Hacker News: meatsock

New comment by meatsock in "Genesis and Sega CD – Audio Filtering"

meatsock — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:58:46 +0000

it's a fair watch:

D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org) 3/2/2013 https://youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

New comment by meatsock in "Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul"

meatsock — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 21:38:11 +0000

i'm excited about dril mentioning doing anything in the style of Brass Eye [1] (a satiric british news show from the 90s)

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=En3TYdWfwaw

New comment by meatsock in "Albert Camus"

meatsock — Tue, 30 May 2023 19:57:28 +0000

it is pronounced "[KA] + [MOO]", not "[KA] + [MUS]"

New comment by meatsock in "Official Home Page for the PCMCIA Trade Association (2008)"

meatsock — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:49:48 +0000

It is a useful standard - plastic PCMCIA card protectors make good card wallets.

New comment by meatsock in "Electronic Music Pioneer Manuel Göttsching dead at 70"

meatsock — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:32:10 +0000

it was sampled in a whole bunch of tunes

code 718 - equinox - https://youtu.be/Ffal9nAd1Sg

MOTU - Do You Want Me (Disco Latino Mix) - https://youtu.be/QV02KvyNQb8

paperclip people (carl craig) - remake uno - https://youtu.be/BdSFKvnpu2Y

New comment by meatsock in "A History of Encabulation"

meatsock — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 03:24:19 +0000

part of the development of the IFB, the earpiece in common use on every tv news show: The turboencabulator skit was originally intended to demonstrate the usefulness of earpiece radios as a replacement for cue cards when actors are delivering lines for a video. Bud Haggart wanted to show that you could use the earpiece effectively even when the lines get ridiculously difficult to follow, so he used the turboencabulator as a subject because it'd been a running gag in the engineering community ever since its first technical description was published by John Hellins Quick in 1944.

New comment by meatsock in "Books You Should Read: The Soul of a New Machine"

meatsock — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:12:57 +0000

RIYL

Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - Tim Wu

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Michael A. Hiltzik

*edit - add crlf

New comment by meatsock in "Ardour 7.0"

meatsock — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:43:41 +0000

> my own fledging attempts at electronic music.

i'd like to hear more about that.

New comment by meatsock in "The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago"

meatsock — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:40:25 +0000

the hackers soundtrack is fantastic and includes some of the best electronic music from the era. the version of halcyon and on is in my opinion almost as good as the original 11 minute 12" uk promo edit [0], which may not have fit on this soundtrack.

in 2020 varese sarabande released an expanded 2xCD of the hackers soundtrack [1]. the second disk includes full length versions of the instrumental electronic music composed for the film by simon boswell [2] but not included on the 1 disk soundtrack and is absolutley essential listening while rollerblading to the payphones at penn station.

[0] https://www.discogs.com/release/42711-Orbital-Halcyon

[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/15991139-Various-Hackers-Ori...

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/68855-Simon-Boswell

New comment by meatsock in "Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)"

meatsock — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:32:47 +0000

it is hard not to mention the fine WGBH produced re-enactment [1] version of this story any time this book is mentioned. there's also a german film from the POV of the other side of cliff's story [2]

[1] https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_173A6CB5E5234750BEFB591...

[1] https://youtu.be/PGv5BqNL164

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)

New comment by meatsock in "GPSJam: Daily Maps of GPS Interference"

meatsock — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:01:52 +0000

> I sometimes wonder if I would disrupt someone's nascent [systematic interference] business model if I started publishing my maps regularly.

it seems obvious publishing this might not be fully appreciated by the crowd who jams. has this project generated any complaints?

New comment by meatsock in "The Minitel system in France (1988)"

meatsock — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:39:47 +0000

here is a blog post [1] that links to a terminfo file [2] written by Alexandre Montaron that might help. [1]: https://chapelierfou.org/blog/a-minitel-as-a-linux-terminal.... [2]: https://chapelierfou.org/files/mntl.ti

Curious Marc goes inside Apollo's premodulation processor

meatsock — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_0BdCWHDY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31661632

Points: 6

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New comment by meatsock in "Open call – your field recordings of obsolete sounds wanted"

meatsock — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:59:32 +0000

his 2017 release 'music for percussion' [1] and large and immersive video installations [2] are worth a look as well

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/11738371-Ryoji-Ikeda-Eklekto...

[2]: https://youtu.be/omDK2Cm2mwo

New comment by meatsock in "Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China"

meatsock — Tue, 24 May 2022 20:21:53 +0000

I also wanted to see some original source images. As in times past, a random slashdot user [1] comes through in a pinch: [2]

[1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/05/20/1732226/ancient-for... [2]: https://twitter.com/NineDragons2/status/1524634961525026819

New comment by meatsock in "Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content"

meatsock — Tue, 17 May 2022 18:51:02 +0000

> I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there!

i hope that discussing secondhand sales in the context of piracy might not be off-topic. if it is on topic, discogs.com is a decent source for most secondhand recordings. if you visit [1] you'll see there are two different sellers offering copies there, as well as price histories. i have not found many releases not listed on discogs.

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6768123-Straighten-Things-Ou...

New comment by meatsock in "Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not"

meatsock — Tue, 10 May 2022 13:56:14 +0000

the headline would be clearer with punctuation re-added before the word 'not' to reflect the author's sarcasm

New comment by meatsock in "The record player from the engine bay of an 80’s Datsun car [video]"

meatsock — Sat, 07 May 2022 17:15:24 +0000

another unexpected electro-mechanical rotational automotive output device is the sequential turn signal on a thunderbird

https://youtu.be/sd6hwx0h4Ys

New comment by meatsock in "Dang's Comments"

meatsock — Mon, 02 May 2022 12:55:21 +0000

forums are so rarely that way without one, visible or not

New comment by meatsock in "The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) by the KLF"

meatsock — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:28:24 +0000

in addition to helping to liberate kopyright, the KLF have also done us the favor of archiving some relatable artistic sound works in perpetuity at the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/the-klf-chill-out-1990