@rhys.newydd.net
By day: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. But by night: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. Siarad Cymraeg, all the way. He/him/fo a fe https://swan.ac.uk/staff/rhys.jones/ https://analog.newydd.net/
Happy St David's Day! I'm on @noiseboxradio.com right now, playing music from and by a wide variety of Welsh Davids, Dewis and Dafydds. Who knows, you might hear something you like. Croeso!
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This was excellent fun to do and it'll be great to hear it again. Thanks Ben!
I feel there's a theme developing today
a) PHWOAR EH
b) as noted, three of these would have more processing power, storage and memory than _all_ the 1.5 million+ Beebs sold back in the day. That's somehow both astonishing and unsurprising
www.raspberrypi.com/news/beige-i...
#retrocomputing
Further 'you're asking entirely the wrong person here' evidence: a colleague's work mentions that Wil Cwac Cwac was adapted for radio a good few decades before it hit S4C, AND it shared the same producer as @outonbluesix.bsky.social favourite, Disc a Dawn. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A square LCD PC monitor (showing a Linux Mint desktop with OBS, a terminal window, and task manager open), keyboard and trackpad, video recorder, and slim PC, nestled in with various ornaments and an old printer being used as a shelf. A Sonic The Hedgehog figure is holding an Xbox-style gamepad upside down, next to a ceramic ornament of a cottage.
The #teletext recovery computer is back online, running through a tape from (a friend of) @rhys.newydd.net.
Testing video/audio capture in #OBS alongside VBI capture using vhs-teletext. No rare ads yet, though.
The frame drop messages are spurious: capture doesn't seem to be adversely affected.
There are basically two types of comics.
1. Comics about cats who hate mondays
2. Comics about cats who like lasagna
If you get REALLY good you can do both, but don't run before you can walk.
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
Ben's playing indie/alt songs of 1995, a year when I came here, formed lasting friendships, and determined the rest of my life. This reminds me of Musiquarium, of singles of the week, and discovering who I was/who the adult me would become. Quite the nostalgia, then, on @noiseboxradio.com till 9
Musically, performing* a million-selling record, alongside its composer, in a computer museum, clad in a labcoat once worn on Top of the Pops, remains one of the most unexpected yet delicious things to have happened in my adult life.
* OK, in my case that's in the pre-1991 TOTP sense. Still counts
Terrific article from @henbapurnewydd.bsky.social on Welshness, myth and the algorithm: open.substack.com/pub/llinos/p...
A screenshot of Gwynedd (Morwenna Banks) from the Denzil and Gwynedd sketches on Absolutely, with a Welsh subtitle underneath her stating that she's been pregnant for 17 years
Ha well it'd be more a paragraph than a chapter! But it'd at least include my favourite Wil Cwac Cwac anecdote, being that Urien Wiliam, the man who adapted it for the screen (and wrote new stories), also wrote the Welsh subtitles for the Denzil and Gwynedd sketches on Absolutely...
Oh. My. Word.
Was excellent to see you :) glad you enjoyed!
You're very welcome! Dave is on Bluesky but perhaps rightly sees all this as ancient history by now :) It's me who still feels not particularly righteous indignation...!
Absolutely no shade (shade! Like a sundial's shade!) on Neil for posting, but you can still set your watch by the annual appearance of this, originally drawn in ~2012 by Dave Walker davewalker.com/category/dia... then shamelessly ripped off, first by Innocent drinks then by pretty much everyone else
Technocamps faces imminent defunding.
They play a pivotal role in Welsh STEM education.
They encourage children from all backgrounds to explore computing via workshops and teacher support.
The decision needs, at least, to be scrutinised.
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... - please sign, share.
Can't vouch for the exact week, but that was infinitesimally my dad's fault, yielding to pester power. Possibly my first 'purchase'. Sorry Feargal.
The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
Bemused yet delighted to be given this opportunity. Won't you be in for a treat?
(Frankly, the answer is 'probably not', but it should at least be, what's the word? ...diverting).
Looking forward to, provisionally, the end of January.
Marginally after our time, I think: an attempt to retool My Favourite Things in a manner that almost, but doesn't quite, mention any higher power. Very badly transcribed here hymn.fandom.com/wiki/Autumn_...
I'm happy to hear a case for the words (only the words I'm afraid) of Autumn Days, especially as it mentions mid-air refuelling, something I genuinely didn't know could be done successfully!
I'm that rare beast, a Sydney Carter fan (I'll even stand up for Lord of the Dance). Simple yet never simplistic: my vicar suggests the last verse, 'You are older than the world can be/You are younger than the life in me' encapsulates the nature of God better than many more lauded hymnwriters do...
You're absolutely more than welcome. Thanks to you for not mentioning that the reference to AD 73 actually appeared in your chat with Sioned Wiliam, which I also read recently. Oops :)
You can find a selection of recent episodes of The Celtic Connection and its predecessor, generously mentioned by Ben, at mixcloud.com/rhysjj
You squarely have Justin and Ben, in order, to blame and/or thank for me rediscovering radio presenting, and this is an expectedly excellent chat, with revelations about both (Justin's dad's associations with Cymru-psych, Ben's means of discovering Frank Sidebottom...) Thanks, both!
