*to the tune of Shout by Tears For Fears*

Cat
cat
Little potat
He wants to know where the treats are at
Come on
He's meowing at you
Come on

I'm a lot like this, except without the clever response later. sive.rs/slow

Forced myself to take a Twitter break, logged out. So... hi Mastodon!

So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

`nice man cat` is a perfectly valid unix command

The past tense of “you snooze, you lose…” should be:

I know what it means to talk about the ordinal "ω + 1" || The natural numbers are

The greater Fediverse community is in store for a hard transition as the greater network transitions from “too small for anybody to care” to “financially worthwhile for professional disinfo trolls, spam farms, Grey-market adtech, and organized CSE groups.”

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This has a real Crazy Eddie's feel to it.
Taking an Uber ride? $199.99!
Need something from Walgreens? $199.99!
Want some office supplies from Walmart? $199.99!
A night at the W Hotel in South Beach? You guessed it -- $199.99!

RT @lrozen@twitter.com

These Santos campaign expenses all coming to $199.99 seems kind of dodgy. From hotel rooms, to meals and Ubers, each item listed as costing $199.99. via @mrspanstreppon@twitter.com twitter.com/mrspanstreppon/sta

🐦🔗: twitter.com/lrozen/status/1607

Some grumps about privacy discourse, where I'd like to see more discussion of the relative scale of the costs and benefits of actions people recommend for privacy reasons:
jefftk.com/p/privacy-tradeoffs

Useful test: don't join a Mastodon instance that doesn't let you follow raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_ - defederated by many instances because they hired a policeman who had used a Pi to do police work in the past, and were then unapologetic about it.

techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspbe

All Your Face.

TSA going hogwild with facial recognition is going about as well as you'd expect, "but you can opt out". YK Hong: Since folks asked what happens whenever I opt out of facial recognition, I documented it for you while going through US...
jwz.org/b/yj8C

I do NOT recommend Keeper for password management. Their posture towards security researchers has been anathema to accepted industry standards of vulnerability disclosure, to the point of litigation threats to journalists & security experts reporting on their products' bugs.

infosec.exchange/@KeeperSecuri

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