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David Boles

We’ve discussed AI here several times here on Boles Blogs, and today we’re taking the logical next step into the Uncanny valley by sharing original musical creations and starting our own website radio streaming service using our new songs to accompany our new Boles.radio TLD (Top Level Domain)!

Okay, so now you have your original music published on the major streaming services, like Spotify, but to hear those songs, your listeners need to have an account to access the entire song and not just a 30 second sound snippet.

But what if you want to drill down even more into your songs, and create your own website that will help you stream your music your way?

You have a few choices.

You can go to a website that specializes in helping you create your own radio station where you will have to stream from their proprietary domain. You will have to upload your music, and your storage space is limited. You also will have a limit on how many hours you can stream. The cost for that sort of service is around $150 a month for 10 hours of streaming. Not a great deal, but if you want to do everything live as an old time radio announcer, that’s one way to go.

A second choice you have is to go for an .FM domain name. The “Dot FM” name is popular for some music-related websites, playing off the old “radio” idea of an “FM” radio station. I’m not sure how many folks in the emerging generation even know what “FM” stands for when it comes to terrestrial radio broadcasting (frequency modulation); not that the definition really matters anymore.

An .FM domain will cost you around $100 a year to register. So, for five years, you’re in for $500 in domain registration fees alone. That’s not a terrible deal for a website domain, but knowing that the .FM domain name is really the TLD for the “Federated States of Micronesia” — (not “frequency modulation” at all!) — which is an independent island nation located in the Pacific Ocean — and so you might not really think .FM means really associates “radio” in mind. 

However, if you’re old, like me, and you want to try to be a little more traditional with your non-terrestrial web streaming domain for your music, the “.RADIO” domain might just be what fits best with your interest.

Yes, you can get a “Dot Radio” domain for $25 or so a year — if you are an individual with a want to “stream” radio, music, commentary or a podcast. Companies pay about ten times that amount per year for a .Radio domain.

Compared to the .FM domain — at $500 for five years — you can instead get a .RADIO domain for $250 for a 10 year registration; that’s half the cost for twice the time! I’ll go .RADIO all day.

And so I did!

Boles.radio is now live, and streaming my original music, as well as streaming highlights of my Human Meme podcast, along with other great bits of my ancient radio history to come!

Right now, I have started to curate my original SoundCloud music playlists — with my spoken vocal stingers added to my songs stream — to create “channel streams” on Boles.radio based on musical styles, and spoken topics.

Boles.ai · Boles Radio Dance

Being able to control the flow of the Boles.radio experience was important to me. With easily editable SoundCloud playlist streams, I can better form the proactive listener experience moment-to-moment.

Since all my original songs embed the domain name, or project, they are promoting in the lyrics, I am currently creating all new songs just for the Boles.radio streamcasting experience.

I’m currently able to create a new song a day, so in a month or two, Boles.radio will have a good, and deep, visual playlist available for your listening pleasure — a playlist I can always expand, update, edit, or delete as needed.

Hey, give me a shoutout if you need help, or if you have any ideas to share for the future of AI in our everyday lives!

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alanxoc3

I really like how #pico8 is so easy to develop with, has fun limitations, and nicely exports cross platform. But I also like how #uxn sounds, because it runs on many old devices and is an actual VM with a very flexible rom format.

What if there is something in between the two... Calling it "con". And here are some of the specs:
- 2 bit pixels (4 colors: #000000, #444444, #888888, #cccccc)
- 128x128 screen
- 64kb cartridge. Format requires the first 256 bytes to define a 32x32 label image. Followed by the fantasy console version, followed by uxn-like assembly.
- Just a single NES/Pico8 controller as input.
- Able to connect to other "cons" through some pins in memory.

And the rest of the specs I'm not sure about.

I like the idea of using assembly as the language, but I'm also afraid that it will be too annoying to program for. #uxn and #varvara don't have very many good games from what I've seen, the assembly language could be contributing to that.

Just like PICO-8 can store it's data in a single png image. This console could too. Here is an image that demonstrates the format. This image has only slightly more pixels than a ".p8.png" cartridge, but stores twice as much data (64KB).

I'd love to hear random thoughts or constructive feedback about the idea. For now it's just a thought experiment, not sure if it will actually go anywhere.

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Kyle Stewart

@kdnyhan Not even close. The light yellow (#FFFFBF) on grey (#CCCCCC) is 1.5:1 contrast ratio, and 1.03 when put on white.

Red is the only color that hits the minimum standard on grey and only just barely.

Shoutout to the WebAIM Contrast Checker, which is my go-to tool for these sorts of questions. It's eyedropper tool lets you pull in colors from other windows or apps.

webaim.org/resources/contrastc

webaim.orgWebAIM: Contrast Checker
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