Sidewalk is LoRA so I think we can be pretty sure it wasn't the source of GBs of data . Anyone freaked out about sidewalk's use of their internet connection hasn't looked at the numbers.
I feel you're being dismissive but it maybe TFA would make more sense if the use case was more clear. The typical vinyl DJ setup is a pair of turntables, mixer, and PA. This adds a laptop and one or two of these encoded records to the mix (pun intended). Some signal routing between the laptop and the mixer allows your encoded records to work just like regular vinyl - you can have an analog record on one deck with digital on another, both players analog or digital or however you want to handle it. Your digital tracks just become records you can fade into the mix alongside your existing analog workflow. You mix using the regular DJ mixer, everything is almost exactly the same as using regular vinyl records except you can also have a shipping container's worth of tracks in a laptop sized format.
It's not for people who wanna play at being a vinyl DJ (there are digital control surfaces for that), it's for people who are vinyl DJs and have all that stuff and are used to using it but who would also like to occasionally dip into a larger record bag when at a show.
I think of this as belonging to the same class as electric cars with software-simulated clutches and transmissions.[1] BYD makes a driver training car which is an EV with a totally simulated stick shift and clutch.)[2] The trainee can try grinding the gears and stalling the engine, but it's all a software-generated illusion.
There's no illusion with a DVS setup, latancy is so minimal you effectively have the exact same fine control over the track as you do with a standard record.
That's not a good analogy. Mostly shows you don't understand the problem being solved.
It's not "faking" an analog system within a digital system. (If anything, that's what a full digital DJ set up is.) It's an adapter between the two.
As such a purist, would you prefer that digital music is never used? Or that digital music must only be used with digital controller? In that case DJs that use both types of music have to lug around two separate controllers.
That compatibility can be pretty valuable as it allows you to mix between digital and analog vinyl on the fly on the same hardware. DJs of a certain age grew up around the UX of the Technics 1200s and these sorts of tools allows them to keep the feel of the instrument that they've learned to play.
Israel has no B2s. Israeli F35s flew constantly over Western and Central Iran (including Tehran) for 12 days as if Iran's extensive air-defense network was not even there, doing a lot of damage.
Russian milbloggers responded with, "Why can't the Russian air force fly over Ukraine like that?"
Another absurd take - there was 1 sortie of B2s which was America's show of force. There were two weeks of daily Israeli F35 sorties, starting with SEAD and then progressing to strategic bombing targets. They all completed their missions with no loss of aircraft.
Tell me, when has an F35 failed to perform in combat duties? You're running off of internet memes from a decade ago while the F35 was still in development (and having a bad time of it). They are selling like crazy, and it's not because their customers are misinformed about the capabilities.
This is completely wrong. B2 bombers only dropped the MOAB on the nuclear enrichment sites. Israel used F35s to bomb Iran at will. Iran didn't shoot down a single plane.
That’s the specific problem a well organized governmental body can address. Funding research through university and private R&D lab grants and spreading/licensing the knowledge to domestic companies. Fund grants for universities and scholarships to spread that further. Invest in multiple startups attacking the problem at different levels in the stack (semi manufacturing has a LOT of inputs).
There are loads of ways you can effectively steer an economy to stimulate growth while also meeting geopolitical needs through effective and liberal application of the national purse. DOGE seems to have different ideas about the value of such programs.
Alternatively, those people are dealing with legacy systems that are pathologically resistant to cert automation (looking SQUARELY AT YOU vmware) and elect for the longest lasting certs they can get their hands on to minimize the disruption.
It’s generally best to assume experts in other fields are doing things for good reasons, and if you don’t understand the reason it might be something other than them being dumb.
Generally agree, that we shouldn’t jump on conclusions, but experts in my own field are doing bad things mainly because of lack of knowledge. With the lack of will as a very close contender for the top position. “The lack of possibility” is the exception.
When I argued here that Linux is still pain to maintain on my laptops, it wasn’t because it’s not possible. I just didn’t have enough willpower.
People who jumped on me because of this were still idiots, because they thought that their even less knowledge (what were the error messages, my exact setup, etc) can be helpful for me, but still it would be wrong to state that I was unsuccessful because it’s not possible, or I had full knowledge back then.
Especially now, that I’m running Linux full time.
For example, I’m quite sure that you can solve this problem with a proxy, no matter what’s behind it. Maybe it’s infeasible, because you would need a custom proxy implementation, but it’s definitely possible.
If there are systems that are that resistant to automation, the question should be 'does this system need a publicly-trusted server certificate, the same as a blog about cats or a Shopify shop?'.
The answer is no. If it can't practically be automated, it near-certainly doesn't need to have a public cert on it.
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