In which I discuss new-ish cheap-and-almost-perfect audio amplifier tech: D-class, PWM, and a remarkable TI chip: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/09/Next-Step-Audiophile
So, audiophiles should invest all their their money and time in speakers and room prep, because everything else is now commoditized.
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.
https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/
#InternetArchive #HachettevInternetArchive #libraries #newsletter #CitationNeeded
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: https://btlbooks.com/book/standing-on-high-ground
Here’s a blog piece full of background and pictures: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/08/Standing-On-High-Ground
This project means a lot to me and I’d appreciate anyone passing the word along.
[BLOG] When sysctl took down my subnet
Leicester square has a large electricity substation hidden beneath https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/09/leicester-square.html?m=1 #London
🆕 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: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism
Talk about #Postcodes coming up next month at Newspeak House https://newspeak.house/events
Irving Finkel from the British Museum talks about a #map from ancient Mesopotamia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxFzh8r384
Too many #tomatoes? I donated a bunch of mine to the local foodbank. Hurrah! #GrowYourOwn
New euphemism for being late: ‘BepiColombo’s journey to Mercury becomes even more epic’ http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Fourth_Mercury_flyby_begins_BepiColombo_s_new_trajectory #astrodon
The Linux commands you should NEVER use
by @sjvn in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20180220202812/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-linux-commands-you-should-never-use-1712.html
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 :)
https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
The Aperiodic tackles the Aperiodic monotile https://aperiodical.com/2023/06/mathematical-objects-aperiodic-monotile/ #math
Ukraine to abolish daylight saving time from 1 January 2025.
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/64AC36LPSPQJTR7GDOHOFAJLCIPKTTFO/
Last week’s electricity generation in the UK had a record low carbon intensity of 58g/kWh. So far this year the carbon intensity has averaged 118g/kWh, representing a 76% reduction since I created https://grid.iamkate.com in 2012:
"This confidential government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File"
Brilliant article about the difficulties of getting cheap/free and accurate postcode data in the UK
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#GIS #Postcode #Data #UK
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/secret-paf-report
Wrote my first lua project, and first vim plugin before breakfast: https://github.com/cthulahoops/chatcli-vim
It's such an exciting time to be making software.
Hello! I post something interesting every few days.