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by lozf 12y ago
Article dated 15 July 2013
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by lozf 12y ago
Radio Station Programming: LiquidSoap http://www.liquidsoap.fm/ Streaming: Icecast http://icecast.org/ Low bandwidth, low latency audio codec: Opus http://opus-codec.org/ Lossless audio cod
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by lozf 12y ago
You might like Clementine[1] it seems quite popular as an all-in-one music manager... though I usually use either `opusenc` or `fdkaac` via `ffmpeg` for transcoding with intact metadata. [1] https://www.clementine-player.org&#x2F
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by lozf 12y ago
Just as likely to be a tounge in cheek play on the stereotypically British line for something unfair: "It's just not cricket"
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by lozf 12y ago
Another good technique to reduce the number of robo calls is to have your PBX answer immediately, and play a fraction of a second of the "number unobtainable" tone, which is enough for many greedy "robo's" to give u
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by lozf 12y ago
UK Retailers of equipment capable of receiving a TV signal are (or at least were , back in the early '80s) obliged to take the name and address of anyone purchasing one, these details are / were regularly submitted to TV licensin
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by lozf 12y ago
That's just what they want - at least you won't be out spreading nefarious ideas that they can't monitor, and starting the revolution. Now sit down here like a good little citizen and watch this lovely entertaining "pro
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by lozf 12y ago
I saw a video / TV program where they talked about it a few years back... possibly in the BBC series called "The Tube"(2012)[0]. As I recall it wasn't doing actual facial recognition, but object / shape recognitio
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by lozf 12y ago
I also like and use ipinfo.io in the same way... it adds a little location & ISP info.
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by lozf 12y ago
It's not just the noting of series of number plates at one location, - it's at many locations simultaneously, and because it's always happening the system that "notices" that vehicle AB123CDE that passed point A at
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by lozf 12y ago
If by having an "iTunes" library you mean it has some old DRMd 128kbps AAC files, I believe they'll let you download non-DRMd 256kbps versions which will then play in most decent media players. AAC achieves transparency at lo
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by lozf 12y ago
You can pay a GBP5 "deposit", which is inconvenient to get back without registering, but cash top-ups are available from machines and ticket offices under certain circumstances. Also, like with most things these days, we're s
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by lozf 12y ago
I guess it depends where you are but UK cities are right up there with surveillance on public transport too, both trains and buses[0]. Transport for London have a system that detects if you're still on a platform after a train to each
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by lozf 12y ago
Self driving cars just have to be safer than Humans -- probably not that difficult. The annoying part will be entering our destination in to Google Maps Car Interface, and having the car tell us: "Because we searched for Chairs the
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by lozf 12y ago
I agree with you, but sadly it's not that straightforward; It's entirely plausible (perhaps even likely) that your "facebook friends" have your number, and do something stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hconvenient like give fb access to
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by lozf 12y ago
Alan Watts - The Art of Meditation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10aHEfcEQY
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by lozf 12y ago
That's the future that science fiction has been promising us for decades... Alas I fear the reality will be much harsher for the majority of people.
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by lozf 12y ago
Relevant, from earlier this year: [Humans Need Not Apply]( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU ) (15:00)
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by lozf 12y ago
When I was in the Himalayas earlier this year, between poor WiFi and sketchy 3G, it was the only practical way to watch at all. Having the file offline was an added bonus that meant others could benefit too, so big thanks to rg3 & curr
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by lozf 12y ago
I stopped reading the article after the missing "the" in the third sentence.
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by lozf 12y ago
Unfortunately this article contains almost no actually useful or interesting information.
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by lozf 12y ago
That's a better description than the Art Director at one Digital Agency who explained that the reason for the name change to KFC was because "they weren't allowed to call it 'chicken' anymore."
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by lozf 12y ago
6 randomly selected characters out of the 62 available gives less than 36 bits of entropy, which anyone with even a passing interest in any kind of cryptography will instantly recognise as pretty poor. This issue is compounded by the fact t
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by lozf 12y ago
> <10 ms away. This would appear to be a problem with latency rather than bandwidth. Increasing / improving one doesn't necessarily have the same effect on the other. This also impacts video-conferencing (as suggested
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by lozf 12y ago
For s sense of community, perhaps your local hackerspace has a channel that can help. If you don't have a local hackerspace, consider starting one, or at least occasionally participating in something less local.
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by lozf 12y ago
What, no ISO 8601?! How very US-centric. http://enwp.org/ISO_8601
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by lozf 12y ago
Reminds me of the old saying that <em>"Linux is for people who hate Windows, and *BSD is for those who love Unix."</em>
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by lozf 12y ago
If you do this, please, for the sake of any other vinyl you have, use a different (cheaper) stylus for the 78s.
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by lozf 12y ago
Definitely. The subtle but ever present tactile reminder of how much book is left to be read also helps build anticipation as the end approaches with certain works. It's like the metadata is being delivered kinesthetically, without dis
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by lozf 12y ago
Oh thanks, I'd missed the "live" part.

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