I find Gimp super useful and easy to learn. Using it to edit pdfs generated by NotebookLM is my new way of creating decks and presentations. Thanks for the great work.
Interesting wildcard ideas in the article, but I don't think we can understand how the brain works using computing concepts. For a nice discussion on DNA being the "blueprint" of life I recommend Philip Ball's "How life works".
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"Computing is still young, and platforms are changing quickly. Modern browser extensions and smartphone platforms have only been around for about a decade. These platforms will evolve, and there will be new platforms after them, and we will get to collectively decide how open they will be."
I really like this final comment. As a non expert in computing, I also often think about how young is this field, and I fantasize about how it will evolve, hopefully towards a more accessible and open ecosistem.
> we will get to collectively decide how open they will be.
The author is way more optimistic than me here. I'd love if that were the case, but with the way the wind is blowing, I doubt that it'll be a collective decision between users and the big tech companies running today's computing platforms. If anything, it'll come through regulation.
It's highly unlikely that e.g. iOS or Android will suddenly and out of their own initiative open up their APIs in a way that would allow building anything like "reading mode"/distraction removers, ad blockers, data extraction allowing mashups between different apps etc.
Google's main customers aren't Android users, but app developers who run in-app ads and sell in-app purchases; the same is to a large extent also true for Apple (although DMA-like changes might shake up things a bit, and their reasoning for not introducing such apps will likely be security and platform integrity, not ads).
Based on technological advances and an increased need for renewable intermediates in different application fields, BASF and Corbion Purac have been working on the development of biobased succinic acid since 2009.
I'm curious about the real reason they are not able to prioritize the 5th most voted idea. Seems easy to do, and it would convert Spotify into a home music system.
While I don't know much about computers I suspect its because they are not sure they could stop some users from using this to share the account outside their home.
Otherwise, I can not think of any other reason.
It sounds like they want the same streaming music to play out of multiple devices in the same place at once. This is a very difficult synchronization problem, especially within a heterogenous device space. The user experience if they fail to really nail it would be very poor, and the potential benefit is not that big.
I'm not clear on the question being asked. I currently am signed in with my Spotify account on Alexa, my phone and my tablet. I can stream the same music from all four Alexa devices in the house, and also concurrently on my phone and tablet. I don't normally want all these devices playing (at home I just need the Alexa devices to be playing), and I actually have more issues where music is playing from more devices than I want.
My Alexa devices are scattered about the house, so I'm not interested in stereo separation in a single room - maybe they are talking about the timing required for that.
I would definitely say it's the latency issue. If the speakers are within earshot of each other, the timing differences is likely to make it a bad experience more often than not. If you really want this feature, get a house-speaker system that supports it and have Spotify stream to that _one_.
I a bunch of Denon devices from smart speakers to a soundbar to two home theater receivers and many of them support HEOS which can do whole home streaming.
It sucks that you have to control it with a mobile app (I did write a PC app using Tk but that is not much better than a mobile app!). Also I have had a lot of devices fail either completely or partially (WiFi just went on my 7.1 receiver the other day, the same receiver is relegated to a (awesome) stereo because the HDMI port). The 5.1 receiver was a decontented ‘pandemic special’ with no HEOS.
But that said, the whole home audio is great and works with my jellyfin and Amazon Music and TuneIn and presumably spotify.
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