falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

"we pay location based salaries, to adjust for cost of living"

so, you pay disabled people more? "no" what about single parents? "also no" what about people who've paid off their mortgage, they get less, right? "as if"

ok, so you adjust the cost of living adjustments, right? "maybe we will. if it goes down"

"we just worked out the lowest we can pay people in any area and remain competitive"

it just feels more like location specific wage theft

I hope you liked the 2023 preview a week ago, now let's get back to weekly recaps :) Multi-week highlights: new releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, Shortcut Composer for @krita, HDRView, Synfig, Ossia Score, and more

https://librearts.org/2023/01/week-recap-22-jan-2023/

Featured #krita artwork by @sylvia_ritter

The Smithsonian has made over 4 MILLION images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc. This is amazing!

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

Ardour developers ask for help from users - it's really easy to do and we can all make Ardour a bit better :)

Read more here:

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/help-make-ardour-7-3-better-a-simple-thing-for-everyone/108228

#Ardour #AudioProduction #MusicProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #LinuxAudio #FreeSoftware

A yellow kitchen in Dnipro, #Ukraine 🇺🇦 🏠.

Once a symbol of warmth and family, it now stands as a reminder of the devastating effects of Russian imperialism.

One day a little girl celebrated her birthday with her family in this kitchen. The next day, the kitchen and the family are no more, destroyed by Russian imperialism.

This is what Ukraine is standing up against. This is what we are all standing up against.

📸 © Getty, Yellow kitchen in Dnipro, Ukraine

#StandWithUkraine #EuropeanUnion #EU

New in development: support for VST3 plugins with multiple I/O busses. Patch by @x42, coming in version 7.3

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/vst-3-multi-bus-support/108208

I've just implemented VST3 multi-bus support in Ardour.

Time to play with some fancy drum synths!

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/vst-3-multi-bus-support/108208

There's things I didn't post about in 2022, so @supertobi did :) Gyroflow is particularly interesting!

https://dablogter.blogspot.com/2023/01/things-libre-arts-didnt-blog-about-2022.html

It's that time of the year again :) Here's my year's recap and preview of what's coming in 2023 for @GIMP, @krita, @inkscape, darktable, @Blender, BlenderBIM,
@FreeCAD,
@kdenlive, Olive, @ardour, MuseScore, and others

https://librearts.org/2023/01/year-in-preview/

Featured image by @davidrevoy

After reading all these comments about the #SteamDeck here on #Mastodon I finally decided to buy one too. I haven't played games since 2015 and I only start again because I am able to do it on #Linux with support for #Flatpak.
Which also means the Steam Deck is #PicPlanner approved! 😄
Switch to desktop mode, start the KDE store, search for PicPlanner, press install.
I would have never guessed to see PicPlanner on a gaming console 😄

ok

Mixer complete!

Based on the Moritz Klein Clipping Distortion Mixer, with 4 channels instead of 3.

Sadly, I couldn’t get the clipping distortion to work. But everything else worked perfectly on the first try. I don’t really care for the distortion feature, in fact, I should have added a 5th mixer channel and skipped it entirely, which would have let me use a smaller op amp. Too late for that, so I added printed plugs in the holes where the diode clipping circuit would go if it worked.

I will really need a real rack soon, and also a way to power up my modules, my test busboard made of stripboard can only power 3 at once, I could build a bigger one right now, but I’m expecting busboard PCBs soon. I’ll also need a PSU when I finally make a decent case (don’t worry, as much as I love my janky 3D printed builds and cheap components, I’m serious about safety for the power supply)

Beep @synthdiy (more details in the recent posts on my instance's page if interested)

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PEP 703: Making the Python global interpreter lock optional https://lwn.net/Articles/919563/ #LWN

check out bespoke visible on the front page of MUTEK's site!! https://montreal.mutek.org/

much gratitude to NSDOS for including bespoke in his performance!