aerique

mcc, 5 days ago to random

I would like to learn a tracker.

Am I better off:

• Learning Renoise

• Trying out OpenMPT because it's open source and putting up with open source UI ugliness

• Downloading the first result off Google for "rust music tracker" (this turns out to be an open source project abandoned by its owner in 2022), adopting and forking it, and spending the next two years writing features for it but never producing either completed music or releasable software?

mcc, 12 days ago to random

Toronto local news, 2024-05-06

mcc, 19 days ago to random

Does anyone want to take this moment to convince me that I should use Guix instead of [Nix or a Nix hardfork]? Or otherwise, convince me that I should use [Nix or a Nix hardfork] instead of Guix? It is okay to be a Reply Person about this. I am giving you an invitation.

https://hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/112355361353931366

timbray, 22 days ago to random

Passkeys were hot last year, don’t seem to be catching on, here’s one view of why that is. Dark and sobering but convincing: https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Created a test account on bsky and there appears to be literally no way to opt out of algorithmic feeds. If it decides you aren't following enough people, rather than allowing the Content Spigot to end it starts showing you its fucking algorithmic recommendations after that. God. Fuck Twitter and everything that spawned from it

mcc, 1 month ago to random

So before I make this next post, I want to be clear that I personally hate April Fool's Day. The essence of humor is surprise. There is no surprise in April Fool's Day! Everyone's actively bracing for it! April Fool's Day on the Internet has long since stopped being about "jokes" and devolved into a series of exhausting, repetitive, occasionally-cruel pranks, often enacted by the world's biggest corporations against the captive audience of their customers.

But anyway

Edent, 2 months ago to android

Does anyone know of a modern #Android phone which allows call recording without root?

I'm currently on an aging 5T running #LineageOS and can record calls just fine - a button in the dialler lets me record straight from the line. I don't need to put it on speaker and record via the microphone.

(Looking for 1st hand experience, not search results. No need to reply to discuss the legality of call recording. I need root-less for online banking etc.)

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

man i hate the mastodon/bluesky fighting

sundogplanets, 3 months ago to random

In addition to the bazillionty things I said I would do this week, I need to get my astrobiology students to pick their final project topics: they have to evaluate a work of scifi on the plausibility of its aliens using what they learned from my astrobiology course.

I've asked here before, but I'll ask again: what are some scifi works that have really great aliens and/or alien worlds?

My list so far:

aerique, 3 months ago to genart

I'm not participating in #Genuary2024 but I did publish a #GenerativeArt piece for #fxhash 2.0 in December last year that also uses flocking: "Etched Murmurations".

So here's to #Genuary!

jwz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Bill "640 KB ought to be enough for anybody" Gates, whose company MICROS~1.EXE now owns spicy-autocorrect bullshit-fountain vendor OpenAI, explained to Terry Pratchett in 1996 how social media would would make misinformation impossible.
https://jwz.org/b/ykIw

aerique, 4 months ago to random

@moodsoup Hoi, ik wil mijn fxhash 2.0 werkje overmorgen online gooien. Het is, vind ik, mijn minst slechte tot nu toe.

Heb je een Tezos adres voor mij zodat ik je op de reservelist kan zetten? (Als je dat wilt natuurlijk.)

bradlinder, 5 months ago to android

Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools acquired by ZipoApps #Android, #Foss, #Fossifyx, #NaveenSignh, #OpenSource, #SimpleMobile, #SimpleMobileApps, #SimpleMobileTools, #Tibbi, #TiborKaputa, #Zipoapps

https://liliputing.com/android-app-maker-simple-mobile-tools-acquired-by-zipoapps/

aerique, 5 months ago to random

Shots fired 🍿

From a Linux hardening guide: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html

aerique, 5 months ago to random

For some reason, perhaps just the layout and colors, it is much easier on Bluesky to notice one has the wrong "posting language" selected.

Ideally the platform would deduce the language a post is written in and suggest that. (Which is AFAIK not a hard problem.)

aeva, 6 months ago to random

cyberlyra, 6 months ago to random

Recommendations for the best Linux distros for touchscreen--go!

(looking for ease of: pop up keyboard, tappable icons, general interaction as tablet-like device)

echo_pbreyer, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random German

🇬🇧EU ombudswoman on #chatcontrol: EU Commission must not hide a list of experts whose group helped undermine secure #E2EE encryption. https://www.iccl.ie/news/ombudsman-european-commissions-concealment-of-secret-expert-list-on-csam-regulation-constitutes-maladministration

Here's the secret list - lots of tech, lots of law enforcement, hardly any EU experts:

mcc, 6 months ago to random

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply more likely to file bugs.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154