Notices by MattChippytea (wifiwits@infosec.exchange)

Watched Scandinavia with Simon Reeve. An interesting, if brief so no doubt missing a great deal of nuance and detail, glance at Northern Europe. I was struck by his assertion we have much more in common with these nations than we do with the US. The rampant individualism that has certainly spread to the UK from the US doesn’t sit well here. There isn’t enough space for it, we actually do need to function as a society no matter what neoliberal kool-aid you drink.

@botvolution @inpc they get better, look at how many… things this one has

https://ebay.us/m/cnXuOt

I’m trying to understand what the modes are. It has: KTV, Primal Sound, voice over, voice change. I somehow found one mode that seems to have a limited sort of autotune. The reverb is surprisingly pleasant. I think it’s sort of karaoke targeted… maybe

The buttons trigger preset samples. They’re decent quality but too short. You can’t change them. The choice is really weird.

I know they’ve been around for a while but I decided to buy one of these “sound card” things mainly to see what it actually does. It’s is of course terrible, but also weird. Really weird.

It looks like it has four micro usb ports doesn’t it…. Oh don’t be silly. One these is actually USB. The others use this cursed cable

Check out these highly pro ports

The box says it’s a: Live Sound Card wired condenser microphone micro phone
And boasts
“Excellent quality of voice and music professional”

I’ve no idea if this thing is any use at all… it might be fun to running a drum synth through a mic input for crunchy reverby weirdly tuned effects…

Also I can press a button and an American female voice will say “you guys” so I’m sure that will come in handy.

It also has Bluetooth. I think all playback sources (Bluetooth, live1, live2, music) appear on the Music fader, it seems to have three mic inputs, one on a headphone jack (four pin mini jack) and the other two with power for an electret mic… no individual control of these, just one mic knob.

I have no idea who the target market is for these things, it’s certainly not me.

@skinnylatte I have an old friend who’s like this. Always a pianist the next thing I know he’s playing guitar, really well, at a gig. Turned out he’d learned it to a really proficient level in about 18 months. Oh and trumpet, clarinet and French horn.

UK now. Apologies to everyone. #eurovision

I finally had to look up “what are bangs” only to discover this hair style feature is what the rest of the world calls a “fringe” I really do wonder about America sometimes.

How many drivers who kill face a life sentence?

This is baffling. The idea there is a “strong cycling lobby” when one look at the nation’s cycling infrastructure would suggest otherwise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0w8g18x9no

It seems network patch cables are very much affected by supply chain/counterfeit issues. In my last job we bought thousands of them and any issues were incredibly rare. A project I’m currently on has hit issues, after lots of finger pointing and poor troubleshooting, turns out loads of the patch cables are bad. These are not bought cheap, a variety of suppliers, issues are rampant.

@zleap you seem to be suggesting the UK government should start enforcing blocks on parts of the internet. That really isn’t a supportable position. They’re trying, with potentially a lot of collateral damage I might add, to legislate against this stuff but it’s hard when the service providers are in other jurisdictions. Even harder when they operated by people who simply ignore appeals to humanity and will certainly not give a tinker’s cuss what the UK government tries to enforce.

Oh ffs these useless morons

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