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Dave
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Computer musician & keyboardist, powered by extended harmonies and cups of tea. I have disabled Chat/DMs on Bluesky due to the Online Safety Act; contact details are on my website. http://iridescentaudio.co.uk Bandcamp: http://blitzlunar.bandcamp.com
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hi, I'm Dave from rural Gloucestershire, ingurland! Best known for whimsical synthesizer & computer music under the moniker Blitz Lunar. Also known for founding the Sample Pack Contest series & the Discord music community Maj7. Formerly staff @ vgmusic.com for several years - and a few other things~
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 7h
I have been told I am not living life - how could I be, without buying more products? Or that I'm dumb because "inflation" so I may as well spend. It's a weird attitude to me. And I mean, I am British: I already won the lottery of life. I just don't have the "keep up with Jones's" gene I guess.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 8h
Sorry not sorry if me being relatively speaking a tightarse yet still managing to be satisfied in life causes you some uncomfortable self-reflection. Literally not my fault if you have to ride the neverending carousel of consumer churn in order to feel safe and valid.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 8h
Noticed recently how defensive people can become if you say you are saving/don't want to spend money. Some people seem to take it as a slight against them personally that you're being careful, especially if they are aware that you have money you could be spending and are simply choosing not to.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 1d
whoooo 💫 🌈 I like these
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
Gotta be honest this was a serious slog the last few days. I have palpitations. Easier day tomorrow but feeling accomplished at least.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
I actually just ended up replacing Mario Kart 64 with the official OST because the recordings are cleaner/mastered anyway. lole. There are probably other cases like this, to be honest.

I did not realise that the official OST included the B-section of the race results music. Cool and unexpected.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, all of that is important.
Spice only emerged in the marketplace as a formerly legal alternative to prohibited cannabis, despite being orders of magnitude more dangerous. It may never have existed otherwise. Personally I am optimistic that spice use would decline with reformed cannabis laws.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
This is fairly well known at this point.
The trouble is, cannabis is being used by youngsters regardless, and 50+ years of enforcement and prohibition has only proven that it cannot be stopped, so the rational thing to do is regulate the trade to be as safe and health-led as possible.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
We don't allow the odd rampant alcoholic anecdote to criminalise our glass of wine with dinner. I accept every case like this is a tragedy, I don't accept it as a policy argument.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
Love it when the clocks go back, me. I get a whole extra hour in bed, meaning I wake up at 4 o'fuck clock and scroll my phone for three hours instead of two.

I will be finished by about 8 this evening.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 2d
I find Bluesky a bit humourless and sensitive in general. A lot of earnest, wellmeaning and right-on characters, which y'know those are good qualities, but we should still be able to have a laugh.
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Zebulun @zebulun.bsky.social · 3d
Beautiful.
Plaid Cymru battered them.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 3d
Only took the whole of Saturday converting these in the background before being close to done. And I'm not done, some difficult/edge cases left. Grateful as I am that this format was developed, god it's painfully slow and horrible. I'll be glad to see the back of it even if MP3s eat 10GB of storage.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 3d
lucky for us ~~
really love their sound. like getting into a warm bath.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 3d
oh cool I was only listening to them the other day, wondering if they were up to anything new.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
Neato! I read about NAS briefly, maybe something to consider in future. At least my hardware seems resilient to power interruptions so far... I guess harddrives are a lot better about that now in general than they were during the headcrash hell of the 00s and 90s.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
No-no that's what I mean, I run foobar2000 with many format decoders in Windows. I know it can be run with Wine in Linux relatively well, but the decoders are another matter. Some game emu formats are based on Windows emulators so may lean on Windows libraries. So if I have them as MP3s, no problem.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
Spending the afternoon mass converting Nintendo 64 USFs to 320kbps MP3s. Yeah, it's time. It's going to inflate my file storage but hopefully not too much. I decided that because I can't play these on mobile, I dislike playing them on Windows, and Linux is an unknown, they are a priority to remove.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
If you dare to take a trip over to Facebook, under news postings about immigration you will see Brits saying things like "a rat born in a stable isn't a horse", with a straight face. The same people are also likely to take issue with being called racist. This is unfortunately what we are up against.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
My D: drive is from 2013. My C: and E: drives are from 2016. Everything is fine and quiet right now but I just wanna take this stuff seriously and mitigate against disaster better. I already took it seriously but why not go further.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
Having a productive day solving Windows mysteries. Figured out permissions and finally deleted two 13yo WinXP folders; Documents and Settings, "895858986b3e00ad80ea". Took ownership of vstis & samples dir on C:, chkdsk'd drives & set up a bi-monthly backup reminder msg under Windows Task Scheduler.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
It does seem unlikely. I've only had one episode of data loss and it was here yesterday, gone today. I was opening Photoshop one morning to edit some digicam photos and *BLAM*, sudden BSOD and an ex-hard drive. So that's still how I expect it to happen.

chkdsk is happy right now at least.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
One of the drawbacks at least for my music library is I already have .tag (metadata) files separately for every file. So keeping .sfv/.md5 for every damn file as well is starting to get a bit silly.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
Question, does anyone generate and maintain hashes on their data as part of their backup strategy, as well as synchronisation/mirrors? I am wondering if this is something I should start doing or whether it's a bit paranoid. I only synchronise currently, which risks synchronising rotting files.
iridescentaudio.bsky.social Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 6d
Spent the evening learning a bit more about potential harms to data from power loss, UPSs, backup scheduling/reminders, RAID, silent corruption, file checksums/hashing... my current strat isn't bad (synchronise to an external every couple of months) but far from foolproof. Data anxiety arggggh.
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Dave @iridescentaudio.bsky.social · 4d
Wow. Taking a moment to breathe this in. What is happening to politics in this country...
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Remarkable victory for Plaid Cymru. Expect lots of attention (rightly) on Labour’s collapse to 11% of the vote. How much attention will the Conservatives get for their 2%?
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