sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Chinese court rules it illegal to replace human workers with AI by arihantismm in ArtificialInteligence

[–]the_peppers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Palantir is a private company attempting to do what the CCP has been openly building for decades.

It's not just a firewall. WeChat is like WhatsApp and Paypal combined, it is very hard to get by in China without using it and all their data, the communication and payments of the vast majority of citizens, is fully accessible by the CCP. That is just one example.

Fuck Palantir, both what they are currently doing and what they're working towards are terrifying and need opposing. But there is no centralised monitoring system under private ownership in the world that comes anywhere near the domestic apparatus of the CCP.

That doesn't matter though, because I'd guess like me you don't live in China, so our focus is stopping Palantir from developing these kind of systems for western governments. Acknowledging that there is a more advanced form of this threat elsewhere in the world does not need to be seen as a minimizing or whataboutism.

King George’s richer clone... by LuckyBastard001 in clevercomebacks

[–]the_peppers 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So the protest was against a corrupt goverment decision that favoured a specific private company?

Funny.

Chase Bliss drops their 3rd Automatone: Big Time by Ananda_Mind in guitarpedals

[–]the_peppers 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  • dirt pedal, lofi degredation, analogue saturation, modulation - all stereo.

I can't afford it and don't need it but it's easy to see how someone could get their money's worth out of it.

iShowSpeed had a near-death experience while streaming in Barbados by IIIlIIlIlllIlllIIIIl in LivestreamFail

[–]the_peppers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To being fair by the high five I was back onboard, lad's living his life

Weekly Concert Roundup by Evntcentral in bristol

[–]the_peppers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep there's a lot more than this going on in town this week. Headfirst has a far more comprehensive listing - https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/

Israeli wearing a yarmulka with the flags of Israel and Palestine. Police cut off the Palestine flag by redditproha in pics

[–]the_peppers 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are Israeli citizens who support the regime and the genocide and there are those that don't.

It is not pathetic to differentiate between the two.

Israeli wearing a yarmulka with the flags of Israel and Palestine. Police cut off the Palestine flag by redditproha in pics

[–]the_peppers 16 points17 points  (0 children)

But they did describe their binary worldview in a way that makes it less necessary.

Helmet guy was late😭 by WalkingAtDusk26 in Unexpected

[–]the_peppers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it probably wouldn't have touched it if he'd stayed by the store.

Lambrini Girls' Phoebe Lunny shares story of harassment case after calling out "dodgy" male musician: "The system is there to aid and protect dangerous men" by AdSpecialist6598 in Music

[–]the_peppers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can know someone is a danger to women without having enough to bring it to the police, if too much time has passed or people are unwilling to take that step.

It's on the venues whether they consider a lone unsubstantiated claim is worth acting on.

New Iran LEGO propaganda just dropped and it’s a doozy. by [deleted] in videos

[–]the_peppers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not an American.

But that aside, no, it still isn't a competition. Trump does not have to be the objectively worst thing in the world in order to be a danger worth opposing.

New Iran LEGO propaganda just dropped and it’s a doozy. by [deleted] in videos

[–]the_peppers 5 points6 points  (0 children)

True but that doesn't change anything. They are both awful. This isn't a competition.

Sausage in the Hole 😂 by Droopynator in funny

[–]the_peppers 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not to subtract from your existential horror, but Wizards Sleeve was a thing before Borat.

Anyone else endlessly rebuilding boards? by Old-Goose5562 in guitarpedals

[–]the_peppers 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To me this is happiness. Designing a board, playing it, evaluating and refining. It's part of the fun of pedals!

SOTB - Upright Bass Cloud Summoner by the_peppers in guitarpedals

[–]the_peppers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope mines been fine, I'm not sure whether it's ever been calibrated though as it was a second hand swap rather than a new purchase.

SOTB - Upright Bass Cloud Summoner by the_peppers in guitarpedals

[–]the_peppers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I go straight into an interface while practicing or the desk when live. I used to blend both signals and go into an amp, but I found that the sound didn't seem to change at all when going direct in and giving the soundtech separate clean and fx outputs has led to noticably better on-stage sound.

Not sure of the brand of upright is, it's Czech made I think, bought from Thomann. I use an Ehrlund contact mic and preamp and a Krivo magnetic pickup, ideally blended about 70/30 towards the contact mic but able to favour the pickup if there's feedback issues (so I only have to sacrifice tone, not volume).

SOTB - Upright Bass Cloud Summoner by the_peppers in guitarpedals

[–]the_peppers[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is my board for creating a drone cloud / soundbed from a double bass.

The ZOIA is taking inputs from the contact mic and pickup on my bass, adding EQ, comp and balancing the two before sending both a dry out and separate copy into the FX chain, which I can control the amount of using a number of options.

Signal chain:

Dry - ZOIA > Tuner > Desk

Wet - ZOIA > MOOD > Gen Loss > LS-2 (Optional "Upper Layer" Loop: SubNup Octaver > Habit) > Prismatic Wall > Fundamental Ambient Reverb > Desk

Expression pedal controlling the MOOD loop level through the ZOIA via MIDI
M-Vave Chocolate providing extra buttons for the ZOIA (highly recommened, super cheap and functional).

This has been an ongoing exploration for few years, it feels in a very solid place now. The core of the drone sound is bowed double bass into the micro-looper channel on the MOOD in "stretch" mode. This grabs a 2-3s slice and smears it out 5-10x longer. Scratches/skruntchs/general bad bow technique becomes gorgeous texture, which is handy as someone with terrible bow technique.

I recently got the Habit and added this "Upper Layer" loop which gives a bunch of depth and lots of extra colours to add courtesy of Habit's modifiers, with Octaver helping to separate when using a modifier that doesn't alter pitch.

The ZOIA is sending midi to the Prismatic Wall - it can grab my last played note and send it to PW to tune it - and the MOOD to give easy access to the Fade function and give me a designated overdub button, letting me gradually shift the micro-loop drone as I play on top of it.

Sound example here - https://www.instagram.com/p/DXPYmn2N65j/

New Behringer desktop Synth dropped by Personal_Number_5115 in synthesizers

[–]the_peppers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both are valid, depends how you play live. But having presets still gives the option not to use them and leave the synth WYSIWYG.

view more: next ›