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by liotier 2y ago
> Or flashing led and use mobile phone camera to scan it Miele uses flashing LED as some sort of serial communication.
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by liotier 2y ago
Lots of Mastodon instances do not wish to let indexers take their whole feed. As a result, there is no way to globally track a search string or even a hashtag. A bunch of reactionaries seems to believe that search is a privacy violation...
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by liotier 2y ago
> being able to search well - a problem the whole Fediverse has... I still don't understand the Fediverse's surprisingly common hostility to indexing: a publishing platform that won't let indexers record its publications -
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by liotier 2y ago
> Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has no incentive for content creators Peertube users do not need content nor incentives: they just want to publish their videos and post links to them to their audience. My photo ga
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by liotier 2y ago
> it’s hard to understand how everyday people can use this platform Because they are not platforms: they are software, free to use. Their audience is systems administrators, not users. Either the user is it's own systems administrat
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by liotier 2y ago
The brave comment I was looking for... I feel the same: Silicon Valley used to be holy Mecca to this French person; since I started having Internet access in the early 90's, all daily online activity was turned towards it - and some of
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by liotier 2y ago
As a Canon user since the mid-80's, I found this fascinating reading. Edit: Wow - there's a whole collection of Canon lens technology articles there: https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CLT-...
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by liotier 2y ago
Please, I would be delighted if you published that code... Just yesterday I was thinking that a two-faced Samba share/USB Mass Storage dongle Pi would save me a lot of shuttling audio samples between my desktop and my Akai MPC.
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by liotier 2y ago
old.reddit is nice but it feels like having a conversation while on death row - still a couple of appeals pending but the endgame is not really in doubt. The end of RedditIsFun ( https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun&#x2F
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by liotier 2y ago
Yes - my point was about identifier strings such as UUID
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by liotier 2y ago
> We need to do end to end text recognition. Not "character recognition", it's not the characters we care about. Arbitrary nonsensical text require character recognition. Sure, even a license plate bears some semantics bou
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by liotier 2y ago
Right - how could I forget Amarok ? And I too was pushed to Clementine by Amarok 2.0
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by liotier 2y ago
> Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky Strawberry isn't the most solid program (a few times a year, its search hiccups and gets stuck for a few seconds), but it carries the torch of Clementine's UX - which is my
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by liotier 2y ago
The About page says "We’re both in the forever business" but doesn't back up the claim with any financial information to even credibly argue that they are in the ten years business.
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by liotier 2y ago
What similar devices don't fight their own users wanting to access their own data ?
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by liotier 2y ago
"S.M.A.R.T" goals - applicable to strikes too... The sort of detail that separates competent labor organizers from mere agitators.
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by liotier 2y ago
> I couldn't use my Canon SLR to record more than 30 minutes of video continuously Large sensors optimized for still photography overheat when operating continuously for video, so they feature safety limits. Sensor heat dissipation
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by liotier 2y ago
I guess I should jump back in and clarify what I left unexplained when starting the thread. Contrary to "couilles", which are indeed "bollocks", "couillon" has no exact english synonym. Closest I can imagine, i
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by liotier 2y ago
The mainstream French word for poka yoke is "détrompeur" but I prefer its obscure and vulgar vernacular "détrompe couillon" ("couillon" has no exact English equivalent, but you might know its Italian cousin &qu
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by liotier 2y ago
Even moderate experience with martial arts goes a long way in instinctively managing falls - probably saved my bones a number of times in MTB and skating... The scars always in the same locations and on the same axis show it is a reproducib
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by liotier 2y ago
Material proof of bravery (from the point of views of the scarred) or temerity (from everybody else's point of view)... And, less abusive but no less idiotic: the same idea but with broken hardware - a broken frame means limits were pr
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by liotier 2y ago
> Anyone on the fence about keeping Windows around just for games: unless you play online multiplayer that uses kernel anti-cheat, just make the jump. I promise you, almost every game in your library will just work, and almost all of the
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by liotier 2y ago
> be ok with what you want to learn (some think everybody must be an orchestral pianist) I relate to that: I was inflicted a couple years of piano lessons as a kid, and hated every minute of it - because I detested the music that my teac
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by liotier 2y ago
As a lazy synthdad, father of a piano virtuoso who makes fun of my musical clumsiness, I concur: listen to music, watch music being played and read about music all you want... It won't get you very far: music requires practice, practic
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by liotier 2y ago
> If you are good at doing something, you might find the new tool's output to be sub-par over what you can achieve yourself, but often the lower quality output comes much faster than you can generate. That causes the people who are
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by liotier 2y ago
Roland using less SysEx ? Here is a 26 pages PDF full of unofficial TB-3 SysEx documented by Dope Robot: https://www.doperobot.com/TB-3%20Sysex%20Implementation%20v1... - Roland's official documentation just scratches
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by liotier 2y ago
> I wish it was somehow possible to perform a piece of music that would cause remote code execution Cue Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" triggering Derek Zoolander to kill the Malaysian leader during fashion week
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by liotier 2y ago
Of course it is SysEx. SysEx is to standard MIDI what inline assembler is to Python. A world of undocumented proprietary stuff lurks within just about every MIDI device !
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by liotier 2y ago
Yes, not much progress since - apart from Russia, China and the USA increasing pressure... I suppose they support our federalist project and try to motivate us !
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by liotier 2y ago
> while traveling, I consider using money to be like cheating And even on the cheap, let's keep in mind that money is central to the luxury that any tourism is. In my 90's youth, I figuratively littered the map with pushpins in

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