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VCV Rack 2 release is easily THE big news. That said, I feel like December is going to be epic, with Blender 3.0 and darktable 3.8 definitely coming, as well as a certain prospect of Krita 5.0 and Siril 1.0 to arrive as well.
On a personal level, I have a few videos and a new podcast episode in the pipeline. I'll be lucky if I deliver all of this in 2021 though! :)
https://librearts.org/2021/11/week-recap-30-nov-2021/
Featured #b3d artwork by ExpresstheChaos
Supposedly Rack v2 will be out this month, but there is not much left of that... 😅
Anytime now...
In the mean time we can do more experiments with dark mode. The new Fundamental modules look nice in this way. 🌔
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Solar farms and vegetable farms as one! https://www.npr.org/2021/11/14/1054942590/solar-energy-colorado-garden-farm-land
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New homepage illustrations for the online services of Framasoft:
⋅ https://framacalc.org
⋅ https://framaforms.org
⋅ https://framadate.org
⋅ https://framatalk.org
⋅ https://framapad.org
#krita #ccby
Don't mind me, just testing how big of an image I can upload here...
Does it get scaled down?
Now that Cardinal runs more or less stable, I started some attempts at creating background soundscapes.
I am not that good at this CV/modular stuff yet, but does not seem too bad either.
The modular part is only doing sequencing for now, creating synths from scratch is something that is going to take quite some days to learn still...
Already happy with the results so far, and that is what counts in the end 😀
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Making a simple MIDI synth LV2 plugin. The new video in the Programming Music Production LV2 Plugins From Scratch tutorial series:
https://youtu.be/PuOeP-ln7UA
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Since many modules in Cardinal are CC-NC, let's just go with CC-NC artwork then...
Go Miku for that UwU feeling inside your modular environment 😊
I mean, creators will still be able to see the number of dislikes for their own videos, but the public counter is going away.
> On November 10, YouTube will be making the public dislike count private. Users will still be able to dislike videos, and creators will still have access to the dislike counts for their own videos in YouTube Studio.
Seems like the end of an era, the youtube video dislike counter is going away 😔
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snail race!!!
Keeping you all updated, here comes another monthly report.
Let us not speak of the rack 😂
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-monthly-report-october-2021
This is quite interesting.
User-id fingerprinting through the wallpaper on Android phones.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/873921/173ef56709ce1723/
Being able to identify users just based on a few colors is quite amazing
When you have not done a cleanup in a while...
```
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-5.11.0-25-generic* linux-headers-5.11.0-27-generic* linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic* linux-headers-5.4.0-67* linux-headers-5.4.0-67-lowlatency*
...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 63 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5666 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
```
Hell yeah 5.5Gb extra. Let's go! 🚀
mailbox is saying they have receiving DDoS attacks.
"we expect further attacks in the coming days"
https://mailbox.org/en/post/extortionate-ddos-attacks-on-mailbox-org
Remember that post where I mentioned Cardinal (VCV as plugin experiment) exposes room brightness as a parameter?
It was just a way to save the configuration through the host, with this being a plugin and all..
Someone actually placed a light sensor to control it! 😂
> "Sadly, the brightness sensor of my phone is too lazy and updates its value at too low frequency, so I had to add some smoothing to make it look nice."
Something I have been wondering for a while.
If your free and open-source application/tool is good enough that makes people not want to use other non-free tools, are you responsible for a company closing down?
You can argue about business models and ethics, but a few things can really just stop existing because a "free" tool is simply good enough. It is not just software that disappears, it is jobs and careers.
The bar for some open-source tools competition is very high. With real side-effects
