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Korthrun

*NIX enthusiast, Metal Head, MUDder, ex-WoW head, and Anon radio fan.

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Are there any songs that use downward modulation (flattening) as opposed to the key usually moving upwards as the song progresses or peaks?
  • Broadly: How sad.

    Musically: I caught the change and definitely thought it was unusual. It brought a mildly aggressive feel to the later section of the song.

    If I'm remembering right it opens in Dm and then goes down to F#m after the first chorus. So pitch wise a shift downward, but maybe you're talking counter clockwise on the circle of fifths or something?

    Edit: when I first commented I either didn't see the Strawberry Fields reference or it wasn't there yet. We're probably not talking about the same thing, but definitely give the acoustic version of Pool Shark a listen.

    Your Strawberry Fields reference made me curious though and I found this interesting snippet https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/5fgser/the_famous_splice_edit_in_strawberry_fields/

  • Are there any songs that use downward modulation (flattening) as opposed to the key usually moving upwards as the song progresses or peaks?
  • I've never been good at theory so I could be way off, but I think Sublimes "Pool Shark" does what you're asking about.

  • 1980-Teen Farce Comedy. Watched it tonight. It was... meh.
  • When I was somewhere in the late single digits to 11 years old I loved it. The idea of an overly complicated city wide scavenger hunt that had you solving riddles was just plain exciting. Rooting for the underdog? My new hobby. The whole thing was a very fun fantasy and everybody seemed so cool.

    I watched it with a buddy a few years ago and "meh" about describes it. This is coming from someone who still genuinely laughs and dick and fart jokes =/.

    It was however pretty easy to enjoy and make fun of some. I could not get over dudes plastic hat either, I want one.

  • What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?
  • Microsoft pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 1000 words.

  • Is it a reasonable expectation to check peoples profiles when commenting on their comments to ensure I am pronouning them correctly?
  • I'm not even interested in the username of the person I'm responding to. I tend to ignore it completely unless there's a comment like "lol, username checks out".

    There are very few times I will bother to check someones profile. They have to either say something so awesome that I want to see more, or have given a take so hot I want to see if they're trolling or if this is standard behaviour for them.

    While it looks like the whole Jerboa/"miscommunication" thing has been sorted out here I want to chime in to say that no, I don't think that checking profiles for anything is a reasonable expectation.

  • Five flavors 🤤
  • Crypta

  • Why self host a password manager?
  • I must have been way out of it late last night. I totally missed that you were asking why people do it and not looking for recommendations. Sorry for the spammy nonsense response to your OP.

    To the latter question, I've seen devices that do OTP and FIDO in addition to basically storing arbitrary strings (e.g. your cc number).

    I get harassment scolding me for using Lemmy to advertise when I mention any of the products by name, despite having no affiliation with any of them outside of being a user, but they're not hard to find if you look.

  • Why self host a password manager?
  • I'm curious why your listed options are all software that runs on the internet as opposed to a piece of hardware that you connect to your devices.

    Is that just because this is the self hosting community?

  • Why self host a password manager?
  • Why not a piece of hardware instead of self hosting, cloud hosting, etc?

  • Smart Summons
  • It's a tshirt that you can order online, designed by Michael Buxton.

  • I live in a constant state of fear and misery
  • "Is anyone else constantly getting logged out of slack?" - The last message I ever got from my favourite co-worker.

  • What's a handy terminal command you use often?
  • Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

    I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.

  • What's a handy terminal command you use often?
  • Check out the fzf docs. It ships with helpers that offer better shell integration than you're getting here.

  • I've always wanted to see Seattle.
  • It's unbearably foggy and dreary like that 24/7 365. Would not recommend a visit let alone moving to Seattle.

    Again: It's terrible all the time, please stay away.

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • Tiling WM that you are not sure you want to get into: Sway. It's a great alternative to i3 IMO.

    What I use when I care to put in the effort of setting something up in great detail: Enlightenment. Some may argue that it's not "lightweight", but you can readily include only the bits you want, and avoid things like network config guis and system tray apps or whatever it is that you don't want. Even when you're using "all the things" which is not technically "lightweight" what it IS is performant. Oh, it's also very pretty.

  • What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?
  • In addition to many of the fine points made in other comments I think it's silly to overlook the power of celebrity worship and weird-ass parasocial relationships with famous people.

    There exists a large number of people who aren't really interested in discussing <topic_x>, they just want to know what <favourite celebrity whos life I have deluded myself into thinking is attainable by me> thinks about the topic so that they can regurgitate it and feel like they're "the same".

    I'm sure if Chappell Roan or whatever "the kids" think is cool these days had jumped to Mastodon we'd be seeing something very different. TBH I'm mildly surprised that we didn't see more record labels standing up instances. It's always boggled me that people have just trusted the service desperately trying to be known as "X" as an authority on identity.

  • Mattel reportedly in talks with Illumination for an animated "Barbie" movie - Warner Bros. not involved, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are "not thrilled".
  • Well of course not, they want as many of the sequel dollars as they can possibly get. What, they're to share the hype with filthy animators?!

  • Use a password manager
  • I saw the lack of arm and facepalmed but I was half asleep poo posting so got over it :p (fixed now!)

    I've been using this device for ~5 years now, so my memory is a little hazy on it, but I'm pretty sure for the particular device I prefer (which is to say, I have nfc what the setup is for other vendors, which could be greatly superior) the AES-256 key used for encryption isn't generated until you setup your first card.

  • Early 80s ballad tone

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    In the last 15 seconds of the song I've linked to there's a guitar solo with a super cheesy early 80s tone that I love.

    I'm curious what's typical for this sort of sound. I've just recently started trying to take more active/conscious control of tone so my ear for this stuff is weak. I think I hear some flanger, light to mid gain, and a lot of delay, but that's about all I got.

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