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Yes, a shame. I honestly expected this could get picked up as a mainstream news story over Christmas (except I think the actual story is older than this video);

Young people with talent and ingenuity, using modern skills and tools to acquire and maintain something with a history behind it.

I've bookmarked it for next time some old guy complains that young people aren't smart or motivated etc. etc.!

The best of the internet, engineering and humanity... all in one video.

It was magical and very exciting seeing these things emerge!

Acquiring one of these "ScratchAmp" boxes that was missing its software is what started the whole project. These earlier systems deserve a lot of credit. If I'd had access to the software I don't imagine I would have dug so deeply into the concept.

It's something I have seen before! Seeing xwax reduced to very small hardware is interesting. Thanks for sharing here.

I don't know of any these days, though in the past I received some great photos of packed large venues with xwax laptops on display.

Check the xwax built-in Jack module, likely to be the easiest way to bridge with other applications.

The records used by xwax have about 100 kilobytes of data on each side of a 12" record. However, the goals are very different here; it's designed to decode the position under specific conditions such as being moved very fast, in reverse and changing direction rapidly. There would be a more efficient encoding if your goal was to fit as much data as possible and relax the other requirements.

Pre-dating xwax and Mixxx there was "TerminatorX", sounds like it might be what you're interested in.

How do you propose that you'd select and load tracks? Or view time remaining. Even if you don't care about a waveform display, some sort of computer (ie. display) seems to become necessary at some point. Perhaps you could check the PiDeck project, which puts xwax into smaller hardware.

xwax /is/ meant for end-users, but right at the beginning it only had actual live professional use in mind. I was literally DJ'ing in clubs at the time and I wanted the digital equivalent of playing vinyl records.

I was collaborating with a friend on the early versions, to see if it could be commercialised to provide a "house" system for radio studios and clubs (much like the house provides CDJs or turntables). Today that's superseded by DJs bringing their own laptops, of course.

I don't know much about Mixxx these days; that project was always much better set up to grow through a range of contributors (eg. with its scripting engine). But I think it's technical architecture is probably quite different.

Whereas, xwax was designed from day 1 with the idea it was a realtime system with very tight latencies, taking input from one audio interface and responding to it on another. That was fun on Linux (and FreeBSD!) systems of the early 2000s.

xwax author here, nice to see it submitted to HN front page. Must be 20+ years now since I wrote the original code for DJ'ing live. Very happy to answer questions

Interesting to see the implementation is basically a two-pass process: strlen() to count the source string, followed by a memcpy().

My intuition would be to give some importance to not looping on the source string radically beyond the length of the destination buffer.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=string/strl...

Fair, I was thinking that because its not actually an X11 GUI (though it is X11 of course)

Its fun to query or set information on a remote. The same applies to xdpyinfo, xset, xrandr and many more support the -display option (if they don't then set the DISPLAY environment variable).

If you're thinking of an X11 GUI, I think perhaps you mean xfontsel?

Not necessarily obscure, still rather useful. xterm & xv remain my daily tools, and xosview is still maintained here:

https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/

There's lots of smaller VPS and VM providers -- even local IT companies. Mythic Beasts and Bytemark have been good for me.

If you want to use Linode for your CPU time and disk, probably there are providers for outbound SMTP that you pay a small amount for to use as a smarthost.

Don't throw in the towel, switch ISP.

You can do everything right but are being judged by the history of your IP address with it's neighbours in the same AS block.

Who are you hosting on?

I can call the phone and tell which country you're in

That's how you don't make a profit

> The time where Xorg is a well-maintained project is past us. That's the point.

This statement continues to sound like its trying to become self-fulfilling.

Xorg releases still happen (I'm not going to get into a debate about what is "well" maintained)

As many people move to Wayland those interested in X long-term should be given the space to do so, and statements like this set out to prevent it.

It's even a case of "protest too much" -- saying it over and over means that probably it isn't true.

A split keyboard has been an excellent change for me, but it doesn't have to come with other changes such as unusual layout or orthogonal.

I went for Mistel Barocco. Its basically a normal layout but split down the middle.

Took almost zero time to get used to, as its basically a normal keyboard. The benefits of things like orthogonal layout seem questionable to me, but the split layout gives me an overall much more comfortable position at a desk.

> For example, in London Citymapper will suggest to wait and board front/mid/back

This never seems as useful as it should be because I'm missing a reliable way to know which direction a London Underground train will approach from?

There is a red stop light, but many stations have these at both ends of the platform. Is there some signage or other piece of infrastructure that gives it away?

It's a reasonable hurdle; an employee who previously signed an NDA (or any one, for that matter) needs to be able to design new systems without regurgitating verbatim parts of an old one under NDA.

So it's really not a big ask to navigate their own NDA and come up with something interesting to talk about at an interview.

Yup, the key thing is let the candidate pick -- any technical system they understand.

I feel like pointing out that radio has a lot to add to this conversation.

Not just for pop, but for discovery of new music.

The quality varies regionally of course, so YMMV. But with internet access being ubiquitous, the choice of stations has never been wider.

> I can’t remember the last time I paid or even saw someone pay cash for anything

For as long as not everyone has access to a bank account or credit card I'll be concerned about fueling divisions in society.

I'm not from the US, unlike the origins of this discussion, but also hear this statement and have no reason to doubt it is true. But if you step out of the wealthy areas or even just look a little closer then the users of cash are visible.

> real answer to your question is; nobody, because this device seems to be a phone :/

The terrible error here is including the Android home screen in the marketing materials.

By all means base it on Android, but I never want to see anything like that on a "stand alone" device. Eliminating any generic UI should have been a priority from the go because it completely changes the sentiment around the device.

Yes. Exim, Dovecot, SpamAssassin. In two systems: FreeBSD and Alpine Linux.

I believe we need to keep doing this sort of thing, more.

I haven't had the same problem as people widely complain when hosting their own email. FWIW since you ask, I put this down to:

Using a quality ISP. VPS is ok, but not from widespread bulk providers. It seems to me that receivers judge quality by the network (eg. AS number) it originates from, not IP address. So you're judged by the quality of your neighbours and what those IPs are doing.

Properly set up SPF and DKIM. Someone here was recently stating how impossible it was to host your own mail, but a commentator quickly showed they had misconfigured.

Switching off IPv6. I love it in principle, but in practice there are big providers breaking IPv6. eg. Hotmail broke theirs a month or two ago. Or applying more stringent constants to IPv6 receipt.

I don't relate to people who say you need to "warm up" an IP address. It seems they might be often trying to use bulk VPS/cloud providers who probably get a lot of abuse. I don't see it's in the receiving ISPs interest to constrain IP addresses which only generate small amounts of mail (by definition this is unlikely to be spam), and it would be easy to mistake the per-network reputation for this effect. Make sure you're not on the various public spam/block lists, though.

I'm also finding the same difficulties with DuckDuckGo.

I don't think Google is "terrible" at anything; they know their stuff. But they have created peverse incentives around advertising which lead to this.

They're paid by the advert clicks, so if you actually find a search result you're not clicking on an advert.

The definition of an advert is "I want to push something at you that's only indirectly relevant to what you are looking for, and I'm willing to pay for that" -- that's what an advert _is_.

In my simple brain, I'd happily see Google paid per-display (not click) of adverts. Then my incentives (to find a search result) have a fighting chance of aligning with theirs. Show me the advert, in a separate column marked "adverts".

But I appreciate this is a vast over-simplification their broader business.