Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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Cake day: October 2nd, 2023

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  • I check a hatfull of old links -every day- (a sort of hobby), and am constantly surprised to see all they’ve stashed away there.

    Recommend their browser extension for that. If you come across a page that fails to load, it will tell you if it -knows- people have asked it save a copy. If not, and you paste the failed URL into the ‘Search URL’ box, there’s about a 2 in 3 chance you will come up a winner.

    If you land on a working page that you really like, and it doesn’t have a memory of it, it will -usually- save it for you if you click on -Save Page Now-. Yeah, that’s YOU backing up the good stuff.

    Lately I’ve seen stuff going back as far the late 90s. One of my most-useful extensions… and there’s a lot out there worth saving!








  • In the US, if you go to the store and ask where are the tea towels are, they’ll look at you funny, then suggest you look in the T-shirt department.

    I’m not a commie, and if god forsook me, how would I know?

    OTOH, I still mostly only drink Red Rose and Tetley, and given enough steep time … say 10 or 15 minutes … they’re not so nasty. And I was born -next- to Canada, so I can’t be -too- disabled.










  • We can do what we can do to stop making it worse. Work togetther to change our habits. Do what we can to make do with less and feel good about it. “Every dollar is a vote”, definitely. Work with the people who know what’s in store for them, like farmers. Skip a trip now and then. Use mass transit more. Keep improving our home, if we have one, so it’s better-insulated. Use better options for heating (wear more clothes instead of burning more fuel) and cooling. Stop admiring consumption and buy lasting, healthier products. Walk away from wasteful consumption, the investors will turn elsewhere unless companies respond.

    We can keep in mind the world we’re making, and how we will best to live in it. And become living examples of alternatives that are inevitable.



  • That needs to be done with a combination of hardware and OS. The hardware needs to allow setting the maximum analog audio voltage delivered at the audio outputs. The OS needs to let users make that choice and then enforce it.

    Of course, more highly-compressed audio will still sound louder. For that you’d need to be able to measure the average delivered voltage and compensate for it. Also easy to do in hardware. Audio has always been an after-thought in consumer electronics (since TV’s came along anyway) and computers have continued that tradition.