falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
@macberg yes as I see it incompetence can happen equality on both sides. stuff that leads to hacks by accident.
malice is harder to do when the code is open though.
also, proprietary + commercial vendors much more often have analytics and other network related features vs opensource plugins, so I am then more skeptical of them in general. a plugin requiring libcurl is often a red flag for me.
@amadeus I wouldnt be so sure...
My tests on https://github.com/falkTX/wayland-audio-plugin-test/ show it is possible, and based on that I could easily support wayland UIs in Carla (not the S1 spec though, please let's not do their proposal as it would complicate hosts job way too much)
afaik that repo contains the very first LV2 UI under wayland. granted it does nothing useful, but it does load with its own custom LV2 UI type
Audio production on Linux, using proprietary audio plugins, is somewhat funny/interesting to see in the context of security.
I mean, there are a lot of recent efforts to put applications in containers, sandboxes, lots of talking about X11 being unsafe vs Wayland...
And then users just download and run arbitrary binary code from the internet 😅
Nothing against those that do this, it is just a bit funny to see from a security perspective.
@amadeus hmm https://forum.babyaud.io/tos
> [INSERT LAST UPDATE DATE HERE]
I guess their forums are new?
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The scumbag conservative-led Berlin government plans to massively reduce spending on public transportation, biking & pedestrians (60-70% down) while also massively increasing spending on streets & cars. 🤬
@nielso @krullebolle feels like a feature implemented "because we can", without ever asking what users would want.
1 step forward, 3 steps back.
I am glad Debian still goes through the trouble of packaging web browsers the usual way
errr the "snap" versions of Firefox and Chrom(ium) still do not have WebMIDI support 😔
Glad to have an alternative Debian Trixie set up already, WebMIDI works nicely there!
It has been years though, so I guess nobody cares enough, or noticed...
So this is possible... web-browser based audio processing as part of your signal chain.
PipeWire makes this extremely easy to setup, and Ildaeil on the browser with some pre-compiled plugins makes the magic possible.
So here output from Firefox goes into Chromium to give it some LV2 reverb, then into some native metering plugin, then to the speakers 😆
Feel free to try this at https://ildaeil.kx.studio/
But ***beware of feedback loop when enabling input***
The browser will use default input!
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"open the pod bay doors, Hal"
"sure, the doors are now open"
"no, Hal, they aren't. open the doors"
"you are right, that is my mistake. i have now opened the doors"
"Hal, the doors are still not open. open the doors!"
"you are right, the doors are not open. i have now opened the doors"
"Hal! the doors are still not open! i'm dying out here!"
"i am sorry, i did not open the doors when i said i had. that was my mistake. the doors are now open"
"... Hal ... open ... the ..."
Made a whole new plugin in just a few hours today 🎉
https://github.com/Darkglass-Electronics/anagram-midi-control
It would actually be < 1 hour if I didn't have to fix a few things on the framework first.
It's not really useful for users at all in general, this is just a testing tool for the Darkglass Anagram unit.
But I like to do things openly and there are no secrets on this one - all it does is send out MIDI - so why not have it open?
@unfa errr what?
> The plugins here are for sale on the site www.bluelab-plugins.com So please do not build them and put the builds online.
They can ask, but feels against the GPL. why are they opensource then?
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Can I just take a moment of your time to point out how awesome the folks are at @liberachat
We take #LiberaChat completely for granted. Like the floor we walk on, or the air that we breathe it's just there. It works. We use it every day with #Librecast and it works so well we mostly forget there are real people that make it all work.
Thanks, while I remember. By tomorrow I'll have forgotten you exist again because you do your job just too damn well.
@ercanbrack I heard of it, but it requires MSVC which loses all my interest.
KXStudio July 2025 project update
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-project-update-july-2025
It is basically:
- J2SC first release, which superseeds Cadence
- Carla 2.5.10 release
- WineASIO 1.3.10 release
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I really enjoyed reading this article, full of self-reflection and self-awareness, about the consequences of millions of expats living in Lisbon (and environs). It doesn't pretend to have answers or be authoritative, but it felt profoundly inquisitive.
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@lunarloony the non-blue food eating people are becoming a minority :(
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They’re putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.
"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.
But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
↫ Luna Winters
"Blue" food isn't food.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142847/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/
@dreamer tempting but j2sc is also fine. it rolls off the tongue, je-two-se-k 😂
If you have not noticed, I have silently abandoned the Cadence project. It was one of my first projects so code quality was/is quite poor.
I do like the JACK configuration tool from it quite a lot and want to keep it, so I have "forked" my own old project, removed a bunch of stuff and made "J2SC" for "JACK 2 Simple Configurator".
https://github.com/falkTX/j2sc
No release just yet, but did a bunch of work on it today and it is close.
Requires PyQt6 to run.
Tentative first 0.0.1 release next week.
