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A low-fi audiozine that puts the punk back in cypherpunk.

Yeah I should try to spin up some imterest on varaFM locally. How do the channels work? Is there tech writeups about this? I know it's closed source.

It's closed source but the assembly is available 😀

I have found a person more analog cypherpunk than I.

I do hardware hacking like yourself. My automotive experience was briefly on the obd side.

However, I ran into some chiptuners along the way. I always got the sense they were bitter their cars were going digital 😀

Ok, it's not a trumpet. But I will make an exception for Dave.

The magnetic properties of tape can fade. But it's an analog signal so it will fade but not disappear. If taken care of, I still buy tapes over 40 years old and I think they sound great.

However, strong magnets can erase them. This is a pro and a con.

At CES, _this year_, a major music electronic producer called Fiio released a brand new walkman with usb c charging.

So, yeah it's niche. But I don't think it's going to 0.

And yes, it has the obfuscstion properties you mentioned.

I'm experimenting with a pencil and paper encryption scheme based on a one time pad, but honestly just Shakir split on multiple tapes might be easier.

That's right! The only thing missing was a self deleting cassette 😀

When digital systems fail, analog systems always have to bail them out.

Yeah, the programming language called scheme. Its a dialect of lisp. Very simple syntax if you can get over the ().

But it's really the ultimate playground for language design. It's a well documented use case if you dig into it. It'd been about 10 years for me since I've seriously done language design like this, but this is what I used.

Yeah, Juraj tends to do things like this 😀

I think rucking might be a good replacement. Walking while carrying weight is a thing humans were meant to do. Jogging and running are good too of course no debate there. But it's surprisingly easy to injure yourself running jogging. Rucking I think has maybe equal benefit, less downside.