Yeah ReNoise is great! Though since I’ve transitioned to a full-FOSS workflow, I now use OpenMPT as my main, and Furnace for Game Boy specific tracks.
I’ve listed my main tools here if you’re interested: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/
Will do! Wait, you know flight_school from somewhere? :o
As much as I love what they’re doing, tieing an OS to a specific region via name seems like the opposite of Open Source values… Then again, I suppose it could just be forked into a more generalized version
Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen
In other news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Yeah this is important to note.
It would be super helpful if Reddit showed the date a sub was banned so we could determine if this was a recent thing or not. https://www.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/ is still up
according to the linked article, it sounds like it is for performance reasons.
I do suspect Qi is a useful abstract concept for focusing and activating parts of our physiology. But while it feels like a single thing (“energy”), it is more a very complex bunch of processes the same way our consciousness feels like a single thing, but is actually a very complex bunch of processes.
I’m just going to use this opportunity to publicly grieve again for Winamp fake becoming open-source: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/
GitHub here: https://github.com/allenai/OLMoE.swift
Ai2 make as much of their training data available as possible: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/OLMoE-mix-0924
Appreciate it! The last audiobook I picked up from Libro is Kara Swisher’s “Burn Book”. Not sure if it’s your thing, but was totally worth it for understanding more personal context around the big Tech CEOs from the last 25 years.
Ah okay, cheers for the info! I’m new to US-based sources
I grew up as a Christian. When I was around 15, someone asked me “if I hadn’t been born a Christian, would I be a Christian?” Considering it, I opened my Bible and immediately a verse popped out (in classic God fashion) saying “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have”
So then I felt called even more to really explore, based on that:
The more I explored these arguments, as well as gaining a better understanding of what the Bible actually is (in a historical and literature sense), more and more of the belief system unraveled, eventually to the point I didn’t call myself a Christian anymore.
Then over the next decade I went back and forth exploring alternative denominations in Christianity, as well as other religions (Daoism, Buddhism, Judaism), especially as I still felt a “spiritual pull” / intuition in a lot of situations. So it took me a really long time to separate that intuitive sense of direction from the belief system around the Holy Spirit specifically, and learn where trusting that intuition is effective, and where it can be misleading. That’s been the most complex part of all of this.
I still enjoy exploring other belief systems, components of Christianity, and connecting with whatever that intuition is occasionally, as I do think there is a lot there for human psychological and emotional health that Western modernity sorely lacks. (I suspect this hole in our culture is why a lot of fundamental US Evangelism has flourished btw) But that’s how I lost my faith - God gave me the push I needed :P
There’s a YouTube version now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqLcBwUT_E
I partially wanted to show that, as twisted as Fox news is, they are at least hosting this interview without (much) bias on their front page. It’s important, as this is what most of their audience will see of Zelenskyy, and this is essentially as “primary” the source can get.
I highly recommend Kara Swisher’s recent book “Burn Book” for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she’s known most of them since the 90s.
Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.
Might not be exactly what you have in mind, but I have a separate browser that has set as Home the following state-owned or aligned news sources from around the world to check different perspectives on current headlines:
https://www.bbc.com/ - Britain
https://www.abc.net.au/news - Australia
https://english.news.cn/ - China
https://www.foxnews.com/ - US Right-wing
https://edition.cnn.com/ - US Left-wing (@GuyFawkes recommends MSNBC over CNN here)
https://www.rt.com/ - Russia
https://english.alarabiya.net/ - Saudi Arabia
https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097 - Germany
https://www.batimes.com.ar/ - Argentina
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ - South Africa
https://ddnews.gov.in/en/ - India
https://www.cbc.ca/news - Canada
https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en - Brazil
https://www.straitstimes.com/global - Singapore
https://news.un.org/en/ - United Nations
https://www.sbs.com.au/news - Australia, but more multicultural perspective
Watching this feels like a masterclass of diplomacy. Zelenskyy is talking directly and respectfully to the Fox audience, while trying to clearly explain why Ukraine can’t just bow down to faulty peace deals without question.
Watching this feels like a masterclass of diplomacy. Zelenskyy is talking directly and respectfully to the Fox audience, while trying to clearly explain why Ukraine can’t just bow down to faulty peace deals without question.
Initially I did yeah, but eventually learned that different people use it differently. So good practice to never assume sarcasm through emojis unless you know the person well