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833 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2018

Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features

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The Audicator

...it's BACK!

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Audick

Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

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I wouldn't mind but for the fact that they're burning up oodles of oxygen and polluting my air, much more once their "Space" ventures really take off... which wouldn't be all that bad if they were actually doing something useful, which they're not, it's merely brief tourism and a stupid waste of resources.

Euro court rules YouTube not automatically liable for users illegally uploading copyright-protected material

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Youtube is the last place anyone should post original music - it gets ripped off. I make original jingles, after a hard day's soul death working in IT... and one of my tunes, my sequence of 12 notes featured on Ridley Scott's "Raised By Wolves", Episode 5 - between 9m 53s and 10.25s. As the notes rolled out, I became more and more incredulous - I knew what note was coming next, note after note, and it didn't stop... my music continued playing at me from a TV show. It was simply sampled and stretched out to occupy more time, without altering pitch, but those are my notes in sequence and my unique instrument. So I've stopped posting new material on Youtube. Fcuking annoying. I left some narked off messages on an answering machine, because after I sent an email to Ridley Scott, his website went offline. It's too expensive to do anything about.

UK gets glowing salute from Bezos-backed General Fusion: Nuclear energy company to build plant in Oxfordshire

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Thorium reactors

...can't be weaponised, can't melt down, thorium is plentiful, cleaner (or not dirty for nearly as long):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

Fusion reactors are ever "10 years away", have been for decades, and will be for many more.

Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes

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Re: There still remains......

I'm sick of waiting for fusion, thorium reactors please - plentiful, reactors are cleaner, they can't easily be weaponised. India seems to be the only country interested in developing this technology and I for one am thoroughly pissed off that VCs are chasing shiny looking fatuous fusion dreams instead - it's ever 10 years away and has been for decades. Frickin thorium already!

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...cue digging up of sea floors for lithium and other rare earths; the death of all humans not in deep bunkers or space.

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

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It doesn't check for a LIVE finger? And this is why I never buy Samsung phones...

Samsung stops providing security updates to the Galaxy S8 at grand old age of four years

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...and this is why I never buy Samsung phones or tablets. My venerable (by today's standards) OnePlus 5 received the latest android slurpware OS a couple of months ago and it runs sweeter than ever. They've even fixed the auto call recording facility.

Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open source

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Audacity has great potential: The only justification for a change in interface would be to facilitate easier multitracking. If it could be re-made to be as intuitive to use (and as stable and memory efficient) as Sonic Foundry's Acid, that would be ideal.

CERN boffins zap antimatter with ultraviolet lasers in the hope of revealing the secret symmetry of the universe

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Re: Definitions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6UJbwxBZI

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Buggery is right, in the hypothetical time reversed antimatter universe

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Re: Definitions

...but will it stay inside?

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So in the hypothetical time reversed antimatter universe, things go into Uranus more often?

Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck

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I'm not on Faecesbook either, but my old unused email address is listed in 17 breaches - it's a good job I never use my real name, DOB, address or phone number...

Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study

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How much slurpage is there from LineageOS? It'd be good to know, before I overwrite the firmware...

Xiaomi scoots off to build electric cars, pumps $10bn into the tank to get things rolling

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> easier to park

...but not easier to fit in a train's luggage compartment, I bet. Useless.

So, where does Silicon Valley stand on S.230? Zuck wants 'industry best practices', Pichai demurs, Dorsey urges more Bluesky thinking

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> "What is noteworthy about Zuckerberg’s suggestion, however, is that it makes the shield contingent on company action; something that the tech industry has argued furiously against for over a decade"

...it's because they're running scared. They'll never be forgiven for the Orange one.

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A halo of light polarized by a gigantic black hole's magnetic field...

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Gosh I hope that the hypothetical Planet 9 really is a tiny black hole...

Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft

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Re: A question

Satellite dishes could be disguised as woks

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A fight with China means a squabble at the very least, with Russia, There's no mention in the article about Russia, who could jam nearly all of the sky just by themselves - China has been steadily buying up important strategic assets all over Africa and Asia, including many ports. Between them, the can jam the whole sky.

A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches

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Re: It depends...

Actually, it was a 486 Overdrive, some might remember what those are. Still are as well as were, obviously, because it's still up there. So there's at least one still working. Probably.

There was hope Samsung had turned a corner in repairability, but the Galaxy S21 Ultra is a step backwards

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Coat

> guitar pick

I see your point

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> There was hope Samsung had turned a corner in repairability, but the Galaxy S21 Ultra is a step backwards

Will "Right To Repair" laws ever extend beyond white goods to phones? I bloody well hope so! It's absurd that the damn things can't be repaired easily using basic tools found in the kitchen such as toothpicks, wallpaper paste and porridge.

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

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Re: It's a world wide web, not your local pub.

>Big tech's arrogant and unethical behaviour is a free gift to the people they should really fear.

It won't be long before Government and Big tech are one and the same: President Zuckerturd...

Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them

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Anyone interested in watching amazing ancient devices being reconstructed should wander over to Clickspring:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Clickspring/videos

End is nigh for iMac Pro as Apple stops offering custom configs of high-spec desktop

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Isn't the M1 RAM arrangement unworkable for a mutlisocket board? I really can't see how it could work. If they finangled it somehow, RAM wouldn't be upgradable.

Someone should tell Apple that the Right To Repair law comes into force this summer.

Google, Facebook, Amazon et al look on nervously as Biden bumps anti-Big Tech warriors into key posts

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Make them Pai!

They've only got three years... the fourth year will be all about losing the next election to the orange one, again.

Homo sapiens: Hey you, Neanderthals! Neanderthals: We heard that

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Given all the Neanderthal genes in huumans, they certainly knew the language of luuurvvve...

ESA mulls sending waves of robot explorers into dark depths of lunar lava tubes

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Hail Our Bezos Moomin Overlords!

Bezos will populate lunar lava tubes with copies of himself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins

Slow your roll: LG reportedly puts new smartphone on ice as it mulls future in market

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I hope they fold their computer monitor business too - LG make bloody awful displays: boards die fast, hard to source replacements even after just 12 months.

Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court

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Foiled Chinese Takehuawei

Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster

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> "Cement, used everywhere in vast quantities, is a problem, he notes. In the materials chapter he writes that “Of all the materials I’ve covered, cement is the toughest case of all … limestone plus heat equals calcium dioxide plus carbon dioxide.” He resorts to proposing carbon capture and using materials more efficiently." <

...use Roman concrete instead!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete#Modern_use

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130604135409.htm

This Brit biz's seven-screen laptop is something to behold

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Central Serous Rentinopathy is the new RSI for IT workers, available at any LED screen near you...

That many LEDs will emit a lot of high energy blue light. I've got CSR, and my retinas are leaking blood just looking at the photo.

Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break

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Not just the Jesusphone neiver..

Oneplus are also pretty goof update-wise: My 5 got Android 10 the other month and now everything including call recording, works as advertised - it had stopped at their first attempt at the 10 update... but they persisted.

Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password

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With that much money at stake, he could hire a private army to guard the perimeter while he dug up his drive, then pay the £100 fine. Contact me if you're reading this - I'll hire the security for a 50% cut! (But I won't be doing ANY digging)

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Why doesn't he just see a hypnotist? After squawking and pecking about like a chicken for a bit, he's bound to unearth the password through hypnotic regression,

Flash still works in China, but you need to ask Adobe nicely before running it

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> Flash still works in China

Personal note: Must move to China

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave

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Yes but nothing does what Flash did, and I'm not just talking about providing routes into your system for miscreants... CSS is cr*p compared to the visual impact vector graphics in Flash could achieve. Nothing else comes close. So there.

And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data

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Firefox chasing it's tail

Firefox (current) doesn't support many of the extensions which I have used for years, so I've stuck with v53. uBlocked, firewalled, noscripted; it's secure enough for me.

Japan sticks the landing: Asteroid sample recovered from Hayabusa2 probe

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2030? Will it take the Andromeda Strain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain

Uri Geller calls off 20-year ban on Pokémon trading card that 'stole' his 'signature image'

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> What a spoon

There is no spoon

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

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Dot Matrix

I ditched HP and went back to my Epson LX-400. A new ribbon is £5. USB to Parallel Port converter.

Calls for 'right to repair' electronics laws grow louder across Europe

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Often devices get discarded because they are no longer soft/firmware updated: Manufacturers should be forced to make all firmware/software for such devices open source, the moment they are no longer supported.

I work therefore I ache: Logitech aims to ease WFH pains with Ergo M575 trackball mouse

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Re: Switches

I can't find the switches for the two small buttons nearest the ball! Where the heck do I get those? Very small and low profile. They're on a little board of their own.

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Re: Great but not long lasting

I would replace the left button switch but one of the small buttons nearest the ball is also kaput - can't source those tiny stitches or the small board they're part of. Cursed to buy more M570s... My plan is to eventually have enough dead mice to make a live mouse.

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Re: Pronation

Ibu is great for finger pain - the advantage is wrapping your fingers in clingfilm after first applying a lot of ibuprofen gel is that you don't damage your kidneys. Bring on the Logitech Mind Mouse™

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I've been using their M570s for years but:

1. The switches fail in about a year and a half.

2. You will end up with an inflamed forefinger and thumb because of the force needed to actuate the switches, and repetitive pressure on a small area of the thumb.

Despite these issues, it's still my go to all time favourite mouse. I just wrap my fingers in cling film around ibuprofen gel every so often. Their software works so much better than anything else out there. You can program all the buttons. I just wish it had a tilt mouse wheel, to scroll sideways. Come on Logitech, you made the Tilt Mouse and it was great! Shove a tilt into one of these!

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

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Judging by the form of the small symmetrical pool of water under the crack and the positioning of the object relative to both, it was placed there by a New Age/Yoga cult:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam

It's ratio of 1:9 (the rest is buried) suggests that this object is a place of worship for a New Age cult, not a Yoga cult; representing the Destroyer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva

As paraphrased by Oppenheimer: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Will 2020 never end?

NEC to sell the accelerator cards it puts into supercomputers – for about $11,000 a pop

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The ASRock H81 PRO BTC takes 6 PCIe cards.. Hell, that's a lot of Teraflops in a desktop case.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H81%20Pro%20BTC%20R2.0/

(only one PCIe 2.0 x16; bottlenecks etc.)