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bunjywunjy

What animal looks like it would screm the loudest

the bare-throated bellbird is so loud that it can cause permanent damage to human hearing at close range!

and they absolutely look like it.

peppermintquartz

edit: i couldn’t resist

peppermintquartz

That felt too mild so may i present AAAAAA bird v2

weirdoughnut

saved as →

intjacob

dollsahoy

These are cute but misleading, because the call doesn’t go on–it’s more like one single, quick, rusty beep, only that beep is one of the loudest sounds made by any land animal

beetleboo

oh i’m so glad you have a video of ‘em, I knew I had seen one before!

I have provided an updated funnypic to more accurately reflect the reality of the bird.

schrodingers-blursed-kitty

@msburgundy

#animals #bird #bare-throated bellbird

itsmechriswade

Its always morally correct to pirate @Adobe software, especially when they snatch data from your private artwork and feed it to their "Content Analysis" for (in their own words) Machine-Learning.

Good on Jon Lam for sounding the alarm. Remember: "Industry Standard" is a Marketing Term. What matters is if you can do the work and do it well. Whatever tools work for you are what work best. Do not let corporations make you dependent upon them.

Make changes to your Adobe privacy account here:

account.adobe.com/privacy

#t #internet #useful

fairy-wren

white-faced whistling ducks

(photo by halex)

Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) by phil winter on Flickr.

milk5

Each berry is very large to her….

#animals #mouse #i love field mice they are so cute

magnetictapedatastorage

tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.

magnetictapedatastorage

things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:

discord call

podcast

documentary

radio and internet radio

music, from any source. without having to download it at all.

music you make on virtual pianos/etc

noteworthy news items (fireside esque, interviews, huge events)

stand-up comedy

rented or borrowed media

any other sound your pc can produce

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well… but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they’re small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying “how is any of this helpful, I want a digital file…” here’s the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you’re doing gangbusters. You’re cooking with gas. You’re thinking with portals. You’ve won the internet.

Congratulations, you can “pirate”* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you’re not downloading in the traditional sense. You’re streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It’s exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

*Is this piracy? No. Well- it’s time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.

broken-horn-of-equius

OP, dropping surprising knowledge from across time and space:

moripartylove

Or you skip the cassette player part, buy an audio cable (which has 2 ends that both look like the end of a headphone cable:)

, connect one end to your computers audio output thingy (and lie to your computer that it’s a headphone) and the other to the audio input thingy (and pretend it’s a microphone), use Audacity as described above, e voilà! You can make a digital file of any online content you want.

xphilosoraptorx

beardedmrbean

It’s so adorable watching the kids learn about the advantages of an analogue world

weldingmaskon

Stuff like VoiceMeeter and other tools bye VB-Audio also help with that.

#t #internet #useful

geopsych

I’m not saying that watching this baby bunny eat a blade of grass will heal and strengthen you but on the other hand it can’t hurt.

tilde-heart

[Video description: A tan small rabbit grabbing a blade of grass from the ground and rapidly eating it. End description]

#animals #bunny

magnetictapedatastorage

tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.

magnetictapedatastorage

things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:

discord call

podcast

documentary

radio and internet radio

music, from any source. without having to download it at all.

music you make on virtual pianos/etc

noteworthy news items (fireside esque, interviews, huge events)

stand-up comedy

rented or borrowed media

any other sound your pc can produce

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well… but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they’re small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying “how is any of this helpful, I want a digital file…” here’s the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you’re doing gangbusters. You’re cooking with gas. You’re thinking with portals. You’ve won the internet.

Congratulations, you can “pirate”* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you’re not downloading in the traditional sense. You’re streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It’s exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

*Is this piracy? No. Well- it’s time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.

broken-horn-of-equius

OP, dropping surprising knowledge from across time and space:

moripartylove

Or you skip the cassette player part, buy an audio cable (which has 2 ends that both look like the end of a headphone cable:)

, connect one end to your computers audio output thingy (and lie to your computer that it’s a headphone) and the other to the audio input thingy (and pretend it’s a microphone), use Audacity as described above, e voilà! You can make a digital file of any online content you want.

xphilosoraptorx

beardedmrbean

It’s so adorable watching the kids learn about the advantages of an analogue world

weldingmaskon

Stuff like VoiceMeeter and other tools bye VB-Audio also help with that.

#t #useful #audio

sylvrndoodles

most tired-looking dude ever

vetmedirl

Please someone do art. I need this but through the view of an artist. Please please please

#animals #seal #mood

disgustinggf

#i already know what it'll be #and it's all due to the awful month i had and i used music to cope

theculturedmarxist

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

#t #useful #internet #ad blocking #adblock

ilikeit-art

This will explain some of Indian dance methodology.

#culture #dance

cosmicanger

#animals #baby! 💜

no-longer-another-bondi-blonde

I did not know that!

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”

—

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there's not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

Photograph: Schlesinger Library.