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I recently read an article about the Attention K-Mart Shoppers archive.org collection and could not help but to grab the files, save them all for posterity, and broadcast them worldwide on a random rotation. Honestly, this is amazing study and work music. It's ear cotton. It's nostalgic. It's uplifting. It's trivia.

Read on for a stupid, optional idea: Let's break the large tapes and records into identifiable songs, where possible, and mark the metadata for announcements, ads, pretty much anything we can. This is an impossible task for one person and I can only imagine what Amazon Turk might return, though given funds the results may be worth publishing in an open scientific journal....

If you want to help, message me here on Lemmy and let's embark together on a meaningless yet fulfilling project.

What I am looking for at a minimum is song name, the name of the K-Mart album, and time stamp. Any extra data, such as running length, recording quality, original broadcast date, genre (holiday, elevator cover), anything really would be really helpful. All contributed information will be collated on some sort of community-recommended data collection service, be it git or calc or whatever, and will be shared back to archive.org in the Attention K-Mart shoppers collection. All data collected will be public domain and open source. The interested community will provide input on compatible licensing.

That's my proposal.

FAQ:

Q: Why?

A: If you are asking this question this post isn't for you.

Q: What would I do?

A: You hear a song. You know something about the song. You jot down what you know (title, artist but that is a long-shot on most of these, genre, anything relevant to categorization and metadata) and send that info and the album name and time stamp to the to-be-determined data collection service. I/someone will then rip out the song, add metadata, and add it it the archive.org collection.

Q: This is dumb.

A: Not a question and yes, I know. But, let's have some fun if you are not a neurotypical like myself and want to contribute some data that may be useful in an entity's computer core someday.

Q: I only know something or a little bit. Should I contribute?

A: Yes.

Contributions will be open if enough interest is shown to form a community. Otherwise, well, I tried.

tl;dr:

Help classify the content of the tapes.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by oleorun to c/weirdnews

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Overripe eggs for sale, cheep.

self hosted browser sync? in c/[email protected]

[–] oleorun 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Did you check out https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver?

EDIT: My bad, project is moved to https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

Happy Mothers Day to everyone. in c/[email protected]

[–] oleorun 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is a great policy for amateur (ham) radio. Start with the $25 Baofeng that barely receives and transmits all over the spectrum*, then grab the Alinco or TYT, eventually working one's way up to Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, etc.

A good transceiver is expensive so working up to the big boys is definitely worth the investment if the hobby takes hold.

*Baofengs are probably the worst first handheld transceiver (HT) because they are so poorly designed and quality control is non-existent. A new ham with a Baofeng is likely to become frustrated and give up. Check out the various ham radio/amateur radio communities for better suggestions for starter HTs if ham radio is of interest to you.

Getting Started in c/[email protected]

[–] oleorun 1 points 3 weeks ago

Get yourself a good soldering iron and a lot of fine-tips. There are a lot of tiny pins to solder if you add a header.

I have bought from a few sources, including Ali and DFRobot, and never had any quality issues. Adafruit is my other source, thoguh their stock can be very low for a long time.

Fancy seeing you here in c/[email protected]

[–] oleorun 9 points 3 weeks ago

Odd man out.

I finished that night stand in c/[email protected]

[–] oleorun 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m going on a bit of a victory lap here, I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out.

You should - this looks amazing! Nice work! I really like how the grain pops on the front of the drawer and the parallel grain on the sides is beautiful.

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[–] oleorun 8 points 3 weeks ago

"Well, we got the vampire slayer position or the snake man position. Which'll it be?"

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[–] oleorun 4 points 3 weeks ago

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