A better headline: Unix Legend Ken Thompson discovers that you can't use Apple products for building cool DIY stuff.

Community sourced headlines (toggleable visibility natch) would be a great addition. Tie the voting to karma on them.

> Community sourced headlines (toggleable visibility natch) would be a great addition. Tie the voting to karma on them.

I remember when I first discovered the StackOverflow website. Every question had tags on it and some number next to each tag. Me at the time thought that this number meant how many times people had added each of those tags to the specific question I was looking at. It took like a year or something before I realised that this is not what those numbers meant.

I’m suddenly reminded of the existence of n-gate!

It doesn’t exist anymore. Or rather I mean, it hasn’t been updated in months. Probably the author found something better to do with his time.

I spotted a user on the FT with that handle, and asked if they were the eponymous one.

They didn't reply.

But just in case you're reading this, person/people/AIs behind n-gate, you are sorely missed.

That is all.

Apple music is only 10 bucks a month and lossless. But that is pretty cool.

today it is. tomorrow it might not be at all. or it might be $100/mo. or they might decide they need interstitial ads. or only if you use their recommendation engine with preselected 'channels'

the computational requirements to store and play music are so minimal now, I'd rather just take care of it myself

Apple music is lossless from the moment lossless analog signals get imperfectly sampled and chopped into bitly approximations, yes. There must be an alias for the name of that process...

(i love DSP, calm down, but i also like lossless English)

He has already been using raspberry PIs for years, and if you watched the talk you will find this has nothing to do with iTunes, it predates it by decades.

“Unix Legend Ken Thompson, still out of step, taps his foot to the sterile sound of CDs just as they are now again being outsold by warm, pressed, analog vinyl”

(i have no beef with CDs, it's just a headline)