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  • There’s helvum and carla control that allow you to edit the entire audio graph with all ins and outs for all hardware and software so you can route it however you like. No need for VAC and such. But even if you do, you can load pulseaudio modules i.e. pactl load-module module-null-sink and then route them with qjackctl which is absolutely crazy and awesome how pipewire lets you do that.









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    25 days ago

    I have no problem with people recording me. Frankly, we should be doing more Sousveillance, as governments and corporate footage has a terrible track record of mysteriously disappearing whenever it’s convenient to them. But that’s not it. This is yet another corporation using peoples faces as camera mounting points. Fuck them. If you need a spycam for some reason, be a normal creep human being, and buy them off aliexpress or something





  • Recently I picked up a new entertainment of checking reviews of audio equipment stores on local amazon

    Cue Children of Omnissiah

    One of the reviews was from a woman who ordered a microphone, an XLR to 3.5mm cable, an apple type c headphone dongle, plugged all that into a car charger and complained that it did not turn her car into karaoke.

    Another from a guy with a couple of active speakers who bought an insert cable, so he had to put one of the speakers sideways on top of another to make it reach both ports. Rated 5 stars.

    Another picked old soviet DIN5 to 3.5mm cable, jammed it into MIDI OUT port on his digital piano and the other end into line in on his pc soundcard…







  • Nice. Let me dig up which was what.

    I’m not exactly sure how to fairly rate this, so let’s try this - for every place in the rating give +11 to -11 score, if it’s AI at the top half flip the sign, same for real tracks at the bottom half, for a possible scores of -132 to +132, and random shuffle expected to average at 0, and giving most value to those at the ends and less to those in-between. Which gives the result of -11+10+9-8+7-6+5+4+3-2-1-1+2-3-4+5+6+7-8+9-10+11 = +24, which equates to 156/264, or 59.1% AI-detection™ score

    Some sidenotes: I’m surprised P ended up that high, the amount of autotune in it sounds like AI speech synthesizer with articulation cranked all the way 11 where it just makes random weird sounds. D in the middle is also unexpected, given that it’s one of the few English songs and the lyrics are about AI supremacy. I’ve considered removing it and B from the set though, just because they sound way too different from the rest, but at that point I already skipped tons of AI tracks and had to stop and settle on something. N was my favorite of human songs. Despite it’s relative simplicity, it’s probably the only one that I found pleasant to listen to.

    I despair for society’s musical inclinations.

    Can’t agree more. Don’t get me wrong, AI music sucks big time, but it sets the bar high enough that most human musicians can’t even pass, and those that do are unlikely to be in mainstream since success in the industry is mostly unrelated to actual talent.

    Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner

    No worries, thanks for participating! Would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the results


  • Coming from shoes off culture I’m considering giving shoes on a shot. But I still don’t quite understand how it’s supposed to work. I assume you’re not that savage to get in beds in shoes, so are you supposed to keep them near the bed? And lace them every morning when you get up? Or use simpler footwear that doesn’t require lacing like crocs or something? Isn’t that then technically wearing slippers outside rather than wearing shoes inside?