Xander Fwoof

@dodecahedron@fwoof.space
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musical, autistic, blind, plural, nonbinary, and so much more. Feel free to interact
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Every time I meet an Anarchist, they really just want small local government.

Every time I meet a Satanist, they are really actually agnostic or atheists, with a wicked sense of humor.

Every time I meet a Nihilist, I'm really worried about their long term depression.

Every time I meet a MAGA, they're a Nazi.

#AudioMo day 26:

I've been seeing a lot about Linux in my timeline today...
"What, really? It's the fediverse!"

Yeah, yeah, I know. More than usual.

To that end, I present this silly thing I made on October 23, 2016, called "Annie Linux."

#AudioMo day 25:

On May 13, 2023, I got high, recorded our refrigerator, then processed it through a bunch of effects. I have no explanation for why this was done, really.

I called this Freaky Freaky Fridge.

#AudioMo day 24:

On the morning of Wednesday, November 15, 2018, our street was being repaved. At the time, I was supposed to be involved in some voiceover/audio projects, but with the floor shaking and all kinds of noise happening, that just wasn't working out.

So, instead, I pulled up a single-point stereo microphone in my bedroom studio (MXL V67Q) and a pair of dynamic microphones outside the window (Behringer XM8500,) and recorded some silliness for a few minutes, since there was no way I was going to get anything accomplished that day.

#AudioMo day23:

Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?

Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.

This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.

References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/

The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvniI

@mews I thought we did that already but apparently not lol, how many times hav eI pressed that button now? lol.
Hi guys, where can I find the latest #IBMTTS that works with the latest NVDA? Thanks!
oh dear... I hope messages aren't gonna duplicate... oh heavens to mergatroid.
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#AudioMo day 26:

I've been seeing a lot about Linux in my timeline today...
"What, really? It's the fediverse!"

Yeah, yeah, I know. More than usual.

To that end, I present this silly thing I made on October 23, 2016, called "Annie Linux."

@BorrisInABox @bill Funny story re Annie Linux: so my friends and I (including Bill Dengler and Bianca from Australia/Germany) have a shared music library we shuffle with Liquidsoap for streaming, a PBX (for music on hold), and on a Discord server; Bill set the whole thing up. Along with music it contains a jingles folder with silly ads that are played every so often ... one of them is the Annie Linux ad, which has been there for a few years now and is still a hit.
@BorrisInABox @bill Also "Please Press One" was one of the first ones in one of our general music folders and the Carbon Song is in the Christmas directory. I found the Annie Linux ad while rifling through your audio directory for the Carbon Song; I was reminded of it when Bill and Bianca visited a phone museum together. I was once joking about how amazingly bad it would've been to put the audio of the falling tree in the jingles folder ...
@graham @bill Everybody has something.
@BorrisInABox I remember finding this on the Dectalk archive or a similar site once. Good times.
@HunterXWorld Why ever would it have been there? Weird.
@BorrisInABox Again, it could've been another site, IDK. But yeah, back when us blindies had massive websites literally dedicated to weird audio. It was like AudioPub before AudioPub, or if you remember it, the wild west version of AnyAudio.net.
@HunterXWorld I remember the late 90s and random FTP sites. So... yeah.
@BorrisInABox Yeah. That was long before I was terminally online, but I almost wish I had been born earlier. The internet was so much simpler back then. Too many people are eager to claim that "older internet = better internet," but seeing as I had no real experience of the older internet, seeing as I got online in the mid 2000's, I don't think I have the right to judge.
@HunterXWorld There are definitely parts of it I don't miss, but, yeah, it was a much simpler time, mostly free of corporate this-and-that, trackers everywhere, etc.
@BorrisInABox Yeah, I would definitely kill for an internet where every company wasn't the personal data equivalent of cookie monster.
@BorrisInABox I really liked that one. It was cool.