windowliker

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by windowliker 17d ago
>You can just record a real one and play it back. A real what?
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by windowliker 17d ago
Phil Rees products were an absolute godsend in the 90s when most hobby and budget studios were still mainly all hardware being recorded to tape of some description. You would often find multiple little red and black boxes doing various conv
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by windowliker 17d ago
Were you using a MIDI to SMPTE converter of some kind? The MPC 1000 only has MIDI I/O, no SMPTE tape sync. And the stock firmware only offered regular MIDI clock, not even MTC[1], though it is possible to get MTC in and out of an MPC 1
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by windowliker 21d ago
Isn't it more likely to be saying that the app is running with root privileges?
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by windowliker 22d ago
Got it years ago when Gmail was still in beta. My friend sent me an invite and yes I was actually excited to get invited to use the new 'Google Mail'. 1GB mailbox? Wow cool! How times change. The address is mostly dormant but stil
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by windowliker 22d ago
Gmail filters are very good. But if someone with the same name as you starts using your e-mail address for everything because they don't understand or care about needing to see the e-mails they receive then there's very little you
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by windowliker 1mo ago
I often forget how browsing the web looks for most people. Can't understand why they put up with it, or do they just think that it's part and parcel of the internet to have every page look like a slot machine from hell?
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by windowliker 1mo ago
>I was idly thinking about something else and put an item in my bag without scanning it. A likely excuse!!
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by windowliker 1mo ago
But the cameras on the UK self-checkouts only point at your face. How does that stop anything other than casual opportunistic theft of low value items by inculcating some kind of pre-crime guilt feeling? Professional shoplifters (if that is
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Fair enough, sounds like a reasonable compromise, but I still question the entire premise of having these cameras in the first place, especially since they do not film the area where items are being handled. Tallying a loss of stock to a sp
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Yes, this has been under consideration when thinking just how much raw footage would have to be stored for 4 or more self-checkout cameras for every shop. Probably multiple terabytes per day, per chain, just for London. There is also the cl
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Yes, but as I said it is possible to use a separate ID for entry and exit, so unless they were willing to perform a CCTV trawl then your entire journey could not be assessed. The penalty for this kind of anonymity is paying top fare for ent
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Do the cameras stop people stealing?
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Why would they need to do anything so explicit and crude? Everyone carries a smartphone on them at every waking moment and they chose to do it willingly (though unwitting of the implications for personal privacy). They are also ready to use
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Oyster is still anonymous, in the sense that no details are required to buy a card, and it can be topped up using cash. The cards can be returned or disposed of as necessary. But as you say, it knows your movements at least in so far as you
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by windowliker 1mo ago
Police have been using it in London for several years, mostly at protests, but also in other 'test' deployments. They are currently required (it seems) to place signage around the catchment area to notify the public that facial re
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by windowliker 2mo ago
Yes, I remember that table with the T800 skull. It was indeed epic.
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by windowliker 2mo ago
You are correct, sir. See the link bluedino posted!
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by windowliker 2mo ago
Super cool, thank you!
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by windowliker 2mo ago
This is true, it was a big cultural moment, but the level to which they sold the absolute heck out of that film should not be understated. It was one of the first times I can clearly remember where a film came along at roughly the same time
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by windowliker 2mo ago
Disappointed this only focuses on the contemporary technology used in making the (admittedly amazing) visual effects for the film, which has been addressed multiple times across various formats. When I first watched T2 as a kid the thing wh
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by windowliker 2mo ago
>it's a fun toy, but I wouldn't depend on it for anything important. This could be said for the rail network as a whole. Neglect and underinvestment over the last 60+ years has left it in a sorry state, and debacles such as HS2
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by windowliker 2mo ago
IIRC 10 minutes is the minimum threshold for a train to be officially considered as delayed.
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by windowliker 2mo ago
That's no surprise. The French equivalent of anything rail related is always more complete than the UK.
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by windowliker 3mo ago
Stock macOS uses a bash or zsh shell in the terminal (depending on the OS version), so the same points of caution hold there as well.
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by windowliker 3mo ago
It took me a long time to understand why colon wasn't a valid character for file names on Mac and I still find the colon separator to be the least visible these days. Finder can display paths with the forward slash separator (defaults
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by windowliker 3mo ago
>the government doesn't like the idea of displaying an official page stating that you are not allowed to see something They don't even have to do that, the connection can just be left to time out on the client side. This is wha
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by windowliker 3mo ago
Oh right. I don't see Apple having any interest in supporting that given their current trajectory.
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by windowliker 3mo ago
It would be wonderful if this ran on older versions of macOS, but according to the README they only support 26.
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by windowliker 3mo ago
How long until we find out the politicians have written in an exemption for themselves and the security apparatus? I hope my pessimism is unwarranted in this case, but it certainly isn't unfounded.

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