falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Oh this is even worse than I thought.

- requires location access (won't work otherwise)
- transactions can use "push notifications", which basically means it goes through google servers, great security and privacy!

Since I do not have PlayStore on my phone, not sure what to do..
Using random apks from the internet seems like a terrible idea, even more for such crucial things as banking.

Obviously the application is not open-source, so won't make it to F-Droid or related services.

😦 😔 😞

Well this sucks, I am locked out of online banking..
Due to EU regulations online banking cannot use SMS or paper authentication methods anymore, requiring the use of "secure" mobile applications instead. 🤦‍♂️

So now you need an Android or iOS running mobile phone to do tasks that a simple web browser was capable of before.
The new "app" is quite the disaster, contains ads, introduces fees and sometimes doesn't even work at all.
What an improvement! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=caixaeconomica.approva

Summing up the current state of affairs in meme format. :P

hmm now the screenshot tool works, so here is the "big" 100% version.
has to be cut half-way through because my GPU cannot handle such a big window. 🤷

https://falktx.com/data/CardinalModules-2021-12-05-big.png

631 modules, and not fully done yet!
Since uploaded images get tiny here, I put it on my server.
See them with all its glory! 🤩
https://falktx.com/data/CardinalModules-2021-12-05.png

Surge would be super cool to have, though the big amount of dependencies will make it tricky to add, still all doable though. (just hope you are not the one that has to do the build haha)

PS: I tried making a screenshot with the modules at 100%, but I get out of VRAM and window goes black. Plus the screenshot tool crashes anyway 😂

With Rack v2 officially out, I am slowly starting to write details about the Cardinal project.

There is now a proper readme, license page (still need to write about artwork and CC), project overview page, and rack pro vs cardinal differences page.

It is still a very much work-in-progress, with some details not yet defined and things to implement... but already works for quite a lot of things.

In any case, I am happy with the readme as entry point.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal

Opinions welcome!

Aria Salvatrice has given the green light for the use of the previously-archived-but-now-revived-for-cardinal-modules! 🎉

Let's go dark/night mode!

Things I never thought I would miss - my desk. 😢

I am in the final stages of moving to a new place, almost done now.
Nothing like a proper desk for doing work. 🖥️

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. 🌔

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 😀

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 😊