soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -
Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html
#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos
@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml
Question for my audio people:
I have an analog mixer. It sounds big and awesome when I listen to the main outputs connected directly to my monitor. But when I run my second set of main outputs into my computer via Ferrofish converters and an RMI ADAT-->USB interface (the Digiface), everything sounds...flat and lame. And I definitely lose significant amounts of bass response.
Is this expected?
1/x
Hundreds of millions of Bluetooth audio devices need urgent patches ⚙️
Researchers found flaws in Google’s Fast Pair protocol letting attackers link, listen, or track users—even iPhone owners 📡
Highlights tension between seamless UX and user privacy 🔒
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/google-fast-pair-bluetooth-audio-accessories-vulnerability-patches/
#TechNews #Privacy #CyberSecurity #DataSecurity #Bluetooth #Android #iPhone #Google #Vulnerability #Security #UserRights #Tech #OpenSource #Tracking #SoftwareUpdate #Audio #Music #Musica #Devices #Apple #iPhone
1min #Audio from #CoryDoctorow
about #Data #BigTech #Tariffs #USPol #Privacy #Trump #Private #Deals #Ultimatums #Greenland
⬇️ Cory Doctorow #Quotes @pluralistic
💬 ⭐ "Give Trump an inch, he will take a mile."
💬 ⭐ "Capitulation has been a failure."
💬 ⭐ "If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders and they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders"
Surrendering to #Trump and capitulation is a failure...
But Tariffs are also a way to try force people to sell out (their country - e.g. saying tariffs will be put on Brazilian coffee if they don't accept US anti-circumvention laws - so those countries (all of them) give in and take on #US pressure.
Source:
Cory Doctorow Podcast 507 The Post-American Internet -
#CoryDoctorow #Cory #Audio #Excerpt
#Internet Coalition / #Partners
vs.
#BigTech #Enshittification (double tt)
( not single t 🚫 #Enshitification 🚫 ) #Enshittocene
Earth's Song
by Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia
Suspended in the dark cosmos, Earth sings to itself in a high-pitched chorus of chirps and beeps. This song is a product of very low frequency radio waves generated by lightning strikes or excited electrons zipping through the Van Allen Belts, two vast swaths of radiation surrounding Earth. While ham radio operators have long detected this eerie planetary sound using inexpensive receivers, the recent recording by specially designed antennas on NASA's twin Van Allen Probes is one of the clearest examples ever captured. But could Earth's chorus be a siren song? The probes are now on a quest to find out whether these radio waves might be powering up otherwise harmless electrons in the Van Allen Belts, turning them into "killer electrons" capable of damaging satellites and astronauts. Watch the videos to hear and learn more about this rare recording.
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11073
Credits:
+ Science@NASA
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
+ Van Allen Belts image courtesy of NASA
+ T. Benesch and J. Carns
#space #earth #hamradio #audio #sound #acoustic #tech #science #astronomy #nature #education #NASA
My life is different now because one of my metrics for happiness is whether or not my #Clementine segment meter is full.
Location: B-city
November 6, 2025
Yesterday I rested a lot. Stephen put new speakers in my car. I did trouble shooting on two systems. And @dadget and I played 5e at Krystal's table.
Hackaday: Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet. “Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital connections don’t really have an analog to this, by virtue of being entirely digital. And yet, [Nick Bild] decided to make WiFi audible in a pleasing […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/28/hackaday-making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/
@dre Hi Andreas, would you be will to do an #audio talk about this for mainly #fediverse people to listen to?
Would be the best audio clips of our talking about it as some questions answers (you wouldn't have to do much but talk and then confirm the final audio).
Would be interdependent / non-commercial / you have final say on it.
Thanks
@Defcon_Music 1/ #DEFCON audio music is great !
(click post)
AND
2/ #DEFCON #Conference #Audio is great:
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%201/
#EFF mentioned years back ! See
➡️ Judi Clark - #Computer #Privacy and the 1st #Amendment
(all of them worth a download in 1 #RAR file 109mb from link above)
Want to #audio #chat anytime ?... I can send you a link now or later...
#Jitsi chat just needs only a browser!
3 clicks and you're talking. No cam wanted / needed,
#opensource #community #software!
(This is towards community building with conversations in whatever interests us however person or not)
#Fascism = anything "Bad" ⁉️❓
(modern day version incorrectly used)
#Fascistic is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)
#AntiFascist / #AntiFa also a good thing
...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to #AntiFa or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / #DIY. It's #virtuesignalling which I accept a #virtuesignal is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.
Debate welcome on this #audio...
#MirloMondays on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/19029
#Glitchy #audio still on #makingOf #video
https://spectra.video/w/b3A7bsZZ9ULfE1KLGkN3PP
#scribesAndMakers yes i make my creations (unedited books, music, and toots out of my own horn: ) free mostly on my https://yesu.neocities.org/now site and of course here on mastodon: )
Might try #animation using #krita to go along with some music some fine day...
@OpenComputeDesign
Remember when we were talking about #audio #lossy #compression earlier?
This is NUUUUUTS:
#mirloMondays https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/18067
#artiphon #orba #music
Worst yet : + ] true cringeFest
#audio glitch remains even after updating to #ObsStudio 32
#peerTube
https://spectra.video/w/2H4CK6L8pXktKuqsMZ76mC
#scribesAndMakers least proud moment is this song and me talking about butt hair quinoa in my video
#Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (#Blooom Bootleg) vs. #FreeSchool
#Sweet #Dreams #Music #Audio #DnB #EDM
Have a 1min #Rave all to yourself.
@mrcopilot +9001%
They are basically the same shite like #Glasshole-style non-comsenting #recordings, abeit with #audio!
#Music #Clip #Message by #TheProdigy
🗨️ "Cut down the #Bankers" 💬 💼 💰 🏨 💲 💩
💿 #Audio Clip
The #Prodigy - #Firestarter - World's On Fire (Live)
⛔ #Banks ➡️ #fuel / fund
➡️ Wars 💣 ✈️ # ⛔ 🏦
💼
⛔ #Bank / #State ➡️ make #profit / #support
💰 ➡️ #War ⛔ 🏦 dislike: 💼
#Banks are all #political
ALL connected to #UKPol / #USPol etc
@openrightsgroup MP3 Version
#Social media is an "unhealthy online environment".
The problem is the #business #model which underpins these #monopolistic platforms to:
➡️ promote #ragebait
to rake in the money. 💰
Jim Killock told #BBC News what needs to be done around #SocialMedia:
✅ Competition
✅ User empowerment
✅ #Decentalization / #Decentalized #Platforms
#OpenRightsGroup #SocialMedia #Health #BBC #JimKillock
#Decentralised #Platforms / #Decentralisation #Mastodon #Fediverse
#Audio about #Advertising
#BusinessModel of #SocialMedia is #Commercial
My #Answer is building another "society" ON TOP OF #MASTODON #PEERTUBE ETC -
NOT JUST MORE TECH AND #TECHIES - develop people themselves!
We're mostly just developing tech and not developing people...
(and then complaining about #society and people falling for the same traps used by #tech ).
Without organised #circles or dedicated #talks IN MASTODON (or any #decentalised or #centralised #platform) people do not know how to be nice / what to consider / what to look out for (all normal in new relationships) / what do if this or that... / how to WORK WITH someone new / where and when to go regularly somewhere...
Some chat happens but is that it as a Mastodon #movement? ❓ (any groups with just a donate button and nobody to talk to)
Such a lack of depth... 📉
Without some training, we the society are lost / undirected online / offline. Sorry but best time to plant a tree / invest in a person is now!
Let's chat (as positive ending and action needed between reader and I - more if we can imagine it).