falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
Let's play a little game...
What is working in this picture that shouldn't? Can you tell?
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Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released https://lwn.net/Articles/971568/ #LWN
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Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seattle-gave-low-income-residents-175101720.html
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OpenSSF and OpenJS warn about social-engineering attacks https://lwn.net/Articles/969919/ #LWN
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For the First Time, I'm SCARED of A.I. as a Music Producer
What just happened with A.I. and music production is mind-blowing.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FqIecZDTMZM
YouTube direct:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIecZDTMZM
#PeaceLoveMusic #AI #Song #Music #MusicProduction #AliceYalcinEfe
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Ardour 8.5 is out with improvements and bugfixes: better AAF importing, displaying the grid for tuplets etc.
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Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS Beta Released
https://ubuntustudio.org/2024/04/ubuntu-studio-24-04-lts-beta-released/
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A series of alphabetically ordered accounts of lovely humans for your #FollowFriday enjoyment. 😇
@Ercanbrack@mycrowd.ca
@SKRiley_Author
@alf
@ercanbrack@mastodon.online
@falktx
@gmslater
@graves501
@macberg
@mxv
@nund
@vlcam
New Cardinal 24.04 release is here
Focuses on updating the base VCV Rack 2.4 and adds quite a few new modules, bringing the module count to 1193.
Changelog and downloads at https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.04
I updated the web version too, so you can try it directly in your browser by visiting https://cardinal.kx.studio/live
Have fun! ☀️
Just posted a personal update (April 2024) on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/101700972
TL;DR being "life's tough but finally starting to get less stressful" plus "will start doing opensource project work on thursdays as a schedule/routine going forward"
Thanks everyone for the support so far!
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Well, that's not a website article I liked writing:
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
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Upgrade your systems now!
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
I find it a bit sad/weird that so many people take what an open-source project gives out "as-is", without the notion of the entire thing being modifiable.
Say a project only allows to load 5 potatoes at a time into a pot, we can go there and bump that hardcoded limit into something more suitable to us.
Instead of thinking "welp that project can only load 5 potatoes, not suitable for me then will look for something else"
It becomes no different from proprietary solutions at that point...
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Experiment with Pure Data: a visual programming language for interactive art and sound.
By facilitators: Wasted Audio, Mike Moreno DSP & Timothy Schoen (plugdata).
Friday, 29 March, 2024 - 18:00. Price: free / by donation. ]LAG(, Amsterdam, .nl
https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/lag/2024-03-29/good-pd-patch-day
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Ok I’m doin the thread I said I wanted to do last week. (feel free to mute unless you enjoy a little second-hand drama as a Monday morning treat)
Attn #devrel people! Are you job hunting? Does this pic of search results look familiar? Have you ever seen a bunch of job postings like this from Canonical and thought “gee I should apply to one of these”?
I’m here to tell you:
IT’S A TRAP! 🧵
Also with hacks for loading Qt WebEngine things if available, that means dynamically loading and calling a C++ API without linking to it.
C++ symbol demangling is quite something... 🙈
Likely to come to DPF at a later point, for now this is just to show a local url without needing to do any fancy IPC.
Working hacks are the best hacks.
I needed to get a web view on a plugin UI but directly loading gtk/qt for it is nasty, would easily break the host and other plugins...
Using a separate process is key, but then that means having to ship a separate binary...?
Well actually no!
With fancy ld-linux setup we can have a shared library also running as an executable.
Then put dlopen/dlsym stuff to load webkit/webengine symbols and we got it all self-contained. 🎉
https://github.com/moddevices/mod-desktop/blob/main/src/plugin/WebViewX11.cpp
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It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.
It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.
Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?
I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.
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ok, I'm kinda confused where does idea of @-ing the booster in a reply come from and which apps do that (mastodon web-ui and tusky surely don't)
do you think it's normal/desired that a reply to a post/toot also includes @ of the person who boosted it?
(please... eermmm uh.., boost this for reach)
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China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”
China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”
China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”
EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”
