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Sebastian Silverfox @silver-sebastian.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Reposting to tag the correct deer because maybe if I get it right the urban deer will stop destroying my gardens. #fursuit #furry #fursuitfriday 📸: @ysengrinwolf.bsky.social 🦌: @amberdeer.bsky.social

Cereus the coyote is approached by a colorful animal.

Oh it’s a bright red and yellow deer hello

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 13/10/2026

> [THE SICKEST FUCKING SYNTH BREAKDOWN YOU'VE EVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE]

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 13/10/2026

> my name is giovanni giorgio, > > but everybody calls me > > giorgio.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I don't know if this is common knowledge within AI, but Claude Sonnet 5.5 can absolutely summarize papers. Using this as an entry point into some pro and anti-AI talking points.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

1998: The hardest samples to get right in an audio codec. I love that there's a Forbidden Pitch Pipe at Dolby Labs that Fucks Up Your Codec. Source: Subjective Evaluation of State-of-the-Art 2-Channel Audio Codecs GILBERT A. SOULODRE, THEODORE GRUSEC, MICHEL LAVOIE, AND LOUIS THIBAULT

Code Description Duration Source
bascl Bass clarinet arpeggio 20 s EBU SQAM CD (track 17/Index 1)7
dbass Bowed double bass 31 s EBU SQAM CD (track 1l/Index 1)+
dires Dire Straits 30 s Warner Bros. CD 7599-25264-2 (track 6)
hpscd Harpsichord arpeggio 10 s EBU SQAM CD (track 40/Index 1)
mrain Music and rain 11s AT&T mix
pitchp Pitch pipe 30 s Recording from Dolby Laboratories
trump Muted trumpet 10 s Original DAT recording, Univetxity of Miami
vegla Susan Vega with glass 11s AT&T mix

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

New: Google researcher Jean-Marc Valin, major contributor for Opus and Speex, releases OLAC, which combines Opus with lossless compression in a hybrid format. Similar to DTS + DTS-HD, it allows a lossy core and a lossless correction track, retaining CD-quality audio. Testing suggests the file […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Half joking: the FCC should step in and regulate wifi pollution in extremely dense areas like San Fransisco and NYC. People consistently report seeing dozens of wifi APs at once. This high congestion makes things worse for everyone. The trend is/was to have single APs that are louder and […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Pyrowave: an ultra-low-latency video #codec that eliminates a ton of complexity at the cost of much higher bitrates. The intended use case is local network video game streaming. A low-end network these days likely has several hundred Mbps available within the LAN, and mid range is pushing 1000 […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Going full circle. Part of the reason I moved from iOS to Android was iOS did not support Opus. Now I'm considering encoding my portable music to AAC, partly because I dug up an old iPod Shuffle and there are some iPods and other DAPs that don't support Opus. AAC is a pretty good codec and […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I finished my read of Half-Earth Socialism. The game is great (a bit hard to learn) and the book is great. By my read, the book does great justice to indigenous communities and anti-colonial practices. The authors are staunch vegans (but not mean about it) and argue veganism + lowering power […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"I have listened to a single piece of music hundreds and sometimes thousands of times," said Mr. Brandenburg, describing his search for acoustic quality [in lossy compression]. Those included pieces with wide dynamic ranges, such as Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and a tune by the folk singer […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective

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Kyle @kyle-pegasus.scalie.club.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Ah, the mythical "Good Reddit"

Two early 2000s Sony WEGA Trinitrons stacked vertically

The same switched on, displaying the two screens of a Nintendo DS

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

tonight AI experience: turning a voice recording of me measuring into individual measurements should be easy! claude sonnet: (top of free tier) - tries to download an AI transcription model (whisper I think) chatGPT (free) - sorry bro I can't do that whisper: apparently widely known to just […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

>An interesting word list that may interest you is the Bitcoin word list. It comprises 2048 words and is particularly interesting because there are no two words in the list with the same first 4 characters. Very useful if you intend to work with words that should not look similar to any others. […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

and to be fair, it was hard to assemble and well known to not work (the rube goldberg machine wouldn't complete), so maybe I didn't have a ton of motivation to do it myself anyway.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

and to top it off, the game was super complicated and boring to a 7 year old. we tried to play it multiple times at school and I don't think we got close to finishing and running the trap. so we just did the stupid game for nothing. I think I saw other people build the trap, but I don't think I […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

unearthed memory: I can't just set up Mouse Trap and play with the little traps. That's wrong/cheating. I can only enjoy this toy as part of the larger Mouse Trap game from Milton Bradley, which can *only* be played by 2-4 players.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

anyone need version 6 of WebMD for a 12 year old version of iOS? it's encrypted to my itunes login. just checking.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

seeing 8 year old ffmpeg builds on my hard drive for some reason

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

"Audio is a reasonably large percentage of our [Facebook's] egress, and enough that we want to invest in this [lower bitrate audio]." 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWWllL_PB88

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Lowering audio bitrate to reduce the physical power consumption (presumably of the Bluetooth radio signal) 🤯 >energy consumption is mainly related to the payload size sent over the air. Even if LC3 is using a higher bitrate (e.g., 96 kbps or 124 kbps per channel), the payload size sent through […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Google's absurd confirmation code extractor plays an animation like an antique gas pump or a slot machine of numbers rolling into place. Clearly trying to drive engagement of something that's supposed to be as quick as possible - confirmation code retrieval.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

In honor of Ilko's heritage, we play some mining games.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The UK is generating so much green energy from wind that it is *PAYING* people to use electricity all day long. This is what the transition looks like. An abundance of electricity.

Graph showing negative prices until 1700 in the evening.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Guide to de-upscaling content, mostly 2D animation. Much anime is rendered sub-1080p, then upscaled to 1080p. This can introduce artifacts if not upscaled properly. It also is far less efficient to store. I don't think most groups encode anime at its native res, but I'm not sure why that is […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Some iPod #retrocomputing history! It did not launch with AAC support. The best you could do was VBR MP3. AAC was likely added in mid-2003. They made a very un-Apple like decision to under-promise and over-deliver. "1000 songs in your pocket" is based […] [Original post on social.linux.pizza]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Apple actually does a version of this joke. Whenever Steve Jobs invites another CEO on stage, you see how much worse they are at presenting.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

57:23 is a long demo of the end-to-end capabilities of an iPhone/smartphone. even today it's amazing. I don't think Apple believes in this kind of end-to-end usability anymore. Nobody does.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

original iPhone reveal still incredible. so many things popularized right here and getting cheers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

2007: Steve Jobs announces the iPhone, with a "giant" 3.5 inch screen. I'm kind of with him: I'd kill for an iPhone SE1 with modern chips and Android. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: social.lol/@brennan/117240582001712… This is UNHINGED. As far as I know, the only PC Linux distros with any money are Ubuntu, Red Hat, SteamOS, and maybe SUSE. $18.5 million is very likely more than the total money spent by ~35 of the top 40 Linux distros. The Elementary founder […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Wright Flyer "entered the transcontinental era" Sustained fission "entered the nuclear bomb era" 10 second short "entered the feature film era" If/when it's here, YOU WILL KNOW ABOUT IT.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I am so sick of this. We will know we have Artificial General Intelligence WHEN WE HAVE ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. We will know we are in the singularity WHEN WE ARE IN THE SINGULARITY. Every month some AI charlatan poops out these turds and the tech press dutifully flushes them to us.

OpenAl’s next big Al
model has ‘entered the
AGl era’

It emphasized stronger
guardrails for GPT-6 Astra
after the company’s models
hacked Hugging Face.
HAYDEN FIELD

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

"In 2021 COVID deaths peaked at nearly 26,000 per week. In 2026 they peaked at 484 per week."

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

kid imagining the future in 2000 BC: there's gonna be a tablet with a stick that moves on its own, and a new tablet floats into your hands when the old one is full.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

What We Hate on the Web, from "Low End PC" site, 2002 Here are all the ones still relevant, plus "Ads for online porn" because the payment processor panopticon have obliterated porn ads from the semi-polite web. Pages that take too long to load So many ads that you have to scroll down for any […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Dev claims 200x speedup by implementing a statistical technique in Rust instead of Python. Also 2-3x faster than the R statistical programming language. Commenters claim "a lot of python packages are building a rust backend with python api." And "anytime you see an interpreted language do […]

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Just ran my first SSD wipe command. `blkdiscard /dev/sdX` The implementation is up to the SSD, but it marks the whole SSD as writable - making it nontrivial (even impossible?) to recover the data that was on there. Unlike the awful idea of using `dd` on an SSD, this one won't wear it out.

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Big Head Mode @bigheadmode.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

For example, the harassment of minors in the Zoo Tycoon fandom,

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