Notices by Lime Bar (limebar@mastodon.social)

Here is a valid point - a person who purchased something from me yesterday on #bandcamp was surprised when I thanked them directly.

You see... they had no idea that Bandcamp tells the artist who bought what, including their email address.

Yeah. Not great. You want to buy some music and end up giving away your PII to not only Bandcamp but the artist.

Yet another reason to use and buy from the "fairtrade" music sites which, honestly, do a better job at privacy; #faircamp @mirlo @jamcoop etc

#photography

#Indianapolis near 38th Street and Pendleton Pike in 2009. Incredible sandwiches. Gone for 15-20 years now. Not a great photo, I just loved their sandwich. :(

@Klaxun
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Tod

Currently reading Small Gods by #terryPratchett , had an aha moment about 60% in.

Discworld has been great. Fun. Funny. Moving. Full of ideas. Very literate.

But this book seems to have transitioned over into great literature. Like, if you think Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut is great literature then this must be as well.

And it did so in a very sneaky way. It is everything all of the previous 12(?) books were, but somewhere along the way it leveled up. In a planned and inspired way.

Any thoughts or feelings about syncthing?

https://syncthing.net/

It is #BandcampFriday to be sure. And do support artists there.

But here's a reminder that it is *always* #BandcampFriday on #faircamp where you pay the artist directly every day. See the faircamp webring for artists and labels
https://faircamp.webr.ing/

Wanting to go visit the Statue of Liberty in May... before they scrap it and sell the copper. Kidding / not kidding.

Anyone been recently or live near with suggestions? Where to stay? Which tour company to use? Etc. Also want to visit NYC of course, but centered around a visit to the statue.

#Peertube posts have a title and a description.

When posts federate (to Mastodon, anyway) the title and a link become the body of the Mastodon post.

The description (and hashtags?) don't come across.

Curious if this is configurable on the peertube host or if peertube would need code changes to federate better... Or Mastodon. Where is the actual issue?

Looks like https://bandwagon.fm/artists is adding integration with https://theindiebeat.fm #InternetRadio so you can flip a switch and your uploaded music shows up on the #TheIndieBeat radio automagically. This is very interesting stuff going on... #Bandwagon being federated and now allowing opt-in (by release) for radio play could be quite powerful.

I am working on a #Roku app for The Indie Beat right now and it'll be available early Jan due to holidays

#music #musicProduction #musicPromotion

Play this loudly on your dancefloor tonight to remind you how much fun 2024 was...

"No Fun" by Lime Bar.

https://limebar.bandcamp.com/album/no-fun-2

You do have a dancefloor dontcha?

#limebar #myMusic #electronicMusic

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Next play this loudly on your dancefloor to encourage the prior year to fallaway like a jettisoned booster rocket...

"Fallaway" by Lime Bar

https://limebar.bandcamp.com/album/airfield?t=2

#limebar #electronicMusic #myMusic

US Ban on TP-Link Routers More About Politics Than Exploitation Risk https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/us-ban-tp-link-routers-politics-exploitation-risk

#uspol

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Billie Eilish and FINNEAS Write a Hit Song With a Class of First Graders: Watch https://consequence.net/2024/12/billie-eilish-finneas-celebrity-substitute-watch/

#music

Suppose you've made a piece of music as a gift for someone. How do you "gift it to them" exactly?

If you've ever done this, how have you done it?

#musicProduction

@musicproduction #musicProduction people... Is there a mobile (Android for me) audio player with a really good EQ or even standalone EQ on mobile that you can use while auditioning your tracks in various places.

If I'm listening in the car, I'm really listening on my phone. If I'm listening over crappy Bluetooth speaker, I'm really listening on my phone. If I'm listening on the stereo in the living room, I'm really...etc

Would be nice to audition changes without revisiting daw each time.

I invited a friend to tonight's #bonkwave release party stream @axwax and he said, do know what he said, he said he prefers badonkabonk and so I said u can't handle the badonkabonk and sent him this link and said go listen to this right now. Fool.

https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/track/schr-dingers-bonk

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I tried this last year and it worked out great. Let's give it another go!

Let this be a thread where *you* reply with a link to *your* #art or #music or #shop

What are you trying to sell this holiday season so that I (and others) can find cool #artist made stuff "locally" here on #fedi. Forget #holiday shopping on Amazon ffs, buy direct from artists and #makers!

That's right, I want *you* to reply to this thread and drop links to your shops, bandcamp, kofi, etc.

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This is very groovy rn... get in here:

https://stream.gravitons.org/

The way crypto mining works, the whole point, is that if a billion CPU cores are trying to mine a coin, one and only one wins, and gets the coin.

The results of the other 999,999,999 are scrap and get wasted -- their results are heat and fossil fuel emissions.

It is literally the least efficient use of computing power in history. And that includes LLMs which ostensibly produce a "useful" result each time.

We should outlaw crypto mining through the EPA. For a start.

Sometimes, the spoon runs away with another spoon.🤷♀️