Is it really the enshittification of books, or the enshittification of printers that's responsible?

Looking at the prices on that list, the ones near the top are several k$, but so are many in the middle and bottom, and amongst them are ones costing many times less, leading one to think that there really is no correlation between price and performance.

Try different tips --- IEMs are supposed to seal to your ears like earplugs.

A bit sad to see another famous hacker turning to the "dark side" --- as "security chips" are a treacherous slippery slope, no matter who controls them. Just because it's "open source" doesn't mean it's a good thing.

Edit: give Stallman's "Right to Read" another read.

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that other people had already thought of applying the multi-pass technique on GPU, but the idea is not very widely known.

The demoscene is particularly insular, but even within the field of computing in general it seems that there is not a lot of knowledge diffusion between all the different areas, leading to some reinventions (often with distinct terminology.)