I'm curious how this works under the hood, and how the resource consumption differs from just serving text via curl... Interesting. Realtime input and play!
Hey, I happen to own the vocal tool they used for this song and Digital Love. It's called the Digitech Vocalist. It's a MIDI-controlled pitch corrector, and it's the key to that whispery sort of grainy sound to Thomas's voice in both tracks. YouTube has plenty of demos of it, and one even directly of a Digital Love cover.
I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now
1. A DOTS reader looks sort of like an external DVD/tape/floppy drive
2. Data is recoverable not via just a DOTS reader, but with a normal camera/microscope if need be. Imagine a mixture of QR codes and logos, like a business card might have.
3. Instructions on reading DOTS data and building an actual DOTS reader can be "drawn" on the medium itself in a human interpretable form (see: Voyager record)
4. DOTS media is essentially a piece of durable metal that takes precise and dense impressions from a laser, which makes it mostly immune to things like EMP blasts, chemicals, extreme temperatures, etc
5. No price is listed, but the media block shown was 1.2TB
Telegram is genuinely the best general communication platform I have ever used, by far. I really hope he has a good lawyer and this doesn't end up getting essentially murdered for creating it. When you create something that is objectively great, everyone will use it - including bad actors.
Unity has become an unfocused, poorly optimized, half-baked mess. This WAS bad for the independent and small developer market that actually uses their engine for final builds, but they've begun a mass exodus to Godot, which happened to go from "ok" to "great" JUST as Unity ruined their platform with their short lived "20 cents per install" policy.
Someday soon, we will see Godot eclipse Unity in the same fashion that so many other proprietary juggernauts were slowly cannibalized by laser-focused open source projects over the years:
In 2022, the split among GMTK participants was 16% Godot to 61% Unity. In 2023, it was 22% Godot to 49% Unity. This year, it was a whopping 37% Godot to 43% Unity: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVfo5-0WQAAIMAQ?format=jpg
This is major, because Godot has just had another round of home run improvements that brought in even more developers. I think 2025 is the year that Godot effectively replaces Unity for new developers.
Remember AMD's Skybridge project? They wanted to put ARM and x86 together on one chip, but they cancelled it. I don't know why, because it seemed like a cool way to bridge the gap. Maybe they were worried it'd become a reverse trojan horse like the Apple Macintosh clones that came about shortly before Steve returned in the 90s.
Seeing as Raspberry Pi has no dog in the game, and simply wants to offer the best product possible, I wouldn't be surprised if this is their intentional way of giving people RISC-V with the intent to allow them time to port their code to it so they can eventually pull the ARM stack. I say this because Jeff Geerling has a video about the Pico 2 where he explicitly says you can only use RISC-V or ARM cores. Not both sets at the same time.
I think it's probably because a full migration to RISC-V would allow them to innovate a bit more and cut prices, although I don't know what the restrictions really are with ARM's IP control and pricing. At $5, every penny counts though.
Intel has had very good marketing for decades, and they've also surrendered to marginless sales just for the sake of appearing dominant. AMD's strategy of late seems to be for higher margins, but lower share.