Borris

I'm just a 40-something guy from New York City, born and raised in North Carolina.

Blind, #ActuallyAutistic, atheist, going deaf. Chronically depressed. Bit of an AI luddite. Audio editor/sound engineer (as hearing dictates,) pretend to be a musician sometimes.
Burned out former I.T. professional.
Pro-choice, leftist, etc.

I do not apologize for anything I am here.

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2026-06-15 20:00:11 GMT

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@nprofile…nekg It's all about that magical Roland D50 sound.

2026-06-01 23:44:56 GMT

My iOS 27 wishlist:
I just want Apple to revert whatever they did in iOS 26.4.1 and everything that came after, which causes notification sounds to be at, like, 10% of volume when using Airpods. Even at full volume, they are almost inaudible to me.
This doesn't happen with wired headphones, and I don't know about the internal speaker, because I can't really use my phone like that anymore.
I have stopped relying on notification sounds years ago, but now this is really bugging me.
I have this problem across two phones and three sets of airpods.

2026-05-15 13:04:43 GMT

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@nprofile…p25k @nprofile…r82c Point a media player or browser to http://stream.borris.me:8888/fx

2026-03-28 13:34:49 GMT

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@nprofile…nekg Kind of a different use-case. I think I would want one if I didn't already have an Ableton Move, assuming I could use it reasonably eyes-free. I am no stranger to counting clicks to navigate pre-memorized menus and such, but it sounds like there isn't a lot of that.

2026-03-08 01:49:38 GMT

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@nprofile…03xc You know what it also doesn't have? Screen reader accessibility. It's pretty much unusable with any screen reader for various reasons, unlike Ookla Speedtest which works very well. BTW, this sucks.

2026-02-21 15:09:31 GMT

Look, I'm a middle-aged white man. I am not so good at putting down tasty grooves.

2026-01-30 19:44:28 GMT

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@nprofile…nekg I don't have any of that gear, but had a similar thing once, only to discover that both inputs were out-of-phase.

2025-12-08 22:43:08 GMT

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@nprofile…5qkj @nprofile…hhrp no wireless gaming headset I'm aware of has latency that low.

2025-12-08 16:21:26 GMT

I want a consumer-grade wireless headset that has the latency of my Rode Wireless Pro microphones. I don't know what the latency actually is (it's a digital link) but it can't be more than 1 or 2 ms. Give me something like the Sennheiser RS-185 with that kind of latency, or, even better, a receiver/transmitter type thing for which any generic 3.5mm output can be used, which is both digital and extremely low latency like that, and also doesn't compromise on audio quality, and I'll be happy.
I specifically mentioned consumer-grade here, because there are high-end wireless IEM systems that do exactly this, but certainly not in the consumer space, at least not that I can find.
Edit:
I found something online that says the Rode Wireless Pro latency is 6 to 7 MS. So maybe I'm a bit off. Still, though, it's basically undetectable by just listening, unless you purposefully feed the microphone back to a nearby speaker or something.

2025-12-05 09:18:26 GMT

I can't sleep, so I sampled the Pluribus theme from my phone into Ableton Move and put stuff on top of it.
https://media.fwoof.space/media_attachments/files/115/666/209/653/138/995/original/01095111d3723dfb.mp3

2025-11-21 09:52:11 GMT

*punches wall repeatedly, bruises hands, does it some more* STUPID! STUPID! STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID!

2025-11-20 14:12:52 GMT

For anyone who owns a Zoom H5 Studio recorder, the official accessory pack (Zoom APH-S5) is now *finally* available. This includes a large, protective case with lanyard, a power supply with USB-A to USB-C cable, and most importantly, a furry windscreen that actually fits the very large X/Y microphone capsule properly.
I've tried a few windscreens, and have not actually found one that really fits. Some work better than others, but they're either too small, too large, not the right shape, or some combination thereof.
It only took Zoom six months to sell something that really should be included in the box the way these mics work, but that's typical Zoom, really.

2025-11-12 03:06:18 GMT

So @nprofile…dn0t went to a hotel in Bristol, and recorded a nice "ding" sound from the bathroom.
As soon as I heard it, my weird brain went "Oh, hey ,that could easily be turned into a fire alarm." So I did just that, minus adding a bunch of distortion and compression to actually make it more realistic.
https://media.fwoof.space/media_attachments/files/115/534/513/461/552/623/original/51901e3666f7e16d.mp3

2025-11-05 03:01:48 GMT

Not such a great night for Trump. Let's do that but even more next year.

2025-10-18 09:04:48 GMT

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@nprofile…kx0x Not seeing any of that here. Have you tried resetting and re-pairing?

2025-10-15 04:05:14 GMT

Ah yes, the "switch to Linux" posts are hot and heavy today for obvious reasons (Windows 10). If only I could, but, yeah... Linux desktop accessibility is a complete non-starter in my field of work as things stand now.
There are no accessible Linux-based DAWs (Reaper is accessible with the help of OSARA on Mac and Windows, but not Linux), and even basic two-track audio editing is pretty painful. Never mind many other general purpose and UX things. At least Debian has an accessible installer with braille and speech support out-of-the-box.

2025-10-10 13:00:43 GMT

Tomorrow, I'll have had my Ableton Move for exactly one year, so I finished a silly sequence I started a few weeks ago. Four tracks. No overdubs or weird tricks with the drum rack. Just lots of step entry and automation. I call this one Happy Saw Times, because it started out as this happy F major sawtooth thing.
https://media.fwoof.space/media_attachments/files/115/349/993/654/345/970/original/14639ae2cb552f8f.mp3

2025-07-28 17:37:54 GMT

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@nprofile…0nz2 Yeah, that... for that reason...

2025-07-28 17:28:14 GMT

I've been dizzy all day. I never, ever get dizzy.
When I was a kid, I could spin all day long and be perfectly fine.
When I was in the fourth grade, I mentioned this to someone. Kids were playing dodgeball or something, so I stood there in the gymnasium and spun around at a reasonably fast speed for an entire class period while they were off doing that.
Today, sitting up is a problem. Standing up is worse. Going upstairs was hell.
Fun stuff.

2025-05-12 00:03:54 GMT

Some who have known me for a long time will be familiar with a project I did, called FX Radio.
This was an idea conceived in 2005, which happened on and off until September 2019, when I last ran it from the old apartment.
Basically, the idea is this.
Take three media players shuffling a huge collection of sound effects, stack them on top of each other, then stream it all to an Icecast server.
It sometimes created interesting atmospheres and/or situations. Maybe interesting dreams if you, like me, sometimes fell asleep with it on.
In the old days, I ran this setup using a Windows machine that didn't have much else to do, three copies of Winamp, and virtual audio cable.
I eventually added more to it, at one point even including a thing I called the "SHOUT BOX!" where you could call a phone number and yell at the stream for 90 seconds through some VST plugins. There were two simultaneous channels, each with a different plugin stack, so that made things fun for a while.
I used one of those crappy free DIDs for the phone number, so it didn't cost me anything extra, and it didn't really matter if the phone number broke, or whatever.
Then, my last Windows XP machine died sometime in, I think, 2017. At this point, I was still using it for streaming purposes, since it was reliable, but it had no internet access. Yay for local servers and junk!
I didn't really want to invest in another Windows machine, nor did I really have the space.
So, I learned how to use Liquidsoap, and moved the entire thing over to a Raspberry Pi 2 with an external HDD connected. This did actually work, but it took every bit of horsepower that little 900 mHz quad core board could provide.
It had an annoying problem, though. After about a day of streaming, Liquidsoap would hang. Not crash, just hang. It would require it's process to be killed from killall. Pressing CTRL+C while this thing was running in the foreground just sat there and looked at you, like, what, you want me to actually die? HAHAHAHAHA, you're funny!
I never could figure out why this was happening. I still don't know. So, I tried moving it to a slightly more powerful Raspberry Pi 3 modeul B Plus. It happened less frequently on that board, but it still happened.
To work around this, I just wrote a hackey bash script that looked to see if Liquidsoap's log file had been updated in more than a minute, and if not, force Liquidsoap to restart. There were a lot of entries in the log, so it almost never happened that the log wouldn't change multiple times a minute.
Anyhow, that all worked fine, until I needed that rPi for another project, so I repurposed it, then lost the MicroSD card containing my Liquidsoap configuration that I had slaved over. Fortunately, I found a backup of an old version later. This one still had some issues, from what I recall, but it's better than nothing, especially since not only have I basically forgotten everything I ever learned about Liquidsoap, but it has changed drastically since then. This was running under V1.2.x, I think.
Anyhow, a couple of years ago, I set up an old Intel NUC back at my parents' place in North Carolina, with a 2TB NVME2 SSD. The idea was that I could stash it over there somewhere, install Liquidsoap. and get FX Radio running again without paying for a huge amount of storage on a VPS, or trying to host it here at the house, which I don't want to do for a number of reasons I won't get into here.
I loaded up all the media, then promptly discovered that there are all sorts of reasons why the current version of Liquidsoap just won't quite work for this project without essentially re-learning everything, and even then, maybe not.
I thus installed the latest 1.x version, which is still in Debian 12's repositories, in hopes that I could use my old script from 2018 to revive this silly project that probably only myself and a few others cared about.
That project has been sitting on hold since September of 2023, with the only thing I have to show being my @nprofile…ld76 account, which throws a random sound effect at followers 40 minutes after the top of every hour.
I'm not sure why I'm writing about this, other than I need a project to take my mind off of stupid things. Maybe this will actually force me to get this silly old thing running again.
Then again, maybe not.

2025-04-19 13:13:00 GMT

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@nprofile…0nz2 @nprofile…ch7k Yeah, I'll definitely do that.
I loved my TS-12 (hopefully I can get access to it and get the power supply repaired one day.) Also would love to have either an MR-61 or ZR-76.
Absolutely love the reverb from the Ensoniq D/P4. It's digital, warm and not clinically clean. It's got character.
I made impulse responses of the stock D/P4 reverbs about ten years ago, because I couldn't find that anyone else had done it. They sound especially great when you put a little saturation on the send.

2025-04-19 12:24:31 GMT

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@nprofile…0nz2 @nprofile…ch7k I'm a sucker for anything Ensoniq. My first pro keyboard workstation was a TS-12, and I have since played almost everything they ever made.

2025-04-15 05:05:27 GMT

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@nprofile…7wld @nprofile…wxy7 And that level of detail is something that many don’t do, they will just wholesale use whatever description the LLM provides. So, that is also appreciated.

2025-04-15 00:29:09 GMT

Unless there is a very good reason (happens occasionally but usually not,) I, as a totally blind guy, won't boost a post with video or pictures that don't have description.
I make it a point to describe any audio I post here.
Sometimes, there are pictures described by LLM's. One could argue that is better than no description at all, but as has been pointed out in a few places, sometimes, that description is either totally wrong, completely misses the context in such a way that the meaning changes, or some other combination thereof.
Yes, I'd rather have a human-described image, even in another language, because translation tools are built-in. It's pretty easy to tell when an image description has been generated by an LLM. They have a very defined style about them. I always take those with many grains of salt, because I have no way to verify, without asking someone, whether or not what the LLM comes up with has any relationship to reality.
On the surface, most of these descriptions look pretty reasonable, but these things have built-in biases that quite often show themselves.
I'm still not sure what "the right answer" is here, other than, whenever you can, please describe images yourself, or crowd-source it if you can't, for whatever reason.
If you're stuck for time, you can always go back and add descriptions later.
This all having been said, I really appreciate the fact that so many people do take the time to describe things here. IT's quite a different vibe from any other social media I've ever been a part of.

2025-03-17 19:49:49 GMT

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@nprofile…6h3y @nprofile…xcq8 Nope, it's Chrome-specific. If there's a Firefox way to do this, I don't know of it.

2025-02-28 01:25:13 GMT

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@nprofile…0nz2 It' faded at the edges a little bit. So hey, it's something.

2025-02-28 01:16:26 GMT

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@nprofile…0nz2 Aww man, reality is still in tact. Well, that sucks. LOL

2025-02-02 20:45:26 GMT

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@nprofile…0nz2 Yep, it would do that. I used to use Crashplan Pro, and there's no way it would have worked with the stock memory. I saw it eat 12GB by itself with all the huge hash tables.