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A low-fi audiozine that puts the punk back in cypherpunk.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 months ago
It's been 1 year of bitpunk.fm. I'm a bit tired, so excuses the sappy sincerity, but it's been a journey for me. I've learned so much in this year and much of that has come from a lot of people here. I will be taking these tapes back to Prague, where it all started. But I will reserve a few for postcard requests. Thank you, and good night.
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Side AStay Awhile by Able and the WolfLuv Song 4 U by HeyCitizenLong Distance DedicationLight and Shade by Delta OGLong Distance DedicationWomp Wom...
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 months ago
/dev/hack/day is going to be awesome, as it has been the last few years. And I'm happy to be participating in this event as well! image
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 months ago
Liner notes, like this one here not only list the performers but give credit to the engineers. It's sad in today's digital music era these details are lost. This is one of the reasons that the concept of value time splits are such a key feature in pidcasting 2.0. They are like a built in credit list where the payout is transparent and instantaneous. A lot of music and podcasts don't use this to its capability. I've started to be very generous with the splits on most of my feeds. It's recognition of people who have and continue to help me. And until you've tried it, or have been included in such a split, you really don't know how powerful they are. image
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 months ago
I've seen estimates that over 30,000 American veterans have killed themselves from the wars in Afganistan and Iraq alone. For today, Memorial Day in the US, I read 5 poems going into the history of this day and remembrance in general. In this performance, I call for a new memorial. One without names, to remember all of those who brought the war back with them home. https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYml0cHVuay5mbS9AcG9ldHJ5b250YXBlL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYml0cHVuay5mbS9AcG9ldHJ5b250YXBlL2VwaXNvZGVzL2xpdmUtYXQtdGhlLWx5cmljLTE5NTI1
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 months ago
What I like about nostr is it is just like old BBS systems, ones with very specific topics per board. You dial in (amethyst tor routing is kinda like dial up), see who's complaining about bitcoin culture, then disconnect.
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 months ago
I was just replying to @StevenB about the playlist culture and that new Spotify book, which I highly recommend everyone read. And what do you know, a new feature by bandcamp just announced: If you want a real mixtape, mail me a postcard, I'll make one for you. Don't dilute with digital. image
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bitpunk.fm is typing 7 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 7 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 7 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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