Perhaps a little train recording for your next London-based audio-drama? Captured with iPhone 13 Pro internal microphones and #JustPressRecord.

Green Park to Baker Street (Jubilee line) youtu.be/olBrBB8VNiM

Check out the new version of MuseScore which now claims to be accessible on Windows, Mac and Linux: musescore.org/en/accessibility #a11y
I am looking forward to giving it a spin!
#a11y

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So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

⚠️MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️

Tenacity 1.3 beta has officially been released for Windows and Linux! 🎉

Check it out here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…

Key features:

* Clip features from Audacity 3.1.

* New themes from Audacium and Saucedacity

* Modern upstream dependencies are used

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#adbsync v0.1.1 was just released, with some minor improvements and adjustments. Details in the changelog: codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync/rele… – a.o. syncing TO your device(s) should now be much faster when using a recent version of #ADB (r25+ / Android 7.1+)

#Android #sync

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Wow, so the other day I shared what #Microsoft does when you search to download #Firefox from #Edge* but they go one step further for #Chrome.

(I have zero love for either surveillance capitalist but, my goodness, what absolute asshattery. Having spent more time than I’d like testing in #Windows these past two days, I constantly feel like some malevolent entity is trying to exploit me at every turn. Because one is. This OS is a case study in hostile #design.)

* mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109704475…

#web

in reply to Aral Balkan

WTF is "the added TRUST of Microsoft"? Is this comedy – or what kind of "trust" do they mean?

I mean, the word can be ambiguous, right? A trust can be used to manage assets. MS certainly considers us and our data such. So if that's what they mean, they are shockingly honest here. With the exception that they never tell you what they have stored there…

Wait, "trust" can also mean "cartel". And that'd be right on spot, wouldn't it? 🤔

Nolan Lawson zrezygnował z dalszego prowadzenia projektu #Pinafore i zamroził repo.

Nie będzie nowego maintainera i nowych wersji.

Tłumaczy powody na swoim blogu tutaj:
nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/ret…

Jak ja go doskonale rozumiemm... I jego powody.

Prowadzenie takich projektów bez zewnętrznego wsparcia to droga przez mękę, użeranie z wiecznie niezadowolonymi osobami. Te zadowolone siedzą cicho, nie dając motywacji nawet dobrym słowem.
A miałem już w 1/3 zrobione tłumaczenie Pinafore na j. polski...

Starting the OGL ‘Playtest’ - Posts

dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-start…

One key element is that the core D&D mechanics will be Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0. It's not the SRD though.

The other is that they are still trying to "deauthorize" OGL 1.0a with OGL 1.2, but removed most of the controversial clauses found in 1.1.

Guys, I fell in love with Setapp. Its something like Netflix but for MacOS software. For $10 a month you have access to over 200 softwares. You can sign up via my referer link (We both gain from it)
go.setapp.com/invite/2sfaw9zd
And if you hate me that much, you can sign up normally
setapp.com

Outside of Europe, #Google's monopoly gets slammed by India too. The ruling says that:

- Google must allow alternative app stores (like F-Droid or ApkPure) on the Play Store. This is really the step zero for fair competition: give everybody the same visibility, and let users pick what they like.

- Google should not force Android providers to install its own apps in order to be a certified Android provider. Step one for fair competition: competition only works if none of the involved party starts from a position of advantage.

- Google should make the Play Store available also on Android forks. Step two for fair competition: if the competitors' stores are available on your store, then your store should also be available on the competitors' forks, and users eventually will pick what they like the most. All the distribution asymmetries should be removed.

This is a good and balanced ruling that aims to create a level playing field by removing all the bumps that, as of now, strongly consolidate Google's position of dominance.

And it's going to hit Google quite badly too: India is the largest global market for Android (arguably on par with China), and Google may be on its way to lose its unfair advantage there.

9to5google.com/2023/01/20/goog…

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Did you know we have a Github project dedicated to client compatibility issues? We don't have time to investigate all of them at the moment (there are so many Mastodon clients!) but if your favorite client has an issue open in this project, and you feel like taking a look at it... well, that would be cool :)

github.com/superseriousbusines…

Tim Klein noticed that #jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable.” So he’s combined puzzles to create these amazingly bizarre hybrid images…

#art

themindcircle.com/jigsaw-puzzl…

Grief
On Friday evening, we said goodbye to our beautiful labrador Cocoa who was with us for just shy of 13 wonderful years. It all happened very suddenly. We're all heartbroken, but each day is a little brighter.
This song, Roses of Loss, which we released a couple of years ago, fits my current feelings far too well. Lyrics by my good friend Michael Sheppard. files.jantrid.net/music/NthDeg…

as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985

the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready

the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:

archive.org/details/JeromeDomu…

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa

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in reply to GEM is truly truly outrageous

you can see you can see the early "DAS BOOT" disk loading TOS boot screen, printed really big pasted up on the whiteboard for some reason

probably using that Apple Imagewriter

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

youtu.be/SLmC5jWXTP8?t=637

in reply to GEM is truly truly outrageous

speaking of Apple Lisa source...

source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back

now that's how you publicly license historical source code

and people have gotten it to run!

with a full GEM desktop!

it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!

stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi…

alternative-system.com/en/revi…

compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/…

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa #GEM

Have you heard about #ReproducibleBuilds? This is one of the biggest #security benefits of #FOSS. On #Android, this technique ensures that the #FDroid version of an app exactly matches the developer's version.

Read our article below for more details and to see how easy it is for developers to get set up:
f-droid.org/en/2023/01/15/towa…

Für alle Leseratten gingen gerade wieder 20 #eBooks bei ebooks.qumran.org/ live. Damit fehlen nur noch 54 Bücher zur 12k Marke – bei der es dann für jeden Monat des Jahres 1.000 eBooks in meiner kleinen Bibliothek gäbe. Sollte also bald soweit sein :awesome:

Happy Schmökering!

It's with great pleasure to announce that the CfP for Linux App Summit is open! Please consider submitting a talk - it will be in person in Brno - April 21-23, 2023 - linuxappsummit.org/cfp/
hosted by both GNOME and KDE projects. It's the perfect mix of the application stack from the kernel to the toolkit to third party developers !

#GNOME #KDE