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In which I discuss new-ish cheap-and-almost-perfect audio amplifier tech: D-class, PWM, and a remarkable TI chip: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

So, audiophiles should invest all their their money and time in speakers and room prep, because everything else is now commoditized.

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Newsletter: The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

citationneeded.news/hachette-v

#InternetArchive #HachettevInternetArchive #libraries #newsletter #CitationNeeded

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Hey folks, next month there’s an angry & lighthearted book coming out with my name on the cover: “Standing on High Ground”. It’s an anthology of writing from people who were arrested protesting Canada’s awful “TMX” pipeline project. I’m an arrestee/ contributor & co-editor.
Here’s its official home: btlbooks.com/book/standing-on-
Here’s a blog piece full of background and pictures: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

This project means a lot to me and I’d appreciate anyone passing the word along.

#books #tmx

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🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-a

#DoctorWho #racism

@Edent Just a knee-jerk reaction from realising that filling in the payee field gave me no protection before 2020 - it could've been done so many years earlier. I'm probably too harsh - reading that directive it sounds like banks were pretty happy to do it

@Edent Banks had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the most basic confirmation of payee checks. With investment, they should be able to notice patterns and chase where the money went, which individuals can't. But unless it impacts profits (and therefore the CEO salary), the banks will do nothing.

@grifferz I guess with -R or -Y ... tbh, it's been a while since I used it

Irving Finkel from the British Museum talks about a from ancient Mesopotamia youtube.com/watch?v=LUxFzh8r38

Too many ? I donated a bunch of mine to the local foodbank. Hurrah!

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OMG - kids today on learning that the 'save' symbol 💾 is a physical storage disk ...

Also OMG - me on recently learning that 'upper case' and 'lower case' refers to the physical case printers used to use to store their letters. How did I miss this?

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At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

eieio.games/essays/the-secret-

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