magnaton

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by magnaton 7mo ago
Scientology (a family-destroying cult that brutally harassed the IRS into granting it recognition as a religion) is the perfect example, funneling huge sums into buying up real estate that then sits empty and generates no tax revenue. The
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by magnaton 11mo ago
Same experience here and upvoted accordingly. I stopped using/recommending VLC all the way back in 2012 due to Mr. Kempf's appallingly dismissive/aggressive attitude to carefully-expressed constructive feedback from multiple
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by magnaton 4y ago
I tune organs professionally, and in the US most instruments are tuned to equal temperament. For the performance of pieces originally composed on unequal-tempered instruments, though, something is lost on equal-tempered organs: the movemen
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by magnaton 5y ago
LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox that removes telemetry, Pocket, and other unwanted stuff. You can use a copy of your existing Firefox profile, but be sure to go through LibreWolf's settings as its defaults err on the side of privacy and
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by magnaton 5y ago
Try LibreWolf -- it's Firefox with the nasty stuff stripped out. You can use your existing Firefox profile, but be sure to go through LibreWolf's settings as some of the defauts may be different than what you already have set up (
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by magnaton 5y ago
LibreWolf is also available as an AppImage. After reading this news today, I downloaded that AppImage, started it up and closed it down (just to create a profile folder), and replaced the default contents of the new LibreWolf profile folder
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by magnaton 5y ago
Yes indeed. In extreme cases, it can give the impression of a xylophone! To control chiff, we use a pointy double-sided knife called a "nicking tool" to create a series of evenly-spaced nicks across the entire width of the flue (w
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by magnaton 5y ago
Yes, electronic organs often have rectangular envelopes. Pipe speech has an envelope that is far more complex than one might expect; indeed, one of the goals of voicing is to impart an envelope that allows the pipe to be "articulate&qu
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by magnaton 5y ago
This is super-cool, and the multi-part recordings really show off what's possible with this creation. As someone who works on pipe organs (including their voicing and tonal finishing) for a living, I do want to comment on his statement
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Ubiquiti back-door risk: EULA allows silent updates without notice or consent(community.ui.com)
2 points by magnaton 6y ago|0 comments