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  #looptober, day 12: 4 monophonic notes + 4 processors = a soundscape gradually unfolding over 4 minutes

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  RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@lardmotel/117431623759857755 Note to self: play with this a bit more

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  Slightly disappointed there are no Processing Community Day events in Stockholm (or anywhere north of Denmark, it seems): https://day.processing.org/

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  Sprout, a replacement logic board for old iPods and #iPod Minis (the ones with monochrome screens), based on a Raspberry Pi microcontroller, and providing modern features including WiFi, Bluetooth, up to 2Tb SD storage, USB-C and (apparently) clients for Spotify and Apple Music. https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboard/ They say the firmware will be bespoke and open-source. I wonder if it’ll be possible to get Rockbox working on these as well.

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  #looptober, day 13: one otherwise unexceptional drum loop, channelled through delays, granular effects and other processes and transformed into something else.

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  I should look at running this on either the old Kindle I no longer use or the Pocketbook Inkpad that replaced it and then was displaced by the vastly more pocketable Xteink. @angelwood https://merveilles.town/@angelwood/117436959800459357

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  Doris. #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude

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  Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude

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  One possible silver lining of Debian voting to open the floodgates to AI-coded apps: their habit of being 18 months behind the current version of things means that by the time most vibe-coded slop apps make it to candidate status, they will have long been abandoned, as the “developer” moved on to the next dopamine hit.

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  Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude

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  @vicgrinberg@mastodon.social This, on a sticker/T-shirt, with a drawing of a raccoon

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  @cmconseils@mastodon.social @fsvo@old.mermaid.town Presumably those are the names the American translator came up with to replace the Japanese names, as with Super Mario Brothers

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  A French long-distance bus operator is shutting down due to soaring fuel prices making its operations unprofitable: https://londonreconnections.com/french-coach-service-shutting-down-partly-due-to-high-fuel-costs-voyages-daffaires/ meanwhile, in the UK, they’re still holding off on electrifying diesel railways, because it’s “too expensive”. To say nothing of Australia, where the idea of running electric trains outside of state capital cities is regarded as lunacy. India, meanwhile, electrifi...

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  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/116639735715829891 In Australia, IIRC, Eora/Sydney has one or two canals, built too late to compete against rail. Not sure if any of them have locks. Naarm/Melbourne has one in the bayside suburb of Elwood, though it’s a short, stubby affair that never became long enough to be a transport artery.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@terrypratchettquotebot2/116638974236847984 The belief in an afterlife seems inherently reactionary in the same way that stoicism does.

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  Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude

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  The first of 79 huge concrete segments for a road/rail tunnel under the Baltic between Germany and Denmark is currently being lowered into position in an underwater trench: https://www.railwaygazette.com/germany/2026/05/07/immersion-operation-underway-for-german-danish-fehmarn-belt-tunnel/ The segment weighs 73,500 tonnes. The Fehmarn Belt Tunnel is scheduled to be complete by 2029, though this may be delayed. Once it’s running, it will cut the rail journey time between Hamburg and Copenhag...

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  This is nifty: Klattsch, an old-school formant-based speech synthesiser (think SAM or DECTalk) implemented in Javascript. It can also sing. https://tgies.github.io/klattsch/

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  Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude

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  All modern digital infrastructure in 2025 (seen elsewhere):

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  RT @luismbat@birbsite Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅

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  Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude

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  A linguistic look at the question of why so many feminine names end in A, which turns into a deep dive into the history of grammatical gender in the Indo-European languages: https://dannybate.com/2026/02/19/monica-erica-rita-tina-why-do-so-many-womens-names-end-in-a/

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  Spare a thought for some of the world’s most insufferable people, whose idyllic Dubai lifestyle has been rudely interrupted by a geopolitical unpleasantness they were supposed to be above: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/dubai-private-jet-prices-soar-tourists-stuck-wealthy-leave

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social There’s a Giger museum and café in Gruyères:

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Would donor hearts for such a case be fairly easy to find through the legitimate channels, or would they need to task ICE with a new covert mission?

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  @cstross@wandering.shop That sounds tempting, though I’d be concerned if it’s anything like those 9% super-sweet Belgian beers that work like a brick to the brainpan

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  @cstross@wandering.shop That sounds doable then, certainly on a visit

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  Borland TurboVision (the PC text mode windowing UI used in Turbo Pascal/C++) has been open-sourced and updated to work seamlessly on Linux and with Unicode: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision It’s all in C++, though if someone hasn’t wrapped it in bindings for Python/Rust/&c. yet, surely they will

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Nobody has less gag reflex than Elmo