Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)

PAPRIKA IS. A GOOD MOVIE

Imagine Carlton in Toronto is showing Paprika and Ghost in the Shell in one of their smol theatres today and tomorrow btw

I don't have anything intelligent to add to this I just like!! Movie!!

A thing that constantly blows my mind about writing Rust is how handling error conditions feels *horrible*, it's miserable and it's a constant source of friction, but then I think about how I would have written the equivalent C++ and I basically would have like… just… not… handled errors correctly, probably

Instead of lore wikis, games should have an internal version of Twitter where all the NPCs are yelling absolutely rancid discourse at each other and you have to reverse engineer the game world's macro-politics from overly online folks' bad-faith arguments on side issues

"Everybody's angry about something and I don't know what"

Petulantly manually converting every Google Shorts link into a watch?v= link just to mess up Google's stats enough that hopefully some VP gets a smaller bonus

@futurebird The swerve that scares me is when more and more of the internment camps get converted into labor camps. If that's the plan, it might explain why they don't feel an urge to deport people quickly. I'm aware of at least one case where an agricultural worker got abducted into one of Trump's camps and then forced* to perform the same sort of farmwork he was performing before but now being paid about as much per day or per week as he used to get paid per hour

* Asterisk

What I'm listening to today: "[You Caught Me] Smilin'", Sly and the Family Stone

My favorite track from "There's a Riot Goin' On", possibly the most stoned funk album ever made. I have heard so many weird stories about the production of this album, and I don't know which ones are true. Everybody sounds like they just woke up. Everybody sounds like they love making music. The music itself sounds like it's drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfljDrx9Tho

What I'm listening to today: "kickstart my heart", elricfd

oversaturated brainglaze vaporwave fuck music

This URL was in a text file on my computer where I must have stashed it at some point. I have no idea what this is and I do not remember where I got it from. Bandcamp informs me this musician is the inventor of "Frasierwave". Ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_3D7deeIeY

What I'm listening to today: "Slack", Gar Hoover

Here's the PO-33/Monotron Delay tiny power combo again, making what the musician calls "Chill House" with more than a bit of French touch. Stands out from its genre with some strange sample freaking (is that Paul McCartney??).

Notice the YouTube synth community pro tactic of leaving some random objects on the desktop for Visual Interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18VSdLHR2H8

What I'm listening to today: "4 dollar casio sa5 processed through EQD avalanche run, afterneath and transmisser reverb", Anne Sulikowski

Gorgeous, slow ambient music composed live on [see above]. Time-lapse video of clouds over cliffs, a cat sleeping for nine hours, chunky kalimba echoing over brainfog. Three blocks away there is a cement mixer running, just at the edge of your hearing, far enough the acoustics of the street turn the grinding into soothing white noise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5Oqd-JB-8

What I'm listening to today: "Level 3", Jim Andron

The Phillips CD-I is one of the most infamous video game system failures ever, and it hides a secret: *The CD-I Tetris game had a bizarrely kind of amazing soundtrack.* 10 tracks (I also love "level 0") of the kind of pure vibes "Vaporwave" was trying to chase in the 2010s slowing down 80s r&b. This version comes pre-slowed down! Strange murky easy-listening swamp jazz, general MIDI instruments only

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVEtOL6Kho&list=PLFCp1PLqgPzCrfc4BALfINUs7ueJMkUcP&index=4

What I'm listening to today: " DRIVIN' ", Fox Capture Plan

*Incredibly* funky Tokyo jazz, tons of energy and wild futuristic synths that just slam you from the start like you're a movie character who just opened the forbidden box and it was full of otherworldly light that disintegrates you instantly. But like, in a smooth jazz kinda way. Do you like electric piano

https://foxcaptureplan.bandcamp.com/track/drivin

What I'm listening to today: "The Ocean Floor" (part 1), Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)

In Japan, Mario Paint got a sequel for the 64DD (an N64 peripheral that added internet access, mouse support, and a floppy drive). The music for Mario Artist is *amazing*. This track is moody fusion jazz, vaporwave in 1999; it pushes the N64 to the limit, synthesizing most things but then dropping in what seems to be an entire realtime guitar track. (I think part 2 samples Massive Attack.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzM_G80xL0c&list=PL-pEm4IqI6c_DfCBqt5VBvR-atgwqTlZB&index=100&pp=iAQB8AUB

What I'm listening to today: "When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme.", GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!

Basically whenever I listen to Tera Melos, Tidal recommends this next. It's actually a pretty good four-minute primer on "math rock"!

What is Math Rock, at core? It's jazz. It's just jazz with rock instruments. Or maybe metal with jazz instruments. In the 70s we called this prog, now it's math or post rock. Anyway here's guitar played very fast

https://giraffesgiraffes.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-catholic-girls-go-camping-the-nicotine-vampires-rule-supreme

What I'm listening to today: "Wanted", Hiromi

Some chill loungey jazz by a Japanese pianist and her band. Wonderful feel.

This is the kind of music that trip hop was processed from and I believe trip-hop fans should listen to some of the raw uncut stuff once in a while, perceive the woman who casts the shadow. Actually I'm not sure there ARE any trip-hop fans under 40. Maybe liking Portishead in 2025 is the equivalent of liking jazz in 1998. But I did like jazz in 1998

https://hiromimusic.bandcamp.com/track/wanted

@dalias @glyph @0xabad1dea I think the hug of death is more like one to five seconds

@dalias @glyph @0xabad1dea I've seen forking webservers fall over under spontaneous heavy load just from forking until the RAM runs out, and Apache ships (or shipped for many years?) the forking configuration as the default

I'm still not comfortable with having Firefox on my computer, because it now has an API plug to remotely connect to ChatGPT, the exact thing I uninstalled SwiftKey over— and I liked SwiftKey a *lot* more than I like Firefox. But at least (if the absence of keys for it in the 140.0esr about:config communicates anything— maybe it doesn't) by backing up to ESR it's not downloading a local-model slop generator, which the very newest regular release Firefox apparently does as part of the A/B tests.

An update: I am now using Firefox ESR.

There was a weird coincidence. The thing that held me back from switching to ESR was that downgrading (which ESR is detected as) results in wiping your Firefox settings. However, a new ESR was released *just now*— based on 140, the version I had installed this morning.

This is bad because it means ESR is now infected with the "ad measurement" spyware, and the chatbox. But it means installing ESR *was not a downgrade*, this one time, and I kept my settings