Paul Crowley @ciphergoth@schelling.pt

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

I have a feeling this will appeal to multiple people for multiple reasons.

[original source: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/10rukp8/oc_magic_coding/]

#ttrpg #magic #coding

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.

tom scott alexander graham norton antivirus

this was the best thing I ever tweeted

`nice man cat` is a perfectly valid unix command

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

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.”

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:
https://www.jefftk.com/p/privacy-tradeoffs

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...
https://jwz.org/b/yj8C

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK

Without plain text #search #Mastodon will be a place I visit now and then.

Without that level of #indexing it requires too much work on an individual level to add #hashtags to get #content to #surface.

I guess that would require a centralised #service that connects to an ever increasing web of #server nodes? Unless there's another #decentralised way to do it?

Anyways, if you see this, please #boost it if you agree, so we can see if the feeling is mutual across the

https://youtu.be/o5zMYj4H34A food heavy video about UK USA festive differences (made by my @CrafterofManyKinds featuring me, @ciphergoth and my sibling Bee plus her husband Nick and dog Buttercup). I do a good rant about the East coast/West coast new year discrepancy 😅🎉
#nye #immigrant #uk #usa

Every year at Christmas now I think about Christmas 8 years ago when I nearly died with my wife, child and in-laws.

I share this every year over on the Bird Site and will share it here now.

It was Christmas Eve. 9 year old was just 1. We were staying at my in-laws who had an acreage just outside Red Deer at the time. We went to bed a bit late but the night was good. 1 year old wasn’t up too much.