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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: Instant brainstorming, bold angles, and plot twists on demand — like a writer who never sleeps (and never misses a deadline). Faster content, fresher ideas: Expect more posts, mo...

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 Apple's Mac OS X (back then for Power PC) in a virtual machine or an emulator. And it turned out that it's fairly easy to do with QEMU. Software QEMU is a virtualisation/emulation powerh...

Made it to number 100! It's crazy to see that I've been writing 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 linkdumps one one page over here. If you remember that you found something through one of my posts, but you don't remember which one it was in, you can just search on that page. I ...

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, better high end and so on, is how the story goes. Frankly, I think this is mostly nonsense. MP3s at high bitrates can be considered transparent (more on this below), which means th...

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 recently and found interesting. It consists of 14 individual posts, so I started at the first one and made my way through to the end. But by the time I had reached the bottom, I ...

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 counting scheme altogether? After all, numbering things in ascending order is just so... plain. How about something a little more exotic? We could continue with Linkdump 360, followed...