Foul lies on fresh breeze
Issued forth without a flinch
Same briefing New #sound

#dailyhaikuprompt Fresh Breeze
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365

A quotation from Richard Steele

I have often lamented that we cannot close our Ears with as much ease as we can our Eyes.

Richard Steele (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-08-20), The Spectator, No. 148

More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85963…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ears #eyes #hearing #listening #noise #sound

"The word audiophile — etymologically, one who 'loves to hear'— has a wine-sipping pretension that I hate, but sometimes an ugly shoe fits." Colin Vanderburg for n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/essays/heavens-melodic-strains/ #sound #music #listening #audiophile #longreads

A quotation from James Howell

By seeing one thou knowest him half, by hearing him speak thou knowst all.
 
[Vedendo uno conosci mezzo, udendolo parlar il conosci tutto.]

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in Italian” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85513/

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- 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

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.