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A letter is communication. Communication of information and communication of feelings. Letters from my bank have little feelings (and sometimes little information too). Letters from individual people have a lot of feelings, even if they didn't intend there to be. It takes a lot of effort to write a letter. You have to think of what to say all in one go, you have to get out paper and probably handwrite it, you have to go to the post office, you have to pay for stamps, you have to wait for deli...| Cadence's Weblog
greetings. in this blog post i will compare the musical structure of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star against that of Camellia - crystallized, neither of which are entries in the Locus contest Most of the music in osu! is from outside sources. The Locus (2025) contest changes that. Teams of people assemble to write brand new original music, and make a visual showcase to go along with it, and a full spread of maps to play it to. This is an incredibly difficult contest. The amount of effort, skill a...| Cadence's Weblog
They updated the Android alarm interface. 5 years ago, I complained about the alarm interface in my post about how icons suck. At the time of writing, it was a chaotic spread of icons with unclear interactions. In terms of beauty, it's a masterpiece, but it's a horrible thing to actually use in the moment, when you've been woken with bleary eyes and a panicked, confused, slow mind. There's no clue what to do here unless you can manage to ignore the blare from the speakers and calm your brain ...| Cadence's Weblog
My introduction to Catholicism In my young life, I was quite involved in Catholicism. I was raised this way by my mother, who wholeheartedly believes in it. In contrast, my father is not religious, and only goes to church for special occasions like the Christmas Eve mass, because I would be there participating in the Nativity play. I was homeschooled by my mother from when I was seven all the way until I started university. One of the lessons she taught when I was younger was about her religi...| Cadence's Weblog
Types of arcades There's a fundamental difference between arcades where I live, and arcades in Japan. In Japan, you typically pay a fee to play a video game. You enjoy the game and then you can pay to play again. Here, it's a rarity to find a video game in an arcade. The usual types of games here are mechanical games such as claw machines, basketball hoops and skill/luck challenges that reward virtual tickets, which you can later redeem for prizes like soft toys. Occasionally, they'll have a ...| Cadence's Weblog
It's been one year since the person I loved left my house forever, and in the end, I couldn't be happier. The first emotion I felt after she left was sorrow that something so beautiful had to come to an end. The second emotion I felt was an overwhelming relief that I didn't have to put up with her any longer. Let's rewind. We met online on social media around October 2020, and I was immediately drawn in by her bubbly personality and her attitude of sweetness and kawaii about the world. She sh...| Cadence's Weblog
Hi! This'll be a pretty unusual blog post, as I'll be talking about how my feelings are feeling and how they've changed over time. This will be deeply personal. It might be difficult to read or understand. It might meander. It might write more like this in the future. This article is intended for mature audiences. I talk about weird sexuality and weird sex. Please decide whether that is comfortable and age-appropriate for you before you read any further. --- Asexuality Over the last few years...| Cadence's Weblog
It's triple zero, used to call the emergency services in Australia. That is the lowest possible number. We did it! Well that was boring. And you, dear reader, probably don't even live in Australia,* so it's not your shortest phone number. Let's come up with a new rule to make this more interesting: Everyone should be able to call the number. That means we'll only consider numbers that can start with an international country calling code. (Count the country code as part of the full number.) We...| Cadence's Weblog
For a long time, I haven't been bothered enough about nail biting for me to try to stop. Sometimes I felt guilty about it, but only a couple of times have I tried seeing if I could stop. I never ended up successfully doing so. It is very frustrating and makes me feel bad. I keep biting my nails down to nothing. When my nails are all gone, I then move on to biting off the firmer skin around the sides of my fingernails, which regularly causes it to bleed. Why I want to stop I was going to an ev...| Cadence's Weblog
It is becoming harder and harder to tell whether information on the internet is created by humans or by computers. As more money and time is funnelled into new generative AI models, their output becomes better at blending in. Some words I associate with human works are: create, imagine, think, dream, inspire, connect, heart, brain, soul, love. I believe that computers cannot do or have any of those things. Computers are the opposite of this. Computers cannot be creative because they follow di...| Cadence's Weblog
While I was doing some programming in Racket, I found that I wanted to be able to define variables in the middle of a cond block, so that I could use the variable in subsequent conditions, without having to add an extra level of nesting. To do this, I created the following macro: (define-syntax (cond/define stx) (syntax-parse stx ;; terminating with else [(_ [(~datum else) expr ...]) #'(begin expr ...)] ;; continuing with define [(_ ((~datum define)name expr) cond ...) #'(let ([name expr]) (c...| Cadence's Weblog
The problem Fedora Kinoite (immutable, based on OSTree) didn't boot after an upgrade. I had to pick the previous OS from Grub to boot again. Instead of booting it would show the Grub menu, and after selecting an entry in Grub I would get a black screen. Then my keyboard would turn off. The only thing I could do was pressing the power button briefly to turn off the computer (no need to hold down the button, which is unusual). The solution I enabled SVM Mode in the BIOS and it could boot. I'm p...| Cadence's Weblog
ⓘ Yellow links may be interesting further reading. Purple links are mostly just citing sources. Tech companies are outrageously interested in generative AI. Every company under the sun is trying to integrate it into their product. The biggest tech companies are even creating their own models. Here's a quick recap of how generative AI quality is going, focusing on OpenAI's models: GPT-2 was trained on a dataset of a mere 8 million web pages. That's 40 GB of text. That's a fragment of the int...| Cadence's Weblog
Introduction to everything Please note that I really do like Enigma, and I have mad respect for everybody who designed its levels, since the levels are an essential part of the game. As you read, please try to keep this in mind, even when my review sounds negative or occasionally sarcastic. There is a puzzle game called Enigma. The player controls a black marble and rolls it around a top-down view to try to hit coloured blocks called Oxyds and match them in pairs. Well, that's what the game i...| Cadence's Weblog
This post is all about logging in to phpBB through manually constructed requests. Once you're logged in, scraping the forum is up to you. You can use the usual techniques for it, just be sure not to crawl the buttons for logout, report, watch, bookmark, user control panel, moderator control panel, admin control panel, and so on and so forth, all of which are activated with GET requests. Your logged in session is stored in the cookies. I suggest using the cookie-jar pattern rather than manuall...| Cadence's Weblog
Update: I've been told that a tool called "Vallpaper" can also help with this. However, I haven't tested it at all, so it might not work! Don't come asking me for help, but do feel free to let me know if Vallpaper works for you, and I'll update this section of my blog post. https://store.kde.org/p/1197828 https://github.com/lehklu/Vallpaper My original post continues below. You should read it! :) Context and history Over the last couple of days I've been setting up my new KDE install -- KDE i...| Cadence's Weblog
Confused answerI dunno, what are they? Your guess is as good as mine... Philosophy answerThird-person pronouns, such as he, him, she, her, it, they, are used by a person that isn't me in order to refer to me without having to say my full name each time. I don't say my own pronouns, because I am me. Therefore my pronouns are whatever other people say I am. no cadecnde i'm asking what are your PREFERRED pronounesSSSHHHHHShhshhhssssssssssshhh!!!!!! Actual answerI'm not picky. Since I'm a ẃ̷̗...| Cadence's Weblog
Background image The background of the website is now a pretty pattern. I think that using a pattern background recontextualises a lot of things of the site. "What does that mean, Cadence?" I don't know. The background image is a heavily edited Windows XP built-in tiled wallpaper. GNU Image Manipulator's "cubism" filter did most of the work. After that it was a matter of adjusting the hue and contrast so that it would be noticable while not interfering with reading the actual text. If you wan...| Cadence's Weblog
Check it out! Bookmark the page! Install the browser extension! Everything you need to know should be written on https://breezewiki.com. The rest of this post will be technical analysis. Why Fandom Fandom, formerly Wikia, is one of the most annoying websites on the internet. It is always accelerating and gaining traction and scooping up other wikis and wiki farms. The site now contains so much important knowledge contributed by so many people, but the user experience is really really horrible...| Cadence's Weblog
Quoting in Lisp is a very important concept in programs that deal with data structures. Here's the concept explained without excessive detail. This page specifically uses the Racket dialect of Lisp, but these examples are general enough that they should apply to any kind of Lisp. Definitions You don't need to memorise these right now, you can always come back and check them later for clarification. value - something like a number, a string, or a symbol. values are data. list - a one-dimension...| Cadence's Weblog
You can read this post on Gemini, if you want. The words are the same. I have noticed this for several years but not known whether or how to put it into words. After thinking about it more than usual in the past weeks, this is my attempt to describe my feelings. When significant changes occur in my life it feels like they are occurring around me without my agency. They don't have an impact on my feelings or emotions, they are just things that happen. Examples of this occurring in the past: Wh...| Cadence's Weblog
This is not a security issue or a hack. This guide assumes you have Element desktop logged in and you're able to decrypt the messages in your client. If Element refuses to decrypt then this guide isn't for you, sorry. This guide is for people who have a bunch of JSON of an encrypted event, perhaps obtained from their homeserver, and they want to legitimately decrypt it using their own client's keys. Also, if you want to decrypt the history of an entire room to save as plaintext, you can do th...| Cadence's Weblog
Starting a regular, ordinary, encrypted chat This is nice and easy because encryption is the default. On the "people" section on the left side, click the plus icon. Search for a person's name, or enter their full @username:matrix.org handle into the box. Click Go. All done! If you like encryption - most people do - then you don't need to read the rest of this post. --- About unencrypted chats Starting one is really difficult and annoying. You used to be able to do this by flipping a switch, b...| Cadence's Weblog
Just Use SchildiChat SchildiChat is a much improved version of Element for desktop, web, and Android. I have since added these sound effects to it in a PR. The softer sounds are default (but you can switch back to Element's, if you desire). Please just use SchildiChat. The original post continues below. Background There are two problems with Element's notification sound. Firstly the sound, secondly its frequency. On the internet, text conversations are often fragmented into several small mess...| Cadence's Weblog
This isn't a technical comparison. It is a biased rant with hopefully some insight inside. Reader beware. You're welcome to not read this if the language is harmful for you, or if you just don't find it interesting or helpful. I love you! GitHub The people read my blog almost certainly are not GitHub's biggest fans and are aware that alternatives exist, so I won't dwell on this much. Bad God fucking damn it Microsoft Literally not even open source itself Does not respect you Will take down yo...| Cadence's Weblog
Everything here is based on what I could find out online. If any of it is wrong, please let me know. .iso All-purpose. Timeless. .iso is a generic disk image format. There are many kinds of .iso files for many different kind of discs. Wii, PlayStation 3, and generic CDs and DVDs can all be stored in a .iso file. In the case of the Wii, a .iso is a copy of literally everything on the disk. It's straightforward and works for literally every purpose, although the file size is large. It can be pl...| Cadence's Weblog
About this post I'd last played Wii Sports Resort in depth about a decade ago. It got into my head recently and wouldn't leave, so I decided to write a post about it. To refresh my memory of what the sports and the game as a whole were like, I watched a 6h20m "all stamps" speedrun. If you haven't played Wii Sports Resort, this post likely won't make a lot of sense. I wrote this post for myself, and it's a collection of my thoughts after I've played the game, it's not exactly a review or a rec...| Cadence's Weblog
You can read this post on Gemini if you want to. The words are identical either way.| cadence.moe
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