bright side

For the most part, expect a good amount of dci, cosplay, and cats

[weeee]

Time shifting

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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic

[anarchopuppy]

This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point

The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again

[autumngracy]

Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.

The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.

NPR did a very cool podcast about this.

[supremecodemagenemica]

Acoustic coupler - Wikipedia

Lads. We used to put phones on computer peripherals.

[mugglesofficial]

im SCREAMIBG

[cumdealer-deactivated20200206]

YOU ARE KIDDING ME

[secondhand-sheep-shack]

reblog for noises

[oldwarhorse1775]

Adorable

[ruinedchildhood]

[pet-and-dot]

Dot by dot, star by star…

[fiddleabout]

#what the fRESH HELL#

[fireis-catching]

@mindlesslymad

[scienceshenanigans]

NASA asks Twitter to name the new planets.

[babyanimalgifs]

their girl group choreography is amazing how do i hire them

[pleatedjeans]

[dlinesofamerica]

Farmington United, shared with us by @ryang0811 #drumline #wgi #farmingtonunitedpercussionensemble #fupe2017 #DrumlinesOfAmerica

[ladymcbeths-deactivated20161110]

Edgar Degas + Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballets

[capricornluna-deactivated201810]

10 Latino Celebrities on Hollywood’s Diversity Problem. Read more here.

[enemies-to-lovers]

I’m just saying

so here’s our favorite adoptive space dad Bail Organa in Revenge of the Sith:

and here he is in Rogue One:

meanwhile, here’s Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith:

and here he is after the exact same amount of time: 

I’d like some of whatever Bail is having on Alderaan and exactly zero of what Obi-Wan is having on Tatooine 

[bemusedlybespectacled]

well one of them is the viceroy of alderaan and the other one is living as a hermit in space nevada, sorry that obi wan isn’t keeping up his moisturizing regimen on Planet Sand Hell while bail organa drinks kale smoothies in the shade

[lalalaikas]

to high school seniors, and anyone applying to college: as someone who is about to begin their freshman year of college, and who had spent 3.5 years of high school (almost all of it) obsessing over getting into a good school for the prestige and recognition, it isn’t worth it. 

pick your school because you love it, pick it because it has programs you like, pick your school because it has the best food in the country, but don’t pick it because you think other people will be impressed. you won’t be happy there if you don’t love something else about it too, and going through life with the sole purpose of trying to create an image of intelligence and status is no way to live, now is it?

pick your school because it makes you happy to be there.

[ewpunk]

y’all…. a legislator in Erie County (NY) introduced a new local law to ban the practice of conversion therapy….“Prevention of Emotional Neglect and Childhood Endangerment” aka P.E.N.C.E. holy shit

[arabellesicardi]

things worthy of investment: leather jackets, good lingerie, perfume, foundation, your dreams 

[as-warm-as-choco]

[ganondilf]

i cant believe this is how you grow alpacas

[villainous-porn]

What in the entire hell? How did it get in there?

[sadplantainboi]

I love how the mother alpaca just is nervously pacing the whole time😩😭

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

Another classical music masterpost

Inspired by some asks, I decided to make a new, different type of masterpost for people wanting to get into classical music (just google classical music masterpost for others. I think there are 2 main ones and they’re grouped by mood). I would make another one grouped by mood, but because they’re already done, I decided to group by composer and order chronologically. Specifically, what I’ll do is give only two examples per composer. What this allows you to do is listen to get an idea of what kinds of composers and what eras you like. I chose to avoid really long pieces, and where I did include them I specified specific movements to listen to.

Glossary for people not experienced with classical music: Movement - a part of a larger work. Sometimes these movements could work alone as pieces, sometimes they segue directly into or from other movements. Symphony - an orchestral work, most commonly 4 movements. The symphony was first created in the Classical period. Concerto - a work for a soloist (or, more rarely, multiple soloists) and an orchestra. Usually 3 movements. Suite - A non-specific group of pieces. Some suites are taken from ballets, some are folk song suites, there are tonnes of types of suite. Sonata - A piece for a solo instrument or a solo instrument with accompaniment (most usually from a piano). Usually 3 movements. Mass - A piece of religious music for choir and orchestra. At least 5 movements (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei), often more.

Pieces:

Renaissance (c. 1400-1600)

John Taverner (1490-1545) Western Wind Mass Psalm 41

Giovanni da Palestrina (1525-1594) Missa Papae Marcelli Iubilate Deo

Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) Sonata pian’ e forte (not actually a sonata by the previous definition) Quem vidistis pastores

Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558-1602) Now is the Month of Maying April is in my Mistress’ Face (if you like these, search for madrigals)

Baroque (c. 1600-1730)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Dido and Aeneas: Dido’s Lament Suite in A minor

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) The Four Seasons (a group of four violin concertos) Concerto for 2 Cellos in G minor

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Viola Concerto Tafelmusik

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 Cello Suite no. 6

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) The Messiah: Pt. 1: Sinfony, And the Glory of the Lord, For Unto Us a Child is Born, Pifa, Pt. 2: Hallelujah, Pt. 3: Amen Water Music

Classical (c. 1730-1820)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Symphony no. 101 Cello Concerto no. 1

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) Cello Concerto in C Symphony in F

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Requiem: Introit, Kyrie, Dies Irae, Lacrymosa Symphony no. 41

Jan Dussek (1760-1812) Piano Sonata in B-flat Harp Sonata no. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (considered to be the bridge from Classical to Romantic music) Symphony no. 5 Symphony no. 7

Romantic (c. 1820-1900)

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) Symphony no. 2 Clarinet Concerto no. 4

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) Der Freischütz: Overture Clarinet Concerto no. 2

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Symphony no. 9 Der Erlkönig (if you like this, search for Lieder)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Paulus: Overture Violin Concerto

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Piano Concerto no. 2 Scherzo in B-flat minor

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Symphony no. 3 Cello Concerto

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Faust Symphony Piano Concerto no. 1

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod

Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Piano Concerto Trio in G minor

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Symphony no. 4 Symphony no. 8

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Schicksalslied Symphony no. 1

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Carnival of the Animals Symphony no. 3

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Symphony no. 4 Marche Slave

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Symphony no. 9 String Quartet no. 12

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Peer Gynt Suites Piano Concerto

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Cello Concerto Enigma Variations

Late Romantic-20th-21st Century (c. 1900-)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony no. 2 Symphony no. 3

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) La Mer Préludes: Book 1: nos. 8, 10

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Eine Alpensinfonie

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) Symphony no. 3 String Quartet no. 3

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Clarinet Concerto Symphony no. 1

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Violin Concerto Symphony no. 5

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Preludes: G minor, C# minor, D major Piano Concerto no. 2

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Planets First Suite in E-flat

Charles Ives (1874-1954) The Unanswered Question Concord Sonata

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Verklärte Nacht Five Orchestral Pieces

Reinhold Glière (1875-1956) Les Sirènes Horn Concerto

Béla Bartók (1881-1954) Concerto for Orchestra Allegro barbaro

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) Lincolnshire Posy In Dahomey

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) Dances of Galánta Psalmus hungaricus

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) The Rite of Spring The Firebird

Anton Webern (1883-1945) Symphony Six Pieces for Orchestra

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Romeo and Juliet Peter and the Wolf

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Symphonic Metamorphosis Clarinet Sonata

George Gershwin (1898-1937) Rhapsody in Blue Piano Concerto

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Flute Sonata Stabat mater

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Fanfare for the Common Man Clarinet Concerto

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony no. 7 Festive Overture

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Adagio for Strings Violin Concerto

and of course

John Cage (1912-1992) 4′33″ :)

have fun

[rebathecompleteseriesdvdboxset]

reba trying to say ice

[thequeenadwoa]

First things first RIP Uncle Phil