One for the American doggies…

I notice some X users have been here again. Did something happen on the fake internet?

Money saving tip… Instead of buying expensive sourdough bread, find a plank of wood and try chewing that. Exactly the same feeling.

Funny reading posts saying that being a Nostr user somehow suggests a high IQ. I’ve a sneaking suspicion mine isn’t to be honest.

Appreciate this is an overly niche question for Nostr but I’ll ask anyway as no one else to ask… Do any UK musicians self releasing and NOT using streaming services have any idea on generating IRSC codes? Trying to navigate PPL’s site is driving me nuts.

Curious to know, do podcasters use any software that balances the audio? I'm tempted to do some measurements after a particularly bad listen last night where the difference between guest and host was easily 10dB (Decibels are a logarithmic measure, a difference of 6dB is equal to doubling/halving of output). Particularly anoying as an audio guy but I'm sure anyone listening would find it particularly difficult, especially if on earphones. I turned off after a few mins, was way too annoying. Folks say about listening to 40 hours per week but with the level mismatch, this works out at closer to 8 hours as 32 hours were inaudible. If you're a podcaster, there's plugins that can do this stuff that work in your DAW. I appreciate sometimes guests have bad recording environments but this is basic levels stuff, both voices should be around the same amplitude (who knew!? lol). I actually just went to the podcaster's site to email them about the issue but the only links I found were for Spotify, LinkedInPark, Instagram, Facebacon and X so fuck them lol. I'll just try some other, non fiat, podcast instead. Or maybe I should do a 10 hour pod called What Is Audio? Hmmm....

Good morning.

Interesting read. Well done to the customer who worked out how to fix the little shit.

Tom

Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.

I know folks aren’t generally fans of seed oils but what’s the consensus on cooking with Strychnine?

A friend introduced me to Fentanyl Rap music last night. Still 808s and saying stuff but with the addition of some pretty bad face tattoos. Every day a learning day.