I think it must be quite complicated to implement. Torrents traditionally work on static data. An ISO image or mpeg4 doesn’t change, so the hash locks in the content and makes it possible to share pieces and assemble them with integrity checking. I have no idea how they are doing that with a webpage, which could potentially change every second. I don’t know if they have a way to add updates to a torrent of an existing page, or if they construct a new torrent on a snapshot basis.

Looks like not exactly the same thing but it appears to solve the same problem.

Ceno is apparently for mobile devices and no mention of using torrents(spoke too soon; indeed it uses torrents). But thanks for mentioning it because I will be eager to try it out.

(edit) after looking deeper it looks like there is a Windows version (but no linux?) In any case, I’ll try the android version.

I believe credit unions are more centralized than commercial banks. CUs are tiny operations, which means they cannot afford to do everything in-house. CUs outsource like crazy. All CUs use the same couple of billpay services. They use the same statement printing service. They’re not generally competent enough to do their own website, so they outsource the website. Most of them centralize further by putting their website on Cloudflare. They never write their own smartphone app, so a few app makers serve all credit unions nationwide.

It’s a disaster really. No matter which CU you choose, the same giant outsourced entities process your data. Commercial banks tend to be more decentralized because they do more in-house work (depending on their size). It’s rare for a commercial bank to MitM their website with Cloudflare, but hard to find a CU that does not do that.

It should only need an SDR and a USB-OTG cable.

The SDR would be just software, so what would OTG cable lead to? Or if you mean it needs hardware to support the SDR, then that would defeat the purpose of recycling obsolete hardware. AFAICT, the only way to receive radio on a smartphone without buying hardware is if the phone comes with a radio from the factory. My phones have FM radio, which I think is a bit rare.

If we throw away old smartphones and we also produce radios that will be wasted by consumers after realising their radio lacks some metadata like album art that can be upgraded with another radio purchase, there is an e-waste problem that SDR does not fully solve. You seem to imply that a typical smartphone that comes stock without radio hardware could run an SDR. Is that correct? Wouldn’t the phone at least need some hardware to use the headphone jack as antenna input? Looks like additional hardware is needed.

If a radioless smartphone can do the job without additional hardware, then it would mostly render my idea useless; but we’d have to neglect the fact that radios also have speakers that are better than that of a smartphone.

people are brainwashed to believe you should forget the existence of your 1st language when learning a new one.

Citation very much needed

No it’s not. Just take some language classes and take your own survey. It’s trivially verified.

It’s quite rare for a language class to use one language to learn another. Every single person I have surveyed believes (without evidence) that it’s better to learn a language without exploiting your mother tongue to learn a new language. Many language teachers are themselves instructed to avoid using the student’s mother tongue.

This guy’s full of shit. 6000 words is what, ~B1-B2 level of fluency?

zaphod answered this well but I should add that 6k words are my count (from a dictionary), not the person who gave the tip. No one claimed that 6000 nouns results in “fluency”. (I scare-quoted fluency because B1 is where I’m at in French and I am nowhere near fluent; and I doubt B2 would get me there).

IIRC, “this guy” is Thomas Michael, a brit who produced audio tapes that teach French to English speakers. So there’s your source if you want to chase it up.

Does anyone else think Thomas Michael is full of shit?

While it’s a neat idea, there are a lot of words in French that resemble English words but don’t mean exactly the same.

Of course the AI bot would have to work that out and avoid such cases.

There’s some kind of tech defect going on here. When I posted my comment, this thread and all others w/the same title had zero comments. Now I see many comments in here, some of which are older than my own. So in my view of this community, it appeared like a ghost town with a bot making a bunch of empty threads. Apparently posting in this thread triggered the node I am on to fetch the comments.

I don’t get what’s going on with all these threads. You seem to be spamming your own community. All these threads with this same title do not link anywhere or have any content. It’s drowning out meaningful threads.

I was able to find an existing deck for the language I was learning. But then I still spent some time on additions and mods to add words from my textbook brought up.

Those are probably things I should look into. Considering those free-to-air networks are TV networks, MythTV would likely work for them. But then I have no idea the absence of video would cause any issues, considering a Satellite tuner device for a PC might just receive TV signals.

I have no Internet. I want to hear the local broadcasts when I am at home.

At home, I have ~75—100 local broadcast stations which cover local news and events. I also figure that of the thousands of Internet stations, very few would likely be specific to my region. I think only a small fraction of broadcast radio stations have an Internet stream.

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When I am in a cafe or library getting Internet, I use that opportunity to listen to distant stations.

Note as well that a strong DAB signal is better than any Internet signal. There are many more points of failure with Internet, such as network congestion.

You do give me an idea though. I have some shell accounts. I could perhaps setup a timed recording of something I want to hear from Internet radio. Then I could fetch it whenever I get online. But I guess a MythRadio would still be useful… something to show me the schedules centrally. I think at the moment we are stuck with going to the website of each station and navigating their UI one station at a time. Fuck that.