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I can confirm that it is :)
Though I never had one (they are rare in France), it became sort of a pop culture icon. For me it was through the work of Rebecca Sugar on Adventure Time. I always liked to play silly made up songs, so I made a silly instrument to go along with it!
If you want to listen to a true musician using it, I recommand Hijaq's work on YouTube[1]. He uses many other pocket instruments if that is an interest of yours!
I designed a pocket music instrument. I partnered with a company in China called Seeedstudio, they do the manufacturing, shipping, customer handling, etc. and I receive royalties on each sale. I varies from month to month, but above the 500$/month on 2025 :)
I love to be able to focus on the design and not the practicalities of selling a hardware product!
Counterpoint: Dice is terrible. Sure it makes sense for bigger artist that will sold out, but for most it is not necessary and it forces you :
- To have a smartphone
- To give out your phone number
- To create an account
The worst? You can't even resale the ticket if the event is not sold out! Usually if I'm unable to attend a concert, I'll put my ticket up for sale for half the price, but with Dice, you just wasted money on empty seats. Great.
If the service you are proxying offers authentication based on token within cookies, does that mean that you will have access to tokens hosted on the client side? Should you disclose a potential security risk to them (same for credentials interception)?
Kind of reminded me of the traditional wisdom that you should select chains and sprocket to avoid patterned wear. I don't know if there is an effect (especially with bikes and their low torque),but I always think about it when changing my chain. I suppose this only applies to single sprocket bike.
A recent ruling (namely the Schrems II one) makes it very complicated to host and process data in countries that we used to consider as having "equivalent" privacy protection. The most prominent of course is the USA, but the UK could be on the line at some point.
For now it has an "adequacy decision"[1] allowing such transfer, but future changes could threaten that, and activist such as Max Schrems would happily (and rightfully) attack this decision if it happened.
Schrems II might be a blessing in disguise for the European hosting/Saas/Cloud industry, we'll see !
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/pt/ip_21_...
It's usually not a good idea to tune a guitar as you described. Basically a guitar has to use "temperate tuning" because it has frets, so you can't be absolutely in tune everywhere, but you can minimize the error on each position. So if you tune string by string relying on fretting the last string, you will "carry" the error, and the resulting tuning will be wrong. It is good for a first pass, but you then want to check that some specific positions do sound good. Depending on what you are playing (for example if you rely more on some open chord position), you might even want to tune the open string to make those position sound especially good (at the expense of some less common one). That is commonly referred to as "sweetened tuning".
EDIT: I might have confused things indeed. If you fret, you should not carry the error. Usually, an practical way to tune two string is to play harmonics and listen to the "beats" between them. That will carry the error. Fretting should work, but in practice does not really because that suppose that your intonation is perfect (ie the fret are perfectly placed), which they usually are not, especially on acoustics with no easy way to set it up.
As a sibling comment said, the notion is "Personal Data".
It is very wide and email address definitely fall within it. Also note IP is personal data, and an identifier like a UUID of the IDFA is personal data. The key point is that it must be related to an identified *or identifiable* data subject, ie even if that information is not enough to identify the person, the fact that it can contribute to it makes it personal data.
For anyone wondering if Manna was related to the Mana found in a lot of fantasy game (most notably Magic! The Gathering), it is not, I just looked it up.
Mana is a Melanesian word for some sort of spiritual life force!
I'd say in that case, the regulation was resilient enough to bring the case to fruition (although this is an argument that facebook will use to defend itself).
Hopefully this will motivate the DPC to be a little more active in the future (nobody likes to be wrong, especially wrong in public).
Some DPA are unwilling to act, the best thing to make them is to file complaint or support organisations that do (see the comment on NOYB). They are bound by laws to act, let's make them !
One important thing to note is that the DPC (Irish DPA) did not want to fine WhatsApp and only did so after being forced by other DPAs through the arbitration process.
You can consult the EDPB decision on that matter here: https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/binding-...
EDIT: Max Schrems' reaction (NOYB):
"We welcome the first decision by the Irish regulator. However, the DPC gets about ten thousand complaints per year since 2018 and this is the first major fine. The DPC also proposed an initial € 50 million fine and was forced by the other European data protection authorities to move towards € 225 million, which is still only 0.08% of the turnover of the Facebook Group. The GDPR foresees fines of up to 4% of the turnover. This shows how the DPC is still extremely dysfunctional."
source: https://noyb.eu/en/statement-dpc-issues-eu-225-million-fine-...
I learned about that in the Paul Franklin online course (expensive, but worth the money if you are unable to find a personnal teacher, yay europe). I don't have absolute pitch (and a crappy relative one), but this "standardisation" based on the root note really helps build a knowledge of how chord changes "feel". I suspect this is what builds this ability to easily find the right notes when improvising. Weel anyway, always happy to find people keeping the steel alive !
Same experience here with a pedal steel. That's why I am now pushing my bandmates to adopt the Nashville Notation System which only deals in relative position of chords in the scale[1].
It's a demanding (through somehow rewarding I guess) job, but I like the fact that this is done by those guys and not a faceless algorithm.
You can at least talk to them while they "rectify" your drawings. And an AI would not have the same artistic merit :) !
I read that it was because Europeans lived in wider settlement so they were more exposed to serious pathogens and had the opportunity to develop immunity. When they met society that lived in scarce group, they exposed them too quickly, which resulted in mass deaths.
The other way around is more plausible to me: the way we reconstructed dinosaurs was influenced by the corpus of representations we developed with dragons.
That's why we use the term "Climate Change". A freak heat wave and a freak blizzard both show that climate is changing, and not for the best.
Two sides of the same coin, we're fucking up our climate.
Same anecdotal experience here. Average looking man, took the time to fill a profile, maybe one right swipe a day, 50% match, two real-life meeting and one turned into a relationship. It's not always the warzone some people make it look to be, at least in my country (Europe) and for my age (early 30s).
Yes! An incredible "hippie player" (the derogatory term used by classical steelers for players that took the pedal steel outside of the classic country style). He really has a very unusual style..
He also was the first steel player of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, before leaving his seat to Buddy Cage, which is my favorite pedal steel player :)
I was a bit confused at first since in French, the word "Draisienne" is used for the dandy horse itself. But apparently Draisine is also in use in French (first time I heard about it, native speaker). You learn new things everyday !
I might be missing something, but wasn't it part of the plan? Of course the goal was to offload the actual interpretation of the FLoC id to third-parties, as FLoC id themselves do not have any semantic signification.
Not saying this is ok, but this was the plan from the beginning, being able to offload responsability far from Google. This article[1] actually shows what it's like for an advertiser.
[1] https://cafemedia.com/early-status-of-the-floc-origin-trials...
EDIT: Did not finished the article before posting, they actually talk about cafemedia's work.
I think the dumbest way I could have hurt myself was trying to build a DIY laser cutter with a 2W IR laser. The catch is that you don't know wether it's on or not. As they say in the laser community "Don't look into the laser with your remaining eye".
The most consistently hurting project was a plotter that printed images with milk (don't ask why), it used a heating part to reveal the drawing. When a paper jam creates a fire you sure want to be near during a print job ! Plus burning my fingers a few times (lost some parts of my fingerprint on one of my thumbs).
Got a good deal through a webshop named UhrInstinct. Was a little worried to not shop in a physical shop, but my experience was great, offical Junghans card and all. Not an endorsement, just my n=1 experience !
* A Junghans Max Bill watch : its a bit noisy, but everytime I look at it it makes me happy. That sweeping hand, the dome crystal, the thin case.. Very solid (saphir version) as well, bumped it a few time, and nothing.
* A WBS pedal steel, got into it recently, and it's a beautiful instrument. A bit finicky to tune, but that might be my novice ears and not the instrument itself. Wolfgang seems very nice. Lead time is around 8 months.
* A Lewis Leather Jacket. Very heavy (horsehide), but that is some incredible craftmanship. Every detail is thought of, it's made in England, just be ready to wait a bit for them to make it.
Disposable income from the pandemic, a bit of consumerism ! I also Patreon the Aquarium Drunkard music blog, at least once a month they make me discover an incredible contemporary artist.
Yep, it's fixed. Congrats on the launch!
Looks great, but little bug on my system (Firefox 87 for Android 11), scroll does not work.. But on my computer, it sure looks good, will recommend to my less tech-savy friends!
I think faster is not the answer, as Ivan Illich theorised it, speed is part of the issue.
"Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few."
If you like that, you can look up other music video shot by Michel Gondry. He has an incredible creativity and DIY ethos that really sets him appart.
The film "Be Kind, Rewind" is kind of a "mise en abîme" in that regards, shot by Gondry and featuring characters that show the same kind of cinematic craftiness.
What I think is missing from the demo is that we can only see "lateral" movement, which is the reason why many people here think this looks like a lenticular display. If that is a real hologram you should be able to change your viewpoint vertically as well right ?
Super cool anyway !
As a new-ish pedal steel player, I can offer some ergonomic advices. This isn't a very popular instrument, so this may need an introduction: pedal steel is kind of like a guitar with a system of knee lever and foot pedals to modify string tension on the fly. The most used pedals are the leftmost two (in classic country), and you need to be able to select each one independently or together pretty fast.
My main takeaway:
* You usually don't use your ankle that way, so it will seems impossible at first, but you will very fast get used to "ankle rolling" which will make you able to select each pedal without moving your foot sideways
* The height of the pedal is crucial. On steel, you will have a threaded rod to set the height. You usually want (if you are using your left foot) the leftmost pedal to be around 10mm higher and with a shorter course (for both pedal to be at the same height when depressed).
* Footwear impacts your feeling, especially heel height. So if you plan to use such a device with a specific shoe, train with that specific shoe.
If you want to build such a pedal (especially a "chorded" version), I think taking cues from pedal steel hardware would be a good idea, as you need to be able to play for hours without straining your legs.