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Comment Re:Captains of industry (Score 3, Insightful) 26

"AI won't know" ? it doesn't know.... "it" is an over-glorified spell checker, a used-up husk of a locust floating on the surface of a pond in a stiff breeze, pinging from reed to reed and reversing direction to the perturbations of airflow thereof; and you would ascribe that to be a conscious living organism but it's just a bunch of shit in a pond for the benefit of no one.

Comment Re:IMO: NextCloud is not ready for prime time (Score 1) 46

Not exactly an answer to your question, though I've found Stalwart e-mail server has most of what "homelab" users would actually find useful which is modern email (with JMAP), calendaring, and contacts. Give Stalwart a look especially if trying to ween oneself off of Google Mail.

Comment Re:Only 48kHz? (Score 1) 30

You record at higher sample rate because of math when mixing two waveform representations i.e.:

"What is the result of 1.4 * 1.3 ?" compared to "What is the result of 1 * 1 ?"

Well in this situation, 1 * 1 equals 1 or 2, the uncertainty of which can become an audible artifact when iteratively repeated (as might happen in some recording pipeline) but on a scale of 1-to-22'000+ it matters not at all if it was 1 or 2, just that it was some kind of value in that range. No percentage of human ears can discern between 48kHz and higher sample rates, and a statistically minor percentage of human ears can reliably discern between 44.1kHz and 48kHz. Sadly there is this large catalog of audio CD media which was mastered in this almost-but-not-quite ideal 44.1kHz sample rate so we're here decades later arguing about it yet.

As for bit-depth resolution 24-bit is ridiculous but 16-bit is getting pushed to the limit by the loudness war and so the idea that a carefully mastered recording will happily sit in 16-bit sample size is not justifiable. What you'd want is 20-bit however everything about that is an enormous pain in the neck to implement, so the extra odd 46kb per second is acceptable to get things that divide evenly by 16. You cannot hear this difference if the audio mastering is done properly, but by god you will hear everything wrong with it because morons have taken over. With 24-bit (or 32-bit) depth there are ample ways for an audio mastering process to fail but with 16-bit depth it's pretty much guaranteed that it will sound like garbage unless the audio mastering is done by a genius with total creative control.

Comment Baochip-1x with your own peripherals (Score 2) 36

Stop depending on "race to the bottom" cost-optimized MMU-less microcontrollers and power-hungry Linux-first class SoC's for your long-term productivity.

The mostly-open RTL of Baochip-1x allows that your designs can be placed for manufacture by you and not depend on an SoC provider, should your product(s) become wildly successful and reach sales profits to justify such. See: https://www.baochip.com/

TL;DR Baochip-1x is a microcontroller with a full MMU. It may possibly be Linux capable but the primary use is with an OS written from bootloader-on-up in Rust language. It's amazing, and it won't do everything you want because that's up to you to do those things but this is the part we've been missing the last 20-odd years.

Comment Better yet for the affected families (Score 1) 27

Better yet provide a free lifetime subscription to bring back the affected families' dead child as an AI chat bot personality.

Make this a trend and advertise the capability to bump shareholder profits as a measure of good will, and then slowly shift the market to accept that AI chat bot personality creates value and saves the consumer money over having a living child.

-ENOTACT

Comment Re:All his songs are public domain (Score 1) 42

Can we do something collectively to keep said website of historical and cultural significance going a bit longer? or will it be relegated to Internet Archive...

Aside, deep appreciation for Tom's contributions and as a decent fellow human. My thoughts from a young age tended that my older relatives were quite a bit strange humming along and singing with "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" on vinyl record. Perhaps our values are more aligned (maligned? ha ha) as I age as well...

Comment Re: KYC killing privacy (Score 1) 47

The "new administration" #47 has made it clear they will make protest illegal, so there you go.

I guess if you are tuned into the outrage then you haven't actually used your critical thinking skills in some time. It's all written plainly in the documents that are being introduced by our recently-installed dictatorship. People pretending any different have had their brains swapped for potatoes, or are in the streets protesting as a somewhat academic exercise (good for those people, to remember in future what freedom was like).

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