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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:11AM (#34935450)
I had an interesting situation a while back where my then corporate login appeared amongst my personal Microsoft accounts as possible options to log into upon installing Microsoft office iOS apps on a personal device - given that org’s corporate policies don’t allow logging in that way I could fathom how it was appearing (it might have been linked to once trying to use Authenticator for 2FA) but it was a bit odd seeing it as a prompt on downloading a fresh iOS Excel. It seems to have stopped now but was a bit odd!

Ask HN: Has anyone built a Spotify controller?

I currently have speakers hooked up to an Echo Dot which I control via Spotify Connect from my phone/laptop etc.It’s fine but I was wondering if anyone has ever set up a ‘permanent’ Spotify controller (eg a tablet set up only to Spotify or similar), rather than always using a multi-app device like a phone to control music?

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Very sad. I remember discovering Ken Nordine in c. 2004 via free tracks on music promotion site betterpropaganda (sadly no more it seems). One song I found in 2008 focused on something near my hometown in England and so I dropped him a line via his wordjazz.com website and he replied:

“It's true. I did do a series many years ago called Incredibile But True, stories clipped from old newspapers by a sax player by the name of Dean Shaeffer. Dean had hopes of getting rich quick, but early TV took the spotlight away from radio. Strangely every now and then someone puts one of the Incredible But True shows on YouTube. If you search my name, you will find 14 things I have put of YouTube myself. Give a look.

Ken Nordine”

Simpler, better times! Down the Drain is still my favourite of his tracks. RIP

This isn’t all that new - in fact London’s tram system was using it c100 years ago:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIyXE_Fv3vA/TkLYU8vbHRI/AAAAAAAALb...

Re:Finding Similar Music Using Matrix Factorization on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:19AM (#11665838)
There's an IFTTT recipe for that! https://ifttt.com/recipes/311873-discover-weekly-archive (only discovered this yesterday)