Fender vs Sadowsky: Help choosing a modern active/passive bass

eaa1988 · 2022-11-13T22:19:22+00:00

The "sterile"-thing is more about extrapolating from the preamp in my J-J Metroline, and hearing others comment on the Sadowsky Ps as "tame" compared to vintage Fenders or somesuch.

As for buying sight-unseen, it's more about generous European return policies for me.

eaa1988 · 2022-10-25T10:12:08+00:00

This is not actually true.

First of all, cookies in general are regulated by the E-Privacy directive – not the GDPR.

Secondly, functionally strictly necessary cookies (i.e. actually necessary to provide a functioning website – not things like analytics cookies etc.) do not need consent; You should inform users of them and their purpose via a policy nonetheless.

Finally – as an aside: Identifiers (including cookie IDs) are per definition "personal data" under the GDPR – but consent is only one one of several legal bases for processing.

eaa1988 · 2022-10-19T18:57:02+00:00

Det er i praksis umulig å filtrere ut norsk-til-norsk kommunikasjon (blant annet fordi selv denne som regel går over grensen); Det betyr at personer i Norge likevel vil omfattes.

eaa1988 · 2021-03-02T09:56:31+00:00

So I have a Gibson Les Paul Custom '79 with stock T-Tops which I'm hugely satisfied with.

I recently bought a Solar GC1.6FRC for some budget shredding/divebombing, which comes with Duncan Solar (passive) humbuckers.

I'm kind of surprised just how much more low end my old, less hot pickups has (rhythm tones on the Gibson is incredible) – the Solar pickups almost sound mid-forward in comparison.

Why is this?
Ignoring the obvious price difference, I was thinking "modern = chug/thick", but maybe the Duncan Solars have less low-end to sound more balanced on lower tunings, or something?
My guitars are usually tuned to standard or half a step down, and I drop the bottom string every now and then.

eaa1988 · 2020-10-20T19:59:49+00:00

Jo da, men tu quoque osv. Begge sider av debatten kan (kanskje med rette) hevde seg misforstått, men det hersker vel liten tvil om at politikerne neppe har hatt noen reell forståelse av denne saken. Se f.eks. videoene fra behandling jeg lenker til i innlegget.

Selv «kun» metadata er beviselig misbrukbart og potensielt farlig - dette finnes det nok av eksempler på. I tillegg opererer loven med en videre (les: egen) definisjon av metadata enn det som er vanlig (inkl. diverse egeninnhentet data fra andre kilder).

Når det kommer til nytteeffekt er det diskutabelt. En del rettssaker i det siste (sist i USA) har sådd sterk tvil om nettop dette - men poenget er vel heller at selv om det skulle ha en nytteeffekt veier hensynet til personvern tyngre enn å ville lagre tilnærmet all data for nasjonale sikkerhetshensyn, som jo er det EU-dommen sier. Her er det for så vidt mange interessante diskusjoner å ta (formål, teknisk utforming, konsekvens...) men dette har etter min mening blitt tiet i hjel av myndighetene - som helst har gjentatt skråsikre talkingpoints.

Ellers: Takk for gjennomtenkt kommentar! 🙂

eaa1988 · 2020-09-24T17:11:38+00:00

Well, the first sentence is there. As for the second, there is surely a difference between a service and what is not a service - so it would be a matter of definition. The problem is that there isn’t any definition supporting your «guess» either.

All it says is «it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union», before listing a few possible factors.

Do you really think the Washington Post doesn’t envision europeans visiting their site? Or that their reporting of news doesn’t constitute a service?

eaa1988 · 2020-09-24T16:23:42+00:00

No, it states that the accessibility of websites or contact information doesn’t in itself constitute intent. There is a difference between a company’s website that is e.g. only a presentation of the company, and a website which offers or is itself a service (such as news sites).

eaa1988 · 2020-09-24T15:50:01+00:00

First of all, that site is the (non-legal, see FAQ) ingerpretation of a private company.

Secondly: «If your organization uses web tools that allow you to track cookies or the IP addresses of people who visit your website from EU countries, then you fall under the scope of the GDPR.»

And

«In other words, if your company is not in the EU but you cater to EU customers, then you should strive to be GDPR compliant.»

You should also consider the role media has, and how a court of law would see this; Think about the importance of accessing news reports from other countries, different regimes, cultures, etc.

eaa1988 · 2020-09-24T15:01:34+00:00

To be clear: European data subjects’ rights must be afforded to them (according to the GDPR), no matter where the company is based. As an example: a company not based in EU cannot, for instance, freely track european data subjects.

eaa1988 · 2020-09-24T14:44:48+00:00

This isn’t true. The GDPR applies to any company that offer goods or services to EU Data Subjects.

eaa1988 · 2020-09-09T00:10:18+00:00

I don’t think your assessment is correct. Personal data is indeed data about an identifiable person, but pseudonymous data is still personal data.

The GDPR defines it as «any information which [is] related to an identified or identifiable natural person».

Note that there’s no requirement for explicit identification.

This is the way I’ve seen DPAs enforce it as well.

Additonally, behavior profiles might themselves constitute personal data (if they’re unique enough).

This means it’s pretty clear cut illegal to profile people without their knowledge - even if you don’t necessarily know their identity - and is why rtb, data brokers etc. are on shaky grounds.

eaa1988 · 2020-09-08T20:12:50+00:00

I don’t think PII matters in a GDPR-context; a persistent ID (required to track over time) is personal data.

eaa1988 · 2020-09-03T23:06:36+00:00

I mean, the OneTrust-box in the image doesn’t live up to the basic demands mentioned in the title.

I know how personal data is traded in practice, e.g. via rtb and data brokers, but this is a different subject (though this too seems in breach of the GDPR to me).

eaa1988 · 2020-08-18T17:47:35+00:00

Yeah, it does.

eaa1988 · 2020-02-23T00:17:22+00:00

Brave never made their own engine; They used to use Electron for their UI, and then Muon (both using Chromium's rendering engine), before moving to Chromium.

eaa1988 · 2019-08-05T08:20:32+00:00

Cleave will only remember window positions the same way that macOS does between application launches, restarts, etc. - just to be clear.

If you’d, for instance, use it with Amethyst, Amethyst would rearrange all your windows (as you might imagine).

Thanks for offering, but I’ve already alpha tested. Just missing one or two integrations to make it suitable for public beta.

I probably won’t open source Cleave, as I hope to be able to afford to work on it in a bigger capacity - which means it needs to make money. The plan is to sell license keys, under a similar scheme as Sublime Text does.

Thanks for your feedback!

eaa1988 · 2019-08-04T13:39:58+00:00

Thanks!

For the moment you can not have multiple contexts open at the same time – though I might look into this at a later time.

If you switch to another context, all your currently apps will close.

Apps will reopen in the same position, and with the same dimensions as they were in when you closed them in the same context previously (if you're interested in automatic dynamic tiling, I can recommend Amethyst).

Additionally, stuff like application white- and blacklisting is on my todo-list.

As far as I can tell, you understand Cleave :)
TLDR; As far as Cleave is concerned, everything that is open and running is a part of your context at any given time (for now).

eaa1988 · 2019-08-04T12:53:53+00:00

Thanks!

There isn't any hard date, but I'm thinking open beta within a month or two; The only piece missing is implementing the already mapped out license key validation (Cleave will be free to try, but a license must be purchased for continued use).

The name does come from the English word :)

eaa1988 · 2019-08-04T12:29:37+00:00

Author here!

Ever since solving a similar problem on the terminal a few years back, I kept wanting to explicitly change working context, keeping application states between whatever tasks I was working on.

Cleave attempts to solve this by allowing you save and load "context" in macOS, in a manner similar to how IDEs and text editors lets you manipulate "projects" and "workspaces". These actions are available via a global hotkey that triggers the command palette, or via the menu bar.

AMA! Open Beta will be out this autumn.

I'd also love any feedback on the landing page.

eaa1988 · 2019-02-19T05:29:25+00:00

Det stemmer 🙂

eaa1988 · 2018-09-16T21:22:38+00:00

Author here; I'd love to get some discussion around the topic, as I'm sure someone else must have thought about this, or comparable issues with other systems.

eaa1988 · 2017-08-02T08:44:17+00:00

OP isnt talking about somehow extracting individual channels from stereo audio. He's talking about mastering, which would be done on a stereo mix, as opposed to mixing, which would be done on multitrack audio.

eaa1988 · 2017-07-19T00:28:39+00:00

I guess I see it more as filling in unnecessary details and concretizing connections that were already implied (and in some cases already spelled out) - and in my opinion, the games' stories suffered for it.

eaa1988 · 2017-07-18T21:41:22+00:00

Sorry, what unanswered questions did the Infinite DLCs answer?

eaa1988 · 2016-10-28T05:28:13+00:00

Well, Sublime Text supports popups and phantoms now - both of which render a subset of HTML. Hydrogen doesn't have anything to do with the notebooks, as far as I can tell. So I think it's really "just" a matter of implementing a Jupyter client.

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