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by zbuf 2y ago
Yes, a shame. I honestly expected this could get picked up as a mainstream news story over Christmas (except I think the actual story is older than this video); Young people with talent and ingenuity, using modern skills and tools to acquir
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by zbuf 2y ago
The best of the internet, engineering and humanity... all in one video.
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by zbuf 2y ago
It was magical and very exciting seeing these things emerge!
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by zbuf 2y ago
Acquiring one of these "ScratchAmp" boxes that was missing its software is what started the whole project. These earlier systems deserve a lot of credit. If I'd had access to the software I don't imagine I would have dug
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by zbuf 2y ago
It's something I have seen before! Seeing xwax reduced to very small hardware is interesting. Thanks for sharing here.
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by zbuf 2y ago
I don't know of any these days, though in the past I received some great photos of packed large venues with xwax laptops on display. Check the xwax built-in Jack module, likely to be the easiest way to bridge with other applications.
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by zbuf 2y ago
The records used by xwax have about 100 kilobytes of data on each side of a 12" record. However, the goals are very different here; it's designed to decode the position under specific conditions such as being moved very fast, in r
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by zbuf 2y ago
Pre-dating xwax and Mixxx there was "TerminatorX", sounds like it might be what you're interested in.
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by zbuf 2y ago
How do you propose that you'd select and load tracks? Or view time remaining. Even if you don't care about a waveform display, some sort of computer (ie. display) seems to become necessary at some point. Perhaps you could check th
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by zbuf 2y ago
xwax /is/ meant for end-users, but right at the beginning it only had actual live professional use in mind. I was literally DJ'ing in clubs at the time and I wanted the digital equivalent of playing vinyl records. I was colla
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by zbuf 2y ago
xwax author here, nice to see it submitted to HN front page. Must be 20+ years now since I wrote the original code for DJ'ing live. Very happy to answer questions
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by zbuf 3y ago
Interesting to see the implementation is basically a two-pass process: strlen() to count the source string, followed by a memcpy(). My intuition would be to give some importance to not looping on the source string radically beyond the lengt
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by zbuf 3y ago
Fair, I was thinking that because its not actually an X11 GUI (though it is X11 of course) Its fun to query or set information on a remote. The same applies to xdpyinfo, xset, xrandr and many more support the -display option (if they don&#x
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by zbuf 3y ago
If you're thinking of an X11 GUI, I think perhaps you mean xfontsel?
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by zbuf 3y ago
Not necessarily obscure, still rather useful. xterm & xv remain my daily tools, and xosview is still maintained here: https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/
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by zbuf 3y ago
There's lots of smaller VPS and VM providers -- even local IT companies. Mythic Beasts and Bytemark have been good for me. If you want to use Linode for your CPU time and disk, probably there are providers for outbound SMTP that you pa
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by zbuf 3y ago
Don't throw in the towel, switch ISP. You can do everything right but are being judged by the history of your IP address with it's neighbours in the same AS block.
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by zbuf 3y ago
Who are you hosting on?
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by zbuf 3y ago
I can call the phone and tell which country you're in
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by zbuf 3y ago
That's how you don't make a profit
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by zbuf 3y ago
> The time where Xorg is a well-maintained project is past us. That's the point. This statement continues to sound like its trying to become self-fulfilling. Xorg releases still happen (I'm not going to get into a debate about
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by zbuf 3y ago
A split keyboard has been an excellent change for me, but it doesn't have to come with other changes such as unusual layout or orthogonal. I went for Mistel Barocco. Its basically a normal layout but split down the middle. Took almost
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by zbuf 4y ago
> For example, in London Citymapper will suggest to wait and board front/mid/back This never seems as useful as it should be because I'm missing a reliable way to know which direction a London Underground train will approa
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by zbuf 4y ago
It's a reasonable hurdle; an employee who previously signed an NDA (or any one, for that matter) needs to be able to design new systems without regurgitating verbatim parts of an old one under NDA. So it's really not a big ask to
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by zbuf 4y ago
Yup, the key thing is let the candidate pick -- any technical system they understand.
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by zbuf 4y ago
I feel like pointing out that radio has a lot to add to this conversation. Not just for pop, but for discovery of new music. The quality varies regionally of course, so YMMV. But with internet access being ubiquitous, the choice of stations
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by zbuf 4y ago
> I can’t remember the last time I paid or even saw someone pay cash for anything For as long as not everyone has access to a bank account or credit card I'll be concerned about fueling divisions in society. I'm not from the US
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by zbuf 4y ago
> real answer to your question is; nobody, because this device seems to be a phone :/ The terrible error here is including the Android home screen in the marketing materials. By all means base it on Android, but I never want to see
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by zbuf 4y ago
Yes. Exim, Dovecot, SpamAssassin. In two systems: FreeBSD and Alpine Linux. I believe we need to keep doing this sort of thing, more. I haven't had the same problem as people widely complain when hosting their own email. FWIW since you
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by zbuf 4y ago
I'm also finding the same difficulties with DuckDuckGo. I don't think Google is "terrible" at anything; they know their stuff. But they have created peverse incentives around advertising which lead to this. They're

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