Len
@lendot.bsky.social
he/him GenX dude living in Pittsburgh. Bisexual, bipolar, autistic, a maker-type person
Check out my collective activism info feed project: @actioninfo.bsky.social
Check out my collective activism info feed project: @actioninfo.bsky.social
If you like really fascinating documentaries about mundane topics, this one's for you. Just be sure to stick around until the very end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0y...
No one knows who made this anti-piracy ad (until now)
YouTube video by Nico Delage
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November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you like really fascinating documentaries about mundane topics, this one's for you. Just be sure to stick around until the very end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0y...
Why does every political fundraising text have to start with "I know what it's like. I had to work hard for years to support my aunt as she battled with butt cancer. That's why I'm running for congress. We must do something about butt cancer and like, i dunno, other things too. Will you help?"
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Why does every political fundraising text have to start with "I know what it's like. I had to work hard for years to support my aunt as she battled with butt cancer. That's why I'm running for congress. We must do something about butt cancer and like, i dunno, other things too. Will you help?"
Free music plugin sites are so sketchy.
Almost as sketchy as the sites for companies that make and sell plugins. One of those just tried to pull multiple cookie acceptance dark patterns on me.
Almost as sketchy as the sites for companies that make and sell plugins. One of those just tried to pull multiple cookie acceptance dark patterns on me.
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Free music plugin sites are so sketchy.
Almost as sketchy as the sites for companies that make and sell plugins. One of those just tried to pull multiple cookie acceptance dark patterns on me.
Almost as sketchy as the sites for companies that make and sell plugins. One of those just tried to pull multiple cookie acceptance dark patterns on me.
Reposted by Len
We've integrated with Surveillance Watch, an interactive database that documents surveillance and spyware entities.
When searching for an entity that appears on their list, we'll display a banner on its domain to alert you that it's a known surveillance tech provider.
When searching for an entity that appears on their list, we'll display a banner on its domain to alert you that it's a known surveillance tech provider.
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We've integrated with Surveillance Watch, an interactive database that documents surveillance and spyware entities.
When searching for an entity that appears on their list, we'll display a banner on its domain to alert you that it's a known surveillance tech provider.
When searching for an entity that appears on their list, we'll display a banner on its domain to alert you that it's a known surveillance tech provider.
Back when I used AudioMulch for the kinds of stuff I'm working on now, it had a really simple additive oscillator module called 10harmonics (exhibit A). I need that and only that functionality for something today, but everything providing it looks like exhibit B. I JUST NEED SOME SINE WAVES DAMMIT.
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Back when I used AudioMulch for the kinds of stuff I'm working on now, it had a really simple additive oscillator module called 10harmonics (exhibit A). I need that and only that functionality for something today, but everything providing it looks like exhibit B. I JUST NEED SOME SINE WAVES DAMMIT.
I wonder if other musicians ever get themselves so mired in a rube goldberg machine of a verse that they have to start a todo list just to keep track of everything that still has to be composed/changed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wonder if other musicians ever get themselves so mired in a rube goldberg machine of a verse that they have to start a todo list just to keep track of everything that still has to be composed/changed.
Apparently this is how I look when Gremlin is simultaneously clawing into my head and licking it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Apparently this is how I look when Gremlin is simultaneously clawing into my head and licking it.
Part 3 is up now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XJA...
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Part 3 is up now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XJA...
One of the things I love about The Future: finding and downloading half a gig worth of samples of a Barbie toy piano someone found by the side of the road.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One of the things I love about The Future: finding and downloading half a gig worth of samples of a Barbie toy piano someone found by the side of the road.
Really good talk on digital privacy. It's mostly accessible to anyone, but in the interest of time there's a lot of brevity in some places, but he at least provides pointers so you can pick up the ball. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0If...
How to Hide in Plain Sight: Next-Level Digital Privacy | Ivan Banov at BSidesCache 2025
YouTube video by BSidesSLC
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November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Really good talk on digital privacy. It's mostly accessible to anyone, but in the interest of time there's a lot of brevity in some places, but he at least provides pointers so you can pick up the ball. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0If...
Just recently I was thinking how much the rust community's complacency reminds me of the "macs can't get viruses" folks back in the day. And yeah, those chickens have really come home to roost (rüst?) this past week, haven't they?
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just recently I was thinking how much the rust community's complacency reminds me of the "macs can't get viruses" folks back in the day. And yeah, those chickens have really come home to roost (rüst?) this past week, haven't they?
Holy shit. This is the software (or very very very very close to the software) I've been wanting for projects for literally more than a quarter century. I FINALLY FOUND IT. And totally by accident. It's been around since 2006; I wish I had known that!
Last night's academic music software didn't quite pan out, but I'm about to fall down a rabbit hole with this other one...
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Holy shit. This is the software (or very very very very close to the software) I've been wanting for projects for literally more than a quarter century. I FINALLY FOUND IT. And totally by accident. It's been around since 2006; I wish I had known that!
Last night's academic music software didn't quite pan out, but I'm about to fall down a rabbit hole with this other one...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Last night's academic music software didn't quite pan out, but I'm about to fall down a rabbit hole with this other one...
I can't sleep so here's another tech support story involving my dad. Circa 2005 I flew out to wire up my parents' business to upgrade them from dialup to ethernet, router, etc.
In between running cable and all, my dad was like, "hey, can you look at the computer in my office? It's really slow." 1/
In between running cable and all, my dad was like, "hey, can you look at the computer in my office? It's really slow." 1/
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I can't sleep so here's another tech support story involving my dad. Circa 2005 I flew out to wire up my parents' business to upgrade them from dialup to ethernet, router, etc.
In between running cable and all, my dad was like, "hey, can you look at the computer in my office? It's really slow." 1/
In between running cable and all, my dad was like, "hey, can you look at the computer in my office? It's really slow." 1/
OMG this perfectly captures what I've been thinking and predicting about music for 30 years, a lot of what I've been listening to and experimenting with, why I got back into music, where my musical focus and direction is, and why I think so many "music these days" critiques are fundamentally flawed.
The Future of Music Is Noise
YouTube video by Venus Theory
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November 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
OMG this perfectly captures what I've been thinking and predicting about music for 30 years, a lot of what I've been listening to and experimenting with, why I got back into music, where my musical focus and direction is, and why I think so many "music these days" critiques are fundamentally flawed.
New water enhancer organizer design finished printing. Here's the old one and new one side by side. I'm slowly getting better at bringing some vague sense of aesthetics into my designs.
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
New water enhancer organizer design finished printing. Here's the old one and new one side by side. I'm slowly getting better at bringing some vague sense of aesthetics into my designs.
It's fascinating how many of my music projects over the years hit an "I need to download experimental software from some university in order to proceed" point.
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's fascinating how many of my music projects over the years hit an "I need to download experimental software from some university in order to proceed" point.
So many of my ideas across so many of my hobbies require me to invest significant time just to ascertain whether the idea is even viable in the first place.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
So many of my ideas across so many of my hobbies require me to invest significant time just to ascertain whether the idea is even viable in the first place.
I've decided to change out the effects I'm going for completely and go more analog/physical world, e.g. running vocals through a speaker at one end of a shop vac hose with a mic at the other. I blended multiple things like that to get really eerie/haunting effects on a project way back.
Tfw you learn that reason you can't find plugins for the sort of audio mangling you want for a track is those sounds are considered 20 years dated.
To be fair, I don't want to employ the same aesthetic as back in the day, but still...
I'm also really disappoint with modern audio mangling options.
To be fair, I don't want to employ the same aesthetic as back in the day, but still...
I'm also really disappoint with modern audio mangling options.
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I've decided to change out the effects I'm going for completely and go more analog/physical world, e.g. running vocals through a speaker at one end of a shop vac hose with a mic at the other. I blended multiple things like that to get really eerie/haunting effects on a project way back.
Tfw you learn that reason you can't find plugins for the sort of audio mangling you want for a track is those sounds are considered 20 years dated.
To be fair, I don't want to employ the same aesthetic as back in the day, but still...
I'm also really disappoint with modern audio mangling options.
To be fair, I don't want to employ the same aesthetic as back in the day, but still...
I'm also really disappoint with modern audio mangling options.
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Tfw you learn that reason you can't find plugins for the sort of audio mangling you want for a track is those sounds are considered 20 years dated.
To be fair, I don't want to employ the same aesthetic as back in the day, but still...
I'm also really disappoint with modern audio mangling options.
To be fair, I don't want to employ the same aesthetic as back in the day, but still...
I'm also really disappoint with modern audio mangling options.
I was just thinking about the tech support calls I'd get from my dad back in the day and how I'm so glad I don't get those anymore. This is literally how one of them went
Voicemail: Len. Call me as soon as you get this. My computer keeps crashing
...
Me: Hey, so you're having a computer problem?
1/
Voicemail: Len. Call me as soon as you get this. My computer keeps crashing
...
Me: Hey, so you're having a computer problem?
1/
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I was just thinking about the tech support calls I'd get from my dad back in the day and how I'm so glad I don't get those anymore. This is literally how one of them went
Voicemail: Len. Call me as soon as you get this. My computer keeps crashing
...
Me: Hey, so you're having a computer problem?
1/
Voicemail: Len. Call me as soon as you get this. My computer keeps crashing
...
Me: Hey, so you're having a computer problem?
1/
I was watching a video earlier about how the enshittification of streaming services has hilariously made piracy popular again and now I kinda want to start torrenting All The Movies And TV just to be a chaos gremlin*.
*I will still pay for music and other media I can actually own
*I will still pay for music and other media I can actually own
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I was watching a video earlier about how the enshittification of streaming services has hilariously made piracy popular again and now I kinda want to start torrenting All The Movies And TV just to be a chaos gremlin*.
*I will still pay for music and other media I can actually own
*I will still pay for music and other media I can actually own
Something something My Alchemical Romance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaA...
The Most Depressing Song You’ve Never Heard (From 400 Years Ago)
YouTube video by Brandon Acker
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Something something My Alchemical Romance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaA...
I wanted to go hog wild with the new asymmetric fillet feature in the latest Fusion 360 update, so I redid the water enhancer holder I made earlier in the year. I've been wanting to make it less blocky.
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I wanted to go hog wild with the new asymmetric fillet feature in the latest Fusion 360 update, so I redid the water enhancer holder I made earlier in the year. I've been wanting to make it less blocky.
Listening to Joe's Garage, as it often does, got me wondering what the OG Telefunken U47s are going for these days. I actually looked it up this time and the answer appears to be around $10k.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Listening to Joe's Garage, as it often does, got me wondering what the OG Telefunken U47s are going for these days. I actually looked it up this time and the answer appears to be around $10k.