PSA

"The existing maintainers will cease their involvement in their development and maintenance of Mbed TLS from April 2027."

https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/mbed-tls@lists.trustedfirmware.org/thread/YPIGCB7WN6GCHOGEGKOJXUYAP7OK527W/#BSRM3JY6JFNWWEHKMY4JQQON5QB3LP5U

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/117449357070105242

@MAJ1 You didn't tell me you had a relative fighting for Ukraine?

Measuring the time between particular drum strikes, I can work out a correction factor… the LP is playing at about 97.92% of the correct speed. If I speed up the LP (which was recorded at 48kHz) to a sample rate of 49015, it sounds spot on (if you ignore the crackles).

I'll have to see what I'm doing wrong with the bearing… clearly I didn't clean it up right or lubricate it correctly. Annoyingly, I had it right before.

This is from the CD… and thus correct speed.

Nope, it's not… so I have two copies of the Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits album… one I bought some time in the late 90s on a CD, the other is a LP I inherited from my mother, purchased some time in the late 80s.

Being the same album, just different formats, they are from the same master tapes, so a good comparison for checking speed. Mick Fleetwood is my timing reference here.

This is a grab from the turntable playing the LP. To my ear, at first it sounds "okay"… if you hadn't heard the song recently from another source it would sound fine… but things are not quite right.

This is Clove. I was looking for a hat for Clove when I casually wondered to myself how the mask would look & now I can't stop laughing.

Sorry Clove. Your eyes stared out so wildly I could not resist.

@Jasperthecat

#sillySpookyHatting

One thing I need to check, is my RCA patch cables. I'm consistently down between 1.88 and 1.91dB on the right-side.

Correctable in Audacity, although annoying to do so as I have to split the tracks, do an "Amplify", then "mix" it back down to stereo ("Pan" is too coarse, it'll only give me 10% steps, I need to pan by a dB amount).

(Yeah, I need to look into Tenacity… first I need to build it.)

I suspect a dicky connection, but since it's stable, I'll put up with it for today. I can't be arsed hunting through my box of cables.

Speed has been *spot on*.

In terms of gain, around -2 on this preamp is giving good results. Playing back the recordings I made, I nudged the roof, but it's not audible with my equipment, so sod it, that'll be good enough.

I managed to get through 6 discs, and I'm doing a 7th one now:

- ZZ Top - Eliminator
- The Cure - Greatest Hits (2 discs)
- Chris De Burgh - The Getaway
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - 21st Anniversary - The Ultimate Collection (2 discs)
- Elton John - Too Low For Zero

I'll pack it away for today.

I've just done The Cure - Greatest Hits… that's a double-album.

So far not had to adjust the gain settings, which is a surprise. I normally use this preamp on the JVC turntable which has a moving-magnet cartridge. This one has a moving-coil cartridge, which normally has a much weaker signal output.

My gain settings on the preamp are about centred… that said I did have to finally trim them back a bit for Chris de Burgh… he really did not trust that ferry man.

A new study of over 2.5 million children provides evidence that receiving the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine before age two is not associated with an increased risk of developing autism.

https://www.psypost.org/study-of-2-5-million-children-finds-no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

…now the stylus is doing impersonations of the two front guitarists… where did I hide my stylus cleaner?

Starting with this one, in memory of Frank Beard (1949-2026) and Dusty Hill (1949-2021).

Ok #NetBSD friends…. I’m a bit lost. Where can I find iwi? This is a thinkpad x1 gen11

When it comes to BSD, I've only ever really used OpenBSD on servers, and the occasional time I'd fire up NetBSD on the Dreamcast.

If I were to dive into trying desktop BSD, which way would you go or have you gone? I haven't kept up, and honestly, from a desktop perspective, have zero idea of where to start, and it's high time I started expanding my knowledge to user-facing parts.

(Target machine, if viable, is a Dell XPS 13 9370 Developer Edition; the ones that shipped with Ubuntu by default.)

Thoughts, suggestions, guides, opinions welcome.

#BSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Men only please (women, please boost)

A woman you've never met before is walking past you and suddenly complains of chest pain, clutches her chest, goes down, loses consciousness. You establish she has no pulse.

Someone has fetched the AED

It has two pads that you need to position on her chest - one on her right side below the collar bone, the other on her left, just below her breast

(Please boost for coverage)

You will

Had a crack at it today with the new oil, still undecided whether it is better or not just spinning the platter… but at least when moving the bearing spindle manually it seems to be more consistent. Before it was noticeably "grabbing" in one spot, this seems reduced now.

Of course I'm getting real good at whipping that platter off and pulling the bearing out.

I should try putting the belt on and try it out.

i'd like some #feditips:

i want to record audio of myself reading poetry or essays, as part of my attempt to see if i can make use of my voice to facilitate engagement for other folx with pieces of writing that i love :)

i have a #PeerTube account of my own, but i would prefer keeping this stuff audio-only

i was thinking of #FunkWhale which is a #fediverse app i have no experience with. would someone recommend FunkWhale for this? any particular pod / server i could create an account on?

This adorkable Boreal Owl was named "Pärlan" after Pärluggla meaning Pearl Owl i.e. the Swedish ID of the species, for the white spots on the owl's back. FSO in Sweden temporarily captured the owl for banding / scientific research. Source: https://sormlandsornitologerna.se/fso2/Arkivet/julen_2011.php #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Tomorrow, I'll put this thing through its paces. I have a list of records I'll digitise… in no particular order:

```
Out[22]:
[('America', "History: America's Greatest Hits"),
('Austen Tayshus', 'Australiana'),
('Boz Scaggs', 'Silk Degrees'),
('Bryan Adams', 'Reckless'),
('Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music', 'The Ultimate Collection'),
('Chris de Burgh', 'The Getaway'),
('Creedence Clearwater Revival',
'21st Anniversary - The Ultimate Collection'),
('Crowded House', 'Temple Of Low Men'),
('Daryl Braithwaite', 'Edge'),
('David Bowie', 'Golden Years'),
('Deep Purple', 'Mark I & II'),
('Duran Duran', 'Arena'),
('Electric Light Orchestra', 'Greatest Hits'),
('Elton John', 'Greatest Hits'),
('Elton John', 'Too Low For Zero'),
('Elvis Presley', "Rock'n'on"),
('Eurogliders', 'This Island'),
('Genesis', 'And There Were Three'),
('Genesis', 'Invisible Touch'),
('Gerry Rafferty', 'City To City'),
('Icehouse', 'Primitive Man'),
('Joe Cocker', 'With A Little Help From My Friends'),
('John Mellencamp', 'The Lonesome Jubilee'),
('Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners', 'Too-Rye-Ay'),
('Meat Loaf', 'Bat Out Of Hell'),
('Mondo Rock', 'The Modern Bop'),
('Moving Pictures', 'Days of Innocence'),
('Paul McCartney & Wings', 'Band On The Run'),
('Paul Young', 'No Parlez'),
('Phil Collins', 'Face Value'),
('Phil Collins', 'No Jacket Required'),
('ZZ Top', 'Eliminator')]
```

No Ragrets, none at all.