I’m always surprised when it happens. 99% of the time I’m just tolerated, but every once in a while someone asks. Happened last night. I was sooooooooo happy.

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    Do not, I repeat, do not infodump on someone today.

    Hi, my brain is wired so that it obsesses over details, combs through data and sifts through documentation, over decades even, only some poor soul to give me attention, which promptly opens up the spigot.

    Please be advised, you will know why VST2 instrument plugins can take audio input, but only because Native Instruments sort of “hacked it in” during the 2000s, even though it wasn’t apart of the VST2 specification, which Steinberg obviously isn’t a fan of, because even to this day Cubase won’t recognise audio inputs from VST2 instruments in Cubase, but you can with VST 3 instrument plugins, and even though VST4 was at some point announced, it was presumably scrapped because plans for VST5 was leaked time after, but never actually came into fruition. Really though, vendors should be distributing CLAP plugins and contributing back to CLAP, because we could really use an open standard beyond Steinberg’s proprietary SDK, but then people like Native Instruments, Arturia, etc would have to “port their plugins” over to CLAP, which shouldn’t be too hard since it’s sort of API compatible - though not really - but since they won’t see instant returns they probably won’t dedicate the billable hours… so anyways, I program Maxforlive devices nowadays - oh, wait. Butterfly…

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    I gotta find a way to signal to people that I love hearing their infodumps

    I just gotta find a better phrase that won’t make me look like a coprophile

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      I go with “I love listening to people talk passionately about their special interests”.

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          what an incredibly weird and uncomfy thing of you to say. i’ve never installed that dating app before…

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            haha, sorry if it made you uncomfortable! It’s a really common cue on a lot of profiles 😅 So many people use the apps now you just get used to the idea that everyone knows

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              Oh, okay, that makes more sense.

              I mean, I think a lot of the dating app culture stuff stays way more local. I’m in Australia so the stuff you commonly see is gonna be different.

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      I find that asking specific, pointed, open-ended questions over time usually gets people to open up. “You said, blah-blah, can you explain that more? I’m not familiar.” and just listen.

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    I met a guy at a bar one night who was just starting his studies in cyber security. I’ve been doing it for years now and he was excited to hear all of my experiences, good and bad.

    We entered a few CTFs together, but I’m not usually on the offensive side so he carried me a bit in the early challenges and we had to tap out when we got to the harder ones.

    I haven’t seen him in a while. I should text him.

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      I haven’t seen him in a while. I should text him.

      I find that texting someone something positive is usually well received. “Hey, person, been a while. I was telling someone about that fun time at blah-blah and it reminded me of you. how are things?”

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    Me when someone asks me to tell/teach them about one of my special interests…

    Me: For real‽

    Them: Yep

    Me: But like, how much do you want to know?

    Them: Everything

    Me: Even if it’s a lot of information and takes an hour?

    Them: Yes

    Me: And you’ll stop me if it’s too much?

    Them: Yep, I’ll stop you if it’s too much.

    Me: 😮 hold on. let me think…ok… 😮‍💨 …so…non-stop talking for an hour possibly using props and a board/paper for illustrations. several related tangential topics come up and added to a list of topics to discuss later.