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namingthingsiseasy

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  • Cory Doctorow proposes that Canada break ranks with international IP law enforcement

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  • While I think this is a good idea (because copyright is a stupid concept in the digital age), the problem with this proposal is that Europe is also very pro-copyright. Doing something like this would probably piss off Americans, but if it also pisses off your next best ally as well, it's probably not going to work out.

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    The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened. Here’s how it works

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  • She better not go from suck to blow....

  • Linux Foundation endorses Chromium, SteamOS ISO is coming Linux & Open Source news

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  • Google pays the Linux Foundation a LOT of money.

  • Accurate programming movie

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  • Can we push back the deadline for the apocalypse? Have we talked to the customer to see if this is a possibility?

  • Physical Media Is Dead, Long Live Physical Media

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  • That's actually very easy to do and you don't need any special equipment. Simply use a male-male 3.5mm cable and connect one end from the stereo output of the cassette player and the other end into the microphone jack of any computer you own. Play the cassette - you can test the audio quality by running arecord -f cd - | aplay - - you will have to tune the volume output of the cassette player and the input sensitivity of the microphone.

    From there, if you're paranoid, you could use arecord to save the output to a .wav file and encode it once the recording is done, but I had no problem just using oggenc directly on the piped audio. The final command looked like this: arecord -f cd - | oggenc -q 5 -o file.ogg - (change to -q 10 if you want lossless encoding).

    I'm not sure if this is the best quality per se, but I would definitely recommend it over using specialized equipment like cassette-mp3 converters. The problem with those devices is that if they use underpowered hardware, you might experience buffering issues where the encoding hardware can't keep up with the audio stream or something like that. But doing it on a computer ensures that you will have all the processing power you need to make sure that this doesn't happen.

    Good luck! I found it very easy to do - it took 5-10 minutes of setup.

  • Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?

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  • For me, the most important thing is always simply understanding who has what role in the company. When I have a question, knowing whether I ought to ask my direct manager, other colleagues on the team, a subject matter expert, other management teams, our sysadmins, etc. is the most difficult thing to figure out. It can take months sometimes.

  • The Mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire

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  • They don't think that way. "It does not generate revenue, therefore it cannot be allowed to exist." This philosophy is so deeply ingrained into the American psyche that it is inescapable.

    Story time: American colleague and Canadian colleague are talking. Canadian says that university costs only 5000 CAD in tuition. American nearly falls out of his chair and yells, "BUT HOW DO THEY MAKE MONEY??"

    And bear in mind that he was one of the most educated and successful people I have ever met, and yet he found it so difficult to fathom that a university could exist without making money. Now with that in mind, imagine convincing a large group of average people to fund public services.

    This is why the USA is the way that it is.

  • ‘It didn’t use to be like this’: woeful US healthcare system exposed by CEO killing

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  • It is so quintessentially American that they would base their entire healthcare system around the good will of for-profit companies and be shocked when they see how that turns out.

  • Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI

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  • For-profit companies are perpetually locked in a conflict of interest. Inevitably, they will have to decide between what is in the best interest of their users (or other public interests such as the environment for example) with their never-ending obsession to make ever more money. No matter what they say or do publicly, they will always sell out for more profit.

    In this case, a bunch of Silicon Valley investors (people who have collectively made trillions over every iteration of IT progress) are forcing "AI" to be the next thing. They have basically decided that they want all tech progress to focus on this area and are forcing every company they invest in to make that happen, regardless of the societal impact.

    As a result, you can see clearly that all of these companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Reddit) are basing all their business decisions into trying to make this fantasy become a reality. Even Apple now, the masters of creating a facade of privacy is falling straight into line. And the one thing they all have in common: investors.

    And that is why you should always be wary of interacting with big business interests - they will inevitably sell you out someday.

  • Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain [for the US, other nations may have different rules], so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike

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  • Does this mean we can freely distribute Tintin in Thailand now? Outstanding piece, everyone should read it!

  • British journalist could face years in prison for refusing to hand over his passwords to the police

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  • None of that has anything to do with the case at hand though, and I don't understand why you would bring it up. This bad law is being abused and just because you don't like the person being targeted in this specific instance, it will just be a matter of time before it's used to target journalists that you like.

    I understand that ultimately argued against what the government is doing to him, but I think all the other information you posted (with no sources at all by the way) is not relevant at all and just a pointless distraction.

  • It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?

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  • I'm working my way through Valheim. I started last year and then stopped shortly before fighting the second boss and never got around to picking it back up. Now I'm back at it and working through the third biome. I still have a long way to go and hope that I can continue to sink at least 100 more hours into it.

    I also got Metro 2033 and Last Light on the Steam winter sale. I started Metro Exodus a few years ago and also stopped pretty early, so I'm hoping that this time I can stick with it through the whole series. I also got Grim Dawn and it doesn't play great on the Deck, but hopefully I'll be able to get used to it with a bit of effort.

    Outside of those, Wildermyth and Brotato are my main chillout games and I'm pretty sure they'll also get 50-100 hours each this year.

  • Waiting for

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  • Insiders say cutting-edge graphics are too costly for AAA games

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  • And innovative gameplay too. Large companies are too afraid to try new things, and all the games feel like the same rehashed mechanics with a fresh coat of paint... but indie developers are much more willing to try new, interesting concepts.

  • An excellent use of company time

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  • Today, management learns about the Streissand Effect.

  • What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?

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  • MOBILE USERS CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES.

    Phew. That felt good.

  • Trump demands Panama lower Canal fees or return it to US

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  • "Donors" would be my guess

  • Awesome Fdroid Games

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  • lichess has finally published it's mobile version on f-droid.

    droidfish is another great alternative chess game, though with no online component.

    there's also endless sky

  • Operating sysrule

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  • Agreed, and it really makes me nervous about changing jobs. If I start a job that requires using something other than Linux, I don't really know what I'll do. I'll probably have to get really good with tmux or zellij or similar because window managers on non-FOSS platforms suck so badly!