@adam Look how fast I can transfer /dev/zero!

@jscholes I also just got it today, and... yeah. It does rather suck meta balls.

In a past life, I did an internet radio show, called "Things and Stuff", where much of my time was spent messing with buttons, sliders and knobs, talking about and demonstrating weird things, and playing music.

On December 23, 2017, I did one of only two pre-recorded shows in the 14 years that Things and Stuff existed, this being that year's Christmas-themed show.

Should you care to throw a bunch of Christmas things at your face, including a look back at recordings of somewhat incriminating Perdue family Christmases from every year between 1986 and 2017, except for 1997, as presented by me and another me (who doesn't talk to themselves every now and then), you can do so, at least until I get around to removing all the 2016 through 2019 archives from the place they are currently being hosted.

Now, if that's not incentive, I don't know what is.

http://stuff.tas.show/tas.171223.mp3

@klittle667 This rPi is a backup on my parents' network. Go figure. It's hanging from the back of an 8-port managed switch with no case by a 10CM long Ethernet cable, and a short MicroUSB. Has been for years. Probably not the best idea, but whatever.

#JohnMastodonDay #JohnMastodon

🎇 Happy John Mastodon Day everybody! 🥳

On December 16th, 2022, a journalist confused the Twitter handle joinmastodon (and the webpage joinmastodon.org) with a hypothetical "John Mastodon" ("founder of a competing social media company named after himself") in an article 😉.

@KaraLG84 Oh, yummy. I just got it too. That was fun while it lasted.

I'm updating 370 something packages on a Raspberry Pi 2 from 2014 running Bookworm. This particular rPi is just a backup pihole (primary on that network is running on an old Intel NUC). Anyway, this will take a little while.
A 900 mHz quad core processor can only go so fast.

@ToniBarth @MariahL Yes, they showed up pretty fast. I did have to pay a $40 something import on top of the $25 shipping (Thanks, president Tariff).

I haven't had a whole lot of opportunity to use them too much, but so far, even with the H1 Essential, they work out a lot better than the Sound Professionals master series. They roll off a bit more than the MS-BMC3's I have on the extreme lows, which is not at all a bad thing.

I also got the wind bubbles for them. They do a reasonable job.

@KaraLG84 First of all, happy V4.1.

Second, I feel like I started that stupid trend twenty something years ago, and I apologize for it.

@MariahL WOW! What the stupid?
When I came to New York from North Carolina, I lost my ID, and was able to get a New York ID with a birth certificate, social security card, and I think a printed bank statement or something that had my current residence on it. Might have been an energy bill. Anyway, that's just all kinds of dumb.

@mcourcel Yes. Actually because of weird circumstances, I ended up sleeping in a room next door to him in a house in North Carolina for a few days. He was even more interesting when he was off the job.

@mcourcel Oh, sure, and I very much remember the original Fred for whom the newsletter was named.

#memes

@MariahL @x0 The H6 Essential inputs are kind of awkward. If you want to use a stereo pair, channels 1 and 3 are on one side, while 2 and 4 are on the other. I'd have rather they put 1/2 vertical on the left and 3/4 vertical on the right like they did with the original H6 in 2013.

@MariahL One of the not as sensitive Sound Professionals sets with XLR connectors, I guess. Or these.

https://micbooster.com/product/xlr-stereo-clippy-em272-microphone/

@MariahL @x0 Note that you'll need microphones with XLR outputs, or an adapter from XLR to 3.5mm that can handle plugin power if you want to use mics like that with the H6 Essential. It doesn't have a 3.5mm input.

@MariahL Do you want good, or easy to get?

I am a fan of the mikroUši microphones, but they're hand-made by this one guy in Slovakia, and he only has stock a few times a year. They're not super hot, which is good for the Essential series recorders, because they do best with mics that aren't super sensitive. The H Essential series headroom isn't all that. They are easily overloaded in a way that 32-bit FP recording won't help.
I'd definitely use these over the Sound Professionals Master Series that so many people seem to love, at least with the Essential stuff.

https://store.lom.audio/collections/mikrousi-series

but, yeah, they're not easy to get.

Skew v2 from @Sinevibes - a unique, multi-curved, reverse delay effect - adds new features like feedback and sound improvements. And one *major* new feature: now it's free.

macOS, Windows, and Linux.

https://cdm.link/sinevibes-skew-2-free/

The new Mozilla CEO says he could block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that it would bring in another $150 million, but he doesn't want to do that. Lmao. This guy has really lost the plot. Is he issuing threats to the users of an open-source project? Boy, what a disaster.

https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself