synthmage @synthmage.online · 27/09/2026I listened to it again to make sure I wasn't misremembering, but nope. If you're trying to learn audio engineering and need a good lesson in how not to use a compressor or limiter, "Choosin' Texas" is one of the worst, most amateur examples I've ever heard. Hashtag gain staging! 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 27/09/2026I'm playing Golden Sun for the first time. Just finished the first lighthouse. I'll keep going because I like the gameplay and I know it's one of the most beloved RPGs on the GBA, but I think I might be too stupid for this game. 020
synthmage @synthmage.online · 27/09/2026I have heard this song. I even think the song is pretty good! Unfortunately it's performed by someone very obviously trying to affect a nonspecific Southern accent (and not pulling it off), and mixed like absolute shit so it's exhausting to listen to. 210
synthmage @synthmage.online · 26/09/2026Getting carded for NA beer at the self checkout is a uniquely embarrassing experience. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 26/09/2026Just had the Trolli Mountain Dew Zero and it does taste a lot like a weird cough syrup I had to take when I was like 4 years old and unfortunately I love it. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 25/09/2026There's a cottage industry of self-help books for Very Important Serious Business guys, and they're full of pseudo-insightful pablum just like this. The entire well of admin jobs in corporate America has been poisoned by people reinventing these little lie detector tests for the hiring process. 1110
synthmage @synthmage.online · 23/09/2026I swear I don't mean to post about AI all the time, but it makes me so mad that we're on a trajectory where all of our lives are handed over to fucking data brokers and advertising firms and we just have to sit and watch it happen. I want a world where cretins like Sam Altman live in a mud hole. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 23/09/2026Well we only have one option then. Better have the state create a subservient regulatory body that protects these companies from punishment, carves them out of racketeering laws, and restricts competitors from entering the market because of how dangerous that would be. For humanity, obviously. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 23/09/2026I'm doing the 9 games thing. It's funny how this reveals that I suddenly got about 120 hours of free time during C19. 111
synthmage @synthmage.online · 21/09/2026Theory: Rob Zombie is just a rockabilly guy who got thrown off his natural trajectory because his first band played metal. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 20/09/2026This is why the liberal "lesser evil"/"blue no matter who" conception of voting is useless. You accomplish nothing by voting a Republican out of office if their replacement is willing to compromise with Republicans. On anything ever, but especially on trans people's human rights. 120
synthmage @synthmage.online · 20/09/2026Even if you wanna get into the weeds about how many deaths were/weren't directly attributable to Mao, you're never gonna convince an online leftist to hate him for killing landlords. Doesn't matter if he threw them into an industrial shredder with his own two hands and made their kids watch. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 17/09/2026It's the right move to turn the Ed Sheeran tour into a front in the culture war. Make chuds profess their allegiance to some weird pasty white guy singing about sex in a way that makes you doubt he knows what it is. However, I will not be thinking about it anymore. Best of luck to all involved. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 16/09/2026It's not fun to be told you need medical testing to determine if you have a serious illness and then find out it'll be a few months before you can get the testing done. But unfortunately this is the only healthcare system that works, so. 120
synthmage @synthmage.online · 16/09/2026Fun knock-on effect of big physical music stores vanishing is that a new CD now costs $25 010
synthmage @synthmage.online · 16/09/2026I wish we had a way to gather statistics on how many more Fudge Rounds got sold after that "Rich Men North of Richmond" song was released, on account of people suddenly remembering Fudge Rounds. 110
synthmage @synthmage.online · 15/09/2026AI could've gone down way different. You go back 3 years and give chapgtpgtp a Bonzi Buddy avatar and sell it to IT guys as a desktop assistant that will argue with you about the most optimal ffmpeg settings. There's your trillion dollar business. There's your use case. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 14/09/2026It's objectively and indisputably good that Macklemore is using his fame and risking his livelihood to speak out in support of Palestinians, but that does not obligate you to listen to or pretend to like his music. Conscientious and thoughtful people make awful music all the time, and that's okay. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 14/09/2026I'm turning 37 next month, so I figure it's time to get into Steely Dan. Going pretty good so far. 120
synthmage @synthmage.online · 14/09/2026Exhibited incredible restraint (and brokeassedness) today when I went into the used video game store and left without buying a Mega Man Battle Network 2 cartridge for $25 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 14/09/2026It's good to know that, at least here in my little Bluesky bubble, people are *not* letting Chris Brown off the hook for any of his shit. 140
synthmage @synthmage.online · 13/09/2026Oh sure. Ban my big ugly stalking pervert glasses. Then what, huh? You gonna ban my toothbrush too? How about my toothpaste? My soap? My shampoo? My deodorant? Custody of my children? Well joke's on you. Because guess what. 010
synthmage @synthmage.online · 13/09/2026Was just remembering working at FYE/Sam Goody back in 2008 and how all the CDs were divided up by Rock/Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Country, Religious, Soundtracks, etc., and how guys would come in there and get mad that their favorite metal band was in the Rock/Pop section. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 12/09/2026Anyways, I'm vibing to this today.youtube.comColdYouTube video by Maxwell - Topic 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 12/09/2026This is so so so juicy on the heels of a bunch of rubes smugly declaring that there was simply no financial incentive for these guys to lie about the danger of their product. 110
synthmage @synthmage.online · 12/09/2026At the very least, it's gonna be fun to look back on this time 10 years from now. Remember that time a bunch of dumbasses said AI was gonna destroy the world but also nobody would ever have to do anything for themselves ever again, then the whole economy crashed? Remember bitcoins? That was funny. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 12/09/2026Lots of big publications doing it this week, but you really hate to see Playboy manufacturing consent. Nasty. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 12/09/2026One thing I admire Chat Pile for is the fact that their star keeps rising but their production values absolutely do not. The drums on their albums are gonna sound like shit forever, and I love them for that. Genuinely. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 11/09/2026Can someone let me know if Last Dinner Party is problematic for some reason before I get way too into their music? Because I just heard the opener for their latest album and goddamn that sound is targeted specifically at me. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 11/09/2026Listen. I was *there* on the day of Mister Happy's Whacky Circus Circut 500 when the clown cars full of bananas and anal lube piled up on the track and a mushroom cloud of extra slippy banana peels rained down on the town and everyone slipped and fell and died. You can't JOKE about that! 110
synthmage @synthmage.online · 10/09/2026I think the president openly trying to bribe people into voting for him should be a bigger story than it is. Obviously, it's just another drop in the ocean, but I really don't like how insane everything is all the time. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 10/09/2026I may be wrong here, but it really looks like someone used AI to add motion to the album art for Al Jarreau's 1981 classic "Breakin' Away." I keep asking myself things like: Who did this? Why did they do it? What's going on? music.apple.com/us/album/bre...music.apple.comBreakin' Away by Al Jarreau on Apple MusicAlbum · 1981 · 9 Songs 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 10/09/2026We have decades of examples of what the characters in Ocarina of Time look like. It's not like this is the first time Nintendo have ever tried to make a 3D model of Link. It looks like someone smashed his face into a taffy pulling machine for the remake! You don't have to defend that! 210
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026[white guy who treated 2dopeboyz like the bible in 2008] This is exactly like when people don't like Grok. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026I'm shutting up about the Apple ad, but it should be mentioned that it looked bad. People who spend too much time looking at generative AI lose their eye for the uncanny valley. The hypersaturated, over-softened treatment combined with the presenters' forced gesticulation was gross to look at. 010
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026Look, you may think the $2000 folding iPhone is stupid, but just wait until we start getting pictures of those expensive screens with fingernail gouges in them. Then you'll see. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026That "health age" shit is extra nasty, even for Apple. Really slimy stuff. 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026"personal context" late breaking new AI corpo-fied way to remove humanity from the concept of being an individual 000
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026My dad works at Anthropic and we get to use the secret next frontier model before everyone else and one time I told it to destroy the earth and it woulda done it but it's not allowed to yet but ummm when it comes out for real it's actually really scawwy 020
synthmage @synthmage.online · 09/09/2026If you've ever used any of the flagship models and you still buy this "end of the world" hype, I'm sorry but you are objectively, measurably more stupid than even the most annoying neo-luddites on this website. The malformed python extruder isn't an extinction event. 3202
synthmage @synthmage.online · 07/09/2026I think if we push a little harder, we can get another round of "are restaurants counterrevolutionary" and "is cooking bourgeois" discourse on here. Maybe even "is food sexist" if we try hard enough. I believe in you all. 010
synthmage @synthmage.online · 07/09/2026Theory: the video game type that is the most fun to be bad at is golf video game. 110
synthmage @synthmage.online · 06/09/2026Seeing the accounts at the top of that "influential bsky posters" list has completely changed my perspective on this place. I now understand why so many people who don't use this site think we all have severe radlib psychosis. 100
synthmage @synthmage.online · 05/09/2026Thinking about getting into the Madden series, but there are just so many games. For fans, can I start with Madden NFL 27 and play backwards, or will I miss crucial story elements? Do I have to begin back at John Madden Football (1991)? Can I skip Madden NFL 25 (2013)? Is Madden Football 64 canon? 000
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We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.
We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed.
While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:
- Creating new accounts on the AUR
- Pushing package updates
- Adopting or creating new packages
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