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Motion designer/animator, CompSci and Web Dev enthusiast, music lover, guitar player, nerd.

#MastoAdmin @ https://mograph.social

#music #mograph #art #animation #IndieWeb #privacy #WebDev #reading #books #literature #philosophy #CompSci #emacs #pkm #jazz #electronic #keyboard #linux #foss #selfhosting #fedi22

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Joined April 17, 2019

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https://mauromotion.com

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https://github.com/mauromotion

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· 6mo ago

In a quick turn of events I've switched from qtile to KDE. Basically the first time ever I'm stable on Wayland (since I can load ICC profiles for my monitors).

I gotta say KDE is just phenomenal, super customisable. I'm not using any TWM plugins, but I've recreated my virtual desktops setups and all my keybindings, so it feels like home and it's a polished and complete desktop system, for a change.

I love it!

#linux #kde #wayland

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· 2mo ago

I don't want to become one of those old grumpy #Thunderbird users from back then that basically halted the UI/UX evolution of the application for decades.

But fucking hell, I've never seen more incompetent UI/UX choices made in any other application than Thunderbird recently.
Literally every time they touch something they break it.

Now every single message has an extra visual indicator that refers to the "account". I have a "green" account and now all my mails look unread.

Thanks for nothing?

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· 2mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft@mastodon.social If you wonder about this you're likely missing the whole point of capitalism: always find new ways to increase your gains and capital at all costs, with exploitative ways whenever possible. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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· 3mo ago

Note to self: never read ever again any introduction to any book of fiction.

The genius that wrote the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories” literally spoiled me the ending of Anna Karenina. I’m not sure I was gonna read Anna Karenina, but now I don’t think I will.

Thanks for nothing.

#books #reading #bookstodon

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· 9mo ago

Replying to

@ThisGuyIsAHero @Blender why the AI slop image though?

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· 3mo ago

I finally read The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

What a ride.

My first thoughts here:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5ab8de8c-4de7-4547-a291-5ed7018c2f02

#reading #books #bookstodon

app.thestorygraph.com

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· 5mo ago

To truly experience Boards of Canada's music one has to listen to it and let it simmer in the back of their mind. It's like implanting false memories into your brain and then forgetting them.

The false memories will resurface at the oddest moments during your day or night, stimulating some sort of craving for something vague and unnameable, which in the end can only be satisfied by re-listening to BoC's music.

It's like a shared false childhood /adolescence.

#music #boc #electronic #ambient

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· 5mo ago

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After listening for the last 24 hours to this album of haunted gospels only, I realised something striking: War Pigs (Black Sabbath) initial vocal line melody is basically a "preacher cadence", like a gospel. "Generals gathered in their masseeees! (up) Just like witches at black masseeeeees...(down)" It goes up and down, following a narration, like in a gospel! It makes suddenly a lot of sense...what is a Black Sabbath if not a kind of liturgy, anyway? #music #religion #gospel #metal

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· 5mo ago

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@retech@corteximplant.com I agree. In fact I've moved from ebooks to physical books whenever is possible to me. Although the space is an issue. But I'm also in the habit of scribbling in my books, jumping around, using sticky bookmarks...there's no way the experience is the same digitally. There's something different in the way my brain interacts with the text when it's physical. Of course there are many cases for which ebooks are better (travelling, late night reading, etc.).

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· 5mo ago

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"Oh Lord Yeah!!!" Ozzy knew what he was doing. He also said he was raised Christian and used to go to Sunday school. So the gospel didn't come just from the blues to him, but directly from the church. RIP Prince of Darkness.

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· 5mo ago

I gave a shot at LibraryThing just to see if it would be more useful to me than StoryGraph and I literally had to delete my account for how much awful that website is.

It's not 2005 anymore, and sometimes that's a good thing!

Also I now appreciate StoryGraph so much more, in the end I can see how much thought went into developing it.

#reading #books

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· 5mo ago

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That's just not the point of reading at all, I think. I'd rather do deep reading and jump around to my own interests, not finishing books, only read certain part of certain books. Also there are some books that are just not meant to be read from start to finish, like books of aphorisms, or more "reference" books like history books. Everybody does whatever they want obviously, but I've just grew tired of the sort of mental model that these apps are built around, I don't find it useful. 2/2

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· 5mo ago

The obsession with the King and the royal family on the BBC in the UK is akin, in my experience, to the obsession with the Pope and the catholic church in Italy on the national channels (RAI). With the difference that in Italy for some reason they’re obsessed with the English royal family too. Don’t ask me why.

I despise both deeply.

This gives you a perfect idea of how the “news” outlets are shaped around these parts and their relationship to power and ideology.

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· 5mo ago

Beware: Boosting your own toots counts as smelling your own farts. In public.

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· 5mo ago

Boards of Canada new release hype. I get it, I get it.

Inferno seems like an appropriate title given the times we’re in.

Geogaddi is pretty cool, I could listen to it on repeat (maybe I’m even doing it now).

The Campfire Headphase is my second favourite so far, lots of great sounds and compositions.

Tomorrow’s harvest, I’m working on it.

I guess my biggest struggle is with MHTRTC. I just don’t get it man, it’s fucking creepy as hell and sounds like mush.

#boc #music #electronic #ambient

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· 5mo ago

I'm literally obsessesed with this album.

// decca by ixi

https://iximusix.bandcamp.com/album/decca

#music #electronic #ambient #indiepop #indie #bandcamp #NowPlaying

iximusix.bandcamp.com

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· 6mo ago

The new single from the upcoming new album of Mono is absolutely stunning!

// Snowdrop - Mono

https://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/album/snowdrop

#music #NowPlaying #japan #rock #postRock #instrumental #bandcamp

Snowdrop, by MONO

Snowdrop, by MONO

8 track album

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@hyde@lazybear.social I ran away months ago from it. I hate it.

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· 5mo ago

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@ooRay_creation@mograph.social they haunted my brain!

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· 5mo ago

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@michael with that bio I need to request to follow you lol

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· 5mo ago

The obvious reason why people rate "The Campfire Headspace" as their least favourite BoC album is because they like to suffer. Bitterness and darkness have more appeal. They sell more.

I mean, TCH is great, possibly my favourite, just not dark at all, but quite shiny and happy, radiant. And what's wrong about it?

Nothing wrong to me.

Btw, I finally got into Boards of Canada, I can admit it now publicly. And to myself.

#BoC #music #electronic #ambient

mograph.social

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kevin after re-listening to it today, my biggest put off are the beats, so I might agree with you. I'm not much into trip-hop in general, but for example I much prefer the rhythmic work of Geogaddi, I actually quite like it. I'm a huge Aphex Twin fan myself! And I love Autechre as well. But I'm getting to like BoC I think, they're very peculiar in a way that at a first listen it's hard to realise. At least for me.

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· 5mo ago

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@ooRay_creation man I love Klaus Schulze! I’m starting to think I just have an issue with trip hop…I’ve never jammed with that or hip hop at all

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· 6mo ago

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@ammdias it just works!

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· 6mo ago

Replying to

@lcruggeri Gnome is a nightmare of UI/UX. I find it literally unusable.

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· 6mo ago

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@ephemeral congrats!!

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· 25mo ago

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@compfu well actually I've got more insights: it has to do with our current host because it uses its own cdn and exposes our media file via a domain that we don't own. It won't be the case with other providers. One more reason to migrate, I'd say.

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· 18mo ago

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@ghalldev@mastodon.social @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net yep, another browser uninstalled. I was barely using it anyway because it's full of stuff that I don't need and still does a poor job at some of the basic tasks. Also, it's the slowest browser I tried in a long while. Now partnered with techno fascists sympathizers. And it's still fucking chromium with a proprietary UI on top. Good job Vivaldi.

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· 18mo ago

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@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Thanks, but no thanks.

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· 25mo ago

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@compfu no worries! Any questions please ask! This server is as much mine as it is yours, in my view. I'm just the caretaker :)

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· 25mo ago

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@kotlasu actually it has to do with our current host because it exposes the media file via their cdn, which is an address the we (obviously) don't own. It won't be the case with other providers!

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· 25mo ago

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@compfu but from what I understand we're not losing the media files, they will be migrated as well. Other servers will have broken links but we will still have access to our own media files. But yeah if you *really* care about it I'd suggest a backup.

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· 6mo ago

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@gamingonlinux finally! I had to use my system without picom because of a nasty bug on nvidia drivers 590 for months.

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· 5mo ago

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@lerxst I'm trying hard! Also it's not that I don't like them, I just can't get into them completely in a way. Four Tet depends, in general I'd say too "pop" for my taste but then I've bought one of his more ambient albums and I love it. Amon Tobin I know nothing about...

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· 6mo ago

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It's literally IDM with jazz and classical instruments samples...

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· 5mo ago

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@kevin I don’t know, they’re after that analogue tape aesthetic and I get it, but in this first album that’s make me reach too much with my ears to the music, so to speak, it feels overly processed to me. And it’s fucking creepy with all those kids voices samples.

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· 5mo ago

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it's too complicated! aaarrrgghh

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· 2mo ago

After craving some more Moby Dick I ended up reading a 2025 novel by E. Rutherford called "North Sun".

Very well written and definitely lots of connections to Melville's work (honestly if I hadn't read Moby Dick so recently I wouldn't get a lot North Sun's whaling lore), but in the end it didn't deliver to me.

Longer review here: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/532caed4-43a7-4f7c-86a4-90d20dea0371

#reading #books #bookstodon #literature

app.thestorygraph.com

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· 5mo ago

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@hyde@lazybear.social possibly the very best solution

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· 25mo ago

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@compfu there's the export function in the settings, that should include your media files as well.

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· 5mo ago

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@compfu well after geogaddi there was only another album in 2013, but a couple of days ago they dropped a mystery track and apparently a new album is near, and that’s why I got to listen to them again

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· 5mo ago

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@kevin well I’ve been a bit imprecise. I guess mushy is not the way it sounds but more the way my mind remembers the album and pictures it.

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· 25mo ago

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@compfu this is great! Not quite sure how it is possible, but cool! I might ask for science...

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· 25mo ago

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@compfu ah yeah I just realised: our data on their servers is scheduled for deletion, so it’s still there for a bit…

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· 5mo ago

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Or rather, they also feel very specific, as if it's music made by a bunch of nerds that grew up together during a particular time in a particular place that doesn't belong to me at all.

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