Love this anecdote. Having a really capable sales team that actually listens to customers unique needs, and feeds that back into a better product can be such a huge asset. Your sales team is usually a huge repository of unique customer pain and problems (opportunities!)
Reminds me of how the first generation iPod firmware and keys were reverse engineered. They blinked out bit patterns on the LCD backlight and used a camera to read the data in! https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111538350617290554
Citation needed, but I think I read that hackers dumped the firmware of Canon cameras by blinking the single red LED on the camera (and foregoing the main graphical LCD). See the CHDK and Magic Lantern projects.
Another Dvorak typist here! Personal funny anecdote: I learned vim modal navigation after I learned Dvorak, and never bothered to remap the keys. Totally debilitating if I'm using a coworkers QWERTY keyboard for vim navigation, but at least I can still navigate on remote servers without reconfiguring anything!
cell surface protiens go through a turnover in similar fashion to mRNA. protiens are chemically and phsyically more robust than mRNA however due to thermokinetic damages etc. protiens must eventually be decommisioned and replaced by new updates [likewindows10]. cell membrane turnover also occurs. this is a recovery of the cell toward its central tendency. in strictest terms the expression of the novel protien is damage, but not to the extent that the cell must be destroyed. Cells have timeline leading to proceedural, and also programmed cell death, this is a case of the needs of the many [tissues, whole organism] outwieghing the needs of the one or few.
there are many quotes regarding ~every Xmonths you are a new person.
I converted an old 1978 Puch Maxi moped that wasn't running to fully electric. Was a great way to learn how EVs work, and build a quiet around-town cruiser. https://photos.app.goo.gl/jgL4VmpmSWA5csba8
Looks like a cool project! I have a box of old mini discs (and a Sony player) in the basement that I've been wondering what to do with. I would love to give the project a try and get them converted for digital archival.
For archiving purposes, I recommend getting a Sony MZ-RH1 (and the MZ-RH200 IIRC) as its the only device that can upload regular MD tracks using NetMD over USB. All the other devices can only playback over SPDIF.
FWIW, VLC also contains a universal decryptor written by us for any OpenMG media files saved by SonicStage. So if you have recordings on your hard disk which cannot be decrypted with SonicStage anymore because you forgot to backup the decryption keys, VLC should just work.
I archived all my Minidiscs a few years back using SonicStage. My Minidisc was my field recorder. Archiving was a very emotional experience- both hearing the voices of dead friends, and prying my own history from a futuristic and beautiful but frustrating and pointlessly locked down machine.
