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  • Digital Audio: An Introduction

    Lights! Camera! Just kidding. Today we are talking about digital audio and all the ways sound goes from your gadgets into your ears. UPDATE: Added ALAC to the list of codecs and made it the recommended codec for music. Lossy vs. Lossless Compression When sound is recorded, all those beautiful sound waves can take up…

  • Obscuro: A Fast, Scriptable Encryption Utility

    There is not shortage of encryption software available. Unfortunately, many of these tools are overly complex, slow, and hard to automate. Obscuro is the solution. What is it? Obscuro is a set of command-line utilities that can encrypt and decrypt streams of data. It uses Libsodium‘s secretstream, which is a fantastic implementation of the XChaCha20…

  • iPhone HDR Video: How the Heck Do I Work With This?

    For a while now, iPhone’s have shot video in Dolby Vision HDR (High Dynamic Range) by default. This means you have a wider range of color in your videos, as well as a wider range of brightness. HDR is nice because you can have very bright and very dark areas in a single video. Below…

  • 2023 Annular Eclipse Photos

    Recently, there was an annular solar eclipse in my area. I was able to get some cool photos of it. The photos actually turned out pretty well, especially since I took them with my phone. I used an app called Halide and covered my phone’s camera in solar glasses. If you want to download all…

  • Get Your PC Outta the Cloud!

    I was browsing the inter-webs a few days ago when I saw this Mastodon post by KDE. #Microsoft wants to move #Windows fully to the cloud. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy Don’t let them force you to log on to their servers to monitor and control you every time you need your computer. Take back your desktop! Use Plasma!…

  • (APRIL FOOLS) Introducing JimmyNet➕

    UPDATE: Just in case it wasn’t clear—this was an April Fools joke. JimmyNet will continue to be completely free, with no ads, and no sale of personal information. This is a satire post meant to make fun of the commercialization of the internet and how everyone want’s you to buy a subscription to stuff. Here…

  • How I Read the News 📰

    I try to keep up with current events, but the way most people do it is just plain wrong. Why You’re Reading the News Wrong Here is a nice table of why most people read the news wrong: What people do Why it is wrong Get their news from social media. It is biased by…

  • Jimmy’s Blog Gets a New Theme!

    🎄 Merry Christmas! I’ve rolled out a new theme for my blog. New Stuff And of course, it’s still the same blog you know and love. And if you want to read it in whatever theme you want you can always get the RSS feed at the bottom of every post.

  • JimmyNet Goes Metric (And other International Standards)

    The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. It allows for dynamic documents and apps that all link to each other. For instance, I can easily write a blog about the WWW and easily point you to more information about it. However, many forget the “world wide” aspect of the…

  • Fancy New Emoji

    UPDATE 22-12-2022: Twemoji has still not been updated to Emoji 15.0 and Twitter (who makes Twemoji) is in chaos. It is not certain whether it will be updated. I have updated the website to use Noto Emoji. These are not the color emoji you may be used to, but I think they fit the site…