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by lozf 10y ago
Lenny was a voice activated script that would cycle through those (plus others I believe) pre-recorded sounds in a (generally successful) attempt to fool telemarketers. You could transfer calls to a SIP extension (or via a number of PSTN nu
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by lozf 10y ago
Don't forget "Gait DNA"[0] for tracking your movement through a crowd, even when your face can't be seen. [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
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by lozf 11y ago
Soundcloud is on the list of supported sites for youtube-dl and has worked perfectly for quite a while (unless Soundcloud broke something in the last few months).
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by lozf 11y ago
This years update so far: 2016-03-13 : Cryptocat was removed as the service has been suspended.
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by lozf 11y ago
U+2020 (†) and U+2021 (‡) aren't that hard to remember for the sake of a few extra key-presses and wider compatibility.
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by lozf 11y ago
If you like Entheogenic, I highly recommend OTT - https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/
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by lozf 11y ago
Official docs say that it's competitive at 128kbps, but these[0] listening test from Kamendo2 (who's very experienced in ABX listening tests of lossy codecs) suggest fdk-aac still has the edge, as well as handling VBR and the HE-A
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by lozf 11y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for a system that plays one round of Lenny (or similar) then comes clean, admitting that it's a recording and we hope the telemarketer sees the funny side of it, "now please put this number on your do no
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by lozf 11y ago
Also similar to Colin Percival's "Depenguinator"[0] script to replace Linux with BSD (originally from 2003). [0]: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0...
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Making a Standard Media Player for Android(bbc.co.uk)
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by lozf 11y ago
Physical space, noise, and running costs are also important considerations for many people.
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by lozf 11y ago
I learned this when I was younger. People thought I was weird.
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by lozf 11y ago
And another song, also from 1979 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm00l5N8Jao I Love You Miss Robot, Electronic tease... programmed just to please. etc.
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by lozf 11y ago
Many VoIP numbers can be either forwarded to any otehr number for a small fee, or routed to any SIP endpoint, or Voicemail. Cheaper and more flexible than paying for PSTN infrastructure too.
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by lozf 11y ago
Google might also consider what else they can suggest to the in car captive audience that they know all about. Imagine this scenario: Google Now - In car edition: "Since we have plenty of time before your appointment, press &#x
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by lozf 11y ago
That reminds me - SoX is still there.
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by lozf 11y ago
I don't mean to argue because basically I agree with you, but a great example of more features costing less is the average midrange AV receiver which probably offers a tuner, digital inputs, and some sort of DSP as well as multiple amp
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by lozf 11y ago
If pinknoise will suffice, then sox[1], (free, cross-platform, opensource), lets you generate your own (amongst many other things). The following will play for 8 hours, but you can remove the time completely to run indefinitely: pla
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by lozf 12y ago
Here are a couple of ABX logs that demonstrate an audible difference between 320 and FLAC * http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=70598 * http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?s
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by lozf 12y ago
There have been many properly conducted (double blind, level matched) ABX[1] tests. It's easy to test yourself: encode a lossless CD rip to various bitrates of whatever codec you want to try, and use software like the ABX plugin for
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by lozf 12y ago
Try https://now.source-elements.com/#!/ Voice studios can manage to sync ProTools sessions on opposite sides of the Atlantic to within quarter of a frame, so on LAN it should manage nearer Opus' default of ~20ms.
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by lozf 12y ago
Both times I booted in to Windows over the last ~18 months were to apply for Visas on sites that wouldn't work properly with either Firefox, Chrome or Opera in Linux. With most sites I'd just move on, but for a visa application wi
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by lozf 12y ago
Build yourself a couple of Hexayurts[0] instead: [0]: http://hexayurt.com/
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by lozf 12y ago
... and without giving them a third of the profit (or is it revenue?)
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by lozf 12y ago
I always build my own as, afaik, it's the only way to get full support for the more interesting codecs e.g. fdkaac & h265.
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by lozf 12y ago
> access to a 3D printer. Time to meet your local hackerspace perhaps?
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by lozf 12y ago
It was a beautifully absurd argument though, thank you :)
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by lozf 12y ago
... yet here we are managing that much quite nicely. Others, meanwhile, seem to be taking it all a little too seriously.
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by lozf 12y ago
Nice idea, but then the money grabbing corporates will just use the "freely submitted user data" to shaft the rest of us by jacking up the price of any simpler / less-smart products. Unfortunately telling 'them' wh
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by lozf 12y ago
Indeed do many things come to pass.

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