They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.

It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again

I think Signal shot themselves squarely in the dick by removing SMS functionality.

Previously, you could use Signal as the primary SMS/messenger app. Any conversations with other Signal clients secure. Conversations in SMS/MMS? Marked as not-secure.

But, out of some purity concerns, SMS functionality was removed and the dev team focused on adding useless shit like “stickers” and then the pin-code harassment.

Signal adoption plummeted as intended (?)

Easy! Just replace their usual SMS app with Signal, and then every contact they have that does use Signal is private and secure!

Oh. Wait. That’s exactly the functionality that Signal removed in their effort to ensure that Signal is never widely adopted…

no, of course they are very unlikely to be making the entire mechanism. However, some folks are assuming that all mechanisms currently available are crappy, and that these folks are using the only crappy mechanism available.

That may very well be the case, but — is your opinion or the first commenter’s opinion based on any actual, specifc knowledge? If so, what is the source of that knowledge?

Are you sure about that? It’s listed as being NOT autoreverse, which seems odd if it was using the most common mechanism, as autoreveres is pretty much universal. Even the ones listed as “auto-stop” seem to have a rewind function, which means motors on both spindles which (usually) means it’s autoreverse capable, only needs a double read head*. The head is the most expensive part of the mechanism.

• at one time i owned a boombox which had a single-sided read/write head but which was on a small turret — it physically flipped around. Superbaroque

It looks totally plausible for Sony

maybe still better than the flashlight/photocell types!

Is there any circulation of the water?

Are you using aeration or a pump to create some flow?

I’ve considered creating something like this, but am concerned that it will more or less fill itself in with leaves/detritus over time. A neighbor did similar and while it’s true there are plenty of frogs, it looks like that pond has lost maybe half of it’s total water volume over five years.

We do live in a heavily forested area so external vegetation does fall/blow in more that it might in a typical open field.

it’s a concept