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I’m pretty sure that Hey Siri is keyed to the users voice to some extent, so Siri should be safe. Not sure about Google, Cortana, Alexa etc.

I'm pretty sure the lightning standard doesn't support an analogue signal at all, hence the role of the adapter as a DAC. Around 23mins in the linked video you see the part he's using inside the phone, and it seems more complex than simply matching pins.

In terms of your car stereo, I'd say that'd be an internal DAC, and the quality difference was simply down to a physical connection compared to Bluetooth(probably a previous standard too, the jump from Bluetooth 4.0 to Bluetooth 5.0/W1(as in AirPods) is pretty similar in magnitude to the jump from USB 2 to USB 3/Lighting(Lightning was again Apple adding support for modern features before the standard was finalised)). In the same way that nobody would've seriously dropped a dedicated display port before USB 3, the new Bluetooth standards are opening up audio to replace physical connections.

As I understand it, Apple ultimately ended up dropping the headphone jack due to interference(the DAC was being interfered with) from some internal components in the new design, as well as making waterproofing easier. I'm fairly certain there's no DAC already at this point.

The paper is from 2005, so not exactly current philosophy(I fixed the title to reflect that). I just saw this elsewhere and thought it's exploration of "five favourite rhetorical manoeuvres: Troll’s Truisms, Motte and Bailey Doctrines, Equivocating Fulcra, the Postmodernist Fox-trot and Rankly Relativising Fields" would hold true in regards to the sophistry that dominates the site and industry, even out of it's philosophical context. The Troll's Truism in particular is seen a lot in tech.

I felt like the paper’s concept of a ‘Troll’s Truism’[1] would be particularly relevant to here. I also remember seeing a similarly structured paper on Scientism here.

[1]“A Troll’s Truism is a mildly ambiguous statement by which an exciting falsehood may trade on a trivial truth.”

The most interesting part of the article for me was that it mentioned 5G wireless signals. I was under the impression that the standard(is that the right word?) was still being developed.

There's a list of sites 'broadcasting' over at https://www.reddit.com/r/GNUTerryPratchett/

I think this is the key. Ingress was a successful AR game, and the geolocation was the only AR, no shoddy camera overlay. I think you can draw a parallel to traditional video games, in that games with a general understanding of maps, and not much small-scale definition(MUDs, Civilisation, even 8-bit platforms with no sub-pixel movement) tended to achieve a greater level of achieved complexity by glossing over small details, in the same way that Ingress/Pokemon Go only placed the locations in a general geographic area.

There's also http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm complaining about bloat in file sizes.

I feel like the original paper, as linked further up, might do a better job at allowing you to not have to link to Upworthy.

Can I suggest that https://vmware.github.io/clarity/ (the project's actual homepage) might work better as a link.

In what way is AMP a good idea for fucking Reddit? A social platform.

I found a combinator blog pot on the company, there's also an Oprah interview.

From the article: "Your condoms are currently in Whole Foods, Target, and CVS, and you’ve garnered tons of positive attention for your one-for-one business model that donates a condom to a female in a developing country for each one sold."

https://blog.ycombinator.com/interview-l-condoms-talia-frenk...

In terms of lightweight iOS browsers, I like iCab Mobile[1]. It's compatible with iOS 7 and up, which should include an updated iPad 2/3. It also natively supports Adblock lists(including EasyList by default).

[1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id30...

His parent was referring to Cloudflare suspending their services for the Daily Stormer, which was presumably the impetuous for this whole post.