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I learnt something important about Linux audio last night.
I noticed that I had no sound in X-Plane 12 (a flight simulator) while also being in a Discord call in Firefox. Apparently, certain FMOD applications check if PulseAudio is installed and fall back to ALSA if it isn't. Now, I have PipeWire installed to fix the mess that is Linux audio once and for all. So TECHNICALLY PulseAudio is not installed. And that's exactly what X-Plane detected, which then tried to gain complete control over the sound hardware through ALSA, which it couldn't.
The "fix" was to symlink `/bin/pulseaudio` to `/bin/true` to make it look like PulseAudio is available which tricked X-Plane into going through PulseAudio (and therefore through PipeWire) instead.
That was one of the weirdest problems I've ever encountered.
#linux #audio #xplane #xplane12 #discord #firefox #alsa #pulseaudio #pipewire #fmod #flightsim
This makes me furious. Please, stop using Discord. They are complicit if they keep the discord server responsible for keeping the spam attacks alive.
im getting really tired... -w-
summary of today:
someone on a Japanese hacker forum decided it was a good idea to spam the entire Fediverse because they wanted to cancel a minor that DDoSed a Discord bot which apparently made them lost millions (what?)
A Discord bot. I can't make this shit up man.
The real culprit seems to be someone who goes by mumei in the ctkpaarr.org forums, whose first post was literally a threat to ap12, that if they don't delete their "Kuroneko Server" Discord bot, they will spam every blog, forum and SNS and cancel him.
This shit is ridiculous.
The ap12 account from mastodon-japan was actually fake, and this dude impersonated a minor to get all of the Fediverse (us) to bully him.
The forum admins didn't even stop this. Why? lulz apparently. #fediblockmeta#fediadmins#fediadmin#mastoadmin#mastoadmins#spam#cybercrime#cybersec#infosec#drama#discord
My kids told me to remix the Discord ringtone, so I did
I had fun with this idea. Although it’s not complicated sonically, it’s still full of little elements that I thought would make it fun.I particularly enjoy t...YouTube
As people flock from #Twitter, there will be new things watch for.
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/15/uk-treasury-joins-chat-app-discord-torrent-abuse
UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse
Users on gamer-focused platform manage to respond to posts despite government blocking all commentsAlex Hern (The Guardian)
https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022/05/29/a-letter-to-discord-for-not-supporting-the-linux-desktop.html
I rewrote the whole article because I sounded extremely rude before. It's not nice to be rude to developers, whether you like them or not; whether the application is open source or not. Hopefully this revision is respectful and doesn't sound like I am shaming them.
#gnu #security #electron
A Letter to Discord for not Supporting the Linux Desktop
Discord is popular among the Linux desktop community. Thanks to Electron, the framework that Discord uses, it was possible for Discord to port the client over to Linux very easily.TheEvilSkeleton
The benefits of @MatrixDotOrg@twitter.com over #Discord are many, but Discord has one huge killer feature:
When I see a #privacy project whose only realtime comms platform is on Discord, I know the people in the project either don't care or don't know enough about privacy (or both).
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/apotheon/status/1489423005201567749
Out of 2,000,000+ of the top repositories on #GitHub, 2,200+ have a #Discord invite, while 1,400+ have a #Matrix @element_hq@twitter.com invite, in their repository somewhere. Thought that was an interesting statistic!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/slimsag/status/1474453626328207362