What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor
Could it be a misguided attempt at preventing the wires from interfering with each other? -
What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
Drop a paper clip and cross the streams!
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor david cronenberg gets a boner from these cables
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@bloor I think that's treatable with antibiotics.
@thomasclaburn @bloor I think you mean antifungals. Antibiotics can exacerbate a fungal infection by reducing competition from harmless bacteria. 🙃
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor I've seen some crazy crazy stuff for audiophile applications (especially the usage of actual high amounts of silver — spending an enormous amount to supposedly make it actually sound different just because of the cable) but this is just... Stupid... Like there's a reason you do twisted pair! Twisted pair actually will have better sound due to this probably picking up more noise, so whoever came up with this is a nut.
EDIT: Ok, apparently those are mains wires. So maybe not twisted pair unless really really well insulated, but still, this absolutely turns it into an antenna, which is exactly what you don't want...
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Drop a paper clip and cross the streams!
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@bloor ah yes, the maximally untwisted pair, for that extra interference on the signal lines. It greatly improves audio quality, or something.
@sophieschmieg hello "cage dipole".
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor #Audiophools are so funny
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@bloor it probably harmonises the electron wave function so they collapse at the same time as they enter the synergistic flux capacitor interface.
Or some such bollocks.
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@bloor #Audiophools are so funny
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor audiophiles are the biggest marks. they fall, in large numbers, for the "gold plated TOSLINK" trick.
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor >reduce interference
>also reduce shielding
as long as he's having fun and not buying solid gold cables -
What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor
yea, verly!😮 🤣 -
What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
Wacky, but doesn't beat the article where they compared the sound of digital music files stored on an NTFS file system versus those stored on an ext3 file system.
I can't remember which one won, but one of them reliably had a richer, fuller sound.
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor tbh, data centers would look way more cool if Ethernet cables looked like that.
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor seems legit
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
@bloor must not have any cats
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What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
I mean... it's ... creative?
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Dries Buytaert of Drupal fame blogged https://dri.es/ai-creates-asymmetric-pressure-on-open-source
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Starfleet Academy is excellent. I feel a little silly for not being more excited about it to begin with.
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@stefano yes it does.
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Anche Israele ufficialmente conferma il dato di 71000 vittime a Gaza
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RE: https://mastodon.uno/@Paoblog/115982415020381329
Ricevo dall'amico Paolo (che ringrazio) e ricondivido nel gruppo @Viaggi.
Alzi la mano chi non ha mai portato una power banco in aereo.
Purtroppo sono dispositivi che richiedono un minimo di attenzione, e accorgersi di non averla avuta a 9 km di quota non dovrebbe accadere.
Da qui i tentativi di regolamentarne l'uso o il trasporto di alcuni vettori.
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@kirakira pricing used to not help, has it been going down finally?
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Lazarustorm Lets a PiStorm Live Outside Your Old Amiga
The PiStorm is nothing new; if you’re familiar with the retrocomputer scene, you’ve probably heard of it. By replacing the 68k processor in an old Amiga (or some models of Atari) the PiStorm accelerator gives a multiple order of magnitude speedup. It’s even a reversable mod, plugging in where the original CPU was. What’s not to love? Well, some people would simply prefer to keep their original CPUs in place. [TME Retro] has a video highlighting the solution for those people: the Lazarustorm by [arananet].
It makes perfect sense to us– back in the day, you could plug a whole x86 PC-compatible ‘sidecar’ into your Amiga, so why not a PiStorm? The whole bus is right there for the taking.The Lazarusstorm, as a project, is bog simple compared to the PiStorm itself. A PCB and the connectors to get it plugged into the expansion port on the Amiga side, and the connectors to plug the PiStorm into it on the other. A couple of jumpers and a few passives, and that’s it. [TME Retro] also took the time to come up with a case for it, which sits on felt feet to relieve stress on the PCBs. It’s a nice bit of CAD, but we rather wish he’d done it in beige.
As for the upgraded Amiga, it runs just as fast as it would had the 68k been replaced with a Pi3 and PiStorm internally, which is to say it’s practically a supercomputer by 1980s standards. You get the SD card to serve as a hard drive and can even access the internet via modern WiFi, something Commodore engineers likely never expected an A500 to do. Of course, just connecting to the network is only half the battle when getting these retro machines online. When these accelerators were new, the 68k emulation ran on top of Linux, but now that the EMU68k project has it bare metal and even faster.
This isn’t the first Raspberry-flavoured slice of Amiga sidecar we’ve featured: here’s one running Spotify. If you haven’t got an Amiga, there’s a PiStorm for the FPGA-based MiniMig, too.
