"Google used to show you search results for what you typed. Now it shows you results for what their sales team wish you'd typed." hard to think of a better example 😅
One of the most pressing issues facing open source today is maintainer burnout. The issue is systemic, and seemingly without obvious solutions. In this talk,...
considering that the Linux kernel adopted the GCC cleanup attribute to automatically clean up memory at the scope boundary, I think it’s safe to say that the author of the blog post is actually full of shit
I wonder if the music post I made works properly from mastodon, as it's a flac file. If anyone can tell me if this post works from mastodon it'd be interesting to know: node.isonomia.net/@modulux/sta…
Today I woke up at a silly time and started playing around with my old midi files, remembering that Foobar 2000 has a plug-in that can play them through sound fonts. It's fun to listen to my music from back then, rendered by instruments that I did not intend. Some of it still sounds decent. Here's a sample.
On the other hand, in this talk, I get to see the full effect of my poor emotional regulation due to presenting immediately after a talk that was confronting in a multitude of ways, and being dehydrated due to recovering from a cold, and from presenting emotionally difficult material.
There is a worldview that decided certain things were essential to the success of open source software on the internet, namely a "gift culture" and the abili...
@vick21 Well, for me, I have a whole collection of songs that I didnt' have before... and I had a hand in making it. I can express myself in ways that I couldn't before. And it's a lot of fun. You should try it.
Can you get only what's generated on top instead of the full combined track? Like Sax only? That would be a killer feature for production. lol I mean something like bass, drum, vocal, we can separate stems.
Yeah exactly. That would be very interesting tool. Then you could use as an AI instrument. You give a track, ask it to add a certain instrument, download only the generated instrument part, and then incorporate into your production!
@vick21 @chikim Well, why not get a band to learn it? that's what I'm doing with some of these. Why ask what's the point and not: Where do I take it? Sounds negative, maybe you didn't mean it as such but if you get a sick lick from it, own it.
@vick21 Setting the copyright issue aside, isn’t asking why not have a band to learn it like asking why logic has the feature for auto drummer, AI bass, piano players? 😆
@chikim Speaking of copyright. What happens to those tracks you upload? Then, do you own what AI makes up for you? Can you download those single tracks? Or is it just for inspiration and fun at this point? This is what I meant when I asked the question.
@vick21 @chikim If we’re going on what suno says, if you have a pro subscription, you get a commercial license for the tracks that are created on there. What this all means in practice, I have no idea because at the moment, the quality is still not good enough to release them at least in my opinion.
Playing Music With Barcode Scanners. If you connect a supermarket barcode scanner to a powered speaker and rhythmically scan barcode-like patterns with it, you can make music. This is so fun! kottke.org/24/12/playing-music…
New blog post out (finally) ✨ I tested the dataviz accessibility of the 2024 presidential election dashboards, and (as expected) found a lot of issues to write about:
I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong (including lots of demos).
@hub it's wild how hyper-local snowsqualls can be. Gravenhurst got 150+cm but there were places a few dozen km away with the same snow situation as you.
Remember: if your employer want to you to install a specific software, then ask them to provide you with the hardware instead. Parallel: don't use your personal phone for work.
Praha, Česká republika, 2. prosince 2024 – FESTKA, český výrobce špičkových karbonových rámů na kola se sídlem v Praze, představuje model Spectre Gravel, výkonný gravel bike navržený tak, aby redefinoval rychlost a pohodlí na všech typech terénu.
When Google launched the Gemini app with its Gemini Live feature for all users, I couldn’t help but get excited about the promise of real-time, web-enabled
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Apple's advantages in publishing in the early 90s included forward thinking CMYK Displays, which used CMY triplets instead of the inferior for print RGB.
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Ihr könntet (und solltet) das auch in Deutsch veröffentlichen. In meinem Umfeld kenne ich einige Menschen, für die Englisch eine ernsthafte Hürde darstellt.
LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Luxembourg) group photo Once a year, the LibreOffice community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference.
Like I expressed earlier to many in our community I would love to host you all for a coming conference and thus I am working on an application which will hopefully get it to Gothenburg next time. :)
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Write semantic HTML, add to the of your project and you are good to go.
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#CSS #Latex
Happy to share that my implementation of xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol for Mutter has landed and should start shipping in Gnome 48 🎉 That's part of an ongoing effort @ @igalia to officially ship Chromium Ozone/Wayland backend.
For the ones curious about the technical bits and challenges for a first-time contributor for Gnome/Mutter, I'll be covering it in a blog post series in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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Some SSD stats for you. This is a 10 year old Mac Mini (Late 2014) with the SSD replaced. (using AmorphousDiskMark 4.0.1)
Device Model: SanDisk SDSSDA480G (Manufacturer states: High sequential read speeds of up to 545MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 350MB/s at shop.sandisk.com/products/ssd/…) Volume Name: Macintosh HD Device Node: /dev/disk1s5s1 (Physical Store: disk0s2) File System: Apple File System (APFS) Capacity: 479.89 GB Available: 53.59 GB Used: 426.30 GB Block Size: 4 KiB Interconnect: SATA Location: Internal Medium Type: Solid State Queue Depth: 32 Native Command Queuing: Yes
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When a QUIC TLS session announced early data support and 'CURLSSLOPT_EARLYDATA' is set for the transfer, send initial request and body (up to the 128k we buffer) as 0RTT when curl is built ...
Once in a while, there is a disaster. Phone lines go out, the Internet breaks down, and mobiles don't work0. Then the Ham Radio Operators save the day.
Amateur radio is one of those things I'm only vaguely aware of. It chugs along in the background unnoticed. It doesn't follow the fashion of today's industry, nor does it chase growth at all costs. It is an open standard, run by a decentralised group of people rather than a corporation, and it favours relentless practicality rather than KPIs.
I love technologies like this.
The recent stratospheric rise in popularity of the QR Code is a example of where these long-term technologies work well.
I've been banging on about QR codes for over a decade - while marketers sneered and tech companies tried to usurp, QR codes kept chugging away in the background. When the pandemic hit, and people needed a way to scan in to venues or present a vaccine certificate, QR codes were ready. They were an open standard, completely decentralised, relentlessly practical, and battle tested. They were rolled out in a variety of situations.
Every contender who has come at them with a proprietary barcode has failed. And because people have had a chance to get used to QR codes, they're not seen as weird any more.
They are boring magic. Decentralised and free.
The Fediverse is similar. It powers Mastodon and other social networks. At the moment, proprietary networks like Twitter are dying and new networks like BlueSky are in their ascendency. But BSky will eventually get bought out by cryptoloons, or will shit the bed in some other spectacular fashion.
The Fediverse will have been rumbling on the the background. Slowly gathering momentum. Waiting for an implosion or emergency.
There are various other technologies like this. Built in to the fabric of online society, quietly ploughing their own furrow, increasing resilience, despite being unfashionable.
What technologies do you think are waiting to be rediscovered in times of change?
Three years ago, I wrote about the deficiencies in Microsoft's Tag system. It was painfully obvious even then that MS had no desire to back the "standard" they'd tried to create.
Mária Telkes died #OTD in 1980. She was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, & inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.
During World War II, she developed a solar water distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day.
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Well, I've gone and done it. I've joined the madness that is #TEamSuno, I guess. They had a black Friday sale on and I don't usually bother with those, but hey, money saved is money saved. Here's what I fed it. This is a guitar riff I wrote circa 2004, and I've just had it sitting around for all these years. In the second post, I'll show you what it returned, when I asked it to give me a version with sax, bass and drums. It's quite the something.
@fireborn Playing clips is best done from the table with virtual cursor active on <screen-reader>. If you try to play without virtual cursor on, it kinda don't be workin very nicely at all much.
how can someone not figure out their VPN app, but can find your email out of all of them in the license acknowledgements section and go "yeah, this is who i should ask about this"
7,396 likes, 297 comments - alberta.tech on November 30, 2024: "And no it’s not a peer reviewed (or even formally published) research paper 🙃
Full vid is on my YouTube!
#softwareengineering #coding".
When I was at Microsoft, I encountered the phenomenon of the -1x engineer. The people who threw a load of code at projects that then took at least one full-time engineer to fix bugs in and refactor. These people were often rapidly moved to positions where they could do less immediate damage, such as going to cross-group design meetings. Unfortunately, this raised their profile and got them promotions and transfers to other teams who did not initially know how much damage they’d done in their previous team.
Interestingly, if you look at commits, these people had the exact opposite profile to the so-called ‘ghost engineers’. The people fixing their bugs would often make a load of single-line changes, they would be the ones throwing a thousand lines of spaghetti into the repo at a time. Often, it wasn’t just that the code was bad, it was the design was fundamentally flawed and they were solving entirely the wrong problem, but they wrote a lot of code and so looked productive.
The best engineers increase functionality or performance and write a net negative volume of code.
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Looking up some stuff about Ghost's recent narrative concert film, Rite Here Rite Now, and it's so incredibly fucking wholesome seeing younger queers finding comfort in the very camp anti-Christian popular beat combo.
But I am also feeling old a.f. because no one is doing any fan analysis or headcanoning of the Wizard of Oz stuff through a Friends of Dorothy lens, as a complement to the narrative of false and hollow imperial power, and I'm now thinking that I'm maybe from the last generation that had that frame of reference. (Like, I'm not that old at 40-cough, but it was certainly part of the oral culture of queer history when I came of age, even though I didn't have much of a community.)
For anyone else who enjoys sundry Wizard of Oz theories, after adding some time codes, I'm also pretty sure that the soundtrack album doesn't map to any edit of the movie, but I'm still waiting for someone to actually do that, just to fulfil that old Dark Side of the Rainbow idea.
Glossary & Citations:
Friends of Dorothy Old slang (pre-1970s) term for gay men in particular and queer people in general. The Wizard of Oz books and films are rich in queer symbolism and the term appeared in cant and code when being gay was still illegal and taboo. Oz references, particularly to the 1939 Judy Garland film, were at one point common tropes of LGBT+ culture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_o…
The Dark Side of the Rainbow The idea that you can use Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon as an alternative soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. Not queer-coded. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark…
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