falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
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At #37c3 they have IRC, and Matrix for text and for voice they setup their own LTE/2G/3G/SIP/DECT network where you bring whatever phone-like device and pick a 4 digit phone number.
Meanwhile in the USA for #defcon they just paid Discord money and told everyone to accept their privacy policy, and even the DC Privacy Village asks people to sign up for Slack and Google.
People ask why I fly to CCC from the USA. It is because that is the closest place to find a thriving hacker culture.
@be 5 is way too few, I have seen 40 or more concurrently. might be 5 max for macos machines, those seem to be quite low in number (and as extra tidbit, they are all different machines with slightly different versions of macOS, never consistent)
maybe there is a limit for closed-source repos? for open ones I have not seen any real limits besides the macOS use.
The talk https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains is quite amazing, and entertaining too in a somewhat sad state of affairs way.
The train manufacturer had conditions in place to have those trains automatically stop working and needing servicing. 😱
Read about the hacker feats before, but didn't expect them to be so young. Great work 👏
@be I bet dont like me much haha
but well, I am doing all within their rules.
Cardinal also has a nice number of builds https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/actions/runs/7231186666
The linux ones take 50m.
And yeah, they run for every commit. 🔥
200 CI jobs for the PawPaw project, now that is quite the sight 😅
https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw/actions/runs/7365078279
This is to to cover as many cases as possible, I promise I am not trying to break a record or anything like that
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The mental gymnastics skills of folks attempting to justify Mozilla paying their CEO $7 million while asking for donations.
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I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
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Ok so im reading this article on Roman Glazing and slowly I begin to realise that it was written by an AI. Witness the section on “What existed before windows” where it suddenly starts talking about MS-DOS….
https://www.learnancientrome.com/did-ancient-rome-have-windows/
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Man Announces He Will Quit Drinking by 2050.
A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health.
The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term.
Taylor said it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. “It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,” he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off.
https://theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/man-announces-he-will-quit-drinking-by-2050/
#GlobalWarming #Oil #BigOil #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Drinking #Problem
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Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser's context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?
Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.
Edit: I had no idea this was such a widely appreciated post. Credit where credit is due: @dveditz told me about this trick a couple of months ago.
Every single time I need to do something a tiny bit custom in meson I end up in a rabbit hole of frustration, many tickets opened by other developers which a similar issue/request and many years pass with the situation unchanged...
The latest:
1. be able to specify a subdirectory for an output file https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2320
2. be able to use exe-wrapper during build https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/11029 (it is only supported for tests)
so I need to hack my way around the build system yet again 😭
185 CI builds, and this is not the final form yet
https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw/actions/runs/7129676485
😱 😱 🚀
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last month at #ubuntuSummit I have given a talk about how the ongoing debacle of #AI in art exist in larger context of the problem of ownership in art,
and how reformulating the issue can help us start solving it.
The video of the talk is now up.
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Imagine a world where survival isn't tied to your job. No strings. No prerequisites. Just a birthright. #BasicIncome. Enough money to live. Healthcare when you're ill.
Jobs? They should be about passion, fulfillment, not simply a way to pay for survival.
Let's rethink the way we live.
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if you are a UX designer and looking to volunteer for #FOSS / #FLOSS / #opensource projects. @owncast is looking for a #designer to join their team.
https://owncast.online/designer-wanted/
you can learn more about OwnCast from @gabek 's talk at #UbuntuSummit last month.
@woof it is well worth it though, just finished it
@unfa @Mirk0dex no new features correct, but regular maintenance updates for sure.
I am still in the process or organizing and cleaning up DISTRHO-Ports project so we can keep using Vitalium on the long-term.
See https://github.com/DISTRHO/DISTRHO-Ports/commits/master for the latest changes.
The public Vital source is a special kind of weirdness to maintain, as it needs JUCE 6.0 to work, it cannot be 6.1 or 7, must be exactly 6.0.
@mayor_dj I have that working via https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/8919 since a few months now, among many other plugin details.
but blocked needing help to sort out a few last details.
The OBS folks do not seem very interested in helping out, sadly. So it is kinda in limbo for now
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50 things you did not know you could do with #ardour in 50 mins!
The video of my presentation is now available at: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/50-things-you-did-not-know-you-could-do-with-ardour/109555
How many of these didn't you know about?
What's your favorite Ardour features that I've missed?
I feel like I should write another patreon update, we are getting to the end of the 2023 and it has now been near 1 year since the last update.
Life situation is just as uncertain as before though... hard to give updates when I dont know myself how things are going to be.
At least a small retrospective should be possible, skipping on any sort of future plans for now.
