falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
@elifyalvac @late11 @sean_ae @mosgaard @dreamer you can try it live in your browser at https://cardinal.kx.studio/live so you get a sneak peak without needing to install anything!
@ShadowRZ I started a move to codeberg, github is too damn annoying sometimes
the small things got moved to https://codeberg.org/falkTX
sorry for the inconvenience!
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"It will, without question, be different in the coming months. There's no way around that. It remains to be seen whether it will be here at all."
Excerpt from an Audio Damage blog post called "Slopapotamus...":
https://audiodamage.com/blogs/news/slopapotamus-ai-and-the-indie-plugin-business
@unfa I understand, I will see if I find a way to export the current files and data.
@unfa I need to do updates and other changes on my server (that runs the peertube instance, among other things).
Need an honest answer - how bad would it be to lose that peertube instance?
Just thinking if I really need to spend time exporting + backing up files for it, or if it might not be worthwhile... 🤔
@OBSProject ads in my fediverse feed? wow
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I have taken some of my websites and services down, including kxstudio, cardinal and distrho websites.
It will take a bit of time until they are online again as I don’t have the time to update things at the moment (it’s complicated and for these kind of things it’s better to not disclose much)
Thank you for understanding. Stay safe out there!
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Fun story: I got labelled an "Amish" (more accurately: we got compared to Amish who debate merits of horse carriages 🐴over cars 🚗) yesterday for refusing a genAI patch in a merge request for @GIMP.
It's not like we don't explicitly write in our merge request template that any genAI contribution is refused (code, but also text, images…), and as though we haven't said it explicitly for years now.
Anyway, so now I'm an Amish. It made me laugh. 🤣
@marcdinkum @unfa this will of course propagate to more than just lower-level things, I just mention the stuff that caught my attention.
I imagine at some point it will be impossible to have a working system without some LLM gen code on it.
@marcdinkum @unfa the kernel is for sure full of LLM gen patches lately, just check the kernel mailing lists or maybe LWN?
heck even phoronix has mentioned that quite a few times, kernel devs being overwhelmed by the amount of stuff sprung by LLMs - for example https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking
Some "random" libraries started accepting LLM stuff quite liberally.
My preferred go-to json as example https://github.com/nlohmann/json/
Or hidapi for dealing with HID devices https://github.com/libusb/hidapi
@unfa at this point if we want to avoid any LLM gen based code/software we need to think about leaving Linux too. The last few releases have a whole big pile of LLM related things in there.
HaikuOS looks more and more appealing by the day... they consistently say no to LLM stuff
The folks at work went all-in for big production work for announcing a software update for the Anagram 🎸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lupuyXsyAm8
Looks much better than even I was expecting, and it is all about a single software update really.
Basically a monophonic synth, being driven by a bass guitar. Several months of work.
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Dear #MusicProduction lovers!
As you may know already, #FOSDEM opened their call for devrooms. Of course, after the success of last year, I'd love to have our devroom again, but there's a problem... I won't be at FOSDEM this year for family reason, and @marquisdegeek may not either 😥
Is there anyone willing to take the baton this year and help organize it, especially in Brussels on the day? I can take care of everything, except the actual day there.
Please let me know, boosts welcome! 🙏
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"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.
It's called #MarginaliaSearch.
It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.
What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.
The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.
There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.
It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."
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I don’t have a smartphone…
…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.
@PaulDavisTheFirst yes, that is the wayland embed through a nested compositor solution.
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My #talk from this year's #FrOSCon is online now:
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2026-3598-canvassing_for_the_commons
You can find the slides over here:
https://pkgbuild.com/~dvzrv/presentations/froscon2026/
