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Paysafe is a big player in the gambling industry. Getting a gambling license in the UK is extremely hard as there is a bit of lobbying involved by the big players.

Same goes in general for Cryptocurrency related services. If Coinbase were to directly provide Visa/Mastercard cards, they would never get approved for the appropriate license. Hence why they are partnering with Paysafe.

The problem with most banks in the UK is they'll usually lock or even cancel your account if you're dealing with Crypto. Monzo is well known for doing it (Google "Monzo closed account bitcoin").

Barclays is one of the only banks slowly accepting Crypto related transactions.

Most people I know dealing with Crypto are using Revolut as they are not a proper bank. However, they recently blocked transactions to Coinbase's account (this is most likely because they are applying for a UK banking license).

I only posted it because it didn't mention Alibaba was the parent company in the article.

Maybe the article author would have had more luck getting a statement from Alibaba since it has a more significant international presence compared to UCWeb Inc.

Just had a quick Google and this company is owned by Alibaba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Browser

Seems like they've already been in hot water for vulnerabilities in their browser: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spy-agencies-target-mobile-ph...

100% Agree.

This is why these boards are so cheap, and the board makers are putting very little of their budget towards software support.

The N2 looks like it will be a great board. And Odroid is the best in the game in terms of providing software support.

I imagine over the next few months, RK3399 software support will become more mature since there's so many of them on the market currently.

Also found this wiki page about chip maker openness: https://linux-sunxi.org/Comparison_of_chip_maker_openness

The primary factor with using a Desktop Linux is GPU support. The Videocore IV in the Raspberry Pi is as close as to open source as you're going to get on an ARM board. Plus it's been around since 2013 according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Compared to this to the Mali-T720 MP2 in the Orange Pi 3, GPU support in Linux is virtually non-existent. https://linux-sunxi.org/Mali

This article is a little outdated but is still very relevant: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/7037-multimedia-related-stuf...

Also, note that GPU support on Android is usually a lot better compared to Linux. This is because they are using an older, more mature kernel.

The H6 processor it uses isn't well supported yet and is still reasonably new. See support here: https://linux-sunxi.org/Mainlining_Effort

Armbian has only started to work on it, see here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/9368-orangepi-3-h6-allwiner-...

Orange Pi make some great boards, they just take a while for them to be well supported. The Allwinner H2+/H3 which was originally released in 2014 has only got really good software support over the last 2-3 years.

I agree. Google does an excellent job of curating cricket (my guess this is mostly from their India office), every time I search for scores, fixtures or news, all the data is displayed correctly. They also have the Google calendar, so I get notified of upcoming games.

I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but could their motive for this launch is to get in before Monzo launches in the states (source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliversmith/2018/10/31/with-a-f...)

Monzo has blown up in the UK, and I know their team is growing at a crazy rate. While they aren't profitable yet, they plan to sell financial services through their marketplace (insurance, mortgages etc.) which seems to be a major source of potential income for them (source: https://monzo.com/blog/2017/11/16/monzo-marketplace/)

There's thousands of options. Schiit are generally regarded for having high quality products that are relatively cheap.

A good place to find DAC reviews is head-fi: https://www.head-fi.org/forums/dedicated-source-components.7...

Bang on. A popular amp is a TPA3116 module. You can see thousands of examples on Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

For speakers, the cheapest option is to buy some second-hand ones on eBay/Gumtree/Craigslist. Just Google model names and look for ones with good reviews. I like British speakers, so I usually search for Tannoy, B&W, KEF etc.

It comes more down to the design of the board and the quality of the other components on the board. The TPA3250 he mentions is quite a new chip, but if you look on Aliexpress for an older chip like the TPA3116 there is literally thousands of examples: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

I imagine this guy must have found the components of a site similar to DIY Audio. It would have been a nice addition to steer people in the direction of more information if they are interested in the topic (which a lot of the comments here seem to be asking about).

The majority of all active speakers produced nowadays are Class-D, it's nothing really new (and the fact they are super cheap).

No idea how this guy wrote this article and didn't come across DIY Audio (or he just didn't mention it in the article). There is a tonne of information here: https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/class-d/

His wife and his kids are still in NZ; I imagine that is the main reason why he wouldn't want to leave NZ.

He still seems to be living comfortably. I see him driving around in various G Wagons on a regular basis.

He means you can save them for offline playback. A 2-hour mix is around 100mb for me. If you're listening to music every day, then it adds up pretty fast.

I agree - I only use Soundcloud for listening back to radio shows (Specifically Rinse FM. I figured that since I listen to them so often, I could save money by paying for Soundcloud Go rather than paying more for extra mobile data.

The mobile app needs a lot of work, but the saving songs and offline playback (presumably these were the latest things developed on the app) are the slickest and most refined parts of the app.

Yup, seems like the consensus, no matter how you try, not much will change. Nice to know they did eventually pay you out. It sucks for me that everyday traffic is increasing, but I can't monetize it.

It's an electronic item. I've read their T&C's very carefully, as well as had a few other people check the site to make sure everything is 100%.

Correct, I'm putting Amazon ads on the site.

And yes I'm making around that. It's all from Google/SEO traffic. You can make up to 8% of the retail price depending on how many items you sell.

The site has been ranking in Google for months now, and traffic has slowly been building up.

I agree that it could ring some bells being so sudden, but because Xmas is coming up people are starting to buy more and more.

I've tried, they've told me an "account specialist" will get back to me via email, but I don't think I can talk directly to them over the phone.

Happens to me as well, but only with Chrome. I Also have an issue when you go to another tab and come back and all the waveforms have disappeared.

Firefox and Safari don't seem to have these issues.

Unfortunately, most of the radio shows I listen to are hosted on Soundcloud, and I find the app is incredibly frustrating.

* If you stop a song and come back in a few minutes, it has forgotten and goes back to the start of the song. If you leave it for a few hours, it just restarts the app and goes to the homepage, and you have no way of figuring out what you were listening to.

* On accounts that update regularly, you have to refresh recent tracks manually every time, as it aggressively caches results which are usually weeks old.

* The player interface is too minimal. It puts so much emphasis on the track cover which is silly because it's a music app.

* The touch gestures are annoying and it's too easy to go accidently to the next track when you are seeking through a track

Seeing screenshots of the old app, it looks more like an upgrade of the current app.

In New Zealand when you pay for something using a Visa card, you get redirected to a "Verified by Visa" page which the domain is "securesuite.co.uk".

That always looks incredibly dodgy to me, not sure why they don't use a visa.com subdomain so it doesn't look like a phishing scam.

FB are using Reactive Native for their Groups, Ad Manager and F8 Conference apps: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

Most of those tweets are from a few months ago. I've had similar things happen to me as well. In the last couple of months, I haven't come across any bugs, so I'm pretty sure they are putting more effort into making Sketch more stable.

As a rule of thumb, wait 2 or 3 weeks before upgrading to any major update(I know lots of Sketch users do the same). Usually, in 3.x.1 updates they seem to weed out a lot of bugs.

I've been slowly moving all my work over to Sketch in the last year, and now about 90% of it is all done in Sketch!

I think what people outside New Zealand don't realise is that not many Kiwi's really give a damn about the new flag at all.

There's definitely a few people that voice their opinions about it, but the majority of them don't really care.

I think regardless of what flag gets chosen, people will still use the old flag and it will take literally years before flags get updated on websites, or it will get completely ignored and we'll end up reverting back to our current flag down the track.

Another thing to note, is that we don't have the same level of Patriotism that America has. You don't see NZ flags wherever you go, maybe outside some government buildings, but it is rare to see a flag in a residential area in someone's front yard.

It's true to a point, the RED isn't the best camera at reproducing colours. But then again most of the time you're going to be filming in RAW so it doesn't really matter as much since you get a flat image in post that you can grade.

An advantage the RED cameras have say over a Alexa is that they can film in 4k,5k,6k (Alexa only shoots in 2k). So that you can get a sharper image by editing in 6k, and then exporting in 4k or 1080p.

If you look at video cams for projects that need to be finished quickly, of course your not going to choose a RED. Canon Cinema Cameras (c100, c300) have the best colour science out of everyone (Sony and Panasonic are known to have pretty average colour reproduction). The only downfall with Canon cameras is that they use crappy codes and compression so when you start pushing to extreme looks, you'll get alot of noise and loose sharpness in your footage.

I use Blackmagic cameras, which aren't know for their colours either, but they own the industry standard grading software (DaVinci), so it is quite easy to get your footage balanced before you do a grade.

You're correct. What I'm wondering is why they used a 1DX instead of a Sony A7S? The ISO range on the Sony would of probably outdone both Canon and the Mamiya.

Taking photos at ISO 409,600 would be pretty awesome IMO.

Looks pretty sweet, just installed it on one of my WP sites. Do you know when you will finish Chrome/Firefox integration?

They should really list headphones by models instead of brands. Pretty much every brand there has both entry level headphones and top of the line headphones.

Still to this day, I recommend Sennheiser HD 25-II's. These things are indestructible. Plus they sound pretty good as well. When you watch any sporting event on TV or any big DJ, the majority of the time they will be using these bad boys.

I've had mine for well over 4 years now, not really looked after them very well, but they are still going strong. Every part is replaceable too.

Best of all, they are still cheaper than a pair of Beats by Dre.