m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@kaedechan@mastodon.ml Если текст получается семантически корректным, он уже слабо отличается от настоящих новостей.
С законотворческой деятельностью в РФ, как мне кажется, нейронная сеть бы прекрасно справилась 😆

@thor I feel the same way! Programming job also makes you realize how ugly stuff you use daily is on the inside. This just drove me crazy!
I'm unemployed now so I can have fun with tech, but I'm going to get a job and start doing all this for the money pretty soon. This is terrifying 😱

@thor Designing operating systems and programming languages is creative, using really good algorithm for data processing is too, but 80% of it is mundane stuff. Like every other field, I suppose 🤷

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network Mojeek is okay too. I really like the bang-shortcuts at DDG though, like "!wt something" to do Wiktionary search. I wish everyone adopted this.

@splitshockvirus
Looks delicious nonetheless!
I think I usually do this backwards 🤪
I use the frying pan to cook meat and veggies then put it into the rice-cooker and mix.
And I use something like emmer or bulgur instead of actual rice so it's not really according to any original recipe, just my own thing. But it's edible 😋
@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network

@iska@mk.starnix.network
Ardour looks like a traditional DAW to me. I'm fine with using things like ProTools for recording stuff at the studio, mixing and audio-engineering, but for actual music making it's so limiting and… uncreative.
BitWig is more in the vein of Ableton Live — that is what makes it interesting.
@splitshockvirus @dem32@mstdn.starnix.network @nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network @Zergling_man

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network
I never was into VSTs, only used a couple of them. We were using instruments and filters built into Live — those were really well-optimized.
Did you try this BitWig thing? I wasn't into music when it got released so I didn't try it myself, but it looked promising. It's commercial software and I think it runs in Linux — shouldn't involve too much fawkage.
@iska@mk.starnix.network @splitshockvirus @dem32@mstdn.starnix.network @Zergling_man

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network
I remember recording our jams using a PowerPC G4 MacMini. We had bass and mic plugged into the FireWire sound card and a couple of MIDI controllers. Of course a bunch of filters/effects over it. It was recorded at 48 kHz in real-time and worked just fine. When did this stuff get so much more demanding?
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@atyh
> Homepage, websearch, external player, external pipe, things like that.
Looks interesting, I've never explored those, I think I should take look.

@Jessica Like snails? 🐌
@shibao

@atyh Building from source is fine and xbps-src makes it even easier. But some hardware is just old. Building Firefox (yes, sometimes you need it) on my PowerMac G5 takes about two full days 😮
I don't usually patch it and I'm fine with default optimizations, so I'd just go with binary. Unfortunately Daniel no longer builds those for PPC-BE MUSL systems, so I build everything myself. Sometimes it's just a waste of computing power 🤷

@atyh I build st, dwm, dmenu and slock from source too. Like you said, patches, colors — it's the only way to customize those. But surf is fine as it is, that's why I asked.

@atyh That's because #VoidLinux has surprisingly small amount of cruft. If you tried an average Linux distro, you'd be terrified 😅
BTW did you try this: https://chimera-linux.org/
It's based on Linux kernel, but has BSD userspace and Clang. It's from the maintainer of PowerPC port of Void. I never tried it myself, but sounds interesting on paper.

@atyh Is there anything wrong with surf that is in #VoidLinux repos or was it for optimization's sake?

@2T2@mstdn.starnix.network
Russian wartime approach 🇷🇺💥:
We will rebuild the bridge so we can…
Oh my god, it got destroyed again!
We will rebuild…
Oh my god, it got destroyed again!

@markusl
Phew! At least that is not some Russian "innovation". Not that innovation is the Russian approach, usually it's "worst of all worlds": take the standards of living of a poor Asian country, but with climate of Scandinavian countries, slap taxes of richest European countries over it — that's it! Done! 🤣
@thor

@thor When a person gets his paycheck, he only sees 13% and the government tells him he has lowest tax rate. It's the employer who is responsible for paying for mandatory medical care and some other taxes. Employees don't do their tax papers and don't realize they are getting paid less because of it.
The prices we have on price tags in retail have VAT included, they don't show it like: here's the real price + 20% tax.
The real amount people pay in taxes is highly obfuscated.
@markusl

@markusl You're right, it can always go wrong. Even if it doesn't, that stuff being really strong is no joke — this comes from a person who can alone drink a bottle of vodka or whiskey and still solve differential equations… well, sort of 🤭
Even if it's properly refined, the alcohol poisoning is still dangerous.
The fact that you have A LOT of this stuff and you don't have to leave the comfort of your home to get more, makes it dangerous for most.
@thor

@thor In Russia it's not a matter of taxes. Although the taxes are pretty high, the government somehow made people think that if they don't do the papers themselves, it's some evil capitalist who pays those taxes — not them, who get paid less for their job and pays more for goods. Doesn't matter. A lot of people are piss-poor, so no one minds saving on alcohol.
Another factor is soviet-era tradition of home distilling from the times when Gorbachev banned alcohol.
@markusl