Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 9

@Ocean22 In lots of places the type of business I would call a liquor store, is a "bottle shop"

New video: notation scan for my 18-minute ambient piece "Whose is the world?" (世界は誰のか？) from 2016. Vocal pads and extensive frequency-shifting in Csound. https://video.northcoastsynthesis.com/?t=whose-is-the-world-20190517

@BestGirlGrace @larrydavis @sweetmercury @anna @nuttgodd

@matrix The clown invasion will begin in Japan, where the population has no natural defenses.

@angristan Curated bad content is likely to be worse content.

@eal then we should be writing it "先輩"

@eal okay, but the syllabic "n" is often voiced in a way that sounds like "m" in some contexts, e.g. in the word "sempai".

New responsive CSS design on the video server. CSS is not my favourite programming language - and the fact that it now *is* a programming language is itself pretty horrifying. https://video.northcoastsynthesis.com/?t=coiler-kits-20190324

@Algot Yeah... I was subtooting something specific that came up in my timeline, a project that seemed to *start* from "We need X number of kiloeuros to make this possible!" like a knock-off of a Kickstarter campaign. I'm all for the idea of community support of community-benefiting projects; but having fundraising as the first step, and presenting the project as conditional on fundraising, is not my culture.

I remember when having a project to create a free software tool meant recruiting people to write code. Not soliciting money donations.

I guess some kind of "maker" Web log has probably already claimed the title "The Handmade's Tale," right?

pho-type soup with okra, oyster mushrooms, and beef tendon balls

@Trev

@xahlee in Japanese there's the interesting thing of first-person pronouns, the words like "I" and "me," being gender-specific, more so than third-person... so if I decide I'm a girl I don't have to convince everyone else to call me something else, I can just start saying "atashi" instead of "boku" myself. I don't know and would be interested to find out whether people actually doing that has become more common in Japan recently.

@xahlee What are you referring to? The YouTube payment scheme?

What are good instances on which to run bots? I'm aware of botsin.space; are there others with a similar mission?

Also, images that were blurhashed now open in new tabs, unlike the previous behaviour for all images and current behaviour for non-blurhashed images, which is to open in a lightbox popup. Lightbox popups are evil, but having this difference violates least surprise.

My expert opinion on the strength of about three minutes' use of the blurhash feature is that I want a setting to disable it completely.

I have "always show media marked as sensitive" set, but now it's blurhashing such media and there seems to be no setting to make it go back to really showing it.