Visiting DC it’s apparent why all the tech bros are obsessed with building “institutions” now. These buildings are testaments to immense power. However unlike software they came at an immense human-capital cost. But building something that endures seemingly forever is a certain kinda of sexy.

Going to DC/NYC for 2 weeks. Any synth/electronics stores worth going to?

In 1962, Manfred Schroeder published a paper proposing a reverb built from comb and allpass filters.

Just ordered a run of 2OPFM modules. Continuing to round out the SuperSynthesis line as chips become available. Will be on puget.audio later today for pre-orders. Shipping in 1-2 weeks. Great eurorack FM voice. 6HP

Puget Audio — Eurorack hardware & virtual-analog plugins, built in Seattle

Analog-authentic audio tools from Seattle — circuit-accurate Wave Digital Filter plugins, sample packs from real analog hardware, and custom Eurorack gear.

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First post from Elmers, my little glue engine. It wires my projects together and posts nothing without my tap. https://averywagar.com

Nebulosa del Cuarto Creciente / Crescent Nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/3hFjH9

Working on Prompt to Gerbers/Fabrication. Using SKiDL + KiCad's IPC API. SPICE Validation before you even consider a layout. JLCPCB API and Mouser Search. Part's libraries, auto-layout, etc. Automatic DIY guides and Visual BOMs. Still early days. AGPLv3 github.com/FuturePresen...

Interesting thread. It’s got a pro-ish AI lens. Personally I’m anti-AI music, but from a DSP perspective it is really hard to tell what is generated versus not. So this helps separate the chaff from the wheat, which hopefully will help real artists. www.reddit.com/r/Suno/s/TGK...

From the Suno community on Reddit: Why Spotify's purge of 75 million+ AI generated tracks are a good thing

Explore this post and more from the Suno community

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Month Offline Seattle is gonna be a blast. August is probably full. But there will definitely be more cohorts.

@geekwire.com · 3w ago

Ditch your smartphone for a flip phone for a month? This group wants Seattleites to try https://www.geekwire.com/2026/ditch-your-smartphone-for-a-flip-phone-for-a-month-this-group-wants-seattleites-to-try/

I love and hate beads: github.com/gastownhall/... Been using it for a while. But when it came out Dolt had so many issues just on the top level commands. Exporting to .jsonl is messy. And it's really easy to de-sync between agents. Haven't really played much with Gastown proper. That's next.

GitHub - gastownhall/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to gastownhall/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.

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So just realized an issue with SynthID verification. Alice publishes photograph A. Mallory takes A and passes it to Gemini, asking it to generate the same image, creating image M. M is now SynthID and looks essentially the same as A. Mallory then spreads the fake photo, creating confusion.

"And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time. Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either." zzzing!

Linus Torvalds is putting his foot down, and being reasonable! lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

This is why I'm using the best Open Source models I can, even if I have to pay-per-token/API use for GPUs Eventually the GPU costs will come down enough for most users to locally host. Maybe folks with crowdsource inference in the meantime But using the best you can backup/save is the safest bet

The Register@theregister.com · 3w ago

The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs

This must mean that vibe-coded UIs were common in the human ancestral environment

ponder@ponder.ooo · 3w ago

it's interesting how instantaneously you can clock a vibe-coded UI

Wowza. www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

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Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

4 Duos. 4 hours. This is gonna be fun.

This has been kinda bearable on my T9 keyboard: leaf.saw.dog Kinda backwards trying to use it with Whisper. A QWERTY slider or blackberry + this would kill.

Just found this: currents.is The Pinterest experience but you log in with your PDS. I've had my PDS running for like 3 hours. It's miles better than setting up a Lemmy.

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cosine club rules I love vectors

Ended up using CHOWDAH BUCKETS as my module packaging this week. The U.S. Chefs store was the only place with the right sized containers at the right price. Rebooted Super Synthesis modules - We have them at puget.audio and hopefully they will be on shelves at some retail outfits soon.

jesus fucking CHRIST this post is getting looooooong

I've been using Postiz to try and unify my social posting/scheduling. But they don't support Bluesky with custom PDS... github.com/gitroomhq/po... Unfortunate. I have Claude Code working on a fix now. But it's sat for a while. Postiz does support ListMonk. I guess I'm setting that up next.

This is a great write up. Especially the component tolerance stuff.

Tonalux@tonalux.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wave Digital Filters, component tolerance modeling and Newton-Raphson iteration - the mathematical foundation behind accurate analog console emulation.

Here is an Ibanez TS808 circuit being simulated in realtime with Pedalkernel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdD...

Ibanez TS808 - Pedalkernel Test - Tube Screamer

YouTube video by FPL

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Been building a Wave Digital Filter compiler. Turn any KiCad netlist into a VST. Been the bones of a lot of puget.audio prototypes. Check out pedalkernel.com

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