We may be entering an era in which the ability to make almost anything becomes ordinary, while the ability to know what is worth making becomes extraordinarily important
Received weather images directly from METEOR-M2-4 🛰️ from my garden! A simple 137 MHz V-dipole + SDRplay RSPdx-R2 + SatDump captured ~12 min of the 137.9 MHz LRPT downlink and decoded 3 image channels. Full experiment: gdamdam.github.io/meteor-satel... #SDR #SatDump #METEORM2 #radio #sanfrancisco
Meteor M2-4: From Signal to Image
A hands-on account of receiving and decoding Meteor M2-4 weather images at 137.9 MHz.
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A curated list of open protocols, applications, hardware, and resources for communication during internet shutdowns, disasters, censorship, and off-grid operation. github.com/gdamdam/awes...
GitHub - gdamdam/awesome-resilient-communication: A curated list of open protocols, applications, hardware, and resources for communication during internet shutdowns, disasters, intermittent connectiv...
A curated list of open protocols, applications, hardware, and resources for communication during internet shutdowns, disasters, intermittent connectivity, and off-grid operation. - gdamdam/awesome-...
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"The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life." Raoul Vaneigem 1934-2026 archive.org/details/Vane...
The Revolution of Everyday Life
One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas, this treatise presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism and serves as a cornerstone of modern radical thought. Originally publish...
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Techno jam with Roland Aira J6, T8 and Korg Volca Drum and FM2. #livetechno #hardwaretechno #dawlessjam #rolandaira #korgvolca
mdrone: a microtonal drone instrument that runs entirely in your browser. Hold one tone, let it drift for hours; phantom melodies surface on their own. 26 tuning systems, no install, no account. mdrone.org #microtonal #drone #ambient #webaudio #generativemusic #dronemusic
mdrone — Browser Drone Instrument (iPhone, iPad, Desktop)
Free browser drone instrument. Hold a note. Shape the air. Save the atmosphere. No install, no account.
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“The risk is not that AI will deceive you dramatically. It is that it will help you so smoothly, so pleasantly, so fluently, that you will gradually stop thinking for yourself without ever noticing the moment it happened.”
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
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mpump: a free browser groovebox for making electronic beats sharable as links. No install, no account. Free and open source. mpump.live #music #groovebox #electronicmusic #webdev #opensource #indiedev #techno
mpump — browser groovebox where grooves live in links
Make a groove. Send a link. Open, change, and resend. A browser instrument for shaping and sharing electronic music. No install. No account.
mpump.live
Hey fellow archivists iagitup v3.3.0 is out. github.com/gdamdam/iagi... Clones a git repository from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, or any HTTPS git URL, creates a portable git bundle, and uploads it to the Internet Archive with rich metadata.
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The calm pace of our livestreamed microfiche scanning may not show the scope of the work, so here’s a time-lapse revealing how many pages we can digitize in just one hour. 📡 Watch the real-time stream ⤵️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... #Preservation #Digitization #InternetArchive
"We say "seeing is believing" but actually, as Santayana pointed out, we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time and only occasionally seeing what we can't believe." Robert Anton Wilson
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” J.G.B.
Every Californian with an email address and an internet connection can now visit California’s Bookshelf and access more than 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks. www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025...
Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it
Microsoft research finds that we are outsourcing our brains to generative AI. the more we use it, the less we use our critical thinking
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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