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A low-fi audiozine that puts the punk back in cypherpunk.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
Looking into the history of RSS a bit. In the 90s there were fierce debates about the spec of this protocol. It is both "dead" and very much alive. Dead in the sense I think most internet users dont use it anymore. Alive in the sense that people who use it, use it several times a day. In the dead camp, it has been replaced by the feed. Even nostr tbh looks like a feed (which has roots in rss) even if it works differently. You can check X and because people are posting about all sorts of things, it acts as a bit of social syndication. RSS is syndicstion without social media. A client pulls the update from the producer directly, without needing a post about them, it often happens automatically. So its interesting to me that a more technically efficient protocol, just pulling the content directly, has been replaced by the social syndication. I think part of this is that it's less important what the content is, than the social media post about the content. In either case, rss or feed, there is often too much going on to stay updated. So perhaps both models also have faults. Anyway, morning thoughts, thanks for reading. Appreciate any insights y'all have.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
More bit trivia. 8 bits wasn't always the standard. ASCII was 7 bits for a while and there were 6 bit machines. So there were times you had to accept 6,7,or 8 bits as the byte. In embedded systems this comes up still though not as much. This is why greybeards will actually not use the word byte but "octet" to pedantically mean 8 bits groups.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
The nice thing about calling thing bits is trying to explain that there are 8 bits in a byte. Then you gotta explain that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, unless you sell hard drives, than it's only 1000 bytes. It really just makes sense.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
"To abandon violence is to abandon identity and return to tribal corportisim." -MM, overhead on the radio
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
"A hypnotizimable person is someone who just takes in this." Perhaps we'd say who consumes. Radio.bitpunk.fm
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
"Don't shout for help, shout fire if you want people to help you. People already feel to involved and don't want to help. But also fire is something to put out and move on with your life." Radio.bitpunk.fm
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
OH on radio.bitpunk.fm, a quote by Marshall McLuahn: "The voting age is right now 18, but in your time it will be 3." This guy.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 9 months ago
A substack friend of mine writes for Igloo magazine and has a nice writeup of this album here:
Igloo Magazine
Tarwater :: Nuts of Ay (Morr Music)
With each foray into the studio together, Jestram and Lippok seem to unite in that space where the third mind exists. Adding to these explorations ...
 Currently putting it on tape after grabbing it from bandcamp. The download album is super nice tbh, it let's you pick the format and gives you a zip with album art. Which @StevenB says The Split Kit can do, but I haven't tried it yet. Bandcamp really caters to the offline listener, which is cool. And there is nothing like taking wav files and putting them on cassette.
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