NOT_MDK

My mind has been returning to this video all weekend

If someone without traditional coding skills can produce a typical plugin in a few weeks, cool, now take a few more weeks and make it do the things that are always left out which ends up excluding people from using them.

I'm an audio developer. Here's my take on AI / VibeCoding.

It's here, we can't stop it, so show that it can be used for positive outcomes.

Make every plugin accessible. Screen readers. High Contrast. Descriptive Text. Alternative Device Support.

Make Inclusivity A Feature.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Absolutely the same, as soon as I could afford to buy the software I use, I did.

55.1% of people use pirated audio software, surprising no one, but it's interesting to have the data on it.
Take the survey here, it includes lots of questions about how you make sounds, learn about sounds & connect to fellow sound & music makers:
forms.gle/u2Wr9pezJPC2...

NOICE. We're planning a Go4Fresh trip very soon

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

very smart criteria

I'm proud of you Richie.

I really shouldn't be so proud of this (awful) Germenglish dad joke...

Lately the technologies I'm most impressed by are ones that have been around for decades miraculously relatively unchanged — stuff like MIDI, Lego pieces, the headphone jack

Bom Shanka Machines Blog Time for VST2 to get its pipe and slippers?

I go into the reasons why VST2 was dropped late last year. And how I brought it back for one last hurrah...

Categorical Product, by NOT_MDK 3 track album

notmdk.bandcamp.com/album/catego...

part of the reason being that it *should* be safer to represent something using a type that fits the range of expected values, i.e. unsigned integers when you only want zero and above.
so its fucking stupid that decrementing from zero would give you anything but zero.

I think all types of ints should be saturated by default and only allow overflow / wraparound if you explicitly ask for it.
Is there any language that does this?
probably rust at a guess.

100% They should be banned. It's just an arms race.

Courtesy of @darrencullen.bsky.social - you should follow him

The Chemical Brothels

(check the original thread for another quality example)

Tangerine Dread

Just perfect

This piece of music is such a core piece of my being. Incredible

Can't we just skip to the part where they retreat to a bunker and swallow cyanide?

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

Festive Christmas, by Cassetteboy track by Cassetteboy

If you haven't heard our mix of all the Christmas songs from ages ago, now's the time. We've moved it to Spymania's page - it's free to listen or download, but if you choose to pay 100% of the profits go to Fareshare, a charity helping those in food poverty.

spymania.bandcamp.com/track/festiv...

Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland

They Will Know, by NO_NAME/NO_SLOGAN track by NO_NAME/NO_SLOGAN

no-name-no-slogan.bandcamp.com/track/they-w...

A post from Eno Barony: “Life is too short to commit suicide BE PATIENT YOU WILL DIE #Okay.” There are two pictures: a beautiful black woman smiling and the same woman smiling with her eyes closed

World heritage post imo