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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

#looptober, day 18: a short one today. It started with a melody generated by putting a drum loop through a guitar-synth effect, and seems to want to move towards some kind of manic party music:

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@daveybot In 18th-century Scotland, pineapple-themed motifs in architecture and furnishings would have been the equivalent of diamond-iced gold lettering on gangsta-rap album covers: a very unsubtle brag about one’s (claimed) financial means

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

#looptober, day 17. Wasn't sure I'd manage to do one today, but somehow pulled out this slightly odd, somewhat understated track.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There is a large-scale impersonation attack happening on Mastodon. People are registering typos of real people on mastodon.social and then following people who the real people follow. I’ve gotten two different ones today.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Meanwhile in #Stockholm, the new Slussen bus terminal in a cavern they blasted out of a hill is close to opening. They handed it over to the transport agency a few weeks ago, and completed acceptance tests yesterday. Now there's only some remaining work like line marking and kiosks, before it […]

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

IIRC, he’s the guy who did the unlicensed port of Lemmings to PalmOS.

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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert.

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen.

Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern.

Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig.

Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos.

Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird.

Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut.

Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann.

Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#looptober, day 16: back to using a DAW and plugins. This one's slightly trancy/housey, only with loops of uneven lengths forming polyrhythms.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

#looptober, day 15: a slight change of tack today. Rather than something made in Ableton Live using various plugins, a short and somewhat primitive track made using SuperCollider and SuperClean, in which I started doing @t36s 's course at EMS today.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Am on a bus in Stockholm. There appears to be a passenger playing music out of their phone speaker. Surprisingly, the music isn’t some kind of teenage-bro spatial-dominance weapon but something that sounds a lot like Philip Glass. Which at least is something.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

This makes sense for recurring toponym prefixes (trailing ones, like “ville” and “burg”, can be autocompleted). Wales and Scotland could probably add “Aber” as well, and historically western-Christian countries could do with ones for the local variants of “Saint”.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

No details about where Muji will be expanding in Europe, but maybe it’ll finally be possible to buy their large modular plastic drawers in Sweden again (they’re too big to post, don’t flat-pack, and no-one sells them in Sweden since the Muji concessions at Åhléns ended a few years ago).

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@timrichards Does going through a VPN with an endpoint in Latvia/Europe make a difference?

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#looptober, day 14: a bit of (mostly) gently shifting west-coast(ish) modular synthesis, done using Reaktor Blocks.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Someone really ought to wrap this into an iOS app/extension that reaches the languages not important enough for Apple (like, say, for Scandinavian languages all of whose speakers are assumed to speak English anyway).

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#TIL someone has taken the offline language translation models from Mozilla, reimplemented the engine that powers them in Rust, and made it available as a command-line application, no browser needed: crates.io/crates/fxtranslate-cli There’s also a Rust crate for use in other software […]

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I should look at running this on either the old Kindle I no longer use or the Pocketbook Inkpad that replaced it and then was displaced by the vastly more pocketable Xteink. @angelwood merveilles.town/@angelwood/11743695…

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Attached: 2 images my kobo is free of koreader, its #uxn only! https://git.sr.ht/~angelwood/uxn-lfb-kobo

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#looptober, day 13: one otherwise unexceptional drum loop, channelled through delays, granular effects and other processes and transformed into something else.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Sprout, a replacement logic board for old iPods and #iPod Minis (the ones with monochrome screens), based on a Raspberry Pi microcontroller, and providing modern features including WiFi, Bluetooth, up to 2Tb SD storage, USB-C and (apparently) clients for Spotify and Apple Music […]

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Note to self: play with this a bit more

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

#looptober, day 12: 4 monophonic notes + 4 processors = a soundscape gradually unfolding over 4 minutes

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@jonny “enshittified passwords” works for me. Or possibly the authentication equivalent of one of those application frameworks that takes a few open-source libraries that exist, splices in a dependency on a server that can be used to harvest data/extract premium rents and adds cool-looking […]

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@everton137 I know mostly of Niemeyer and the musicians (though you could easily treble the list of musicians; I’d add Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes, Jorge Ben, Gal Costa and Gilberto Gil, and the last one probably also merits a place on the politicians list)

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#looptober, day 11: some dysregulated reggae (?) put together on a train from Hamburg to Copenhagen:

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I’m on a daytime train from Berlin to Hamburg, which turns out to be a Czech service originating in Prague. I just discovered that Česke Drahy have managed to enshittify onboard wifi: it won’t let you connect until you’ve watched a 30-second video ad. #enshittification

a screenshot of a phone captive WiFi connection screen with a video ad playing, a greyed-out Continue button and “Advertisement. please wait. 18 seconds”

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#looptober, day 10: a period piece of sorts, messing around with a few SR-JV-80 samples which are very much of their era. (I cheated slightly, reworking an unfinished track I started earlier, largely due to juggling this with a visit to Berlin.)

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Russell (Robin) Phillips @rpbook.gts.phillipsuk.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I approve of this method of proving humanity. Much better than asking me to tick all the boxes containing buses or whatever. (Seen at a UK National Archives survey)

A question asking the user to prove that they are a human by answering the question, "Which of the following best describes your involvement in creating the Domesday Book in the year 1086? I was ..."

There are several options, including "William the conqueror and commissioned the Domesday book"

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”

Ad for Teufel headphones saying "Not designed in California. Aber in Berlin. Seit 1979"

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@railmaps I heard it was after Afghan camel drivers who worked in the outback where the train’s route went

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#looptober, day 7. Didn't have a lot of time to work on this today due to travelling, but managed to make this by mutilating a loop that had been sitting in my sample folder since the 00s and adding some somewhat generic beats.

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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If LLMs make us stupid because you can just pay them to do stuff without thinking, does that mean rich people have always been stupid

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Normal tools for normal tasks." www.normaltools.com "Open a tool, do the thing, leave. No account, no download, and nothing between you and the answer." #tools #online [via newsletter von "designer in action"]

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Normal Tools — Useful online tools, no nonsense

Small, useful online tools that work directly in your browser.

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A beautiful, angry, and important post by @anildash about how a whole generation has been brainwashed into censoring themselves. I like the actionable recommendations at the end, though I’m missing “take a big stick, and beat the billionaires to death with it.”

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@uglyreykjavik.bsky.social you’ve found a͍n̏ͪ̀͠ a̙ͯ̒ǹ͎̻o͉͚͂̋̔m̛͔̄ā̷̧͓̠̘̯l̊̎̈́́̂͝yͣ̑͂̕

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@timrichards In Sweden, pharmacies used to be a government monopoly, until some time in the 80s or 90s. (Sale of full-strength beer, wine and spirits is still a government monopoly.)

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#looptober, day 5: some arpeggiated chords, a lead and some distressed percussion

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 05/10/2026

Hihi. I am hearing that there was an anti-migration rally in Vilnius. A reporter wanted to speak with the participants wearing balaclavas but it turned out they can't speak Lithuanian. Just Russian. My level of being surprised: 0/10.

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