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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. 🍂 Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Look Inside This Pioneer Tube Receiver!

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I have a bit of a fascination with vacuum tube technology these days, because they did some pretty amazing things with those tubes that glowed and threw off a lot of heat, such as this mid-1960s hi-fidelity amplifier. Wouldn't be long after this came out that they went to solid-state components -- these old beasts took a lot of maintance and adjustments to work properly as they got older.

Fixing Social Media for Good

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The use of peer-to-peer social media networking that is highly decentralized might become the future, especially if censorship becomes a real problem on Twitter and Facebook.