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by lozf 6y ago
> If there is interest I’d love to write more about it and share, let me know! Please do, that sounds awesome! I'd love to read more - but also seconding the request for a short video overview.
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by lozf 6y ago
At least in London, licensed minicabs are supposed to keep records, at least of every journey's date & time, pick up location, destination, and the driver. This is enforced by the Public Carriage Office - a division of TfL, with qu
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by lozf 6y ago
These, plus !gm and !gi (for Googles Maps, and Images respectively) feature often in my use.
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by lozf 6y ago
... and Open Rights Group in the UK: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ https://enwp.org/Open_Rights_Group
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by lozf 6y ago
More or less, but Virgin inherited most of their legacy fibre from the likes of Telewest, NTL / Cable & Wireess, Vidoetron, & Cable London. These days the Virgin name is just about brand recognition.
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by lozf 6y ago
I always liked: "Advertising robs you of your dignity, and sells it back to you at the price of the product."
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by lozf 6y ago
I open youtube with `mpv` (which uses youtube-dl) ...Ads are automatically skipped, and there's a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for skipping & fine-grained speed control etc. I have a single-button shell alias that calls it with appr
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by lozf 6y ago
> I particularly hate my bladder when it wakes me up at Stupid O'Clock Be grateful, - at least it actually wakes you! Not sure if it's just age, or other factors but I've certainly seen people who don't always wake up
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by lozf 6y ago
Love the idea of checking the exit code! Seems I have some modifications to do. On Linux there's usually `aplay` but you'll need play (sox) or mpv etc. to play lossy-compressed audio... a bunch of sounds can be found under &#x
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by lozf 6y ago
Or keep it local: (TZ=GMT0; t=1600000000; while :; do s=$(date +%s); echo $(expr "$s" - "$t") $(date -Iseconds -d @"$s") $(date -Iseconds -d @"$t"); sleep 1; done)
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by lozf 6y ago
> a "while(sleep 1); do date" loop, There's always "xclock -d -update 1 -strftime %s -face Inconsolata-190:bold "
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by lozf 6y ago
Yes, I'm usually strongly opposed to lossy transcodes, but for portable listening of speech heavy content on a space-limited device, that plays Opus easily, it can be a worthwhile trade-off for many.
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GStreamer 1.18.0 new major stable release(gstreamer.freedesktop.org)
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by lozf 6y ago
If you're doing that you might prefer to output to opus instead. Speech compresses well so you get the benefit of smaller files and have more space for other media. Just replace name.mp3 with ..." -c:a libopus -b:a 24k name.ogg&qu
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by lozf 6y ago
Kinda like you're cosmic lego .. you make something (a life), play a while, then all the pieces go back in the toy-box ready to make something else next time.
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by lozf 6y ago
ISTR OSX defaulted to tcsh way back before the move to bash.
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by lozf 6y ago
Whilst it may not have been as popular back then, electronic music actually predates Rock. The Theremin for instance, invented in 1922 was not the first electronic musical instrument, but it is one of the few from that era that still makes
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by lozf 6y ago
Thanks for your work on this awesome codec!
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by lozf 6y ago
As always with lossy audio, different codecs have different "killer samples", but here are a couple of results from experienced testers that support the assertion that Opus at 64kbps is suitable as a modern replacement for 128kbps
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by lozf 6y ago
Sorry, yes - Opus combines SILK with CELT was the source of my confusion.
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by lozf 6y ago
See my reply above.
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by lozf 6y ago
Yes, that's great for videos, but many audio players don't support matroska containers. Putting the opus audio in an ogg container seems to be most effective to get a playable file for most people, so that's my default sugges
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by lozf 6y ago
Oh, good to know, thanks :)
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by lozf 6y ago
Yes, but with opus, that only put's the audio in a .opus container, which isn't as widely compatible as the .ogg container.
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by lozf 6y ago
The roll-out of AAC (which was designed to address the problems with MP3, but was not backwards compatible) was slowed a bit by expensive licensing fees for hardware manufacturers and the lack of a good free encoder (though there were some
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by lozf 6y ago
And all WebRTC based messaging: Hangouts, Teams, Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, etc.
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by lozf 6y ago
The only point in lossy encoding is to save space / bandwidth . Opus excels at getting good sound quality at lower bitrates. If there's a talk or lecture on Youtube that you're about to grab, try the 50kbps Opus version a
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by lozf 6y ago
Hmm yes, they probably free up the bulk of space and just keep extensive metadata instead: "We don't have the picture, but we know you took one at date, time, location, make & model, shutter speed & aperture, and we regog
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by lozf 6y ago
What makes you think even deleting one's account will truly wipe data? These companies profit from personal info whether one is a customer or not. I would imagine everything exists with a "user de-activated since $DATE" entry
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by lozf 6y ago
Coconut yogurt is pretty good and can work well.

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