Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

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

Our hearts go out to people in Atlanta, Georgia, where police have murdered a person in the course of their efforts to evict and destroy the Weelaunee Forest.

Here is a statement from Atlanta:

https://atlantapresscollective.com/2023/01/18/press-release-police-murder-protestor-in-atlanta-forest/

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the PNG file format, aimed at anyone who wants to generate or parse their own PNGs (or who just wants to know how it works!)

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html

What's a weird thing i believed in as a child?
*staring blankly off into the middle distance, whispering*
America

Good morning. In a hilarious set of causes too complicated to explain, I'm the keynote speaker at Wikipedia Day in NYC. The page for the information about it is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2023

You can be quite forgiven for not wanting to upend your life to attend. A livestream of the event is here:

https://isoc.live/16220/

Are those of you here in the #Fediverse aware of the amazing resource that is https://mynoise.net?

No?
Let me introduce you.

It has a medieval village #background #noise environment with toggles you can use to increase or decrease the blacksmith shop and market and horse clops (among many others).

Oh, you want a coffee shop? Sure thing.
Rain? Thunderstorm? Gotcha.
Generic white noise?
RPG thrills? Of course.
Tame that #tinnitus? Yes!

Check it out!

#soundscape #WorkSounds

Research collective Ignite The Right / Unmask UTR was just suspended by twitter for posting a detailed thread about a white supremacist, Identity Evropa recruiter, and UTR nazi, who's running for Enid City Commissoner.

@anildash @medium cc: To paraphrase the words of @pluralistic - "It is a good thing to have (near) zero switching costs from a platform."

Okay, here's a remarkable thing about the fediverse: I was able to seamlessly move my followers to a new server, and the vast majority of them *never even noticed* that it happened. About 24 hours ago, I decided to move from mastodon[dot]cloud (because it had been bought up by sketchy new owners), and I came to @medium's new me.dm instance. At that time, I had 25,829 followers, and now less than 24 hrs later, I have 22,648 followers on this new account — without them having to do anything.

it is alleged in this lawsuit that Meta targets preteens, and that "playdates" were a proposed product offering. sickening!

This website provides the full back archive of BYTE magazine, all 23 years of it from 1975 to to 1998. It's a treasure trove of vintage tech and nostalgia, not even Archive.org carries all the issues.

The site actually focuses on old Apple magazines, but has also PC magazines and other resources on the history of microcomputing.

https://vintageapple.org/byte

#retrocomputing #magazines

Ten years ago, #AaronSwartz died by suicide following a prolonged and relentless crusade by the U.S. judiciary to prosecute him for allegedly downloading academic articles.

After his death, @freedomofpress took over maintenance of the open source whistleblower submission platform he had been developing, now called SecureDrop, hoping to get news orgs to adopt it. It's now used by dozens of news outlets worldwide.

Thank you, Aaron. ❤️ We are honored to carry on your legacy.

How it started how it's going

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Production by an isolated individual outside society ... is as much of an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals living together and talking to each other."

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