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  1. Comment on Question regarding these songs and autotune in ~music

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    yea, it took me some time to realize the big difference that was bothering me was that they pitched her voice higher in the newer song. So I guess I prefer lower singing female voices? TIL. I have...

    I just listened to the song. It seems more like a stylistic choice. It sounds like they’re pitching her higher for the song compared to her more naturally lower singing voice.

    yea, it took me some time to realize the big difference that was bothering me was that they pitched her voice higher in the newer song.

    So I guess I prefer lower singing female voices? TIL.

    Where we’re in a bubble dance pop renaissance and now everyone wants to mimic Sabrina Carpenter.

    I have yet to really know who this person is but if they're responsible for this higher pitch in singing, I already hate them :P

    2 votes

  2. Question regarding these songs and autotune

    ~music Ask
    I've always been kinda partial to Meghan Trainor. Just in the sense that sometimes I will once in a blue moon listen to All About That Bass. I heard she released a new song (Still Don't Care). I...

    I've always been kinda partial to Meghan Trainor. Just in the sense that sometimes I will once in a blue moon listen to All About That Bass. I heard she released a new song (Still Don't Care).

    I want to like that song but something about it feels off.

    If I listen to All About that Bass, I figured it's been modified in post-production with whatever artists use to make themselves sound a bit better, but when I listen to Still Don't Care, it feels like the amount of auto-tune being used is substantially higher. Like it sounds like more fluff or fake or something. But I am also by no means a singer or someone who has any idea what goes into making a song so maybe I am completely off.

    Am I imagining that Still Don't Care is using auto-tune to a higher extent?

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Finally making the jump to a custom router so I can have all my outgoing traffic over mullvad but that brings with it two questions for me in ~tech

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    You are not wrong but my problem is that is easily disabled on the device I am using. If it was possible to block on router, much more permanent and more difficult to disable from my phone. Damn,...

    Really your best bet would be to have a browser extension do the blocking.

    You are not wrong but my problem is that is easily disabled on the device I am using. If it was possible to block on router, much more permanent and more difficult to disable from my phone.

    Damn, but I think I knew it was a crapshoot. Just hoping I was wrong.

    1 vote

  4. Finally making the jump to a custom router so I can have all my outgoing traffic over mullvad but that brings with it two questions for me

    ~tech Ask (advice)
    Changing Mullvad server at router level Reddit is becoming increasingly more and more hostile to VPN connections to the point where I often get the "whoa pardner" error message and have to try 4-5...

    Changing Mullvad server at router level

    Reddit is becoming increasingly more and more hostile to VPN connections to the point where I often get the "whoa pardner" error message and have to try 4-5 different VPN servers on my desktop or phone before I finally get one to work with Reddit. Same thing sometimes with Google/YT, it keeps asking me to prove I am not a bot and a bit of experimentation with the servers gets me through.

    This makes me wonder, is it as easy to switch my Mullvad server on OPNsense? I get the sense from the YT videos I have watched, I have to effectively setup an entry for every Mullvad router as separate instance on my OPNsense' VPN WireGuard settings and toggle which instance is being used at the router level?
    I know I can technically have Mullvad on my router to hide all my traffic and then on all my devices that I use Reddit on, I can additionally have Mullvad on them too and play with the servers I am connected to on my device specifically until I find one that works but I am curious what the workflow is if I choose to do all my Mullvad related configs at the router level.

    Making custom block?

    I have a love-hate relationship with Reddit. On one hand, I can't deny that certain subreddits are useful as someone in tech, but I also can't deny that certain subs are just a time-sink and some subs are just toxic (looking at you AITA). I can often prevent myself from browsing the time-sink/toxic ones but sometimes I lose myself in them and I am in search of a way to block them via Mullvad at my router. Obviously a DNS-block won't work if I want to block reddit.com (the home page) and certain specific subreddits but leave any other tech related subreddits open for me to read so the next best thing I assume is some kind of firewall? But I don't know if such a firewall exists that can basically start doing regex on a URL to see if it should be accessible from within the network? Which makes me wonder if I can create my own firewall but I don't even know the first step, as in would this be something that integrates with OPNsense, or a stand-alone program I have to create myself? I know Python, Java and have some basic knowledge of C++ but don't even know if those are the language I need to know to create such a filter or if the filter I am looking for is even possible? Any and all pointers welcome.

    19 votes

  5. Comment on What I think of whenever I see the news reports about US President Donald Trump destroying the East Wing in ~society

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    Where's the fake outrage now Hannity?!?! Can you imagine the meltdown that Faux News would have had if Obama had so much as proposed doing what Trump is doing to the White House?

    Where's the fake outrage now Hannity?!?!

    Can you imagine the meltdown that Faux News would have had if Obama had so much as proposed doing what Trump is doing to the White House?

    10 votes

  7. Comment on Something that always bothered me about the Jonathan Majors trial in ~talk

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    I have to assume because there's less repercussions for the perpetrator if they are found guilty in a civil trial? So how come Miller didn't face a trial for the choking incident that apparently...

    Meanwhile, in a civil case, the court merely needs to be 51% sure the plaintiff is on the wrong. That's why many domestic abuse cases are not pursued by prosecutors, and instead the victim tries in civil court.

    I have to assume because there's less repercussions for the perpetrator if they are found guilty in a civil trial?

    it was caught on security footage. Can't get much harder than that. When corroborated by pictures of injuries as well as bodycam footage from a prior 911 call, that's a strong case.

    So how come Miller didn't face a trial for the choking incident that apparently surfaced on social media?

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Something that always bothered me about the Jonathan Majors trial in ~talk

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    that's also my issue and makes my post rather paradoxical tbh. I make it a point to not follow these kinds of trial (I think its perverse that these kinds of trials are ever public attention tbh)...

    I can’t say I followed their legal stuff, which did happen for Miller but I don’t know if LaBoeuf ever had legal issues for that.

    that's also my issue and makes my post rather paradoxical tbh. I make it a point to not follow these kinds of trial (I think its perverse that these kinds of trials are ever public attention tbh) and only get a bird's eye view just if a post about it hits the front page of reddit which I sometimes scroll while taking a break at work so I am not even reliable when it comes to their legal and social media backlash tbh.

    I just felt like Majors got dragged alot more in the media and had a much more publicized and scrutinized trial.

    LaBeouf’s social media reactions were not that strong, for sure. But I don’t think they were quiet either.

    Yea, that's the thing, all 3 certainly got predictably dragged on social media. I just got the impression Majors got dragged alot more.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Something that always bothered me about the Jonathan Majors trial in ~talk

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    he was arrested with that charge. Was he convicted on that charge? I already said I don't entirely trust the results of that trial due to a bias I perceived in how fast it happened compared to...
    1. he was arrested with that charge. Was he convicted on that charge?
    2. I already said I don't entirely trust the results of that trial due to a bias I perceived in how fast it happened compared to Miller and Labeouf.
    3. I also already said that Majors may well be guilty of what he was charged of. I just felt that Miller and Labeouf didn't face criminal charges/social media backlash like he did and that seems off to me.
    1 vote

  10. Comment on Something that always bothered me about the Jonathan Majors trial in ~talk

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    i think I am actually less focused on their job prospects and what I am more focused on is (1) the legal ramifications they faced and (2) the reaction to their legal ramifications on social...

    i think I am actually less focused on their job prospects and what I am more focused on is (1) the legal ramifications they faced and (2) the reaction to their legal ramifications on social media/reddit.

    2 votes

  11. Something that always bothered me about the Jonathan Majors trial

    ~talk Ask
    So something I am curious about with the response/reaction to the Jonathan Majors trial and I am curious where I might be wrong. I never trusted the trial. but then again, I also know he might...

    So something I am curious about with the response/reaction to the Jonathan Majors trial and I am curious where I might be wrong.

    I never trusted the trial. but then again, I also know he might well be guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. What always bothered me was the difference in how Jonathan Majors got treated compared to someone like Shia LaBeouf or Ezra Miller.

    Shia has openly admitted to the fact that he had inner demons that he is struggling with and that he was abusive to his ex-girlfriend. He never really got "cancelled" by Hollywood (whether or not he deserved to be cancelled is another story) and he never faced a trial as far as I can tell.

    Ezra Miller has had a laundry list of scandals and controversy and was apparently caught on camera assaulting people. No real publicized trial or anything (not that I think a publicized trial is good but it's what happened to Jonathan Majors). and I feel like social media didn't really come for Ezra like how it did for Jonathan Majors (again, I don't think social media should come for either individual but the difference in how they were treated seemed weird to me). I am not sure if Ezra has been "cancelled" by Hollywood. They hasn't really been in anything, so it might be Hollywood cancelling them or just not willing to take a chance on them or they're focusing on themself.

    All three man apparently assaulted other people. One of them on camera, but only the black guy faced a very publicized trial over it. What's more, Majors was accused of assaulting a white woman so it made me feel like the odds were stacked against him even more with regards to getting a fair trail due to the racial undertones.

    I will admit, I am not totally plugged into social media (I had no idea about the 6 7 meme until it made an appearance on South Park), I try to avoid staying away from it as I find it toxic to mental health (the extent to which YouTube shoved the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trail down my throat even though I didn't search for it and had no interest in seeing a women being served up on a platter for all the misogynists online who were damn near ready to say she was basically the anti-Christ scared me) but it just felt to me like there was much more furor behind the Majors trail than Miller or LaBeouf and it always made me distrust the pronouncement of guilty even though I also know he might well be actually guilty of assaulting his ex-gf.

    Did I misread the situation?

    13 votes

  12. Comment on Is there a postman alternative without the bloat? in ~tech

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    if this page is not bullshitting me, thank you brother. seems to be exactly what I wanted.

    if this page is not bullshitting me, thank you brother. seems to be exactly what I wanted.

    7 votes

  13. Looking for movies that combine religion mythology and supernatural elements

    ~movies Ask (recommendations)
    After watching The Omen a while back and recently watching The First Omen, I realized I rather like media that combines supernatural elements and religious mythology. Not that I am religious...

    After watching The Omen a while back and recently watching The First Omen, I realized I rather like media that combines supernatural elements and religious mythology. Not that I am religious myself but I seem to like religion with a supernatural twist.

    Like Supernatural the TV show but in movie format.

    Are there really good moves that live in this venn diagram? They don't necessarily have to be horror but that's just what I have come across so far.

    27 votes

  14. Is there a postman alternative without the bloat?

    ~tech Ask (recommendations)
    use postman quite a bit at work as a backend developer and the recent updates have added alot more bloatware to the program. All I want is a simple program that does HTTP requests and not get...

    use postman quite a bit at work as a backend developer and the recent updates have added alot more bloatware to the program.

    All I want is a simple program that does HTTP requests and not get account promo and collections and their cloud stuff shoved down my throat.

    And my work computer is maintained by a central system so I can't freeze my Postman application at a past level, it auto-updates.

    So I am wondering if there is a good alternative that just does HTTP requests and nothing else?

    28 votes

  15. Comment on Is there a service that a regular joe can use to provide subs or dubbing for a movie? in ~movies

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    Sure, but I am still curious if any corporations/people offer this service for average people. Either the subs or the dubbing.

    Sure, but I am still curious if any corporations/people offer this service for average people. Either the subs or the dubbing.

    2 votes

  16. Using NFS mount with docker containers

    ~comp Ask (advice)
    When I first setup my NUC, I wanted to setup docker on it so that all the information is stored on the NFS mount I setup on my Synology mount. Meaning volumes and anything of that kind. One issue...

    When I first setup my NUC, I wanted to setup docker on it so that all the information is stored on the NFS mount I setup on my Synology mount. Meaning volumes and anything of that kind.

    One issue that came up however, was that if my router experience a temporary glitch, the docker containers would then also experience an issue since they were trying to access information stored on the mounts and my system would freeze and I had to force a shutdown to get the mount to work correctly.

    Which makes me wonder, what is the recommended way to have docker containers store their information on an NFS mount while also allowing taking into account that sometimes a networking issue or router issue might happen?

    6 votes

  17. Is there a service that a regular joe can use to provide subs or dubbing for a movie?

    ~movies Ask (recommendations)
    there is 2 pieces of media I want to get subbed and dubbed in different languages. problem is, whenever I try to look into this, I get results of places that offer their services to companies...

    there is 2 pieces of media I want to get subbed and dubbed in different languages.

    problem is, whenever I try to look into this, I get results of places that offer their services to companies only.

    Are there no places that offer subs and dubbing for tv shows and movies?

    17 votes

  18. Comment on I really wish news and talk shows would change the way they discussed polls on their show in ~society

    b3_k1nd_rw1nd
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    i don't think they do though and even they admit it's not an exact science. Hell the polls from the 2016 election proves they can't account for variables they haven't thought of and worst, they...

    A good political survey corrects for that though.

    i don't think they do though and even they admit it's not an exact science. Hell the polls from the 2016 election proves they can't account for variables they haven't thought of and worst, they can't account for people giving them b.s. answers.

    Proper education can make a lot of difference here. I don't think that's something a news report can solve.

    Agree, then the news media and talk shows shouldn't discuss polls when most people don't really understand their implications. I guess my personal gripe is Bill Maher using polls like its the word of God and an exact science.

  19. Comment on I really wish news and talk shows would change the way they discussed polls on their show in ~society

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    I tend to be rather verbose when I speak but sure, that would be a great alternative.

    Incidentally, do you also get annoyed with other imprecise use of language? If they say "40% of polled Canadians" do you feel less upset?

    I tend to be rather verbose when I speak but sure, that would be a great alternative.

    1 vote

  20. Question about breathing while exercising

    ~health Ask (advice)
    this past summer, I started biking quite a bit and part of my route involves lots of hills and so forth. It was painful af the first few months, not gonna lie. although, now, my legs muscles have...

    this past summer, I started biking quite a bit and part of my route involves lots of hills and so forth. It was painful af the first few months, not gonna lie.

    although, now, my legs muscles have grown quite a bit (didn't expect that) and I am quite happy with my muscular endurance, although there is still room for improvement obviously.

    However, oddly as it sounds, my breathing is still off. As I bike up the hill, I feel heartbeat go up quite a bit and my breathing becomes quite laborious and I wind up taking quick breaths with my mouth aka panting. If I try to do it through my nose, I quickly feel like I am suffocating like I can't get enough air.

    In the beginning, this made sense. I was out of shape and all that.

    But summer is over, my legs have adapted but I feel like my breathing hasn't. when I am going up a hill, I still feel the need to pant and breathe through my mouth and take short breaths.

    Is this normal? that I would have to pant even after 3-4 months of this kind of exercise everyday. I figured my lungs or whatever would get used to the biking route I am taking by this time.

    23 votes