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Disclosure: I am not *anymore* an audiophile. I used to be. Hearing loss and subsequent tinnitus screwed that up for me. Now the only things that annoy me in audio is the underwater sound from insufficient bitrate and the tendency for some reconstructions to exaggerate the "s" sounds. I still try to keep midrange sane and tune the EQ for clarity. Everything else is what it has always been, good contacts and acoustics.
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Such a stereo-typical take on audiophiles. Audio that sounds like it came FROM mud (low bitrate mp3 anyone?) is very different than sound that was piped THROUGH mud. Also, these were electric signals, not sound waves. Assuming contacts were good, I wouldn't expect to hear any meaningful difference, and that's with analog; digital would be de facto zero difference.
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Looks like a self fulfilling prophecy to me. Poking that bear is kind of stupid. While Mr. Mango is pissing off our allies over Greenland, China is an absolute powerhouse with strategic allies.. China has production, India has programmers, and Russia has lots of naturally cold climate to plug it in and gas reserves to power it.
The only way to sanely and securely compete is to bring all stages of production home on a massive scale, and we're many years behind on that front.
In some weird way I am glad it was this and not something state sponsored.
#Kimwolf #Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network #I2P
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/kimwolf-botnet-swamps-anonymity-network-i2p/
The app you're looking for is called NewPipe, and you can get it through F-droid.
NewPipe supports YouTube, Peertube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and Media tripple-c, does overlay and background play.
What you have to realize is ICE has what amounts to a no constitution zone anywhere within a hundred miles of an international border, including coastlines; they need no reason to stop you in here. This affects all of FL, MS, Louisiana, and NJ, petty much all of New England, most of CA, OR, and WA, NY (all of NYC), MI, WI, PA, large chunks of every other border state north and south.. basically about half the land mass and 9/10's the population.
I suppose Colorado is still okay to visit.
I think the darkweb (Tor and i2p) is going to see some uptick in response, since anonymity still means something there. It won't be as much as it should be only because the average user can't be arsed to configure a proxy setting, but for those willing to learn, the sanctuary will be there.
"Almost all criticism of Section 230 is not actually about Section 230. It’s about one of two things: (1) not liking something in society that manifests online, and incorrectly believing that changing the law will somehow fix it, or (2) wanting control over what content platforms host."
I find the timing of this suspicious. I'm concerned the Nancy Guthrie case is going to be used as an excuse to launch an all-out attack on all darkweb users. The flooding going on right now could be an attempt by the feds to slow down the network and trace certain communication origins, or otherwise "map" the network.
I hope I'm wrong, but I think there's about to be a hard push to make using i2p, maybe tor, anonymous remailers, and some other anonymizing tools a criminal offense.
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