Life, uh, finds a way. That's what the internet recently feels like to me. Tech bros and corporations are doing their best to fuck things up and make everything AI generated and agentic and an absolute nightmare to use, and yet the indie web is thriving. People are blogging and writing newsletters and sharing their...

I've been reading mostly blogs lately, and it kind of shines through in these link dumps. Most of the links I've been collecting recently are blog posts, and only occasionally do I see something that fits in any of the other categories. A lot of things seem to be just about AI or politics, and neither are topics...

Last week I shared a link to a post about which data is processed when you verify your identity with Linkedin. A friend got in touch and noted that this post and in fact the entire site seems like it was written by AI to him. He pointed me to GPTZero, an AI detector and indeed according to this the post was likely...

Thanks to Zak I just learned that today (April 9th) is CSS Naked Day, a day to strip your website of it's CSS and show what it looks like underneath in plain HTML. By sheer coincidence I worked a bit on making the HTML more readable without CSS yesterday. So this is what this site looks like without CSS. Not...

Right now as I'm writing this, humans are travelling to the moon for the first time within my lifetime. I'm not the biggest space nerd, but spaceflight and especially the Apollo moon program have always kind of fascinated me. And so I'm loosely following their journey to see how it's going and how far they've...

Dear readers, we have some exciting news to share! Starting right now, this blog will be written exclusively by AI. Yes, you read that right — AI is the author and the future for 82MHz has never looked brighter! Why this matters, and why it's so exciting We're kicking this blog into overdrive! Relentless creativity:...

I enjoy installing and playing around with old operating systems. Granted, I don't do much with them once I got them installed, but I like having a look around, checking out the integrated software and just seeing what it feels like to use this OS. The other day I wondered if I could run the first versions of...

Made it to number 100! It's crazy to see that I've written 100 of these posts almost every week (I skipped one week in October 2024 and one in December, same year) for nearly two years. I've done some work on the site recently and you can now find a list of all previous linkdumps here, and everything from all...

Music streaming services often advertise their product by highlighting that they have a (more expensive of course) option for uncompressed or Studio Quality audio, because it supposedly sounds much better than compressed MP3 files. Uncompressed just sounds better, it's clearer, has more dynamic range, more depth,...

I really like reading blogs. I also really like Mastodon as a social media, to keep in touch with people or to have a quick chat about random things. One thing I'm not a fan of though is when people post long articles which would be ideally suited for a blog as a "thread" on Mastodon. Here is a Mastodon thread I saw...

Linkdump number 99! We've reached the final two digit Linkdump. You know what this means? Next week we'll find out if the counter is three digit safe or if it will overflow and roll back to Linkdump -99, and then I will have to spend years digging myself out of that hole. But maybe it's time to implement a new...

Around 20 years ago I went to University, studying electrical engineering with a specialisation in telecommunications engineering. I was particularly interested in everything that had to do with audio. Signal processing, sound generation, audio compression etc. were endlessly fascinating to me, so I spent a lot of...