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  On BBC 4. An excellent hour of "guitar band performances featuring female musicians". https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mxpjc After #TOTP #GirlsInBands

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  THE FUCKING MUTE STAYS ON! #TOTP

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  Stylist: "So, what look do we want for the #TOTP appearance?" Band: "Yes!"

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  Listening back to all my #BandcampFriday purchases. And checking the metadata in the FLAC files, as you do. One of the tracks has an ISRC that ends with 2600666 \m/

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  These's still time to buy this while it's still on pre-order! https://deartashmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hollywood-endings-the-end #BandcampFriday #DearTash #DeanStreet #London

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  One of the Bee Gees is wearing an "Unknown Pleasures" jacket. #TOTP

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  Too busy with other stuff to do much buying or recommending of any music for #BandcampFriday this time, so I'm going to rehash an old one. Mainly because I'm still listening to a lot of it, months later.

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  A #BandcampFriday day-after observation: some albums have a "mix and match" approach to high-def files. The CD standard (16/44.1) can sit next to higher definition audio (like 24/96 or above) among tracks in the same album release. That's only apparent if the download is in a lossless format. Most people happily get through life unaware of that level of technical detail: if it's in stereo and it doesn't skip, it's fine. It's generally not a problem on modern devices...

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  This Friday is another #BandcampFriday which means that the music download platform takes a 0% cut of all sales for 24 hours. I hope to post a thread of recommended buys this time, on or before the day itself. Note to buyers in Ireland and the UK: Your Bandcamp purchases count towards the national sales charts, but ONLY AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD THEM. Also, big shout-out to Toronto's ARTOFFACT RECORDS (still not on Fedi) whose email announcements will once again refer to the day as "Bandcam...

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  ALL THE WAY TO THE CHIP SHOP! #TOTP

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  @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @normjess@tech.lgbt @HarriettMB@toot.wales Don't kink shame those who don't kink same.

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  Goth Rock from Brazil (2026) https://casadosmortos.bandcamp.com/track/magarefes All their tracks and albums are Name Your Price. #Punk #PostPunk #Darkwave #Gothic

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  And it's finally time to block the nixcraft account jesus tap dancing christ.

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  My Grandmother's House Stayed Cool All Summer Without AI Generated Slop Videos From Fake Amish Grandsons. #FuckingYouTube #DontRecomendChannel

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  Count Binface to stand against Farage in Clacton by-election (Manchester Evening News) Count Binface has announced he will be standing against Farage in the Clacton by-election, triggered by today's resignation. "Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house. Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it. Leave him to me." #CountBinface #Binface #...

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  This sentence has 14 words: "Daniel's donation to a political party is private and not part of Mullvad's mission." #Mullvad

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  @letsencrypt@infosec.exchange Tweets?

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  When Delorean Motor Company went out of business, they took a few smaller automotive suppliers down with them. Läpple, the company in Carlow that pressed the DMC12 panels, sold off the tooling for scrap, at a small fraction of their true value. https://www.delorean.ie/lapple.html "As part of the deal, we ended up owning them, and could dispose of them. We sold them to a scrap steel dealer, who sold them on to the fish farms off the west coast where they were used as anchors to hold d...

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  @Geri@mastodon.online And that was not the worst ever constituency result for the tory party. That was probably in Belfast West on 12 December 2019 (41 votes) https://electionresults.parliament.uk/elections/1998 No, it was (probably): Belfast West on 7 May 2015 (34 votes) https://electionresults.parliament.uk/elections/38

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  @csolisr @eunews@mastodon.social Don't tell anyone where 28.2 degrees East is?

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  @RobW@iosdev.space @J_D_X@dragonscave.space BBC News (on DTV in the UK, and on satellite at 28.2E FTA) is the BBC's 24hr rolling news channel. It shares the "big news" hours with the BBC One channel (where DTV viewers get regional news and weather as local opt-ins). BBC News has filler clips of different lengths, that they can play at any time to more easily sync the live presentation. One of the longer of these clips features Gary O'Donoghue, and has excerpts from his coverag...

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  @scudderfish@ohai.social @Landsil@infosec.exchange @mos_8502@studio8502.ca "And if an engineer's tie got caught in a drum printer they had about 10 seconds to scratch out a message to their next of kin before they choked to death. AND THE PRINTER WOULD KEEP ON RUNNING!" https://www.theregister.com/2013/07/26/bofh_2013_episode_5/ There is a much older BOFH article (from the early 1990s) where a service engineer's tie got caught in a drum printer, but I found this more recent o...

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  @terribletowelie @newsthump I.N.R.I. stands for: "Irritating Nails Removed Instantly"

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  It's an ESP32 controlling a BBD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a26DiRx0J3I

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  @marewrites It will be useful to know if the machine runs Win98 on an embedded computer (probably with its own flat-screen display), or if it has a companion PC for the programming.

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  Skoda developed (with the University of Salford) an all-mechanical bicycle bell that bypasses active noise cancellation (ANC) in headphones. https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-smart-headphones/ It's tuned to 750hz, which is a "blind spot" in most ANC headphone processing. There is also a resonator for a higher frequency, and the hammer produces irregular strikes, confusing the ANC further, and making pedestri...

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  Happy 303 Day! There is a myth that when Roland released the TB-303 in 1981, they had no idea that some of the tone controls would later be used (by tweaking knobs while the sequencer was running) to make an 'Acid' sound. A TB-303 advert from 1982 refers to these tone controls, and says: "to be varied at pleasure". "At Pleasure". THEY KNEW! https://www.muzines.co.uk/ad/5855 Here's an April 1982 review of the first 303 in the UK: htt...