@bcowen Found it if you want the link. I've been tempted myself. I will say that there was something about the hana el that didn't quite do it for me in the long run. Maybe a tad clinical to my ears.

Nah, it's just an old school-style p2p network/app. Kind of like Limewire but specifically for music (and without the malware).

Aw bummer, I don't have that one. Back in my DJing days when I would get a request it was usually to turn it down 😄 If you already own the album and are just looking for a rip of it, you could try Soulseek. Lots of vinyl rips on there.

What kind of requests are we talking about? 😄

Over on the "Post a photo of your turntable" thread there's a regular who's been gushing about some really affordable but supposedly well made Chinese MC carts. I think he got them off Alibaba 😄

Could be yours for the low price of $0! 🤪

Back on my bullschiit. Another vinyl mix for Mother's Day. This time straight from the Skoll/Lokius stack into a Korg master recorder at double rate DSD (dsd128), then converted to 24 bit, 176.4K PCM using my own conversion software and filters (soon to be released free & open source). For all...

Thanks. Yeah and it's totally fine if some people enjoy listening to that dialect. For me, growing up in the 80s, Steely Dan was part of my culture. FM radio was on all the time and they were ever present, including a lot of their stuff from the 70's. Those earlier tracks felt more like an...

I'm particularly fond of this story. They spent 6 hours working on the words "Well the" for "Home at Last" during the Aja sessions 😂 "We’d be remiss if we didn’t include this anecdote about seasoned studio engineer Lenise Bent, who worked with the band during their Aja sessions. It was the...

Nice! Been really enjoying the two tracks released from this album previously.

Yeah I have another of those headshells and the azimuth on it is way off. I may be throwing it away it's so bad. It may be a bit off on the one pictured w the DL-103, but it sounds reeallly good. I think maybe the 103 is pretty forgiving in terms of vertical alignment and azimuth. Also a lot of...

I was lucky my high school offered classes in Basic and C++, so that was my entrypoint. My cool uncle also had a kaypro and various 386 machines. Started my IT career at a small web hosting company back when that was still a viable thing. Lots of Perl and Bash. I'd earned a CompTIA Network+...

I don't doubt that could be a major headache. What kind of product was it? Was this your own company?

You poor soul!

Rack mounted the Korg! Pretty happy with the 2U enclosure I got off etsy. Taking the Spring 1 KTE for possibly one last test drive before selling it.

The difference is, if a *nix system behaves as expected, nobody really cares if it's 100% posix compliant. Now if you want to sell a product and claim it is bluetooth compliant that's another story. But that's not really a question of benefit to the consumer so much as to the producer. Just...

It conforms to posix to a very large degree, as I understand it. That brings up another good point. Standards compliance doesn't have to be an all or nothing affair. Companies are free to comply to whatever extent they wish, without necessarily completely negating the benefits of those standards...

Again, I made no claims as to origins of Unix being anything other than the private sector. The distinction I'm talking about is open vs closed standards 🤷‍♂️

As you say, they are now open standards. Not sure where the contradiction is.

If you like iOS, you have in large part FreeBSD to thank; based on (you guessed it) open standards 🙂

I don't make any claims as to linux originating from the public sector, but TCP/IP largely did. It came about through the efforts of the DoD and was crucial in forming one of the greatest economic engines to come about in our lifetime (the internet). Really, as the quote of mine you responded...

To be sure. Again, I'm not making any claims about standards originating only from the public sector. Nor any claims about your views on CEOs. Just clarifying the point I was making to begin with. Whether a standard originates from the public or private sector, I do believe open standards have...

I was responding to this statement: Which seems contradicted by the first statement here: Being that we're not supposed to turn this into a political thread, I'm treading lightly, but I never saw much benefit in framing things completely in terms of private vs public sector. It's almost never...

In some cases that's true but not all. The standards that allowed the internet to flourish came largely from DARPA (taxpayer money) and universities.

Exactly. And we hold these ginormous companies up as innovators when so much of what they’re doing well relies on those standards. MS is no saint here either. Their innovation of app services for containers is an extremely buggy imitation of what the open source kubernetes does more reliably...