Prentiss Riddle 🎛

Aprendiz de tudo, mestre de nada. Online since 1983.

#Porto #Portugal, previously #AustinTX

He/him. Recovering American exceptionalist. Texas broke my heart.

#caminoDeSantiago #eurorack #generativeAmbient #generativeMusic #gringoViejo #jakobsweg #jazz #linguaphile #modularSynth #moog #moogGrandmother #MPB #nativePlants #synth #velhoNasObras

#deutsch #español #português

➤ #oulipo at @riddl
➤ #português at @pz

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2025-02-25 10:15:04 GMT

Here's the patch that's been our lullaby at night for the past few weeks. Lots of happy accidents in this one, including I *think* a Pam's bug which caused it to fade to zero every two minutes. It's like it generatively broke itself into tracks. I like that so much I'm going to start doing it on purpose!
https://youtu.be/sATgzuyFZJA
I guess if I'm going to share these I need to figure out a better way to record them than my iPhone.
#synth #modularSynth #ambient #eurorack #moogGrandmother
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2025-02-23 07:47:42 GMT

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@nprofile…zw3r Thanks. I thought I had read that DRM removal with Calibre doesn't work on books published after a certain date. Am I misinformed?
Also, I don't own a hardware Kindle. I've heard of people buying an old one just to use Calibre. I guess that's an option.

2024-07-08 15:01:10 GMT

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 "The sky above the Dollar General was the color of the linoleum floor of a Dollar General"
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2024-01-22 11:07:33 GMT

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@npub1lwu…6w4j @npub1mjj…h2pr Jebus! Even if Apple engineers had never heard of subways, you'd think they know about airplanes.

2024-01-22 11:04:17 GMT

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@npub188l…qht5 @npub1mjj…h2pr I thought that rejecting the domain name example.com is the correct behavior, but now I see that I had it exactly wrong. 😮 Application software should handle it normally, and the exception should happen at the DNS registration level.
See section 6.5. You learn something new every day.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761

2023-12-31 21:40:52 GMT

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@npub1m8a…khgv @npub1hgr…2e7r attn @npub1zdp…vqv8

2023-11-03 13:07:07 GMT

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@npub1dm5…5sqe 😢 I was hoping there'd be something cool inside to show to my sister, who thanks to our last name has had a fascination since childhood with question marks (and the Riddler).
You couldn't fill it with kittens and pretend that's how you found it, could you?

2023-10-31 08:46:03 GMT

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 You remind me of a lovely evening at a beach house one time where we went around the circle each playing one song - until the guy who had suggested the game got drunk and the rest of the night was him playing "just one more song" by some band he liked in college. 😄

2023-10-27 16:09:44 GMT

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@npub1e2z…ldaf @npub1nkv…cnfh Worlds collide and I assumed you meant eurorack. 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurorack
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2023-10-23 22:35:43 GMT

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I had never heard of shirt stays so I looked them up. Surely this is an elaborate joke?
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2023-10-23 07:42:41 GMT

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@npub1f6s…y8ra Irgendwie erinnert mich das an dieses Denkmal in Negreira, Spanien, für die viele Arbeiter, die Galicien verlassen mussten.
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2023-10-22 16:15:18 GMT

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@npub1f2y…m58m @npub1vgz…37vz "You kids get off my lawn" might have been a good t-shirt for a teenager whenever it was that old people started talking about kids getting off their lawns.

2023-10-22 16:08:16 GMT

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@npub1f2y…m58m @npub1vgz…37vz Facebook keeps trying to sell me t-shirts which say "It's weird being the same age as old people".
Which I guess is an old person's idea of a young person's joke.

2023-10-22 06:03:49 GMT

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@npub19h2…7qwf @npub1f2y…m58m @npub1fwq…hq40
My grandfather's cigars. He had had a difficult life and died when I was five years old, but he grinned wide when he saw me and was my only grandparent with patience for a wiggly preschooler to sit in his lap. I hate cigarette smoke and have no interest in any kind of smoking myself, but to this day I like the smell of a cigar.

2023-09-04 13:20:44 GMT

In the US, anti-tax conservatives think roads descend from heaven provided for free by God, and hence tolls are the work of the devil.
While the only supporters of toll roads are lefty/greenie socialists (like me! guilty! 🙋‍♂️) who think charging fees for common goods is regressive but are willing to make an exception for tolls since *roads* are the work of the devil and we should all be riding on (purely hypothetical, no one has ever seen one) trains.

2023-08-31 21:10:36 GMT

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@npub1k7q…3lrw
What do you mean by "automatically detects alt text"?
The standard iOS Mastodon app puts "ALT" in the corner of any image which has it. Is that what you're looking for?

2023-08-26 14:31:31 GMT

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@npub1xpc…3t05 Fair enough. The grown daughters are a clue, but he could still be under 40.

2023-08-26 14:23:14 GMT

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@npub1xpc…3t05
I've wondered that too!
The big esception is Noah Dyck, played by J-Roc from Trailer Park Boys.
https://youtu.be/7TcuPpgmoNo?si=aQzup49okEQK-T9B

2023-08-22 11:31:51 GMT

#BackInMyDay Star Trek was a text-only game you played on a Selectric typewriter terminal attached to an IBM 360 mainframe.
#deadtrees
#HashtagGames
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2023-08-18 17:42:12 GMT

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@npub1ahq…wjwd
What do you think of this speculation that Apple might drop X from the app store if Elon removes the block feature?
https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/18/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-no-longer-let-you-block-other-people/

2023-08-18 17:35:24 GMT

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub1hcf…2yan @npub1ahq…wjwd
Maybe he proposed and reconsidered removing block in the past, but this post is from today and as of now is still up on his timeline.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1692558414105186796?s=46&t=CNiQnEisahTpJpOAwVmcPw

2023-08-13 11:45:19 GMT

The possible shady IP practices of AI vendors are a concern, but in the grand scheme of things I don't think they're the biggest one.
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2023-08-11 23:08:35 GMT

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@npub1gr8…c639
I am more likely to do what a neighbor of mine did, stand in the street and yell at drivers who are going too fast.

2023-08-01 14:40:50 GMT

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@npub1f2y…m58m
👍👍👍
Wikiquote says it's close. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#1990s
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2023-07-24 16:34:05 GMT

@npub13pl…eh5u @npub13dd…h2el
We need an actual IP attorney to weigh in, but you can certainly trademark existing words - consider "Apple".
So it wouldn't surprise me if you can in fact trademark an existing Unicode character.
Trademark doesn't prevent people from using your mark, it just prevents them from using it to offer competing goods or services in the same industry or market. Which is why my local fruit stand can still sell "apples".

2023-07-12 13:49:24 GMT

Unpopular opinion:
I don't see how one can be a stalwart defender of Fair Use by the Internet Archive, Google Books, and even internet search itself while simultaneously arguing that ChatGPT's use of widely published text and images as training data constitutes "theft".
Is there some Fair Use test that ChatGPT fails but the others pass?