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How to date a recording using background electrical noise

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Re: How to date a recording using background electrical noise

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A video on the same subject: https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY I really enjoy Tom Scott. Everything he puts out is wonderfully concise.

I like the guy too but not a big fan of the whole dumb-it-down/ELI5 culture. Some subjects absolutely require a lot more (written text, experimentation/tweaking with code) than few fancy videos to grasp.

Re: How to date a recording using background electrical noise

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Sounds like anyone wanting to do a "proper" fake job will now need to separate out any existing hum, then add a new continuous "hum track" based upon those publicly available ENV values. Probably wouldn't even be all that hard.

By itself? No. But this is just one more thing that can be used to date a recording. If you even know about it.

There are hundreds of known fingerprints and you just need to forget about or not know of just one for your fraud to be called out.

Re: How to date a recording using background electrical noise

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A video on the same subject: https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY I really enjoy Tom Scott. Everything he puts out is wonderfully concise.

I like the guy too but not a big fan of the whole dumb-it-down/ELI5 culture. Some subjects absolutely require a lot more (written text, experimentation/tweaking with code) than few fancy videos to grasp.

All subjects have non-dumbed down versions in research papers, university level books or industry reference manuals. The existence of more dumbed down content doesn't make those disappear.

Re: How to date a recording using background electrical noise

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post #3

A video on the same subject: https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY I really enjoy Tom Scott. Everything he puts out is wonderfully concise.

I like the guy too but not a big fan of the whole dumb-it-down/ELI5 culture. Some subjects absolutely require a lot more (written text, experimentation/tweaking with code) than few fancy videos to grasp.

A dumbed down version is great to introduce people to the subject

Chances are that good written explanations already exist, just a Google search away, for those who want to learn more.

Tom’s video and this blog post are perfect combo that complement each other.

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