+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

fedi is fun and all the right people are upset they cannot control it

@cell Hearing the difference now isn’t the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.

@selea I've always loved how companies block smaller email domains like Tutanota and others for "spam", yet Gmail has more spam than all of them combined, and rarely puts any actual effort other than automation to solving it.

@bonifartius Memorizing IPv6 addresses could be a thing. Introduce it in kindergarten and promote it to a national sport.

Someone please make one.
LoRa, packet HAM, gopher and Gemini over LoRa also please and thank you.

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>amazon, ebay & etsi are brand gating
>meaning that any sellers have to get the approval of the brand manufacturers to be able to sell hardware
I WANT OF THIS RIDE ! WAKE ME UP WAKE ME UP !!!!

there's a guy on soulseek with the username ppsucc that has a bunch of DOOM WADs and source to a handful of malware. what an eclectic mix

@rootbsd

Children should be homeschooled tbh, by their mothers mostly with the help of the father (but he's at work all day so it really should fall on the mother.)

Well people wanted women in the work place and as a result you are now going to have children that are developmentally stunted, because people think that the state can raise their children at the same quality as their mothers.

You individually don't make as much as you should because the labor pool is twice of what it should be. You then can't afford living and now your partner needs to pick up a job. Who watches the kids then? No one, the state watches them, in their institutions that were designed to turn children into factory workers.

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