Wednesday, November 11, 2026
10 Short Videos #6313
- Granite Like Plasticine? - Ancient Egypt
- Dirty Angles - Anglemaster Spicer 45 - Chris Boden
- They Actually Removed Bridges for This! - Try to ignore the babbling narration
- Márquez wasn't chasing a win — he captured the title! 👑 - Motorcycle racing
- World's Biggest Human Catapult 🤯 - More Red Bull lunacy
- Eric the seagull had a chip on his shoulder!
- Funniest moment of life - moments
- OWN YOUR MOVEMENT🔥
- My best hide & reveal yet! - Art & paint
- Now to dive back into edits ✍️📖 - Bestselling fantasy romance author typing like mad woman
No excuse for being late today, just spaced out.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Audio Streaming & Piracy
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| The rise of music piracy reflects an out of touch industry. |
Today at lunch Michael told us about time he was working for a company that was trying to sell a sound system to Warner Brothers . This was back around the year 2000 and Warner Brothers wanted a secure sound system that would allow all those concerned with a project to be able to listen to the dailies ( dailies are just whatever was recorded that day). The solution was a pair of programs that transferred the digital sound files from the master computer to the listener's computer. The programs allowed the user to start playing the recording at any point in the recording. It basically looked the same system used by YouTube and Spotify , but this was back in the year 2000. Warner Brothers was very concerned about security (they didn't want anyone making black market copies), so the receiver program had to bypass the Windows sound system and talk directly to the hardware. Of course, you could just set up a microphone and record the audio from the speakers. However, the receiver program added a high frequency squeal to the output signal. Presumably it was above a human's hearing range, but low enough the speakers could reproduce it. The idea being that if a pirated copy showed up, they had evidence it was stolen. In addition, they encoded the user's number in that high pitched squeal so they would be able to identify the culprit.
I asked Google about this (pasted the entire above text) and got a long response. Here's a couple of items extracted from that response:
The system Michael described was incredibly forward-thinking for the year 2000, effectively combining modern streaming architecture with strict digital rights management (DRM) to prevent and track piracy.🔇 The "Silent" Tracker: Audio WatermarkingThe high-frequency squeal Michael mentioned is a forensic technique called psychoacoustic watermarking .
- Human Hearing vs. Speakers: Healthy young adults can generally hear frequencies up to 20,000 Hz (20 kHz). Standard audio equipment and speakers can easily reproduce sounds up to 20 kHz or 22 kHz. By placing the squeal in the ultra-high spectrum (e.g., around 18 kHz to 21 kHz), it becomes effectively inaudible to most busy executives and producers listening to dailies, but it is still physically blasting out of the speakers.
⏳ The Streaming PioneerBuilding a system in 2000 that allowed arbitrary scrubbing (clicking to play at any point in the timeline) over the internet was a massive technical feat. Broadband internet was in its infancy, and most of the world was still on dial-up. They essentially built a secure, private precursor to Spotify and YouTube technology years before the infrastructure for those platforms existed on a consumer scale.
10 Short Videos #6312
- How white lime is made from snail shells.
- When life gets hard, I train harder 🧠 🌱🩰 - Balance on a weeble base
- 100-Year-Old Method: Handmade Brass Plate Making Process.
- Man and woman coordinated exercise
- Diwali decorate Chinese Light making
- flyboarding
- Flying Tourbillon Assembly of the IWC Ingenieur Tourbillon 41 IW345901 in 18-carat 5N gold. - Watch making
- Rise slow - Kimo sounds - Africa
- Toddler dancing to car alarm
- Is this too easy? - Puzzlebox
Monday, November 9, 2026
Chlorophene
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| Monday Starts on Saturday |
Singing and talking strains appeared, and the descendants of the most ancient species now fed exclusively on a mixture of pyrethrum and chlorophene.
They're talking about bats, the book is mostly a bunch of confused nonsense, so 'pyrethrum and chlorophene' could be just words the authors invented, but let's see what our lord and master Google has to say.
Pyrethrum refers to certain perennial daisy-like plants—most notably Dalmatian chrysanthemum and painted daisy — belonging to the aster family. These plants are famous for producing pyrethrins, natural organic compounds in their seed cases and flower heads that act as potent, fast-acting natural insecticides.
Cychlorphine (often referred to or misspelled as chlorophene) is an emerging, highly potent synthetic opioid belonging to a class of compounds known as "orphines".
Key Facts About Cychlorphine
- Potency: Laboratory and pharmacological data indicate cychlorphine is potentially up to 10 times more potent than fentanyl, making even microscopic amounts life-threatening.
- Origin: The compound was originally described in 1960s pharmaceutical research (such as a 1967 patent by Janssen Pharmaceuticals), but it was never approved for human use or medical application.
- Illicit Supply: It has surfaced in the illicit drug market mixed into or masquerading as other substances, including heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and counterfeit prescription pills.
- Detection Challenges: Cychlorphine is not detectable by standard fentanyl test strips or routine hospital opioid urine screens, requiring specialized laboratory toxicology testing to confirm.
- Overdose Reversal: While naloxone (Narcan) is still the primary emergency treatment, severe or deep respiratory depression from cychlorphine may require multiple doses of naloxone.
Google's first link goes to the National Library of Medicine page about Chlorophene where we find:
3.2.1 Physical Description
Ortho-benzyl-para-chlorophenol appears as white to light tan or pink flakes or white crystals. Insoluble in water. Slight phenolic odor. (NTP, 1992)
How do you know what it smells like, since inhaling a microscopic amount could kill you?
7.3 Reported Fatal Dose
3. 3= MODERATELY TOXIC: Probable oral lethal dose (human) 0.5-5 g/kg, between 1 oz and 1 pint for 70 kg person (150 lbs).
On one hand even microscopic amounts can be life-threatening and on the other a fatal dose could be as much as a pint. Something does not compute. There's probably some footnote in there somewhere that explains the discrepancy, but I ain't a chemist.
Anyway, looking over the page about Chlorophene at the National Library of Medicine (it's a very long, very sparse page), I found a surprisingly long list of manufacturers (67) of this drug. Being on the list may not mean anything other than they have the formula for the drug on their books.
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