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by piltdownman 3mo ago
There are some fantastic hi-fidelity audio players coming out of China the last few years that are basically modern homages to the SanDisk Clip concept https://hiendportable.com/xduoo-x2s-english-review/ https:/&
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Am I missing something? Most IoT devices use trace antennae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstrip_antenna
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
No they weren't - they were billed by the minute. About 5c/min in new money. That's why you had things like night and off-peak tariffs for 56k dial-up services in Ireland in the early 00s.
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
In Europe local calls were generally never free, and in many countries getting a line/handset installed in your home was an onerous and expensive task. In more socialist/ex-bloc regions it was generally down to how much social and
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
They make it up as they go along. Their 2005 Audio-CD EULA includes provisions purporting to require the immediate deletion of all copies if a user files for personal bankruptcy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/1
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Sony literally distributed a rootkit in the guise of DRM for Audio CDs back when piracy meant CD-R distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... Anyone remotely surprised at their histor
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Much respect for your endeavours. N.B. The Author of Chip4Mac68000 has been planning a port of uClinux in the future with his SDK which explicitly avoids using the Macintosh ROM at all, running bare metal directly on the hardware. Might be
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
The US Government - the de facto licensing wing for the Western World - enables it as it positively impacts the US balance of trade in the exploitation of copyrighted works. So long as lobbying by the Disney Corporation and others is allowe
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
There was no MMU in the Macintosh Classic/SE lineup which used the 68k as a CPU, but they still support the microcontroller targeted distros like uClinux. Unfortunately the tight integration with the ToolBox ROM makes it a fairly Hercu
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Well they've circumvented the need for dedicated hardware to achieve NTN on unmodified UE, ahead of any such implementation in the 3GPP specs. The incumbents all rely on dedicated proprietary platforms - not an off-the-shelf Android So
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Reducto ad absurdum. Up there with declaring Placards or Air Horns as 'offensive rioting equipment' as people can (and are) hurt through their misuse, and arguing that just because they're less harmless than an ICBM doesn&#x2
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
//I don’t think there a unified “market” here. You mean like the ASTS/Vodafone partnership that birthed the Satellite Connect Europe? https://www.vodafone.com/news/newsroom/technology/satellite-
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
WhatsApp already does it for unencrypted messages for about half of the EU under the purview of the rules of lawful interception obligations for NI-ICS, as well as Norway, Switzerland and the UK. When they want to read encrypted messages th
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
A decade ago there were more than 250 start-ups within a kilometre either side of the River Liffey in Dublin. https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/dublin-entrepreneu... IDA Ireland is the Irish Government’s inward
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
London post-Brexit is problematic outside of the legacy stuff in City of London, but why not Dublin?
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
There's an influencer self-help industry, and then there's the likes of Alain De Botton whose output like 'How Proust Can Change Your Life' firmly sits in the self-help arena. Important to distinguish the two imo.
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
I think you're confusing video-essays with documentaries tbf. The notion that 'My Octopus Teacher' or 'Boys State' - to name just two award winners of the last decade - could be replaced with some Youtube AI-narrate
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Ireland ready to restrict social media for children even without EU agreement(irishtimes.com)
6 points by piltdownman 4mo ago|3 comments
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
The Irish Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport going on somewhat of a solo-run for column inches, but nonetheless a fair indication of legislative trends in the current anti-BigTech climate. As noted on Reddit, our incumbent polit
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
Rolex ADs are just a para-social gatekeeper for Veblen goods, but there's a huge resurgence in the entry level Swiss Automatic space with some fantastic value propositions in the likes of the enormously popular Tissot PRX 80 line (hell
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
Anyone with a few auto mechanicals will tend to be a 'luxury' watch collector and almost certainly have an auto-winder watchbox or similar solution. It gets way too finnicky to constantly reset crown based Chronos, nevermind somet
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
You mean like they've been doing since the 1950s with the the largest physics laboratory in the world (CERN)? Or more to the point, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) of which 27/27 EU member st
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
As an additional anecdote, I've never heard of a number-porting/2FA attack using social engineering or other methods in Ireland - but we have our own unique issues now with Robocalls and phishing on WhatsApp and SMS.
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
Funny that despite Neuromancer's prophesying the ubiquity of gene-splicing in future culture, William Gisbon specifically discounted it in this instance. As per the Finn: "Arabs still trying to code 'em up from the DNA, but t
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
I mean they operate as a trust and wear their journalistic bias proudly on their sleeve; in terms of intent their altruism is self-evident. That said, no British media is exempt from adherence to D Notices and tenets of their legal system l
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
'Children of Men' is probably the best contemporary example of this - appalling book that informed a piece of cinema that's basically beyond reproach. The archetype in blockbuster cinema has to be Spielberg's 'Jaws&
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
Also because of the appalling track record of QA/QC, and subsequent cover-ups, at every level of government and enterprise from regional to national. In the 2008 milk Scandal, for example, the offending company Sanlu were aware of infa
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
Even worse, the MBAs at the top of the pile in Netflix and other streaming services refusing to license the music for TV series' they have bought out and geolocked. This isn't just swapping like-for-like with stock music, it'
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by piltdownman 4mo ago
Screen Time isn't the Devil - but it represents the hellish front-line in the algorithmically driven war for your attention.
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
Prediction Markets act the same way as Gambling Exchange - the assets are denominated as both sides of the book minus the spread. https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/

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