it

tech advancement stagnation is wild. I still use a Pixel 6 and I feel like it's still on par with every modern phone I've tried for my use cases

Can we collectively stop pretending spotify is a useful service? I'd understand people looking past the wildly unethical business practices if the product was good, but it's worse than youtube, worse than apple music, worse than basically every major service that provides a similar product. stop.