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Edit: damn the pilcrow renders shit on my phone

I’m just impressed all the tabs haven’t snapped off yet

All my personal servers/sbcs run Debian

I do enough DevOps at work, I don’t need my free time to be a job too

I hit this today when I went to check a local restaurant’s Instagram for the menu (like many I’ve come across, they treat Instagram as their website)

Nope. I guess that information is now all gone to me

Between this and Twitter I’m pretty annoyed at how much harder it is to get local information without just physically going to a place compared to 5 years ago. I’m not gonna pretend it used to be perfect, but this is getting spectacularly shitty

By a significant margin when compared to any other of the big-tech companies, buying hardware from Facebook seems like an unfathomably stupid idea.

And this is not me saying hardware from any of the rest of them is a good idea.

Data track/session is the term

If it was done in the way where the data track didn’t show up for an audio player, it was probably an Enhanced CD/CD plus. If anyone is backing up old CDs it’s worth checking for this kind of stuff and saving it too. Given most people only ever rip the audio, loads of that stuff is going to end up as lost media before long

There’s a joke here somewhere about how you should master your boot record

It’s always possible, the bulk of the hardware Linux supports is proprietary stuff that someone had to reverse engineer at some point.

Whether a given niche piece of hardware, gets support for a non-essential-to-normal-operation feature such as firmware update support, is down to if someone is interested/motivated/determined enough to do the reverse engineering, write the driver and get it merged into the kernel.

Yeah I think there are a few Linux compiled VSTs out there but IIRC there’s very little host support for them in native Linux, let alone into a host running under Wine. CLAP is probably what we should be banking on tbh since it was designed with Linux support in mind from the start.

I’m also not a big fan of iLok or any similar DRM, but if they’re going to enforce draconian licensing restrictions anyway, being able to move my key between machines and use all my licenses is actually a pretty valuable feature. Compared that to (let’s say Waves) stuff that will only let me license it on a single machine, and limits the number of times you can remote-revoke to a couple of times a year.

It can with the addition of WineASIO, but unless this release has focused on fixes for this setup (which it may have done!), we’re still not ready.

I tried during the summer (albeit with Ableton rather than FL) and it’s still quite high latency which turns into weird noise and artifacting if I try reducing the buffer size (with much larger buffers than I typically use on windows).

YABridge for native DAWs is getting better though at least, this time around I got a few more of my VSTs working, I still have zero luck with any of the VSTs with licenses that I have on my iLok key.

I can’t wait for the day the guys working on this finally crack pro audio properly, it’s literally the only reason I still run windows on my desktop.

And since every time I mention this problem, I end up having to say this in a reply to someone: To anyone suggesting I don’t use Ableton or my VSTs that don’t work (of which there are hundreds), I’ve got two decades of Ableton projects that I can open up in windows and pretty much carry on working on it as if I created it yesterday. That’s before going into the fact I’ve spent a lot of money over the years on licences for this stuff, so being able to continue using it is more important to me than my operating system choice. Until I can do the same in Linux it’s gonna have to be a dual boot situation.

That said when I next have a weekend with nothing on, I’ll try this latest release

Okay that took me by surprise

I’ll be sharing this

kill, and I swear to god if you’re still there when I ps, I’m getting out the -9

In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local “green cabinet” which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.

My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.

My parents’ place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the “up to” rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+

I think you have to be kinda rural before you’re much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn’t an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it’s not typical)

Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.

I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too

Helps if you read past the headline

FOR. A. SINGLE. CHANGE. Yes. For a single change. Like having an editor with 2 minute save lag, pushing commit using program running on cassette tapes

Am I reading this bit correctly? Are they complaining about testing a CI change and it only taking a couple of minutes to verify?

And this person’s using a compiled language?

Oh, I guess I’m a stoneager with a penchant for functional elitism then.

Though I will admit OOP is valid for involved data modelling, everything else should be functional though.

I’ve also trained myself out of most short variable names for maintainability reasons

I mean… You can still technically use Eclipse if you’re a masochist… Android studio is head and shoulders above it despite all of the Jetbrains nonsense though

If you want to make a website, you still only need a text editor

If you want to make a C++/rust/go/python/Haskell/brainfuck application for something that isn’t a phone? You still only need a text editor and a compiler

All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone

Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades