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  1. Comment on Introductions | March 2025 in ~talk

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    How long have you been on Tildes? How did you find out about us? 2019 or so, but I knew when the site was launched ~2018, not sure how. I am terminally online and always looking for new...

    How long have you been on Tildes? How did you find out about us?

    2019 or so, but I knew when the site was launched ~2018, not sure how. I am terminally online and always looking for new communities, this is one of the few that has stuck in my regular rotation.

    How did you choose your username?

    I was an EDM/jazz producer, not a good one, but I needed a name. I was using 'Drannoc' everywhere as I was major fantasy nerd and thought that it fit, but I've always loved the letter 'X' (which has sadly been co-opted by an unsaid person) and I was just getting big into Skrillex and dubstep and decided to follow suit. Here we are, 15 years later.

    What are your interests?

    Roboticist here, so building and dreaming about robots! Hardware hacking, automation, music (industrial metal, industrial bass - dubstep, dnb, psytrance, nu-metal, pop punk, metalcore), rockets and satellites, nuclear energy, alternative living communities, renewable material science, physical manuals (of all kinds), retro tech, transhumanism/posthumanism, extropianism, technocracy (1890s - 1965).

    What do you do? This could be in your spare time, for work, your passions.

    I run a robotics company called DNX Industries, and a software laboratory called WIZRD Laboratories. I am also a contractor for $[MegaCorp-1] as their Systems Automation Architect in their Automation Lab.

    Do you want other users to PM/DM you from this thread?

    Sure, why not?

    Give us a fun fact (or a link!)! If there is anything to know about tilderinos, it's that we value knowledge sharing!

    I don't have anything specific, but one of my favorite links is the Random article link for Wikipedia, give it a try! Random. There is also 'Wikiroulette' that I enjoy: Wikiroulette

    13 votes

  2. Introductions | March 2025

    ~talk Ask (survey)
    The previous introductions thread was waaaaay back in June of 2023, figured it might be time for a new one, eh? This is a place for new and existing users to post an introduction with a few fun...

    The previous introductions thread was waaaaay back in June of 2023, figured it might be time for a new one, eh?

    This is a place for new and existing users to post an introduction with a few fun facts about themselves. You will find the post box at the bottom the page. Maybe say "Hi!" to someone else you see while scrolling down?

    If you like, you can also write something about yourself in your profile. See "Edit your user bio" on the settings page. Anyone who clicks on your username will see it in your profile. (It appears on the right side of the page.)

    You can find out more about how to use Tildes in this topic: "New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here!.

    Some sample questions you *could* answer (but not required!)
    • How long have you been on Tildes? How did you find out about us?
    • How did you choose your username?
    • What are your interests? (This could be music, tech, art, video games, board games, books, anything!)
    • A/S/L (the standard old school intro for an old school kind of forum, but not required!, we value our pseudonymity around here!)
      • for those born post 1998: age/(sex|gender|identifier|pronouns)/location
        • Example: 27/nb trans woman (she/her)/USA or 54/M/USA or 907/Timelord/Gallifrey
      • You don't have to follow the structure, or include it at all!
    • What do you do? This could be in your spare time, for work, your passions.
    • Do you want other users to PM you from this thread?
    • Give us a fun fact or link, if there is anything to know about tilderinos, we value knowledge sharing!
    Here is a template if you need something to kickstart your intro 
    **How long have you been on Tildes? How did you find out about us?**

**How did you choose your username?** 

**What are your interests?** 

**A/S/L (age/(gender|pronouns|identifier)/location)**

**What do you do? This could be in your spare time, for work, your passions.**

**Do you want other users to PM/DM you from this thread?**

**Give us a fun fact (or a link!)! If there is anything to know about tilderinos, it's that we value knowledge sharing!**
    42 votes

  3. Comment on Rameses B - Old School (2025) in ~music

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    Complaint: Track is way too short, should be about 75 seconds longer with a double time breakdown thrown in there, now that would be some old school stuff.

    Complaint: Track is way too short, should be about 75 seconds longer with a double time breakdown thrown in there, now that would be some old school stuff.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Rameses B - Old School (2025) in ~music

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    I miss when they did color-sorted equalizers for genres, ever since they switched to using different sub-labels and stopped sorting/listing by genre I stopped being able to follow them. There is a...

    I miss when they did color-sorted equalizers for genres, ever since they switched to using different sub-labels and stopped sorting/listing by genre I stopped being able to follow them. There is a lot of good stuff in there, but there is a lot of barely decent garbage.

    I've also noticed that they seem to be outsourcing their mastering to different people now, there used to be a 'Monstercat' bounce-type sound in all their releases, because they were primarily mastered by the same internal team, but over the last few years that definitive 'sound' has disappeared. Now you can't easily tell just by listening if a track was released or accepted on Monstercat, just seems like their overall quality has diminished in exchange for more quantity.

    UKF Dubstep on the other side though has somehow scraped through and has started being more coherent and releasing decent stuff again, and that was a surprise to me recently. Still a lot of it is boilerplate stuff, but they seem to have a higher quality to quantity ratio than I've seen in the last ten years.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on A court orders the Unification Church in Japan dissolved in ~society

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    Those are still all businesses, they just rely on community support as their funding model. The service they provide follows just the same as a freemium business, where those with funding help...

    Those are still all businesses, they just rely on community support as their funding model. The service they provide follows just the same as a freemium business, where those with funding help offset the costs of the service for all.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on A court orders the Unification Church in Japan dissolved in ~society

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    So do non-profits, and shelters, and community clinics, and community centers. Most are operated in donations, most are tax-exempt, and all give a sense of community and belief in the...

    So do non-profits, and shelters, and community clinics, and community centers. Most are operated in donations, most are tax-exempt, and all give a sense of community and belief in the organization.

    Those are all organizations, and if they were actively harming the community, then the government (state, local) is sure to step in. Just because we have categorized 'religion' as a primary identifier, it should be thought of as a secondary to community organizations.

    You could argue even political and social activism groups have the same level of ideological belief as religious organizations do, and if those organizations become hostile, begin scamming or coercing their members, then the state is sure to step in.

    Religious communities are ideological communities and are not separated categories.

    10 votes

  8. Comment on New hard / mil SciFi read recommendations requested - just finished a marathon series in ~books

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    If you're new to Wahammer 40k you have to think of it like this: It's a fantasy scifi opera universe set in the distant future, with a high level of technology, draped in a cyberpunk aesthetic.

    If you're new to Wahammer 40k you have to think of it like this: It's a fantasy scifi opera universe set in the distant future, with a high level of technology, draped in a cyberpunk aesthetic.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on A court orders the Unification Church in Japan dissolved in ~society

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    Agreed. Churches are just another business organization. The government has the divine authority to protect their people from less than scrupulous organizations.

    Agreed. Churches are just another business organization. The government has the divine authority to protect their people from less than scrupulous organizations.

    7 votes

  10. Comment on The Donald Trump US administration accidentally texted me its war plans (gifted link) in ~society

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    Depends on jurisdiction, country limits, etc etc, sometimes I think the system is just bugged. so: archived

    Depends on jurisdiction, country limits, etc etc, sometimes I think the system is just bugged.

    so: archived

    8 votes

  12. Comment on How do graphics cards work? Exploring GPU architecture in ~comp

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    A quick (30min) run down of a lot of the core that makes up for GPUs, training some field techs and using this to get them a high-level understanding. If you're interested in a more rigorous...

    A quick (30min) run down of a lot of the core that makes up for GPUs, training some field techs and using this to get them a high-level understanding.

    If you're interested in a more rigorous knowledge course: I am currently making it through this nine video series on YouTube as well, and finding it decent enough (for non hardware-hackers and phreaks) that I may have them watch it as well: Fundamentals of GPU Architecture. Mainly just goes over a book and explains it faster and with more context than the book does, in faster time.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe in ~lgbt

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    I was just about to post this, I was going to use the title "By using existing data protection laws, a trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved trans+ rights across all of Europe"...

    I was just about to post this, I was going to use the title "By using existing data protection laws, a trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved trans+ rights across all of Europe" to emphasize how insanely cool novel this usage of the law is.

    11 votes

  15. Comment on Animation on the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen in ~creative

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    About "Le tableau" via Animafest - Letterbox Reviews:

    Award-winning Canadian animator and illustrator Michèle Lemieux plunges you into the fascinating technique of pinscreen animation. Join her as she traces the history of this tool, from its invention in the 1930s by Alexandre Alexeïeff and his wife Claire Parker, [to animated films by Jacques Drouin (1943-2021) (Article on him, and his impact on animation, featuring his short films using the pinscreen!)], to its most recent use in Lemieux’s film "Le tableau"(The Painting), which screened in competition at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

    About "Le tableau" via Animafest - Letterbox Reviews:

    A short film made using pinscreen animation, The Painting explores the 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria by Velázquez. Michèle Lemieux demonstrates incredible mastery of the pinscreen, playing with shadow and light to evoke the tragic fate of Mariana, who was married to her uncle at the age of 14. Both painful and tender, this experimental work is a poem of a film: a meditation on the brutality of institutionalized incest and art’s power to capture the soul.

    2 votes

  17. What mattress would you recommend?

    ~life.home_improvement Ask (recommendations)
    Desperately need a new mattress and there are just so many options, and so many unspoken sponsored recommendations everywhere (reddit, especially). Anyone purchased one recently (last five years...

    Desperately need a new mattress and there are just so many options, and so many unspoken sponsored recommendations everywhere (reddit, especially).

    Anyone purchased one recently (last five years or so)? The last thread we had on this was two years ago, and there were very few actual recommendations in there.

    26 votes

  18. Comment on Making electronic dance music in 1990 with a budget home computer in ~comp

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    I thought about putting this in ~music, but this is a lot more retrotechnical and computing related than the music itself.

    I thought about putting this in ~music, but this is a lot more retrotechnical and computing related than the music itself.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on 𒀱 in ~test

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    ^ the above is technically 30k characters, btw. But if you add more, it does accurately limit it to 50k.

    ^ the above is technically 30k characters, btw. But if you add more, it does accurately limit it to 50k.

    4 votes