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#BadGear - #Roland #System-8 - #AudioPilz

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Welcome to #Bad #Gear, the show about the world's most hated #audio #tools. Today we are going to talk about Roland System-8. Is this soon abandoned flagship #synthesizer, little sibling of #System-1, part of the Roland #Aira range, #virtual #analog #synth, Roland #Cloud plugout host and overall eye-sore a #future #classic or just another #expensive #plastic #toy? Is it worthy of the rich Roland #Jupiter-8 and Roland #Juno-106 #legacy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-ynHwtfEg

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#TimBernersLee: please ignore the #Web3 #nonsense. The #future is #Solid.

source: https://www.techspot.com/news/96577-tim-berners-lee-please-ignore-web3-nonsense-future.html

#Blockchain protocols are too slow, too #expensive, and too public, Berners-Lee said, while personal #data stores have to be fast, cheap and private. Web3 will not democratize #internet access to data and #knowledge, but there is a "Web 3.0" design #alternative he is working right now with his #startup Inrupt. Its name is Solid, and it avoids using blockchain-derived technology altogether.

#news #technology #hype #problem #crypto #storage #quote #wisdom

Tim Berners-Lee: please ignore the Web3 nonsense. The future is Solid

Tim Berners-Lee is best known as the creator of the World Wide Web, and he is still trying to improve his creation beyond its current state. The...

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green@nerdpol.ch
𝝞shmel Green
Pfizer Releases Brand New, Never-Before-Seen Drug 'Pfivermectin'

U.S.—After several successful rounds of #trials and a quick overnight #approval from the #FDA, #Pfizer proudly announced they will be releasing a brand new, never-before-seen #COVID #drug "Pfivermectin."

"It's important to understand that this drug is nothing like #Ivermectin, even though Pfivermectin rhymes with Ivermectin and it pretty much does the exact same thing," said Pfizer CEO Hans Pfizer. "Everyone knows Ivermectin is a widely discredited #horse drug, and ours is not. Very #important distinction there."

#Experts say that taking two doses of Pfivermectin #every #day at the first sign of COVID symptoms could lessen the severity and duration of the infection. Ivermectin will do the same thing, except it may also turn you into a horse and make everyone laugh at you. Not good!

A Pfizer spokesman also confirmed that their drug will be approximately 30,000% more #expensive than Ivermectin.

"Don't worry about the cost," said the spokesman. "The #government will cover the cost. Besides, that's a small price to pay to not turn into a horse!"

Pfizer Releases Brand New, Never-Before-Seen Drug 'Pfivermectin'

U.S. - After several successful rounds of trials and a quick overnight approval from the FDA, Pfizer proudly announced they will be releasing a brand new, never-before-seen COVID drug 'Pfivermectin.'It's important to understand that this drug is...

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hipstre@diasp.org
Rifkin Semmelweis

The Sock Experiment
Who hasn't wanted to run some sort of #sock #experiment? That's when you are looking at your #socks and #thinking, "Didn't I just buy these socks? And already one of them has a hole in it? Should I fix it? Is it worth my time? Should I just buy new socks? How much does it cost to own socks anyway? Is it worth my time to 'darn' these socks? How many uses should I even get out of a pair of socks? By the time I am done with these socks, will washing them have cost me more than their initial purchase price?"

I have many more #questions that all fall under the #rubric of #TheSockExperiment. How do I even run this sock experiment? I need new socks. I impulsively bought new socks the other day. They were #expensive, I think, but if I wear expensive socks a hundred times and cheap socks twelve times, the "expensive" socks are actually a better #bargain. How will I ever know? I have to run the sock experiment. I have to do it at least once to establish a #baseline.

What are the #materials required? What is the #data to be gathered? What is the #methodology? First are the socks. I have them and I have the receipt. Next, I think I need a mesh #laundry bag. I will keep these socks separate from all the others in their own special bag. Maybe this will affect the outcome, I don't know. I'd have to run another, different sock experiment to find out. I just don't want to be losing any socks I am experimenting on. What data? When I wore them and when I washed them. That's simple. I will note when put them on, and when I take them off, they go into the mesh laundry bag. Each pair gets one wearing between washes. That's easy.

It may take several days for me to accumulate enough black clothing to justify a "dark" cycle of laundry, and I have back up socks for that time. So sometimes these socks will be #idle, just laying there, #dirty. But that seems to be normal for socks. I will have to #inspect the socks after each use cycle. I will #alternate washing them inside-out and inside-in. I don't know how I will keep track of that. I don't know if it makes a difference. I would have to run another sock experiment to determine that.

What kind of data am I looking for? How long socks last, mostly. I will have to come up with some way of estimating how much it costs to run a pair of socks through the laundry. If it's something like a #penny, and I do it 100 times, then that's a dollar per sock. But who knows? What do you go by? Weight? How many #gallons of #water are in my #washing #machine? I have no idea. How much #soap am I using? Am I wasting soap? I have no idea. I have to run a soap experiment. There must be rough figures out there. And I haven't even considered the #dryer.

More questions than #answers.

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
Sylvia J

Nation has experienced 8 billion-dollar disasters so far this year

https://www.noaa.gov/news/june-2021-was-hottest-june-on-record-for-us
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1413561337465032709

‘ #Firenados in northern #California. #Ocean #fires in the #GulfofMexico. #Subway #waterfalls in #NewYorkCity. A #heat #dome in the #Northwest #melting #power #cables, killing hundreds and #frying #marine #animals. I have been told that combatting #climatechange is #expensive. Compared to what?’

‘If we do not act #boldly and #radically to combat the #climate #crisis, and significantly invest in #transforming our #energy #systems now, #future #generations will never #forgive us.’

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