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I used the barbed wire fence of the horse-ranch I was on, out in the bush, as an antenna for a broken TV I'd found ditched on the side of the road a few days prior .. I got through the static and tuned into RAGE, Cabaret Voltaire Sensoria, and was baptised in electrons for life ..

Zynthian audio/synthesis platform: I got it to act as an FX processor, and it has become an extremely rich resource for creative instruments and digital music-making. Not just an FX box, its really more like an entire studio.

Synthstrom Deluge: so incredibly deep and complex, it also started life as a simple tool that is now becoming a lynchpin in my studio operation - not just for drums and sequencing, also for recording quick takes and samples and so on. This machine has replaced the DAW for pure creative modes.

NORN+Grid: Again, was purchased for one thing and is now being pressed into use for so many other purposes, un-dreamed of previously.

Arturia AudioFUSE Studio: THIS was just supposed to be a neat desktop mixer that fit on the table, but it has become so, so much more - the STUDIO in the name is no nonsense! Again, way more power than expected, and it has expanded beyond the original purpose of having a quick desktop mix available - now practically everything in the studio is going through it (ADAT for the win) and it is the central console for production. I haven't touched the other mixers in weeks ..

Hey now, the full quote is a little cheekier:

    > platitudes hardly provide compelling evidence for ignoring 20 years
    > of networking/OS research and architecting unnecessary copies into the.  
    > core of an OS that wants to be taken seriously...

    dont forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

    -- mingo<endquote>

It should be understood that the MPC is actually a Japanese clone of an American invention, the LinnDrum MidiStudio.

Roger Linn kicked off the innovation around the sampling/sequencing revolution - Akai just made it affordable.

Disclaimer: have worked in the digital musical instrument market for decades, including for Yamaha and other (German) major players in this space. This industry is incestuous in many ways - but it follows the 'musicians rule', which is 'its okay to copy each others riffs as long as it improves the groove' ..

You're in it.

I recently had to go through the hell of setting up a Java development environment, plus Android emulation, on my new M1 MacBook .. mid-way through, I was cursing myself that I wasn't just using a Linux machine .. but okay, eventually, SDKMAN came to the rescue. For a while there it really felt pretty regressive ..

With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the longest successful oral traditions of any culture, ever - the original land owners don't need to adapt to us: We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.

This is an amazing project, in so many ways.

My first thought is, the implant business has now got a problem. Soon enough, anyone and their pal will be able, finally, to validate their silicon at adequate scale.

As a huge fan of Lua, but not Python, I'm not sure whether to be terrified or impressed by this. Probably a little bit of both.

Actually, I can already see ways this is going to be good for Lua adoption on some of my projects, but also simultaneously threatening, since it means a 'more widely accepted language' could predispose continuing in Lua.

Actually, this is going to be very weird, once word gets out that Pythons batteries are up for grabs in certain circles ..

Hungarian villages are fascinating. Are you tuning into something, in particular, about them? (For me, its the village sun alignments/road-parallelism that fascinates..)

I also wrote a hypertext-like front-end with Turbo Pascal, pre-Internet, back in the day .. there was a 3rd-party UI framework that made it so reasonable to mix graphics and GUI elements in MSDOS, so .. we made a bunch of internal company apps that rendered the data off the network, allowed the execs to point and click things, change graphs, etc.

I remember seeing a plethora of amazing GUI plugins for Delphi too ..

I just want to be able to write software on computers that I own, using tools I choose.

Linux gives that option. None of the other phones do.

This is nice, but for the MacOS users who have a hard time dealing with the terminal, I've lived by the Secrets prefpane for some years and find it most handy:

https://github.com/ecnepsnai/Secrets

All of this can be done in Lua.

This is one of those sites that I try to turn into a PDF every time its posted ..

The repair shop made disk images (part of the repair process), then gave the laptop to the FBI, and then shared the disk images.

Cromulent.

I've used GDPR a few times to protect myself from nefarious actors. Its a valuable tool if you use it right, like all the things.

I'm banned right now, and I find it refreshing.

Depends on whether you are actively engaged in promoting views and beliefs that the mainstream don't want out there.

Or maybe you're interested in securing the future for our children by degrading state secrecy.

I can see this working well for those working to expose the current Yemen genocide situation, too.

Unless, of course, it is selectively used to allow denial of western war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This is an admirable move.

I sure hope that it means its going to be harder for people to deny current era war crimes and crimes against humanity, too. That is way, way overdue.

If Iran are morally reprehensible for making this slogan a thing, then what exactly makes America's own violent radical religious fringe elements chanting "Bomb Iran, bomb bomb Iran" acceptable?

This double standard is exactly why America is despised.

You cannot claim the moral high road while, literally, pouring billions of dollars into funding ISIS in the region.

Why don't you give the war-monger routine a rest:

“It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance,” [the Ayatollah] said.

Tehran Radio != Sovereign Iranian Government policy.

The Ahatollah also had this, very specifically, to say about the slogan:

"It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance,” he said."

I think far, far fewer Americans support its illegal wars than you claim .. they're just silenced by the minority who stand to profit from it and who currently control the war megaphone.

No, not really sufficient.

Official Government Policy > populist slogans.

Oh, its a slogan .. I thought we were talking about official government policy.

I wonder if McCain meant his death chant literally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris

Its probably a good thing he didn't get a chance to set official US policy on Iran.

EDIT: /s

Iran and their calls for death to America?

Citation required.

(EDIT: to be clear, it seems that we require a citation to the official Iranian policy, not some clear agitprop around a popular slogan ...)

This looks pretty great, and shows progress towards becoming a replacement for my iPhone - but, one question - what are these apps? Am I missing the ability to navigate to a page describing each of these apps? I can probably guess what some of them are, but doesn't it seem a little strange to have a list of apps, but no descriptions for the apps available?

(On Safari, MacOS, in case its just an anchor bug..)