Ruairi (rc55)

Three-minute heroes: TikTok made songs shorter but artists are pushing back with longer tracks with more emotional resonance - BBC News Pop songs got drastically shorter in the streaming era. But new BBC research shows that trend is over

Wonderful, songs are getting longer again!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Love me a good intro, bridge, breakdowns, guest features, DJ friendliness - also let the track breathe for a bit!

Anticipation is a wonderful thing.

Good lord, is your grater 4ft tall? Look at those cheesy chunks!

Man that sucks. Hope you're not too shaken up.

I loved this video - Doom was ultra demanding at the time, I didn't know anyone who managed to run it full screen for at least a few years after its release.

I remember when I was younger thinking Melbourne House was from Australia, I hope I wasn't the only one...!

Made the decision to relegate enshittified / infinite short form video content apps to a spare phone left at home now.

Facebook, Instagram, Threads and a few other apps relegated to a fixed place outside of the bedroom.

Would strongly recommend!

(Only wish YouTube shorts could be hidden now...).

Haha I remember thinking with John Wick that the guns act more like staple guns, especially in the later films! Can't wait to see this one though still!

How come I haven’t seen your art before? Awesome! I’ve just bought a t shirt btw!

It’s Gen Z’s Windows 95 moment

Photo of a monitor showing the Matushita CDROM driver and MSCDEX being loaded successfully.

Photo from further back showing a PicoGUS with a USB stick inserted and a directory listing of the Mechwarrior 2 CD on the screen

Last night I experimented with CDROM emulation on PicoGUS using iso or bin/cue on a USB stick, using code from yyzkevin. I first thought RP2040’s USB would be too slow but after seeing the Pico ODE for 3DO that emulates the same MKE interface, I have newfound confidence that it will be fast enough.

ahh.wav

Also Netlify, includes https and folder drag and drop or CICD

Inclement weather? No, inclusive. 🌦️

Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues YouTuber SSD tests reveals problems all round on two-year-old TLC drives.

"Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues"

tl;dr don't leave data on unplugged SSDs.

www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

Isn't that just life in general?

May be useful to someone - I was curious if my UK bank would support me checking my statement and balance via API - seems like you cannot do it without being a third party company provider registered using OpenBanking which is quite rigorous, however Monzo and Starling do have a personal API.

#trixterhasaposse

Demovibes 15 - Tracks, Odds & Miracles

🔗 www.demovibes.org#demovibes15

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=olbC...

The new Demovibes mixtape is out!
Demovibes is a mixed #compilation of the finest #demoscene electronic #music 🎶

#creative #electronicmusic #mixtape #computerart #digitalart #art

Fair play for giving it a try though! 🙂

It’s been six years of this at least open.spotify.com/playlist/0wc...

So many General Protection Fault white boxes, print spooler barely functioned, but we did get Paint Shop Pro and CorelDRAW! And Office did get quite good at version 4.3. Oh and Visual Basic was fun too!

🤣🤣🤣 ooohhh nooooooo!!! :D

I couldn't spot a single hesitation, and you didn't try flogging Huel, seems cool to me

Sadly no M4... :( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_si...

Sadly not but I could pick mine using the UK standard, so I'm M7RUA (M = UK, 7 = Foundation, RUA = unique identifier which happened to be available from OFCOM). :)

Trixter has a posse!

RB338 energy 🧑‍🚀

YouTube video by The Oldskool PC Do you own the rarest PC sound card in the world?

After months of work, I'm happy to release my documentary featurette on a very rare DOS sound card (how's that for niche?): youtu.be/Eeo4INoGyRY

If you have any friends who are into DOS sound cards, the Apple II, music on personal computers in the 1980s, forward this to them; they might like it.

There’s the lamb sauce.

Keep calm and install Notch ✨