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The species is the Saimaa ringed seal (Saimaannorppa), and the song in question is Vanhojapoikia viiksekkäitä by Juha Vainio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi99Bz_-_No

and what I said is recognized by local scientists as true: this song probably single-handedly saved the Saimaa ringed seal from extinction

That time when a guy in Finland made a song about how sad it is that a local animal species is going extinct, the song became a big hit, and it directly led to interest in saving it growing big enough that the species has now recovered and is no longer nearly extinct, merely endangered

2021: microsoft releases a programming AI that is capable of putting a // what the fuck? comment inside the code it produced

Miten meni, noin niinku omasta mielestä?

In my OPL3 escapades, I accidentally soldered the DAC on backwards (rotated 180 degrees). The result was a loud static noise on the output, but the music was clearly audible below that static. How is that possible

step 1: twitter
step 2:
step 3:

March 21, 2006 to September 2021 (ongoing) global "Twitter" incident

You just know that in a few years there will be 9/11 truthers who claim the towers never existed at all

cryptocurrencybros: "man this new decentralized currency lets us finally be free of the control imposed on us by the global banking system!"

also cryptocurrencybros: *because of inefficiency, invents a system layered on top of their decentralized currency, where you delegate your ability to do payments to a node in the network you trust, who then performs actual transactions to other such nodes in bulk at the end of the day*

dairy companies here really added a plastic screw cap to their cardboard cartons, just to a couple of years later remove it and go "look how environmental we are, we removed this much plastic from our packaging"

nft more like no fucking thanks

The homemade OPL3 sound card lives! Although it is a bit glitchy and jittery. I haven't yet figured out if that's a problem of my microcontroller code, my butchered adplug code, or just a serial connection being too slow.

the YAC512, a floating-point DAC

I have a bunch of YMF262 (OPL3) and their corresponding YAC512 chips. Also some microcontrollers. How do I wire these together to make some noise? I managed to replicate the example circuit for connecting them together from their datasheets, but after that it gets into analog audio land which I have no idea how to implement.

if i was Sisyphus i would simply push the boulder all the way up the hill

man, these "gender-critical" people aren't at ALL critical about the concept of gender!

This time in US history is going to be referred to in the history books in the same way as the state of Europe before the first world war broke out. "It was only a matter of time before XYZ happened" etc etc. I don't know what that event will be of course, but (perhaps pessimistically) I don't have high hopes that the tension will de-escalate either.

Not referring to any specific recent event by the way, this is just the general vibe I get from an outsider perspective.