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Post by Aeolun »

ralusek wrote: post #263
chfritz wrote: post #168

Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than accurately capturing the "musical taste of the neighborhood". Any thoughts on that? Have you tested how loud a song needs to be played in order to be picked up?

I used to go build houses in Tijuana with a charity, and invariably, some neighbor would see us building, and come out with some speakers to absolutely blast mariachi. Always followed up by a wave or a thumbs up, implicit that an objective net improvement had just been deployed.

When coming from building with no music at all, I’m nearly forced to agree.

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Post by jrks11o »

pragma_x wrote: post #195

I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…

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Post by the_arun »

Does Spotify/Apple has a page like this to show the trends on a Map? That would be cool. I guess they have all the data to do it. It will be interesting to follow the trends - live.

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Post by teamspirit »

foobarian wrote: post #247
IncreasePosts wrote: post #74

Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?

Where exactly does music play in public this often? Maybe it's outside some kind of store?

If you’ve never lived in a major urban area in the US, I imagine this might seem strange. People drive around with music playing loud enough that a crappy mic would easily pick it up.

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Post by t-3 »

stavros wrote: post #23
imawakegnxoxo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blitzkrieg.... Hoes? I've spent a few more minutes than I should have trying to work this out. The only way I can figure this is it's related to the head movement? Still not sure. I sure do have very little love for this generation though

Having heard some Gen Z terms before, it's probably some initials, like "big old pussy" or something like that.

It's definitely not a gen Z term. Like aaron695 said, it's AAVE, and not new at all. I've mostly heard it in the south/gulf coast.

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Post by shpx »

Setting up a hidden microphone that is constantly streaming to a server that is recording it forever should be illegal, if it isn't already.

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Post by bilalq »

simonw wrote: post #250

Some details on how this works: https://twitter.com/rtwlz/status/1840821351055311245 The phone has a Tasker script running on loop (even if the battery dies, it’ll restart when it boots again) Script records 10 min of audio in airplane mode, then comes out of airplane mode and connects to nearby free WiFi. Then uploads the audio file to my server, which splits it into 15 sec chunks that slightly overlap. Passes each…

A bit disappointing that this sends audio recordings to a server. Even if it's not the intention, that leaves so much possibility for abuse.

Why not use a Pixel phone with on-device song matching? It also keeps history on device. Getting that data out of the app might be a little tricky, but should be possible.

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Post by kurisufag »

Retr0id wrote: post #244
pragma_x wrote: post #195

I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…

Funnily enough I've also heard throwies cited as evidence of some kind of cultural decline - "not a real hack" etc.

as things become worse, standards lower
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