falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

This is quite amazing.
Exploit for Apple M1 systems, allowing 2 completely independent processes to talk to each other

> This works between processes running as different users and under different privilege levels.
😱

> [...] allows any two applications running under an OS to covertly exchange data between them, without using memory, sockets, files, or any other normal operating system features.
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https://m1racles.com/

This is madness.
Now DPF is building via MSVC too? 😱

This section of a video from Veritasium is mind blowing.
The game of life running... on the game of life!
(that very same simplistic "game" yes)

https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo?t=1772 😮

cmake support in DPF is in!
https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF/pull/269

Thanks to work by Jean Pierre Cimalando

More great stuff coming soon 🚀 🚀

Slowly getting DPF Cairo backend up to speed.
Same codebase, totally different targets, same behaviour.
Screenshot shows the Demo/test tool to render a few things, including subwidgets.
(opengl has the nanovg test, which is not possible on cairo for obvious reasons)

Only 2 things left for Cairo backend:
1. load png images from memory (instead of large raw data like opengl side does)
2. get the built-in DPF image widgets compatible with cairo.

Those 2 already done in a PR, but need adjustment

@rghvdberg@sonomu.club this is outrageous, some places forbidding UwU 😢

One of the perks of modular open-source design.
We can just take stuff other people did, that is also open-source, and put it together with ours.
Jean Pierre Cimalando was doing some tests and we got DPF rendering "Dear ImGui" [1] stuff for audio plugin usage.
It does really work! Of course with some caveats, but looks quite promising.

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

Most are not following along, but progress on update DPF to use latest upstream pugl is going very well.
Can already build all the example plugins, tested with https://github.com/DISTRHO/glBars and it runs with 0 changes required in the code.
Keyboard input and a few other minor things not handled yet, but it is just a matter of hooking up the events now.

Rezound with a small update for Qt5 support looks quite decent.

Maybe a good alternative to Audacity?

Last month there was no "kxstudio monthly report", due to special circumstances not having a whole lot of stuff to mention/talk about.
But no news is bad news, kinda... So I published a mini-patreon update just now https://www.patreon.com/posts/51164697

Can you imagine Audacity using Qt and Carla's custom theme?

I guess it would look a little something like this...

🧙 🚀

works on a real windows too, trying quickly in a VM with a custom theme.

btw, I did not know before, but wxwidgets supports Qt... that leads to some interesting ideas 🤔

Progress on custom Audacity build.
win64 binary building and running via Wine for quick testing (yes, cross-compiled mingw64 stuff from Linux)
Recording works, LV2 plugins are available to use, which is nice to see.
Still on the tweaking of build system. Will try win32 builds next, then macOS-universal.

Telemetry tracking coming to an audio editor near you!

Their decision is official.
(Not hot-linking to PR in question on purpose)

> We're closing this PR. We've taken on board 'no Google' and 'no Yandex' and Muse are now looking for a good alternative (thanks to those who recommended other open source solutions by the way). Please understand that this will take a little time to organize and a concrete plan will be published soon - at any rate this week.