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Why does anyone need to? I would imagine billions of personal discoveries go unannounced every day. Is it a good use of resources to add more noise to world when you discover something that is already well documented? I don't think so, but then again everyone seems to have been trained to share personal discoveries like it's a grand discovery, for the sake of self advertising?

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Did you see the video? There was one proprietary, weakly encrypted part that she discovered, cracked and documented.

Secondly, while individually each thing is independently documented (RDS, Nyquist criteria, sound cards, FSK/QPSK, etc), it is nice to see someone bring all of it together. Surely you don't mean to say that you have not relied on web resources to pull together a project, where one _could_ go to more primary sources, but you are thankful that someone showed you the way?

Like someone said, "Look around you. Everything is someone's passion project". I welcome everyone's passion project. It is not noise if I am interested.

Yes. Those discoveries can add context to things that are already "well-documented." I'd hate a world where's no information about topics other than official (tm) documentation. It's sometimes rediscovering things are that implicit knowledge by the people who made the documentation, because how could they consider anyone not knowing something so obvious.

Sharing and discovery is a fundamentally human act. It’s not noise. Celebrate people that want to learn, share and develop ideas.

Obligatory XKCD “Ten Thousand” https://xkcd.com/1053/

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