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gravitronic

2,599 karma · joined June 14, 2011

app dev, musician, hardware hacker

building a collaborative audio/midi/video platform - https://sequencer.party

Email: tom@sequencer.party

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gravitronic··on RIP, vector database
The article?

turbopuffer is founded by some of the smartest people I ever worked with in past jobs. I strongly doubt they used an LLM in the writing of this article.

gravitronic··on Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
For people asking for details here are some other links:

There's at least two vst options in the works, one extracts just the voices and one emulates the whole machine interface

https://youtu.be/nY0bRaKWLmk?si=nhi4O6gx8Ld-RMuP

https://github.com/joelanders/gearmulator-md-mm/releases

There are other diy projects on github.. honestly with the GitHub links below and modern AI tools you can get something functioning in a day.

A lot of this work is made possible by the following. As well as people hacking on firmwares for current devices like digitone song mode hacks etc

https://github.com/mischa85/elektron-firmware-tool

https://github.com/dsp56300

There is MAME support for the relevant CPU/DSP and hint MAME archivists are also good at rom backing up...

Also look at the usual suspects and gearmulator for more digital music device emulation

gravitronic··on Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
Usual suspects have not (yet) released any Elektron devices as vst
gravitronic··on Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)
Be sure to check out keygen music, still updated

https://keygenmusic.tk/

gravitronic··on OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm
The term for that is teledildonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

gravitronic··on MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play Magic
Magic is complicated. I looked at doing something like this but the open-ended nature where one specific card will completely change the rules or require a series of followup events or modifications to the rules engine at hand is just tremendous.
gravitronic··on Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase
*adds "be intentional" to the prompt*

Got it, good idea.

gravitronic··on Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s
Don't worry, it's actually a 4MB SD card with a fake sticker
gravitronic··on “Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place
Well, I watched it. The archival footage makes it pretty clear they did it for the lulz and only in the present day interviews do they bolt a social action to it. I prefer if they kept it purely for the lulz because then it was art.
gravitronic··on “Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place
Their act was cool. Post-hoc bolting a protest social action on top seemed dishonest.

It's fine to say you did something cool because you could, in fact the coolest things are done just because. Adding commentary that it was a protest for stolen / wasted space, spare me the minutes please

gravitronic··on Cracked - method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library
You should check out webaudiomodules and sequencer party.
gravitronic··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
That's a really cool and simple solution to a difficult problem!! I love it!
gravitronic··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
years ago the daily wtf had a challenge for writing the worst calculator app. my submission maintained calculation state by emitting it's own source code, recompiling and running the new executable.
gravitronic··on OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser
there is a DAW with that feature, they then extracted the multiplayer core and license that. Forget the name, though.
gravitronic··on OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser
hey, this is really nice. Have you seen web audio modules? https://webaudiomodules.com

It is an audio/video/midi plugin standard for the web and it is rather mature.

During covid I worked on a collaborative browser-based DAW, https://sequencer.party. I definitely bit off more than I could chew, but you can wire up plugin chains at least.

I would strongly suggest you consider adding webaudiomodule support and instantly get ~50 plugins supported in the DAW. I also packaged up a bunch of them ready for consumption here: https://github.com/boourns/wam-community

gravitronic··on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
Yes, that is what I'm talking about! I had once dreamed of building a service you could ask questions like "what other artists recorded in the same city in the same year as artist xyz" and have it figure it out via the discogs dataset.
gravitronic··on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
If you haven't seen it, discogs releases a huge dataset for free that I feel like is ripe for powering a cool music recommendation engine
gravitronic··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
slippery slope fallacy that giving people control of their own deaths will turn into the state euthanized anybody against their will
gravitronic··on A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
Well my kids are already convinced 1+1=window
gravitronic··on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
Reminds me of the chrome bug I filed years ago that is still unfixed. An extension with access to all browsing tabs can open a hidden iframe to a website that commonly would have mic and camera permission (like hangouts.google.com), and then inject its own JavaScript into that hidden iframe to capture mic or camera.

For this to work hangouts.google.com had to not include the HTTP header to block iframing but thankfully if you make up a URL the 404 page served on that domain does not include that http header.

gravitronic··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
give the carbon tax revenue to consumers to offset that the price of food now reflects it's true cost. people can still afford to eat and food producers would actually be incentivized to reduce emissions.
gravitronic··on Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
First thing I thought when I saw the headline was "oh! I should tell Sirupsen"
gravitronic··on Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
My 10 year old walks home from school with a few friends regularly and stops in at the local library. I haven't been arrested yet.
gravitronic··on Reflections on Palantir
In 2012 I was at a conference in Montreal for CS students that had Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard, bed bug registry) do the closing talk, and he was giving advice to students about what to work on. He said it out loud, "or if you want to work for evil go into the hallway and talk to the Palentir booth". It was a great moment of one man speaking truth to power in a packed room of their target audience.
gravitronic··on Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain
Starting to eye my dryer lint as a toxic substance
gravitronic··on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
Yes, and if I remember correctly at least one girlfriend for a few months
gravitronic··on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
In highschool my friend wrote a mIRC script that waited in our city's DALnet channel for someone to announce they were *\f\(our city), and would DM them hello, start a conversation and if they responded the script would announce "babyfaceangel16 is female".

He'd turn it up and go play N64, and occasionally his computer would announce he's in a conversation with a girl so he'd drop the controller and pick up the conversation.

gravitronic··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
At least they can work from home the other two days!
gravitronic··on They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
Brings to mind a viral tweet I saw years ago, "my roommate asked to charge his cigarette but he had to wait as I was charging my book. The future sucks"
gravitronic··on Modern Wardriving (2023)
War driving with a friend, meeting his lady friend where she waited tables at Denny's, and then meeting her roommate is how I met my wife
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