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| schestowitz | >> https://www.itwire.com/journalist/sam-varghese.html?format=feed | Oct 07 01:55 |
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| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 01:55 |
| schestowitz | > OK. Added. It should show up today. | Oct 07 01:55 |
| schestowitz | > Oops. Left the feed URL out. It's all set for tomorrow instead. | Oct 07 01:55 |
| schestowitz | Yes, I have noticed the absence. Made up for it with quiterss for now. | Oct 07 01:55 |
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| schestowitz | >> Early adopters. I'm 99% certain we had a CD player in 1984, 85 at the | Oct 07 05:58 |
| schestowitz | >> latest. It had a motorised try just a like a CD-ROM, though it was in a | Oct 07 05:58 |
| schestowitz | >> stereo-rack unit so 2 to 2 1/2 times the width of the CD tray itself. | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> Not every technology was worth adopting/early. MiniDisk was useless. Fun | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> idea, but once sound went digital America spent a lot of time trying to | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> figure out how to break things (copy protection) as a priority over | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> convenience or quality. So cool tech was seen (by the companies who sold | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> it) as more of a threat than a business opportunity. | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > To paraphrase someone else: newer is not better, different is not | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > better, only better is better. CDs were, for most use-cases, better. | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > Certainly the sound quality was a world of difference better from | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > cassette tapes. | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > Sadly, too much of technology is driven by appeal-to-novelty. It was | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | > all systemd had going for it, aside from ad-hominem. | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | A lot of music files I listen to these days have appalling quality compared to the speakers' (output devices) full potential. Stereo (2) when you have a 6-speaker set, with very low sample rates. We thought about going to the cinema this past Monday (gym was unexpectedly shut as a visitor was detected positive for COVID), but we changed our minds at the end. I reckon the Hollywood enterprise won't last for much longer... in its current | Oct 07 05:59 |
| schestowitz | form. Bailouts? Maybe. The state needs a propaganda apparatus, worldwide... | Oct 07 05:59 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/only_office/status/1313744290053591040 | Oct 07 08:50 |
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| schestowitz | Thanks for sharing | Oct 07 08:50 |
| schestowitz | Upside-down face | Oct 07 08:50 |
| schestowitz | Our desktop editors are available on GitHub https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors | Oct 07 08:50 |
| schestowitz | and you can also compile them from source code | Oct 07 08:50 |
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| schestowitz | >> Bailouts? Maybe. The state needs a propaganda | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> apparatus, worldwide... | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > It sold out over 20 years ago to China. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > Most of what passes for music these days is produced with the limited, | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > distorted frequency range of ear buds in mind. That and it was drafted | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > and composed on E or other dampening substance, no creative enhancement, | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > rather the opposite. Then the last and possibly most damaging blow is | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > the centralized distribution model has corporate committees and MBAs as | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > the bottleneck. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > You can rip CDs to FLAC and get good sound. Format / media shifting is | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > allowed in most countries. The libraries in some countries also have | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > paid fees to allow you to rip borrowed discs. Check with your local | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > institutions about that. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > However, by doing that the media companies lose their surveillance edge, | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > too. So that is another strike against external storage media and why | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > streaming is pushed so hard. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | People who lack actual collections. | Oct 07 09:14 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> OK. Added. It should show up today. | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> Oops. Left the feed URL out. It's all set for tomorrow instead. | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>> Yes, I have noticed the absence. Made up for it with quiterss for now. | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>> | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> Ok, his feed is included in today's set of links. | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>> I've disabled my copy of it in quiterss. Many of his articles are not | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>> relevant to us, but some are. I wonder if he ever received my message at | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>> all. | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>> I wonder about that. I did see an e-mail for him in the RSS feed | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >>> itself, but I think you've already tried that one. | Oct 07 09:49 |
| schestowitz | >> Anyway, it's too late to comment on his article regarding Techrights. | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | > Not necessarily. Even if it would be too late for that, it is not too | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | > late to re-establish communication so you and him can discuss things in | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | > a timely manner next time. | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | He and I had an argument more than a decade ago. | Oct 07 09:50 |
| schestowitz | > Is there a way to patch that up and still be able to disagree on things? | Oct 07 10:03 |
| schestowitz | > That's hard in today's atmosphere of pervasive cancel culture. | Oct 07 10:04 |
| schestowitz | It is possible, but hardly worth the trouble | Oct 07 10:04 |
| schestowitz | I used to collaborate a little with him | Oct 07 10:04 |
| schestowitz | > I'd say that either wrap the whole of each document inside a <pre> | Oct 07 10:08 |
| schestowitz | > </pre> element. Or else insert a break <br /> at the end of each line: | Oct 07 10:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 10:08 |
| schestowitz | > sed -i.back -e 's|$|<br />|' Gates_deposition*.txt | Oct 07 10:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | > Or something like that. The <pre> element would probably be best since | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | > the document's layout seems to depend a lot on whitespace. | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | quick points: | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | 1. see attachment in original. I shrank the font and used pre already ;-) | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | 2. if you think extra newline can help, I will run the preprocessor (stream editor) above | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | 3. these won't be published until videos are done | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | 4. I want an index at the top of each, with links to background, videos etc. | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | 5. it's important to keep the site going even if something happens to me | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | COVID gave us valuable time to archive very important past before it's un-retrievable. | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | *irretrievable | Oct 07 10:09 |
| schestowitz | Re: 700k | Oct 07 11:40 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Yours?! | Oct 07 11:40 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Oct 07 11:40 |
| schestowitz | >>> Yep. I am sad we /have to/ own one, but as long as we must we try to | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >>> reduce the load caused by unnecessary manufacturing. As long as we stay | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >>> out of the city center and if I am the one driving then we get quite | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >>> good mileage even compared to the much more recent models, except | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >>> hybrids of course. | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >> What year (make)? Rianne's dad drives a 1993 :-)... lots or repair work | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >> done on it | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | > Peugeot 1991. Lots of repair work. Now that they've started poisoning | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | > the waterways by salting the roads, it's getting some rust though. | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | Rianne has just reminded me that today's cars "connect to the phone" and we spoke about how all those trends are not driver-driven but 'market"-driven... and we know for whose agenda. | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | You pay MORE for car insurance for NOT having spying done on the car. | Oct 07 11:41 |
| schestowitz | Makes me want to never buy a car ever again, | Oct 07 11:41 |
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