Knuckledragger

This interview is amazing. I listened to the whole thing last night, and repeated large parts of it. The ending is particularly scary.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy accuses Nestle and Auchan of using 'cheap PR' to justify continued business in Russia. #FuckNestle

Putin 'in better shape than ever', Belarus leader says. That means he's probably terminally ill.

Today I got everything wired up (MOTU M4/Mixer/laptop) and am testing it out. I've spent much of the evening ...just poking at things. It's a bit like re-learning Traktor from the ground up. 6+ months away plus the UI changes to the new version have left me struggling to remember basic functions. Also, and this is not a small point, I have been running Traktor since late 2008. I set a bunch of config options back then and they carried over version to version. With my new install, all of that is gone. I've had numerous instances of "X isn't doing the thing I expect" then figuring out what that function is, where it's located in the options menu and setting it the way I want. Talking to a friend, I've likened the situation to sitting down in my car only to find that the clutch pedal has a different depth, the speedometer has different graduations and the stick shift is in the wrong place. I did get the new Mixlr app and the MOTU M4 working at least. I am [gosh darn] tired, so I don't think I'll do a test broadcast tonight. I am going to try to mix a few tracks just for myself later.

Humble has a $40 bundle with 123 games in it to support Ukraine.

Putin is rumored to be purging the Kremlin of Russian officials he blames for the faltering invasion of Ukraine.

Photoshop battle!

New M4 arrived. Tentative good news.

Flickr is changing their ToS. From now on only paid members can show titty publicly. I take this as a sign that the site had been overrun with porn and phishing accounts. Based on the moderation I've had to do in the tattoo group I took over (because it had been abandoned for years and was overrun with porn and phishing links) I can't say I'm surprised. Also did I mentioned I had to leave the Discord of a group I founded because one of the VERY VOCAL members objected to a channel dedicated to photos of tattooed women? I hate the modern world.

Russia warns Bosnia and Herzegovina that it will face the same fate as Ukraine if it decides to be a part of NATO. Conversely, Russia warns that BiH will have same fate if they don't join NATO.

Former GOP Senate Candidate Has Possibly The Worst Take On Zelenskyy's Speech To Congress.

Russian fast-food chain backed by parliament to replace McDonald’s reveals near-identical branding. #NotTheOnion.

Graffiti in Los Angeles, California Location: 832 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291.

Q: What happens when a degenerate weeb has too much disposable income? A:

A Night Terror, Volodymir Prokh, digital, 2022

Man, RIP Scott Hall AKA Razor Ramon. As someone who watched far more wrestling than I should have in the 80s and 90s (you know, when it was good) I watched him bash his skull against other comically oversized men in spandex briefs in the cartoonish WWF and more "serious" WCW. The sad thing isn 63 is quite a long lifespan for someone in his line of work.

Oh boy 45 minutes on old with Sweetwater. Their hold music BLARINGLY, DEAFENINGLY LOUD. Also terribad and interrutped by unnaturally perky sounding people telling me shit IDGAF about in any lifetime. Finally got a tech, which lead to another 45 minutes of back and forth, installing a creepy-ass TeamViewer app, much fuckery with Traktor, system configs etc ...all of which lead to confirmation that yes, Julia, channels 1 & 2 on the MOTU are in fact dead. New unit being shipped for Friday. I hafta get the old one in the mail within <mumble> days. Probably no show this Friday, either.

French activists seized Putin's daughter's villa for refugees from Ukraine. Hon hon hon, get le stuffed!

RIP Brent Renaud, the first US journalist killed Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The good news: I found my DJ mixer. I had indeed put it in its original 2005 shipping box, which is what a Smart Knuckles does. The bad news: I think my shiny new MOTU M4 is borked. I cannot get sound out of channels 1-2 no matter what I do. The device is class compliant (does not require drivers) and it worked (or rather "worked") out of the box. I got Traktor to recognize it, though it showed up in the device list as "Audio Out." I assiged the two decks to outputs 1-2 and 3-4 respectively. The appropriate volume bars on the M4's display lit up when I play back a track on either deck. Channels 3-4 worked just fine. No amount of swapping cables and inputs on the DJ mixer could elicit any sound from 1-2. I then installed the M4's Mac drivers (certified to work with Monterey) and enabled the extension (everything is disabled by defualt in newer versions of MacOS.) That caused the M4 to show up in the device list under its own name, but it didn't fix the lack of sound output on the first two channels. I've powerecycled everything (including the DJ mixer) but nothing has worked. I might try the M4 on a different machine, but I STRONGLY suspect my M4 is faulty So, uh, no show next week I think.