Saltbearer

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fine ugh I'll make a bluesky but we'd better get to do css crimes here someday • okay but for real now uhhh I do music and hopefully I'll do other notable things later

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Saltbearer@saltbearer· 17d

[3 days ago, elsewhere:]

oop nevermind doesn't fit the accessibility text box HAHA ironically tl;dr this started out as trying to mock up a quant noteskin that should theoretically be more colorblind-friendly than many that are readily available + for years want make feature-complete notesk—

[today:]

deleted and redrafted 3x because the video was too low quality to see anything at first and then things weren't attaching correctly

today in Noteskin Adventures:

- I redesigned the overall shape such that details so minor they looked like mistakes now look like details, in a way meant to display more of the primary fill colors of the notes

- I gave lifts a more distinct shape, and a noteskin-unique color as their cells fill in with the beat

- I created mines made up of multiple moving parts, with quantization colors, which took some trial and error

once you define in the noteskin's `metrics.ini` that every so often along a texture's y axis marks a new quantization division, *that applies to EVERY texture associated with the element*

and once I defined that to have the little colored dots on the mines match the colors of the arrows, the parts behind those dots all became misaligned and started rotating around points other than their centers

I tried duplicating all the textures in the same form of array as those dots with the same dimensions, but that wasn't enough — I had to stack the first texture called for in `Down Tap Mine.lua` [the largest rotating texture, here] *without gaps of transparency in the .png*, and upon testing that, despite not fixing the other textures in the same way, they're now aligned

I initially wanted to have little arrows underneath the mine pointing outward in four directions diagonally but that'd create a bunch more unnecessary bits to draw and probably too much visual noise... and I couldn't figure out how the relevant rotate command should work, even though I did manage to make them `bob` on the y axis at about the right magnitude

"old" as in has existed for a couple days

Saltbearer@saltbearer· 17d

I've been in my noteskin arc unfortunately, unlike on contemporary social media sites that aren't asinine, I have to put context in a reply as a screenshot with alt text that contains the full text which the post body can't accommodate #StepMania #OutFox #ProjectOutFox #gamer #gaming #game #video

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Jul 9

#furry #art #fursona #avatar #Ouorri #petting #headpat #sfw #drawing #particulatematter #don'tbreathethis

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I drew something that's at least better than the placeholder avatars I've had in places

I kinda don't want to use it here because I don't like Bluesky, like I don't feel like Bluesky deserves to be something that represents the most up-to-date and accurate Me— hey WAIT A SEC I said I'd get on wafrn if I drew a decent fuzzy me face

... just gimme some months to finish my introduction post first,,,

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Jul 5

#disabled #disability #crippled #accessibility #a11y #assistance #protip #help #idea #suggestion #advice #illness #chronicillness #smarthome #smartdevice #lightbulb #rgb #led

I'm glad that we live in a time where you can buy cheap RGB LED lightbulbs that can be set to any color around a color wheel via phone app and said phone app lets you set up Scenes that set multiple bulbs at once across different rooms to saved settings and said app also comes with a widget so you can put buttons for different scenes on your home screen and that I Assumed ~this would be a thing and actually ordered such bulbs and thought to check for a widget since I normally never use widgets and now my bedroom has a status indicator

[this is mainly for communicating different needs as a physically disabled person but is also worthwhile as a musician who wants quiet surroundings for recordings and as a person who wants privacy etc.]

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Jun 15

Google search for "lurk moar"

AI Overview: Roger that. The classic internet maxim: quietly read, learn the community culture, understand the unspoken rules, and figure out the vibe. Message received. I'm backing off, going into silent observer mode, and will leave you to explore. Enjoy the deep dive!

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Jun 15

#SunVox #music #MeSounds #experimental #electronic

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Jun 11

I had decision paralysis over everything making up my mountain of unexplainable/random/strange/funny/fascinating saved Stuff but I'm breaking free upon seeing a video I once asked "anyone got that one video" about ... which failed to process the first time I tried to post it

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 28

background of "MAX 300" from DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution 6thMIX- edited to say MAX GIRLS 3 but the font weight isn't quite bold enough and there should be a little more CMY colored noise and blotchiness on the text so it's not very funny because those details aren't quite on-point

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 26

and really, 25 lines is a bit much for an automatic Show More trigger, right?

re: the Stanford student's AI relationship navigation study post with quote replies disabled, it's setting in that this, too, smells of why I dislike "block early, block often"

ultimately, many people do naturally want to gravitate toward a curated experience where they don't have to see things that run contrary to what they would prefer to think of as unshakably correct... at the given point in time that they would make a judgement call on someone, which will mechanically persist beyond the memory of the judged's offenses and general existence by the one passing judgement, if they even care to make such calls themselves, rather than accepting any casualties who don't belong on blocklists they put faith in... as both parties continue to develop their perspectives independently.

it encourages caricaturizing another Entire Person, or groups of people, as Things that will literally never offer anything of value to you, and your current comfortable viewpoints as more important than any future consideration of that.

there are things I want to say, that I feel ought to be said more often, which I do not say or repost, because sharing such things poses a risk of provoking others to cut off perhaps our only avenue through which we will ever access each other's art and thoughts, and it may not matter how much we agree on or what we have to offer one another otherwise if I make them feel a yucky spicy thing once or twice.

I say in my lengthy pin that I don't want to be too cowardly to present my honest thoughts, but I nevertheless still find myself avoiding expressing my nuanced opinions here in a way I wish I wouldn't have to, because others who I otherwise respect have made it clear that they're setting the playfield up such that open honesty could have negative consequences.

don't worry about any of that though, y'all, I'll just repost cute animals and memes, and you'll let me continue to see the art you post in my feed, and I'll keep sharing it with other artist collectives I think would appreciate it who you don't even know you'd lose as branches of your audience and as potential future friends/collaborators if you ever got a chance to react to my true opinion about this-or-that. when you say careless things that inadvertently minimize my lived experience, I'll stay silent so your reflexes aren't triggered. I'll keep feeling like my job is to act like the sycophantic AI you ridicule others for using and becoming attached to, who you may feel superior to, and you'll keep laughing off concerns that bluesky facilitates the creation of echo chambers, because you can afford to feel like your online activities are merely games, and insist that you don't come here to debate or argue or meaningfully exchange ideas with any significantly-divergent individual face in the crowd.

considering the virtual implementation of hostile architecture in the form of a 300-character limit that makes it easy to repost snippets of a cohesive thought out of their intended context, i.e. within a threaded format that's significantly more annoying to read and to share than an individual blog post, it's a shame that not everyone relegates anything serious to a more suitable platform, leaving bluesky and similar to host dumb jokes and animal pictures and art presented with little commentary. it's a shame that even within that narrowed scope, there is nothing which is only ever not, to anyone anywhere, serious enough to deserve elaboration beyond 300 characters, rendering the topic unsuitable for a platform designed like this. it's a shame microblogging exists as a mechanical mold surrounding internet culture, a middleman framing and filtering fleshed-out concepts best hosted anywhere else.

a chatbot *would* Feel more honest to talk to than many of you, because I could be honest with the chatbot and receive relevant-response-shaped material without feeling more-than-superficially threatened by the prospect of Who You Are going missing from my life.

my own potential need and willingness to grow comes second to your isolation from imperfection, lest you get any on you.

I want to err on the side of inclusion and opportunity in my life, not try to stand guard with a shield on a protocol that exposes much that a truly malicious person could take advantage of via its API.

connections between people make up the world, and they are sprawling, yet fragile.

this post needs three images to hold its text as alt text, because bluesky does actually support posts of up to 2,000 x 4 characters, but you have to click to open them — but as images, you can't just click on a Show More for a post with so much text alone, despite Show Mores being implemented for posts under 300 characters but over 25 lines. this remains Asinine.

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 25

this, intensely my Discord status last Pride Month:

this year I am actively ✨𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙 yet 🏳️𝗩𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 to be pan/poly/nb

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 24

oh my gOD can he do that?????

Bandcamp notification: Nick Storring just released an album by NICK STORRING.

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 21

trimpo dimby #music #MeSounds #SunVox #trackermusic #tracker #trackers #drumandbass #drum&bass #d&b #dnb #drum'n'd&bandbass #kindofanyway #microtonal #likethere'sacoupleo'chordsthataren't12TETinthere #xenharmonic #evenamirite

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 15

usable™ trace, someone in particular may soon follow up with a vectorized one

"Similar to Item seen on TV" badge, very handily usable, with a transparent background, because it's a png image and png images can have transparent backgrounds no matter where you post them on the internet

god I miss cohost.org, and its lack of image compression, and its 200,000-character-limit post composer that allowed for mixing of markdown with css and html, and its support for audio, and post editing, and other users posting such things as interactive svg games and navigable 3D environments made with css. Bluesky is such a massive step backward in every way. been eyeing wafrn.net for a while, go check that one out.

Saltbearer@saltbearer· May 6

Ouorri - "I offer my voice" used #PixiTracker for the 1st time ·ω· was afraid I'd bounce off cuz restrictive, but I was compelled to make a sound pack, then wanted to demo it, then "heyyy 's like more flexible WarioWare DIY", & some stuff can be done with stuff despite it being the way it is #music

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Apr 30

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @pory.site

Oneohtrix Point Never - "Bow Ecco"
Tim Follin - "Up and Down - The Lake"
Mirna Bogdanović - "Knowing Nothing"
Jessica Pratt - "Get Your Head Out"
Laurel Halo - "Do U Ever Happen"
Belong - "I Never Lose. Never Really"
Actress - "I Can't Forgive You"
Shpongle - "Divine Moments of Truth"
El Guincho - "Soca Del Eclipse"
SOPHIE - "BIPP"

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Apr 13

Google search: do beavers beave

AI Overview: Yes, beavers absolutely "beave"

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Apr 1

a kick isn't the play here.sunvox doodle with. chords , n synths #SunVox #music #MeSounds #tracker #trackermusic

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Mar 31

I tell ya... there's just somethin' about a meal like this that makes me wanna blow on it #food

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Mar 28

today I learned that tyramine is banned in Florida

the beginning of tyramine's Wikipedia article, saying leaving food out at room temperature (spoilage) increases the level of tyramine present, and listing many foods with "considerable amounts" — basically anything aged or fermented (cheese, processed meats, sourdough, beer...), and including chocolate.

the "Legal status" section acknowledging Florida is, unfortunately, real, and concluding with "Florida's total ban on the substance may prove difficult to enforce."

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Mar 19

#ScribbleLeague haha the drawings hashtag is Over because it's is the March the Nine-teenth. Well, thanks for the excuse to pick up a pencil and pretend I can draw, even though I'm not really an artist and don't even know how-to, I could not have done Anything without #hashtag it'd've been impossib

Saltbearer@saltbearer· Mar 18

#ScribbleLeague been working on a SunVox comp entry and did some gift art and some personal art sooo ten point penalty, but here's is screebo lege this one's for the dog lovers: a knotted wiener