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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • I like to use LilyPond for transcription. It’s basically LaTeX for sheet music.

    For 8-bit music, I like to dick around with MilkyTracker. It’s a tracker-style composition tool, which basically came to be in early computing days. It takes a bit to get used to, but then it’s super simple for writing a quick chiptune.

    And I guess, I’ll also throw in VMPK. It allows you to play piano on your computer keyboard, similar to how lots of DAWs do.
    As with any such implementation, it’s unfortunately limited by keyboard rollover, but still useful for playing around with intervals and jamming a bit. It can also be used as MIDI input for audio software, which doesn’t have this feature built-in.


  • So, web Outlook has had a bug with Single-Sign-On for many months now. It independently checks an own cookie, whether it should log you out, so it can happen that you log in via SSO and then it immediately triggers the logout flow of your SSO provider to log you back out.

    Well, and when I say “can happen”, I mean that this happens every single morning, unless I clear Outlook’s cookies beforehand.
    So, every morning before I start working, I hit Ctrl+Shift+H in Firefox to bring up the history, type “outlook” into the search, right-click an entry and then select “Forget About This Site” to clear the cookies.

    Except, through the magic of doing this regularly, I’ve started typing just enough to make the Outlook entries appear at the top. Which isn’t actually much shorter, but I noticed that I always just type “outloo”.

    Which sounds like a combination of “outhouse” and “loo”. Which very much summarizes my feelings towards this Microsoft™ service, every time I have to do this. Which is every single morning. Fucking hell.















  • I can imagine there being a correlation, because there’s no reason to be outspoken, if you’re not embedded in a context that would push religion onto you, which includes celebrating Christmas.

    I had a friend in university, whose parents immigrated from a secular region of East Asia, who was equally as atheist as I was. But while I arrived at that position after years of learning about Christianity, as well as peer pressure and self-reflection, she didn’t go through any of that.
    She couldn’t have an opinion about Christianity to be outspoken about, because Christianity is just a random fandom as far as she’s concerned. She’s not particularly interested in it, and that’s all there is to it for her.

    And then, yeah, while I’m obviously much more outspoken than her, I’m not outspoken against doing a celebration in winter. Because I’m embedded in this Christian context, my parents want me to visit for Christmas, so I guess, I celebrate Christmas. ¯\_(⊙_ʖ⊙)_/¯