falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Casually checking an old game music site I used to visit, see the latest news about "Regarding Recent Technology Advancements"

https://ocremix.org/community/topic/53443-regarding-recent-technology-advancements

hmmmm hope it is what I think it is...

> Starting today, the sharing of music generated by feeding a prompt into AI-software is prohibited on OC ReMix

👏 👏 👏

They explain their reasons, I am glad to see such takes.

@macberg totally understand. my plan for this one is a dual-boot, I would not be able to stand using Windows for the daily task stuff

@macberg so Windows on a VM? that kinda sucks for performance on audio and gpu, which are 2 of my critical points (the VirtualBox OpenGL support is quite meh).
Plus it doesnt test the real Windows experience that users get to see.

@minkiu having a reliable windows 11 install for music production and my own software testing, but really dont want to deal with so much microsoft nonsense on there.

just without internet is hard these days, so maybe if that was safely contained it could be made to work consistently and reliably?

most of the time the linux vm would be off, but on the occasion of wanting to install e.g. latest cardinal release, or running some software registration thing, would still be doable.

Imagine the scenario:
- Windows 11 system without internet access
- Linux VM running inside with internet access (maybe some usb wifi stick that Windows has no drivers for)
- web/internet browsing is only done through the Linux VM
- any downloaded files are placed in a shared folder, so the Windows side can install programs and also "send" files to the Linux side to be uploaded

How stupid of a setup is this?

Why is it so hot in Finland right now? I thought being so high up north would mean I would get to enjoy cold weather for a bit, errrrr

@sampo and other nice folks in Helsinki, anyone got plans for this Friday?

@nielso by the way here is a screenshot showing just that

@nielso does it make that big of a difference if it is web based or something else? it is still controlling something running locally.

it is the case here yes, the browser is just the UI. when using mod-desktop as a plugin (feature coming in next release) the plugin UI then includes the browser too.

it can be used remotely because of web tech, but it can very much as well be used to control local things.

Being able to use full desktop plugin GUIs on a web platform is never going to stop being amazing.

master_me coming to https://github.com/moddevices/mod-desktop next release 🚀 🎉

that makes it 3 plugins made with DPF that can use their desktop GUI as the "modgui" interface inside mod-ui:
- Cardinal Mini
- master_me
- Wolf Shaper

such a treat 🍰

Cardinal 24.05 is released!
This is a quick bug-fix release that also brings 2 new plugin modules.

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.05

We now have an old-style music tracker in Cardinal 😮 🎉
Checkout a very small demo patch in https://cardinal.kx.studio/live?patchurl=https://kx.studio/Paste/raw/eMJXf

PS: I updated the online version already with the RCM modules coming for the release after this one, so you get both a music tracker and piano roll in your browser now 😘

@somatalos @boo_ some apps work like that yes.

The big problem seems to be that there's no way for iOS apps to read files from arbitrary folders, say documents or downloads.

Each app must use its own directory for storage, which defeats the purpose of what I wanted to do - nextcloud sync to local files, and some other tool would play them.

It is such a simple thing yet impossible to do on iOS. Ironic that 10+ year old iPods can do this task much better wtf

@boo_ it is, and it also what I have been using so far. but I need to import every single music file individually which is a major PITA

the more I look into the mobile application ecosystem the more depressed I get...

it is quite tough to find a simple tool without ads or user data tracking, damn so frustrating
I just wanted a nice way to play offline files... 😠❗

This is on iOS because someone offered me an iPhone a while back, but these sorta things make me not want to use it.
I might just buy an old style "mp3" player again, dedicated physical buttons are a plus.

A little origami is always nice for keeping mind occupied while also relaxing at the same time.
Can 100% recommend.

These ones were made following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKRKSCn3qg

web views verified to work on windows too (previously I just used wine under linux)

somehow ends up feeling very natural hah 🌷

Web view progress, well basically it is working... 🚀

Now just a matter of cleaning up and documenting the process.

For now it only handles loading local files, no embedding html/css/js in the binary. But I think that is ok, these resources are shared across different plugin formats so they are better off not stored inside the binary.
Exception would be if trying to hide those? but it would be so trivial to bypass that doesnt feel worth it.