@catsalad Yeah.

@luna pillow!

@jpm “this field should’ve been an email”

nova is napping on my computer

@theonion absolutely killed it this month with their print ads

@rbreich Including public health

@liaizon 22.5.2026 https://bianet.org/haber/istanbul-bilgi-university-shut-down-by-presidential-decree-319833

I would prefer not to.

@g pro-level

OH: we had that field changed from 255 characters to 1500 to enable the business to put in a detailed enough justification

In designing a USB microphone or speaker or whatever... If we upgrade to use a proper microcontroller (whether an 8bit AVR core including a 16bit multiplier, or even our Digital Signal Processor) we can offer further audio processing via USB!

Whether its actually useful is another question...

We can offer to mix different audio "channels" together at different volumes. Adjusting volume is a multiply operation across all the sample of a channel. Mixing involving summing them.

1/?

Heck if we do choose to implement using the FFT I'd be tempted to use our hypothetical Digital Signal Processor, after all I specifically designed it for that algorithm!

With that it should be no trouble for software to implement volume, mute, bass/mid/treble tone-control, or delay. Heck we could upgrade to splitting the audio more frequency bands giving us a "graphic equalizer"!

And I neglected to mention Automatic Gain Control earlier for the sole I didn't know what that was.

3/?

We can offer, at the peripheral's choice of position in its audio-processing pipeline, to let the host pick between different sound sources. Could be useful for toggling hardware features!

I've already discussed how I'd implement (largely as a side-effect of getting digital audio to work) most of a "Feature Unit" in analogue circuitry. We can use simple formulas (incorporating delayed input) to implement low & high-pass filters, or we can use the Fast Fourier Transform.

2/?

Every empire collapsed the same way:

Comfort replaced discipline.
Entertainment replaced purpose.
Short-term thinking replaced long-term vision.

Rome wasn’t destroyed in a day….

If I'm reading Wikipedia correctly ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_gain_control ) Automatic Gain Control is a circuit to ensure audio doesn't excede what our speakers can handle. And to smooth results out so its not noticed. Its probably best left to analog circuitry, whilst USB defines a way to request our peripheral enable or disable this circuit.

USB lets peripherals offer to remix the channels they're given into more or fewer channels.

Its probably not worth checking if I can discuss Dolby Prologic.

4/5

I went and did it. Made a longer-form video explaining our open-source battery project and diving into the details of the kit and chemistries we're working with!

It would really help our project out a lot if you could share this with interested folks.

YouTube link (feed the algorithm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWBX1eLDr8

And of course, PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/4wTobcS16Ww5UAZVMWrC9E

Please let me know what you think, comments, criticisms, suggestions---first time I've made a video like this and I have a lot to learn.

Google Is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-Ification of Google?)

https://zeroshot.bearblog.dev/google-is-shattering-under-its-own-weight-the-ibm-ification-of-google/

#HackerNews #Google #Shattering #IBM #Ification #Tech #News #Trends

I think I'll leave discussing 3D-Stereo, Reverb, Chorus, & Dynamic Range Compression until tomorrow.

And the peripheral can offer to do whatever else it wants, not that it can expect the computer to know what its talking about.

4.3/4.3 Fin for today!

Assuming Google goes through with their newly announced changes, there's no longer any reason to not block their crawlers, right? They aren't going to be sending anyone to your site, just stealing what you wrote and rewording it with errors. So.… why not just block them?

I use to think the Freenet project was an interesting idea. I checked out their mailing list recently, and now it's in my bucket of things like Nostr that look slick but are so toxic I wouldn't touch their communities with a fucking telephone pole.

https://www.mail-archive.com/devl@freenetproject.org/msg55345.html