If your cassette deck is screaming at you or making an odd sound, really scrub those pinch rollers. Most people think the tape is pulled from the rotating sprockets -- it's not. The capstan and the pinch rollers pull the tape at a (somewhat) constant speed. You gotta get in there and really scrub those rollers. The heads will also collect rust of course, but I see a lot of neglected rollers.

Peter Schiff is the boomer Jack Mallers.

Record Players are the hardware wallets of bitcoin, spotify is the exchange. View quoted note →

Do you own a record player? is increasingly a better filter than do you own bitcoin? at this point.

People ask me: but Bitpunk.fm, how do I post to this nostr client that ChadF made? Simple. You just boost @Sir Spencer, Wolf of KC 🐺 and @DuhLaurien ✌🏻👽💨 and their Bowl after Bowl show. View quoted note →

@ChadF and 33 others has vibe coded the perfect nostr client. View quoted note →

On AI slop on spotify View quoted note →

"Bitcoin is where my frustrations began." This entire article is excellent. Technology can often become an ouroboros -- self eating snake. I've heard now multiple people complain about AI slop on wavlake. It's even a bigger problem on spotify too. Everyone wants to solve music discovery with some new platform or protocol. What we need is word of mouth by humans. View quoted note →

Bitchat. The best way to talk to someone in the same room as you without looking up from your phone.

I thought your relay information was stored in your profile? I loaded noStreudelForYou and it didn't have the mostr relays? This happens too in ham radio so I'm used to this kind of user experience. I will be using one radio and it works fine and pick up another and all my settings are gone.

Gen Z buys vinyl. I have hope for the future. I'm more impressed by a stack of vinyl than a stack of sats.

Substack

Emily White (@emwhitenoise)

GenZ ❤️’s Vinyl A quote from a 20-year-old record store owner (not a record store that has been around for 20 years, an owner that has only...

I made this with the 424 tape machine yesterday. I had not used it in a while and it was getting dusty. I performed this poem live but couldn't play the trumpet and talk at the same time, so thanks to cassette technology, this is possible! It's a very nice analog flow on the 4 track. There is a blemish of a note I have, but I really like how 99% of the sound came out and it's a bit difficult to fix just that one note. But I prefer this flow sometimes.

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Oh, I'm trying nostrudel now, I think it might be better to not have nostr on my phone.

I'm going to delete Amethyst for a week to see how it feels. If you want to get a hold of me, my preferred mediums are my PO Box and a boostagram. I enjoy checking the PO Box and I really enjoy sending listeners cassettes, which I will gladly do for free if you send me a postcard. P.O. Box 273029 Fort Collins, CO 80525

What I like about nostr is it feels just like my IPv6 meetups. Nostr isn't as popular as IPv6, but one day, it will solve all the problems of legacy protocols -- just like IPv6.

Everytime I see a new app advertising it's now built with nostr, in my mind I will replace nostr with HTTP. Then, I will be able to calibrate my excitement. A new music app built with HTTP! A new chat app built with HTTP! A new social media app with HTTP!

I lik blossom servers. They are as slow as cassettes.

My latest poem was compared to a Jesse Welles song. I'll take it.

On the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

A poem

OH, "the POINT is to increase the FOMO."

OH, "who has given chatgpt their private key and seen if it steals their funds yet?"

OH, "I accept lightning -- you can mail me a cashu token to the PO Box."