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NASA's photo galley from yesterday's lunar fly-by are bonkers gorgeous

full gallery here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

Amiga Sampler by THE DESTROYER šŸ’¾
VST for Windows that emulates the Amiga's Paula chip for sample creation

šŸ’» Win (VST)
šŸŽ FREE https://www.thedestroyer.it/amigaSAMPLER.html

More freeware šŸ‘‰ https://linktr.ee/legalvst

#freeplugin #amiga #8bit #sampler #retrosound #sounddesign #vstplugin

A large Easter egg in 2026, about £7 for less than 200g of chocolate. Eggshitification.

This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

h/t @jeeynet https://framapiaf.org/@jeeynet/116359059101502550

AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

Rude Vulture

@EUCommission #Recycling should have a back seat to #REUSE.

My Brussels municipality is actually an obstacle to reuse. They ban people dumping e-waste on the street -- which blocks neighbors from salvaging stuff. Then the e-waste goes to a protectionist corporation (ā€œRecupelā€) who repairs very little, and wastefully /recycles/ the materials. I have a dozen broken appliances I cannot get parts for b/c I am blocked. And the local parts dealer never has the parts I need.

There is not a single junk yard in #Brussels. Effectively, no #rightToRepair

Do better. Please.

Today's Mood: walking into the forest never to be seen again.
50 years on and space travel has become the techno utopia we have always wanted, as summed up in this quote from NASA's Artemis II livestream
Time to plug the bad laptop in again :/

A bit of a longshot, but I'll throw this question out here! Anyone remember what sort of 6502 dev board was used for the Scottish Higher Technological Studies around 1991/2?

I remember it had keypad for entering your code as hex, 7 segment displays and digital inputs/outputs for switches, lights, stepper motors...

I remember there was a reference guide for it (folded sheet of A4) with 6502 op codes etc that could be used in the exam too. I binned school stuff many decades ago but curious to see if anyone out there still has anything from all those decades ago.

#computing #electronics

Another amazing #Amiga OCS demo released at #revision: Second Nature by Desire and TTE - https://youtu.be/KFVxntafsXM?t=1745

Demozoo: https://demozoo.org/productions/390027/

Revision 2026 - Compo - Amiga Demo

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