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The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

Happy Holidays and Merry Xmas to all the folks working behind the scenes to make this day function for everyone else. Myself included. #NFL #strangerthings

First day working at Microsoft 365, wish me luck! :elmo_fire:

snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!

Okay, I'm not commenting on the merits of this lawsuit, but surely this could have been phrased better.

Hi! I'm Koffietje! (Not very original, might change that later.)
Obviously, I'm a big fan of coffee! Generally black, over-steeped in a French press. But lately I've been messing around with the Moka pot.
I'm also big on Linux. My daily driver is Fedora, which seems to work incredibly well on my computers. I'm also curious about ARM & RISC-V, and have dipped my toes into BSD. Always trying to learn more, and currently I'm working on my Bash skills, tryi…

Years ago, I was working for a non-profit on a contract basis (illegally on their part, since I should've been classified as an employee under state law; that's what we call a red flag, folks). I'd never met the executive directory (ED), but he was in the office one day.
I was showing my boss the kernel driver I'd just gotten working, and demoing it working on the prototype hardware. My boss calls in the ED to show him as well. The ED is impressed. (1/2)

Back in the day I was working on a team with an ugly ETL pipeline for scraping news articles.
It had a habit of guessing wrong about character encodings, so by the time the data reached my zone of responsibility it was often solidly mojibake.
So two of us wrote a module that tried to guess at the (noisy-channel) transcodings that got us here & reverse them (used a simple "what language is this" filter to evaluate candidates).
Some clever wit -- I think it was…

Last Working Day of 2025: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/31/last-working-day-of.html

Last Working Day of 2025
The last working day of 2025. I hope it’s a …

As Donald Trump ramped up his threats against the people he is supposed to be working for,
his administration’s extreme immigration enforcement led Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to admit that anyone
— U.S. citizen or otherwise
— should be prepared to have to prove their citizenship to DHS agents.
Asked Thursday about U.S. citizens being asked to provide proof of citizenship in Minnesota
and whether that is “targeted enforcement,”
Noem said the f…

Noem says that virtually anyone could face a Kavanaugh stop
Trump started off the day with an Insurrection Act threat. Noem followed up by saying that anyone "surrounding" any DHS target has to prove their legal status.

Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LanceJZ/115753199788467220
Me after working (an hour) at the Hard Day factory

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

IETF@40
Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Just spent an hour and half my ChatGPT quota for the day trying to figure out why my Sonos wasn't working. Turns out Ken had turned the volume to 0 with the old fashioned in-wall potentiometer.

Interesting observation from today (a beautiful, cloudless day): We got *less* solar power than a few days ago, when it was partly cloudy. Significantly less, by almost a factor of two vs the previous peak (and closer to what we got on fairly rainy days).
My working hypothesis at this point: the sun is low in the sky because it's winter, and spends a significant fraction of its time partly occluded by trees.
On a cloudy day, shading isn't really a thing because you have t…

I've been messing with wget and HTTrack for archiving web sites... An artist friend of mine passed away last year and I have this fear his web site might disappear some day, and I want a copy of it.
The images are not hosted on his domain though, they are on a SquareSpace domain, but I think I've got HTTrack working to grab them all.
Still need to figure out the exact formula, so it'll take a bit of testing.

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

School communities — parents, educators, and neighbors — are working overtime right now to provide escorts and legal observers, every single day at every single school.
That is a •massive• operation. It is operation of a scale that ordinary people with their own lives can reasonably be expected to take up. But we’re taking it up anyway. We’re making it happen.
9/

Mšs paisajes así, siempre #silentsunday
#pixelfed

When you get that opacity and Gruvbox theme working in Wezterm (wezterm.lua).
Pushing my luck here, but it looks to turn out as a great day.
#freebsd #wezterm #geekspeak

H'mmm... I have been working patiently and carefully on bugs in my memory allocation system all day,
At 22:57, I had a build which was substantially better, but not perfect. I kept on working patiently, and now, at 00:37, I have a build which is totally broken.
Fortunately, I did make a tactical commit to git while things were better.
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering

Last Long Day: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/12/last-long-day.html

Last Long Day
It’s my last long shift this week. I am working …

if you are in Brno this Thursday (Feb-5), please come and meet some good #IT people, including me :)
#brno

Engineers Hanging Out (No Recruiters, Really) · Luma
How AI is actually changing our day-to-day work (vs. the hype). Engineering practices that are working for us (and ones that aren't). Product engineering and…

I found a really nice co-working space near me. It's 30€ for a single day or 250€ for an entire month of access. Coffee and water are free. I have never done co-working before so I can't compare.
What do you guys think of that price?
#Freelance #Freelancer

And now it turns out that the telemarketers from Lester, Inc. who have been calling me multiple times a day every day for weeks are working for PBS Channel 13. This is outrageous. It means that my subscription money is going to advertising.

In some kind of record, I have moved 1247 steps today. I usually walk around more when I'm working from home, but there's literally nowhere to go and I have been writing a paper all day... Hope the storm dies down soon.

Today, instead of the last day of #AdventOfCode, I will finish our MAB2-to-MARC21 converter (handling depended works), which in fact feels quite similar to working on Advent of Code puzzles.

Using #PHP arrays as pseudo-objects is almost never the right answer. They're less self-documenting, slower, worse on memory, and more bug prone.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-use-a

Greg Olson: 'Keep working every day and continue to get better' https://www.raiders.com/video/greg-olson-offense-nfl-chargers-week-13

My first day working at #Verizon
Hope nothing goes wrong...

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by…

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by…

Made a change, the clone I’ve been working on is now at https://left-wordle.com. The old url should redirect.
There are some changes - please report any bugs.
check out the prefs - you can add custom text to the share text header line, defaults to (Left Wordle), and add a line below the grid, default is bl…

Wordle - A daily word game
Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Today is going to be a good day for several large (very large) shots of Scotch.
Working with client for a test file and asked questions on how we are to set up the test environment. It hit me after I asked that I didn't even know what the hell those changes to the files were for.
I checked our current release documents and the next release documents. Zero notes on the changes. I am the release coordinator and I remember nothing on the topic for the current two releases. …

I've been working on a toy project that analyzes local ADS-B traffic (next to YUL), and alerts when planes are taking off and landing.
It's surprising to me how much the number of commercial planes at YUL changes throughout the day. There are clearly morning/evening/night rushes.
Looks like there's only one (or two) commercial plane(s) at YUL right now, but in 3 hours, there will be dozens of take-off/landing events in that hour.

@… I wasn't trying to argue with you. I agree with your fundamental point, but I wanted to point out that there is at least one very accomplished author who uses speech recognition software.
I used Dragon every day for years as a lawyer. Because I was a very specialized lawyer working primarily in federal securities laws (mostly mutual funds and investme…

I just realized that my father-in-law does not have an email-address!
I’m visiting later for tech-support but that’s only relevant to his wife. She has the notebook, the smartphone and the inbox!
The man has no concept of any of this stuff! 😵‍💫
(Also, he was working in an actual mine back in the day and not the virtual ones his grand-children yearn for!)

I started taking predniSONE in addition to the (higher dose of) Gabapentin and I’m not sure if it’s working or I’m just having a “good” day but I’m definitely in less pain today than I was yesterday. (Fingers crossed, we’ll see, and all that.)

Whats the latest (and in the easy) vulnerability scanner? I used to use Nessus back in the day, then OpenVAS was always a pain to get working. I haven't scanned anything in a few years so not sure whats in that "easy to use, decent output" category.

"I think nobody knows how hard I have been working to get this trophy.
I chased this moment so much,” said Carlos Alcaraz,
who was contesting his first major since ending his partnership with his coach of seven years, Juan Carlos Ferrero, in December.
“Preseason was a little bit of a rollercoaster emotionally… [My team] was just pushing me to do the right things every day, so I have to say I’m really grateful for everyone I have in my corner right now.”

I swear I read Day 1's specs as 0..99 range.
For some reasons, I kept on working on part 1 solution as if it was 1..99. I was scratching my head for an embarrassingly long time.
Off-by-one won. again.
#adventOfCode