Paul Crowley @ciphergoth@schelling.pt

*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

The only gym where it is impossible to quit.

"Could this video have been a blogpost?"

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