falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Ardour 8.4 is out with experimental AAF importing, new Adwaita theme, midnam files for Lexicon MPX100 and Yamaha SY85, MIDI maps for Donner DMK25 and Arturia MiniLab 3, but mostly with a bunch of bugfixes

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

You steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.

#ai

Silicon Valley: Introducing Fuck You and The Planet as a Service™ 2024 Edition!

Mozilla: Introducing Fuck You and The Planet as a Service™ 2024 Trustworthy Edition!

#Mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech

Mozilla fires 60 people to “focus on bringing ‘trustworthy AI into Firefox.’”

Fuck you, Mozilla. No one is asking for AI in Firefox. Sadly, you’re the best we can hope for under capitalism. So if we want something better, we should look into alternative models.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

#mozilla #firefox #ai

Why @obsidian is 100% user-supported and not backed by VC investors

Boosts appreciated.

Looking for support, tips, and commiseration regarding book bannings now underway in my home school district. There's a really great book on the chopping block due to, ostensibly, profanity (it's not really about the profanity). I'm livid and feeling a bit helpless about it. What's the best way to make a fuss? What kind of pressure works?

#bannedbooks #ReadBannedBooks #academic #bookstodon

If your only options for interacting with a technical, sysadmin-/developer-focused project's community are these, which would you go with?

Boosts appreciated 🔄

1: an XMPP MUC that requires you to have an account on some XMPP server

2: an IRC channel that requires enough knowledge of IRC to join the channel

3: a mailing list that requires an email account and rejects HTML email

4: a ticket tracker that you can interact with from either your email address (rejects HTML email) or from the web UI but the web UI maybe requires creating a new account

5: none of the above (just don't interact with the community)

My video on the Fediverse is now live on YouTube as well!

A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/R3ptZ1W-FRA

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-a-new-internet-is-forming-meta-wants-to-control-it

tech companies: "you don't need to worry about doing things the old way. there are no more gate keepers as in the old days"

musician adam neely: "there are gatekeepers in today's music industry, perhaps even worse ones than in the old days, they are just not human anymore"

...

"anyway, I don't want to be "a YouTuber" until i'm 90."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ

Please include source links for pictures and news. Links are a necessary but far from sufficient piece of how we keep fake news, fake images, and fake everything from taking over.

Way too many interesting images here are posted without links to sources.

We have just issued the first #release of #sshd-openpgp-auth and #ssh-openpgp-auth.

Using this server and client-side tooling it is possible to manage the #authentication of #SSH host keys with the help of an #OpenPGP certificate as trust anchor.

https://crates.io/crates/sshd-openpgp-auth

https://crates.io/crates/ssh-openpgp-auth

Many thanks to @wiktor for the great collaboration and #NLnet / #NGIAssure for funding this work!

#DNS #KeyOxide #KnownHosts #OpenSSH #Rustlang #Software #WebKeyDirectory #WebOfTrust #WKD #WoT

Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢

Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch.

This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!

read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra

World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase.

Time to seriously tax the rich and shut down the offshore tax havens once and for all

Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

Haiku is one of those open source operating systems that seem to be both exceedingly well-known while flying completely under the radar. Part of this is probably due to it …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/

There are a lot of interesting videos on PeerTube nowadays! However, it's sometimes difficult to discover them.

To help, here is a VERY long thread full of good PeerTube accounts to follow, grouped into topics.

YOU DON'T NEED A PEERTUBE ACCOUNT! You can follow all these from Mastodon. The videos will appear in your Masto timeline, you can like them by favouriting, comment by replying etc from within Mastodon.

You can also browse these accounts and more over at https://fedi.video

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