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I have been using Audacity for long, as I'm an audiolover for a long too. When Audacity 3.x popped up saying
Audacity 4 is here
, I went for it. To get decepted.







It is beautiful, really something you can call a NEW version, but it's incomplete. The old, loved and necessary features are not all ported to the new interface, and shortcuts are a mess to (not) work. Not a big thing, if they simply said so in
their website
, or named it beta, or release candidate, for a few more months, until the implementation of 1 or 2 bug fixes and 2 or 3 features of old being still present.







Don't buy my opinion for it, or
opinions
on the Audacity
forum
; try yourself if you're an Audacity user! (Are you already using the new one?)







Hope you get a good show.















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Short music clip used, free license: Jazzy Abstract Beat_Chops, by Coma-Media, on
Pixabay


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Awesome Space Hilversum


https://awesomespace.nl/


















Awesome Space is open every Friday for anyone to play great classic games. We have over 100 retro consoles, home computers, and arcade machines playable in space. So come over NEXT game night to explore the Awesome Space. We are located in the Game Capital of the Netherlands. Bring friends, play games, and have fun.













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https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/byd-rolls-out-ev-batteries-with-5-minute-flash-charging-but-theres-a-catch/






https://www.globalchinaev.com/post/byd-readies-four-models-for-canadian-market-entry


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The
Dutch Railway Company
occasionally has a anagram of the names of the railway stations on their services.



















The image above shows which service we are on, namely the intercity direct to
Breda
via
Schiphol Airport
, and the time is 07:27.






It shows a cartoon depiction of a platform where the information sign is displaying the letters of the anagram, and today it reads "Nul Te Teer".






Under it says "Oops, the letters are mixed up. Can you guess the correct station ?"






The under it says that the next station at 07:38 will be
Duivendrecht
.








I wrote a script to check my guess. It consists of a function normalise_word, which takes any word, removes everything but the letters, and then converts it to lower case. Each letter is printed to it's own line, where it's sorted, and new lines are removed, to be printed as a "normalised" word.







This is used to take the
List of Dutch Railway Stations from Wikipedia
, to produce a list of stations and convert them to normalized names which is saved to a new file with the normalised names on the same line as the real names.







We can then just grep for the normalised version of the anagram and whatever line it was found in the normalised file, should correspond to the same line in the real file.







"Nul Te Teer" gets converted to "eeelnrttu" which is found in the normalised file, and that corresponds to "
Etten-Leur
"









Tell us how would you solve it ?








#!/bin/bash
# Ken Fallon - CC-0/Public Domain

station_file="ns-train-stations.txt"

# Get the station name
if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]
then
echo "ERROR: Please specify station"
exit 1
fi

function normalise_word() {
printf '%sn' "${1}"
| tr --delete --complement 'A-Za-zn'
| tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
| grep --only-matching --regexp='.'
| sort --ignore-case
| tr --delete 'n'
printf 'n'
}

station="$( normalise_word "${1}" )"

cat ${station_file} | while read word
do
normalise_word "${word}"
done > "${station_file%.*}_normalised.txt"

linenumber="$( grep --line-number --perl-regexp "^${station}$" "${station_file%.*}_normalised.txt" | awk -F ':' '{print $1}' )"

sed --quiet "${linenumber}p" ${station_file}










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In this intense and personal episode, the host recounts the
terrifying experience of his home being struck by lightning
twice—once in an apartment two decades ago and recently in his
current house. He details the catastrophic damage inflicted on his
electronics, explaining how the surge traveled through coaxial
cables, Ethernet lines, and USB ports, destroying network cards, a
motherboard, a gaming mouse, a garage door opener, a dishwasher
disposal, and even an electric scooter. The narrative takes a
harrowing turn as he describes climbing a ladder during an active
storm to tarp holes in the roof, only to have lightning strike 50
feet away, causing drywall to explode and leaving him with a
near-fatal shock. The host seeks practical advice from listeners on
how to properly protect Ethernet connections and electronics during
storms, questioning the efficacy of standard surge protectors versus
industrial-grade solutions, while warning others against the dangers
of handling equipment or going outside during severe weather.



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