meatsock

it's a fair watch:

D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org) 3/2/2013 https://youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

i'm excited about dril mentioning doing anything in the style of Brass Eye [1] (a satiric british news show from the 90s)

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=En3TYdWfwaw

it is pronounced "[KA] + [MOO]", not "[KA] + [MUS]"

It is a useful standard - plastic PCMCIA card protectors make good card wallets.

it was sampled in a whole bunch of tunes

code 718 - equinox - https://youtu.be/Ffal9nAd1Sg

MOTU - Do You Want Me (Disco Latino Mix) - https://youtu.be/QV02KvyNQb8

paperclip people (carl craig) - remake uno - https://youtu.be/BdSFKvnpu2Y

part of the development of the IFB, the earpiece in common use on every tv news show: The turboencabulator skit was originally intended to demonstrate the usefulness of earpiece radios as a replacement for cue cards when actors are delivering lines for a video. Bud Haggart wanted to show that you could use the earpiece effectively even when the lines get ridiculously difficult to follow, so he used the turboencabulator as a subject because it'd been a running gag in the engineering community ever since its first technical description was published by John Hellins Quick in 1944.

RIYL

Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - Tim Wu

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Michael A. Hiltzik

*edit - add crlf

> my own fledging attempts at electronic music.

i'd like to hear more about that.

the hackers soundtrack is fantastic and includes some of the best electronic music from the era. the version of halcyon and on is in my opinion almost as good as the original 11 minute 12" uk promo edit [0], which may not have fit on this soundtrack.

in 2020 varese sarabande released an expanded 2xCD of the hackers soundtrack [1]. the second disk includes full length versions of the instrumental electronic music composed for the film by simon boswell [2] but not included on the 1 disk soundtrack and is absolutley essential listening while rollerblading to the payphones at penn station.

[0] https://www.discogs.com/release/42711-Orbital-Halcyon

[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/15991139-Various-Hackers-Ori...

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/68855-Simon-Boswell

it is hard not to mention the fine WGBH produced re-enactment [1] version of this story any time this book is mentioned. there's also a german film from the POV of the other side of cliff's story [2]

[1] https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_173A6CB5E5234750BEFB591...

[1] https://youtu.be/PGv5BqNL164

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)

> I sometimes wonder if I would disrupt someone's nascent [systematic interference] business model if I started publishing my maps regularly.

it seems obvious publishing this might not be fully appreciated by the crowd who jams. has this project generated any complaints?

here is a blog post [1] that links to a terminfo file [2] written by Alexandre Montaron that might help. [1]: https://chapelierfou.org/blog/a-minitel-as-a-linux-terminal.... [2]: https://chapelierfou.org/files/mntl.ti

his 2017 release 'music for percussion' [1] and large and immersive video installations [2] are worth a look as well

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/11738371-Ryoji-Ikeda-Eklekto...

[2]: https://youtu.be/omDK2Cm2mwo

I also wanted to see some original source images. As in times past, a random slashdot user [1] comes through in a pinch: [2]

[1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/05/20/1732226/ancient-for... [2]: https://twitter.com/NineDragons2/status/1524634961525026819

> I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there!

i hope that discussing secondhand sales in the context of piracy might not be off-topic. if it is on topic, discogs.com is a decent source for most secondhand recordings. if you visit [1] you'll see there are two different sellers offering copies there, as well as price histories. i have not found many releases not listed on discogs.

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6768123-Straighten-Things-Ou...

the headline would be clearer with punctuation re-added before the word 'not' to reflect the author's sarcasm

another unexpected electro-mechanical rotational automotive output device is the sequential turn signal on a thunderbird

https://youtu.be/sd6hwx0h4Ys

forums are so rarely that way without one, visible or not

in addition to helping to liberate kopyright, the KLF have also done us the favor of archiving some relatable artistic sound works in perpetuity at the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/the-klf-chill-out-1990

i have found that an external broadcast television tuner with a regular hdmi display works well for my needs. the mediasonic HW220STB includes a PVR function to record broadcasts but the firmware is a bit old. Contemporary Research 232-ATSC is an older but fully capable tuner with rs-232 and ethernet remote control and can be had for around $100. there's a newer model called "232-ATSC 4K" which retails for around $1k and offers 4K output - the older one only goes up to 1080.

these are both ATSC tuners so they're fine for me in the US, but there is of course a different broadcast standard in non-US countries so this advice won't apply there.

here[1] are some artists using algorithms based on biological organisims to create some stuff that's just visually fantastic. in this example they've created a nice looking objects based on reaction diffusion wrt brain coral growth.

[1]: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/

in the past i've found that replacing all instances of 'http' with 'hxxp' in data from untrusted or dangerous sources will reduce the chances of accidentally accessing URIs that you would not want anyone to be able to go to accidentally. it's an extra hoop to jump through, like spelling out an email address to stymie spam harvestors.

heres a good demonstration of LÖVR showing a unique selection interface https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1214638887173099520?s=...

the venetian snares album mentioned in this article is quite good.

laser readers are worse than using a needle because you can't rely on the laser to push dust & detritus out of the way nor to ignore smaller faults that would not even register using a stylus, so the recording ends up requiring more noise reduction and attention than using bog standard low price styli.

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14964384

if you would like to view some examples in use, the recent lyric video for blue monday [1] has some of mr saville's code visible.

[1] https://youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us

his interests in rf extend to pop music - he also invented the theremin

you can accomplish this by automating VR6A on pin 6 of the pt2399. one oldschool method to add CV control of a potentiometer is to control the resistance with a vactrol.

if the display is too dim and you have verified the analog board is good, crt rejuvenation is an option [1] but if it doesnt come on at all, replace the crt.

[1] https://youtu.be/YikOY8WTnLU

I feel like the Outer Space Employment Agency could give people a hand up in these times