Big Tech is probably trying to prevent people from communicating on Darknet alternatives.

Racism comes with free speech. The problem comes when its mainly racism.

aaaaaaaaaand it's down again.

The only speech worth protecting is the one someone strongly disagrees with in the first place. No other speech is in danger of being attacked.

I wonder why the Japanese covers are so much better most of the time.

Notes are just a way to write music down. Each note corresponds to a tone. Also, their names repeat themselves in intervals. Take C for example. There's a C placed below the five lines, the deep C, then there a C placed within the five lines, just called C and then there's a C above the five lines, called high C. If you keep going higher or deeper you'll encounter C's again and again.

If you play the deep C and the normal C at the same time, that's what people call an octave. It's just a name for something people found worth talking about. If you only play music and don't talk about music, you can go without ever noticing that this thing is called an octave. Most things about musical theory are like that. Just names for concepts people found worth talking about. But if you don't understand the underlying concept, it's going to be very hard associating the names with anything meaningful.

Music theory is basically full of nerd language. Take for example anime. If you aren't an anime nerd and someone tells you about moe, tsundere, isekai and ecchi you're going to be lost. None of these words are strictly speaking necessary to describe the underlying concepts, but once you understood the concepts, it's very nice to have just one word to describe them, instead of having to spend three sentences. At least if you want to talk to other people about them. You can also go an entire life of watching anime without ever knowing what moe is, despite having an understanding of the underlying concept.

So, really, I don't think you have a mental block, you likely just never had the desire to talk about music theory with others. But whether it's music or anime, there's really no point in talking about it on a nerd level if you don't even play music or watch anime.

Depends on what kind of ocarina you have. The ones I received as gifts wouldn't work, because they are too limited in what you can play with them. If they have only five holes or less it's going to be difficult. Also, if the ocarina is small enough to fit in your palm, it's going to be very difficult to handle, since your fingers will be very big in relation to the holes, so playing notes that require half-holes is harder.

There's a simple test you can do to see if it works, though. Just get yourself a sheet that tells you which grips correlate to which notes on your ocarina and play them all in order.

There's five lines for placing notes that are always shown on sheets, if the ocarina can play the note placed on the line below those five lines up to the note placed on the line above the five lines you're good to play pretty much all melodies.

"Just make your own platform, if you want free speech" they said.

So they did.

And then they still try to silence it.

Parler was just a republic echo chamber similar to how a lot of areas of the web are democrat echo chambers. Free speech should be defended at all costs even if you don't agree with it.

Luckily they can just colocate their own hardware because datacenters don't really give a fuck and aren't ran by SJWs since most dataceners aren't household names and would likely enjoy the press.

I don't have a Parler account and don't really want one, but this is a crazy world.

Hard guessing how much hardware a site like that takes to run, but rent a rack in a datacenter like Quadranet, setup some localized high availability, plenty of companies specialize in DDoS mitigation to help with that load. And they'd be set. The datacenter is unlikely to give a fuck what they're doing unless they're ruining the reputation of rented IP space, which they could always bring their own. The upstream bandwidth providers don't care. They build networks, they're not a bunch of SJWs.

An now Amazon is terminating Parler's hosting. I've always thought Parler was a honeypot, but maybe this is evidence that it wasn't.

Oh shit, they are?

Guess they can just colo some hardware or rent a fleet of dedicated servers. I'm not 'into' Parler but I support what it is. They should be allowed to exist, 110%.

Crazy world man. I wonder how much resources a site like that uses. Probably save them some money to just buy the hardware, rent a rack to colocate it in a datacenter because most DC's dont give a flying fuck what you're doing within reason since they're just providing the cabinet space, network connections and power/cooling. Not like the actual upstream bandwidth providers care, either.

An now Amazon is terminating Parler's hosting. I've always thought Parler was a honeypot, but maybe this is evidence that it wasn't.

Looks like they're back up again!

Waiting to see what the actual cause was in some sort of official release.

Spread the word about the fake pandemic - which is what allowed them to do everything they needed. (digdeeper)

lmao

Any account that doesn't need to be tied to me I deleted and made an anon account if I still wanted to use it. However, I think I would go insane seeking full anonymity/privacy; There are so many ways companies/people could track you if they desired and I still want to talk to my friends and go by my username that I've been going for by a good portion of my life. So I still keep a Discord, Telegram, Youtube, Steam account, etc.

I run Qubes OS to keep my digital life compartmentalized as well as for security; This lets me set up different network and firewall vms to run things like a tor gateway vm and vpn vm. For example, I have a separate crypto appvm which runs through a different firewall vpn and then through my tor vm to hide my IP. I also use Vivaldi as my main browser with Brave and hardened Firefox as my alt browsers.

I plan to install a custom rom or Linux on my phone since im still using the default one. I know I can still go deeper into the privacy rabbit hole but I think I am at a good point now.

This release fixes a problem with other apps not working on an IPv4-only connection.

I have an ocarina I received as a gift. Would that work for a recorder?

Notes and octaves just seem like magic, or maybe colors and I'm colorblind.

I can't play any musical intsruments which is funny because my brother and my daughter are each good guitar players. My mother played piano. I've tried and I have manual dexterity but I've never had any luck.

Weird mental block of some sort.

"Helping the net stay free" Mozilla

Meanwhile their CEO's get 400% raises lol

Sure! Though I'd say just about any currency is fine to get started with. Keep in mind that you don't have to purchase an entire unit of a given currency - one Bitcoin may be $40k, but you can still just buy $10 worth (just be cautious of transfer fees, both withdrawing from exchanges and sending from your own wallet).

I'd recommend also looking at ETH (using MetaMask as an in-browser wallet to interact directly with websites is pretty cool) and XMR (dirt cheap transfers and your financial privacy is safe).

They're not wrong, but why did they leave out Microsoft? It's not like they learned their lesson. Or maybe they did and now bribe better. Who knows.

Learn an instrument. Don't pick based on your preference of what you'd think be cool to play. Pick something easy you can play melodies with. Drums don't work, no melody. Guitar doesn't work, it's really, really hard to play melodies with a guitar. Pretty much all string instruments are out because of this. The recorder is more or less as basic as it gets. And it's cheap. Which is why I recommend it. There ain't too many notes you can play with it, either, which helps with the theory part.

The reason music theory is intimidating to folks usually is because it's a foreign concept with little use. If you play an instrument you'll have use for it. It's like with a language, the simplest way to learn a foreign language is by using it to communicate. Not by reading books.

What do you want to understand, anyway?

The eternal question: is this because of angry gods or evil wypipo?

Damn! Any word on the cause?

Awesome, please share here when you do!

I bet a live performance would be amazing, I can't imagine.

Yeah, that album is def. a classic ! Have you had the chance to see them perform ?