Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Iโve been trying to load the site for an hour now ๐ฌ</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.shadowfacts.net/users/shadowfacts" class="u-url mention">@<span>shadowfacts</span></a></span> I mean, sure <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@snazzyq" class="u-url mention">@<span>snazzyq</span></a></span> says it's a good DAC and I'll trust Quinn, but this still should've been available at launch. The rumor was it wasn't b/c of patent bullshit but who knows.</p>
@film_girl@mastodon.social truly innovative (the $30 3.5mm -> lightning cable was only an ADC and could not be used as a DAC)
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> No lossless audio for those of us dumb enough to buy the Lightning versions? My understanding was that the internals (processor, etc) were all the same. :-/</p>
<p>As someone who was dumb enough to buy the AirPods Max USB-C edition even after bitching for 4 years about the Lightning Version -- and who had to spend $60 on an AirFly to use it in business class -- this update is overdue but welcome <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/lossless-audio-and-ultra-low-latency-audio-come-to-airpods-max/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/los</span><span class="invisible">sless-audio-and-ultra-low-latency-audio-come-to-airpods-max/</span></a></p>
<p>"You don't briefly interrupt a system like this one. Once professors and PhD students disappear, they can't be conjured again out of thin air. The pipeline of new faculty members is gone โ altogether, or overseas, but certainly gone in America. We won't be able to rebuild the R1/R2 system in less than a generation. And the Trump administration has proposed no alternative to it."</p><p><a href="https://not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/not-invented-here-2/?ref=not-a-tech-bro-newsletter&attribution_id=67e03db985bae4000145b050&attribution_type=post" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/not-in</span><span class="invisible">vented-here-2/?ref=not-a-tech-bro-newsletter&attribution_id=67e03db985bae4000145b050&attribution_type=post</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I did this just now! ๐</p>
<p>With 23andMe filing for bankruptcy -- reach out to your family members who might have ordered these kits to get them to request deletion of their data. And if you signed-up yourself, you should absolutely do the same!</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> it does my economist heart good to see other computer science folks reading in that domain! </p><p>Governments get stuff done no private capital could. Even by accident. Think of the side effects of massive US spending on defence research or the much smaller investment in NASA.</p><p>We could look also to CERN, whose practical applications are still to materialise in a way that is meaningful to the average tax payer, but which generated the WWW as mere piece of chaos at its periphery.</p>
