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by apecat 7y ago
Oh, Genelecs are professional tools and an acquired taste for anything outside the studio. I really hope no-one runs out and buys Genelecs for living room use based on this thread, without understanding what they're getting themselves
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by apecat 7y ago
Yup, I concur. You probably don't want to buy Genelec "just because musician X swears by them or Steve Jobs had a pair at his desk". See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587970 The cheap P
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by apecat 7y ago
Well, I'm not really an expert, but room correction seems like an imperfect solution to an annoying problem in situations where you don't feel so crafty. I'd agree that obsessive room treatment is the way to go if you can pla
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by apecat 7y ago
Yup, and that Genelec sub (superceded by the F One) we use cost like EUR 600 in 2012 or so. The Genelec 8330A, which has programmable DSP, can be found at under EUR 800/piece these days from Thomann, a major German music online story t
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by apecat 7y ago
Oh wow, got dozens of subscribers to that latest hifi cottage playlist. That's a lot by my standards. Thanks for the interest, people. I hope you all find something fun in there: I really enjoy doing this. With this development in mind
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by apecat 7y ago
This is a really promising concept, I'll definitely shoot you a message later, when I'm done at the business factory
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by apecat 7y ago
I'm glad you asked, and ideas are welcome! I'm not an audio pro and I suck at physics. I'm at work but I fired up Skitch and made this ridiculous little drawing, which should explain the situation somewhat. http://
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by apecat 7y ago
Oh, I noticed I've gotten new followers on Spotify in just a new minutes. I love shared Spotify playlists so, so much. I also entertain friends with my 'Mistape', a six-track, made-to-crossfade playlist sans genre BS, which I
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by apecat 7y ago
If you can, please steal and/or adapt this idea in any shape or form. Music is such a nice and safe drug. Here's the playlist from our latest adventure https://open.spotify.com/playlist/76BJ3kWrBGo0b9p9M2uMob
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by apecat 7y ago
Oh, trust me, it's an absolute delight. It's tingly, ASMR-like and you hear stuff in a completely different way. One of my friends just goes to town with his synesthesia and usually keeps his eyes shut for a big part of the evenin
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by apecat 7y ago
Of course the Japanese had this concept figured out. I do this thing with a small group of friends, where we drive like 3-4 grands worth of speakers and room correction DSP (Genelec and DSpeaker) to a summer cottage every 6-8 weeks or so. T
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by apecat 7y ago
Yes, that is the problem, and someone is hopefully working on it. But if you start looking at those '12 users', you should notice that that the need is extreme. This includes drug people and at-risk populations like sex workers: I
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by apecat 7y ago
Moxie Marlinspike, of Open Whisper Systems, had some pretty pessimistic things to say about how stagnant federated protocols become, and why they avoided that approach with Signal. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-
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by apecat 9y ago
Yup. I never touched Apple's portable stuff during the iPod/iTunes era. I found these products and force-fed management software absolutely horrid. I didn't even want iTunes on the family computers, or a dependency on Windows
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by apecat 9y ago
I'm a total non-engineer/developer, but I'm increasingly interested in what guys like you think about software QA as it relates to security. Today's Apple does a lot of security posturing in hardware/platform archit
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by apecat 9y ago
Yeah but to phrase it pointedly, to what degree does Apple consider Macs to be basically development kits for iOS apps? It's very clear that iPhones make the big cash.
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by apecat 9y ago
Well this business unit might be a toxic asset now. But I'm sure it'll go right back to printing money once it's no longer directly associated with a vendor of TLS interception middle boxes popular among despots. And the brow
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by apecat 9y ago
I had this realization some time ago: almost everything I do on my desktop runs in Chromium wrappers: Chrome (duh), Spotify, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal
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by apecat 9y ago
There's a really good breakdown of the Swedish Security Service's (Säpo) report on this case in Swedish, written by a knowledgeable journalist. It's fairly ok in English through Google translate. http://www.breakit
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by apecat 10y ago
Symantec is now a company that operates both as a CA and, having acquired Blue Coat, also as a vendor of TLS intercepting middle boxes that they sell to despots. With this history of mis-issued certs in mind, Symantec's CA business sho
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by apecat 10y ago
My basic understanding of this matter is this: never co-operate with the intelligence community. Shit on these people and burn their identities whenever you can because they're not your friends. You might even be able to limit the futu
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by apecat 10y ago
@jgrahamc I'm curious to know a bit about what the human, biz and tech process is like when Cloudflare opens a new DC and traffic from local ISPs slowly is beginning to be routed towards it. Very much like what I'm currently obser
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by apecat 10y ago
Apple's AirPods will probably suck, audio wise, but there's a chance they're sturdy as hell. I know because I've used Apple's otherwise useless EarPods to listen to spoken word content and to fall asleep with for ye
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by apecat 10y ago
I submitted this article from Finland's national public service broadcaster. A side note: Finland remains all in on prohibition. Ideas such as harm reduction and decriminalization are relatively slowly approaching a status where they c
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Finnish drug charity to provide Tor-based harm reduction, DB of dark web drugs(yle.fi)
3 points by apecat 10y ago|1 comments
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by apecat 10y ago
The headline provided is hardly a fair description of the content of the article. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, just states the technical facts of how a https->http proxy works in the context of present day surveillance. One might a
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by apecat 10y ago
@jgrahamc: Do you think it would be feasible to add clearer notification about potentially creating a false sense of security to the Cloudflare ui, when no origin SSL is present? What Cloudflare calls "Flexible SSL" has real impli
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by apecat 10y ago
Yeah, well, I agree that people should stop using DRM, but it's not like it seems to be happening. And from a business point of view, it can be really hard to make that case. Anyway, the world looks really bleak for open platforms righ
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by apecat 10y ago
Wow. I certainly hope someone with a lot of power over company culture at, say, Apple is watching this. And that they get inspired to think about cultural preservation. I really think it should be a standard act of corporate responsibility
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by apecat 10y ago
Here's a thing on food science from The New York Times from three years ago I keep referring to. Long but really good read. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary... In the c

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