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
radar.squat.net/en/event/amste

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I need to edit an svg file so I just typed sudo apt install inkscape and a few seconds later the svg is open in a professional-level vector graphics application. I sometimes forget why I love open source so much, but then I do something like this and appreciate how lucky we are to have so many devs and packagers and testers etc working on open source operating systems and applications.

So thanks everyone. Thanks for making Linux and open source so great.

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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. 🎉

github.com/moddevices/mod-desk

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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)
:boost_anim_sleeping:

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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!”

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“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

dailydot.com/debug/google-prot

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

Finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, was a very bumpy ride so far.

Hoping for a more stable path next, everything points for that being the case.

Coincides nicely with the upcoming spring time too. So 2024 might be the year to get out of a dark hole.

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Docusign just admitted that they use customer data (i.e., all those contracts, affidavits, and other confidential documents we send them) to train AI:

support.docusign.com/s/documen

They state that customers "contractually consent" to such use, but good luck finding it in their Terms of Service. There also doesn't appear to be a way to withdraw consent, but I may have missed that.

Just said no to Qt/Hamburg, going instead for something more uncertain but also exciting.

That means staying Berlin for a little while longer, but will have to do regular trips to Finland 🇫🇮

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Some important context as this news breaks:

#WordPress is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org.

One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of #Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and owns #Tumblr.

They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, *not* self-hosted WordPress instances.

BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬

mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11

coming soon, something that almost no one asked for..

AUv2 plugins with DPF.

Doing it because of some work related things need me to support ProTools/AU, but I really do not want to use JUCE hacks again...

Fairly complete already, soon to start some real-life testing.
Kinda proud to have this working in just a few days.

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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

ardour.org/whatsnew.html

so much spam on mastodon today, wtf is going on

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

#ai

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