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Jen Costillo

@rebelbotjen.bsky.social

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast host, Artistic Director of Cat Machines Dance, and Voiceover Talent. I guess I do engineering too (Project Jacquard, pixel buds and more) @rebelbotjen, @catmachinesSF, @unnamed_show, @rebelJenVo

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Ken Shirriff@righto.com · 19h ago

I opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from 1984. Filters are important circuits, for example, adjusting the bass or treble in an audio signal. This chip, the MF10, was popular because it combined two filters into an easy-to-use chip. Let's take a closer look…

A die photo of the chip under a microscope. It is rectangular, with complicated horizontal and vertical white lines (the metal wiring layer). It has some reddish regions, in particular 72 small reddish squares in the middle (the capacitors). Underneath, the silicon is gray. Around the edges, 20 tiny bond wires are attached to pads; these wires connect the die to the external package.
Jen Costillo@rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 3d ago

I just assume the shaky foundation of PCs as legacy that exist still today means what the fix was then remains THE fix. What drove it home was computer Viruses from that period are the basis of today’s viruses.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d ago

It annoys me just how much "turn it off and turn it on again" is actually the way to solve 80% of computer/phone/tech issues. On one hand: Actually great because it's simple and easy. On the other: generations of IT dudes being smug because they were right all along.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng : My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voice. Me: I can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
Internet Archive@archive.org · last wk.

What do you get when @Negativlandland.bsky.social brings its sound collage, sampling and cultural mischief to the Internet Archive? 🎛️📚 KQED’s Gabe Meline reviews the collision of experimental music, technology, fair use and the strange business of preserving culture. www.kqed.org/arts/1399397...

At the Internet Archive, Negativland Reminds the World Why They Matter | KQED

Two Bay Area institutions came together for a night of soundscapes, sampling and discussion about art.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last wk.

Trying to explain an Internet freedom issue to family or friends? Check out EFF's page with a bunch of one-pager handouts to help you learn about different subjects and share with the people around you! www.eff.org/pages/eff-o...

EFF One-Pager Handouts

Keeping up on all of the information surrounding privacy and free speech on the internet can be challenging whether trying to educate someone in your life, providing resources to your community, or

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Jen Costillo@rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m very disappointed that this documentary about George Michael has an expert talking about the Wham! period and refuses to title them “noted Whamologist” Really big miss there.

Jen Costillo@rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 3w ago

All I’m saying is if you are generating your own future blackmail material, don’t go so far as to use a green sceen, After Effects, and Logic before realizing this is a bad idea. Do it before you use these products.

Jen Costillo@rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yay for California labeling AI in commercials. Yay for the discourse around AI. Yet confusingly tech grabbed every idea from sci-fi(in many cases verbatim). The fucking conventiently ignored Asimov 3 rules 🤖 to be built in at a baseline. The 📉 of a “classical” & siloed education 🔩 us again.