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   by lozf 8y ago

   AFIAA, all/most releases on labels owned by Universal Music Group, and possibly some Sony releases. https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/08/universal-to-t... https://www.mattmontag.com&#
2. 332.▲
   by lozf 8y ago

   It won't be long before companies are making extra-high bandwidth auto-playing ads to eat your allowance, not to mention the improved location tracking due to smaller cells.
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   by lozf 8y ago

   Of course... and they'll be better targeted to your precise location for tracking purposes too!
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   by lozf 8y ago

   Apart from DRM, if you stream or "buy a download" of an Album, many have watermarks which in some cases are audible and may detract from the listening experience.
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   by lozf 8y ago

   Quite... I'd often see between 30% to 70% (and occasionally worse) packet loss... sometimes pinging 8.8.8.8 would take over 6000ms for a response!
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   by lozf 8y ago

   Thanks, I'll try Airtel next time.
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   by lozf 8y ago

   India's mobile data may be cheap, but it's also pretty poor. It may be 4G technology, but speeds are far below what's common in the UK / Europe. Last week in Delhi I was getting anywhere between a few kbps and ~2-3Mbps
8. 338.▲
   by lozf 8y ago

   Yes, precisely... rather disappointing that HN users -- the very people you'd expect to know the difference between one protocol and "a set of them" would make this mistake - what hope is there for Joe Public :/
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   by lozf 8y ago

   Thanks for mentioning "chappals" - In my experience (currently month 21 in India over the last 14 years) this term usually refers to a generic type of open-ish, often plastic or rubber, shoe - anything between a "flip-flop&qu
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Oh snap! Haven't used Windows or Mac outside of occasional work use for >10 years - all BSD or Linux (mostly Debian since then)... I've heard good reports from people using foobar2000 under Wine, but on Linux there's many
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    by lozf 8y ago

    On Windows "foobar2000" is fantastic for playback and transcoding, looks pretty basic, but performs well and has lot's of plugins to modify look and feel as well as extra functionality. On Mac, XLD is great for ripping and tr
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Relive the memory by piping everything through Brendan Gregg's wonderful "baud.pl" script [0]. Truly nostalgic! (Using "baud.pl" is much smoother than trying to recreate the effect by piping through `pv`) [0]: http
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    by lozf 8y ago

    It's English, but it's not good British English -- it sounds like a headline from "The Register" but lacking puns.
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Milk is for infants anyway, whichever species.
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Could add: Neal Stephenson (Author)
16. 346.▲
    by lozf 8y ago

    Indeed, English can be weird - it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Okay, let's jump forward in time a little ... When FR is ubiquitous, we'll need a different mask for each section of the journey to prevent being tracked end to end. Also Gait-DNA will soon be ready to implement, of course it&#x27
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    by lozf 8y ago

    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit
19. 349.▲
    by lozf 8y ago

    I saw these a while ago: https://www.zazzle.com/eurion_constellation_t_shirt-23550976...
20. 350.▲
    by lozf 8y ago

    > Oh, I will steal (and credit of course) your "pointing & grunting" comparison It's been around a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12930607
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Some great contributions here ... some that are missing (or at least scarce) which deserve more attention: units - for a broad range of conversions without having to resort to Wolfram Alpha or a search engine bc -l - the -l option really e
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    by lozf 8y ago

    I'd be surprised if they're not logging the amount of data used (size of message), probably also it's type (voice or video call, or just text - possibly with some sort of attachment), not to mention location data for each par
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Those who enjoy stuff like this will probably appreciate the "Alchemists of Sound" - a BBC Documentary on Delia Derbyshire and the early days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This looks like it might be the full youtube playlist p
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    by lozf 8y ago

    > here in the UK I'd like to see daylight saving time abolished, but we should stay permanently in summer time We tried that for a couple of years at the start of the 1970's... Clearly it didn't last.
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Of course, those who can't afford the premium experience will be subjected to either "virtual queues" behind ill-behaved NPCs or in front of conveniently located bill-boards / advertising screens, or the "virtual to
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Looks more like a "condensation drip about to fall" than a tear drop... Not very catchy though, perhaps "innovative CDATF notch - uses 66% less screen space" would sound hype enough for the Marketing department?
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Yes, but like most of these, that's really to do with the fact that E2E is part of the WebRTC spec, so anything built on it is safe for audio & video... the main advantage of Signal here is not leaking all your metadata.
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Even before then it's highly likely that they're gathering as much metadata as possible:- * who's chatting with whom, * via what means (text, audio, video), * conversation time and duration, * location of participants, * how
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    by lozf 8y ago

    Years ago someone made a script where Asterisk would answer immediately with a short burst of number unavailable tone - too short for a human to hang up, but long enough for robo caller to detect and hopefully take off it's active numb
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    by lozf 8y ago

    ok, thanks.