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I bet you have no clue how many innocent human beings the American government and its allies have massacred in the last 10 years.

Hint: it doesn't benefit you one bit.

American problems.

I'm cool with that. I will steal it, for sure, and make sure it gets read.

This is not about Snowden.

This is about the SIGNIFICANT crimes against humanity and war crimes that he - and others - have put their lives on the line to reveal to the general public.

You (we) are being lied to about the activities of our governments in the Western sphere. They started WORLD WAR THREE, and wish to keep this fact from you.

And, they are laying in the conditions required for a repressive, totalitarian regime - and working as hard as they can, at all costs, to ensure that civil society does not have what it needs to counter their actions.

If you value the future freedom of your children, you WILL inform yourself about what the 5-eyes New World Order are doing, in your name, to ensure that the Western societies maintain dominance and control over humanity. It is that serious.

Yeah, its better than nothing but that's still not quite as simple as just having a database I can copy off my own phone with all the details.

I wish I had this data, myself. I mean, my own personal data - it would be so incredibly useful for me to be able to go back through the last years and see my location and tracking data. I could finally get those timesheets updated with correct details ..

But, alas, no. Its not available to me. Only third parties can access it.

This is a terrible situation.

Australia's energy problems are a symptom of a much larger issue.

Australia is run by mining magnates and an energy oligarchy. Its government has very little concern for the future of the country - having sold most of it, out from under the Australian citizens - and its political class is hell-bent on cashing in. Australians should stop being so shocked about the impropriety of the nation and start paying more attention.

This is the nation that watched the Great Barrier Reef die in front of its eyes, for the sake of a few smashed avocados. Its the nation that got away with its genocide, while the world wasn't watching. Its a nation which glorifies war criminals as heroes and hides its political dissidents behind secret courts and non-public processes.

Its political system was specifically designed to allow only the ruling classes to wield power - the riffraff of the general population will never get what they want from their government, if big changes are required to get them.

Doesn't this just result in more dead fish, starved to death, because they spent all their energy flocking to a reef that can't sustain them?

This is why I find detox to be such a handy tool:

http://detox.sourceforge.net/

Detox has solved endless amounts of hassle...

Code coverage is not all you should be doing.

The more I see these kinds of products coming out, the more I realize that Creative Labs, of all people, had something right when they designed the Zii Egg .. if only they'd put some weight behind the platform and finished PlaszmaOS, which was a Linux OS on par with iOS at the time - but alas cancelled "because Android":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zii_EGG

I really have to wonder what could have been if CL had the balls to finish this project and make it available to all and sundry to serve as the basis for commercial products. It was a delightfully cheerful little system for the time ..

I agree, and I think there is an arrogance by those with the view that 'coverage testing is useless' which blinds them to the real purpose of code coverage testing: to tell you what you haven't tested yet.

Coverage isn't supposed to tell you anything about the quality of the tests beyond what code simply has never been tested yet.

And yet, people seem to think "code coverage testing" means something else entirely. The only purpose for paying attention to coverage metrics, as a manager, is to understand how much more work there is to be done on the tests - or, to determine code paths which never get executed and are therefore dead weight on the project.

seq24:

http://www.filter24.org/seq24/shots.html

So at some point in such a future it'll be the old, beatup guys who want to take the money from the young, elite, smart people.

How about we just shoot for 'everyones lives are improved' instead of just passing the buck.

In my highschool typing classes, 40 years ago, I remember seeing this symbol used to indicate omitted paragraphs ... in the same way that the ... is used to indicate a pause between sentences, the vertical version indicates a pause between paragraphs.

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Like this.

But .. I can't seem to find online examples. Its a terrifically difficult character to search for ..

downvotes == groupthink

Australia will never have one. Its institutions are designed to ensure that.

a bit too binary

Every synth manufacturer has to make this conclusion at some point. A surprisingly large number of synth customers never get past the presets - its a dirty little secret of the business.

Not that there's anything wrong with this, of course - but it does make designing a "one UI for all" kind of difficult. It also explains why so many of the 'big manufacturers' focus mostly on player- interfaces, eschewing the work required to make more detailed editing surfaces.

However this is all changing - look at companies like Modal, who led the way with providing as sophisticated interfaces as necessary for both end-user types ..

The 'rotten foundation' in our mental health system is treating people's symptoms without concern for their cause.

I believe the rot is based on a commercial desire to ignore the efficacy of placebo's:

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/

Nobody wants to be told that the only reason the heavy drugs they are taking are effective, is because they believe that they will be better when they take them - but the evidence is mounting that this is indeed the case.

At this point I think its the only thing Australians can do about their country.

Australians will never be afforded an opportunity to overthrow their government, nor will we get the revolutions our demonstrations hope for.

Anyone who wants to get into synthesizers would be wise to check out VCVRack - it is currently the best way to explore Eurorack-based modular synthesis without selling the kids:

http://vcvrack.com/

Set it up, get an account, and add all the free plugins - then manage the plugins in the app, and voila - rejoice at having literally a THOUSAND new Eurorack modules to play with, virtually, for free...

Beware: modular synthesis is addictive and frustrating in equal amounts. Its a form of analog computing - meaning you won't get good results unless you program it from the ground up. But if you do, and if your system can handle it, you can gain access to a world of sounds that would normally have required thousands of dollars of investment .. truly one of the greatest value software packages out there at the moment. Can't thank Andrew Belt (VCVRack developer) enough for building the system he has, and delivering an open and easy model for people to use in exploring synthesis.

What's really interesting is the fact that a lot of the physical hardware manufacturers of Eurorack modules have embraced VCVRack as their sales promotion/prototyping/demo platform. So many great Eurorack modules are now available for free in software versions specifically for VCVRack ..

The synthesizer world is a strange one. I've been working in and around it for a few decades and noticed a few things.

First of all, the Germans are winning. The synth market would have fallen to pieces if there weren't so many German manufacturers making cool synthesizers. Americans play guitar, Germans prefer keys. This wouldn't be a problem except that most of the German synthesizers are physically designed by a single individual - and his horrid design choices have propagated throughout the industry. Such things as having knobs placed too close to each other, such that you can't grab one with thumb and forefinger without also disturbing another. Or having LED's that wash out the panel so you can't see anything under low light (stage) conditions. Or, endless menu's to scroll through. Or, you know, different brands looking altogether too similar, since their designs were copy/pasted from the same designer.

Another weird thing about this industry is that everyone thinks standards suck until they themselves invent one, and expect everyone else to comply with it. Synthesizers with, functionally, the same basic engine are nevertheless entirely incompatible with each other.

There are two kinds of synth user: players and tweakers.

Players want better factory presets and don't care about making great new sounds as long as they have their rhodes and DX mono bass and so on - tweakers throw away the factory presets and want a better editing interface. This would be fine, except there is a secondary market of 'consultants' who write all the factory presets for most synth manufacturers, and they don't want their territory encroached on by tweakers. So, they have a lot to say about how complicated the UI should be, in order to protect their business model, and this propagates throughout the whole design phase, such that most synth UI's are a dogs breakfast of 'conveniently left out editing features that are not necessary because everyone just uses presets anyway'.

Its a very interesting market to observe from a tech perspective. Musicians are a fickle lot - 2 million new musicians are made every year (school music programs) which means that even if your product is mediocre, the new market bodies don't know better - you can get away with producing mundane things in those conditions. Musicians spend on average $500/month on new music gear (until GAS wears out/they get married), which means there is always a new toy to play with, even if its all been done before, so many times over.

get imprisoned for a variety of political/strategic reasons if you refuse to cooperate

The same is true of Australia, the USA, and the UK - these nations have no issues with imprisoning each others citizens if it behooves them - i.e. if the individual chooses not to cooperate with the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex.

It does make you a liability. Australians can be shanghai'ed into working for the Australian intelligence agencies wherever they are on Earth.

I'm also an Australian living overseas, have worked on many sensitive projects that would be of interest to the Australian government and its masters, and I'm quite prepared to give up my nationality over this issue.

The ADF are key to the Coalitions mission: when America wants something dirty done, that will not have the complication of civilian oversight should an investigation be necessary, they come to the Australian Defence Forces...

For Audio? Presonus, as it is first-rate under Linux - it just plain works (at least in Ubuntu Studio). Also have other ADDA's too, such as RME .. same result: just works under Linux. Best latency stats of any DAW setup.

This shouldn't be such a big surprise to those who inform themselves about the war business and its criminal usurpation of democracy in the West.

The same legal machinations that are used to suppress free speech in the West, especially regarding Western military failures, are also being used to suppress reporting on Julian Assange's torture in Bellmarsh today.

We have well and truly slipped.

Yes - The update was downloaded automatically, when the machine was shut down for the night, it installed the update automatically on bootup. This caused days of frustration and lost productivity.

Likewise. I've been using Linux since the very early days when compiling the kernel and creating a root filesystem was the only way to use it. I moved to Ubuntu Studio and have never looked back - it has been the simplest, easiest to use and maintain system of all the machines in my purview, by far.

I'm very much looking forward to ditching the Mac, especially after the Catalina fiasco. Ubuntu is catching up in leaps and bounds, and the existence of a distro variant designed specifically for Audio/Video professional use (Ubuntu Studio) is very, very compelling. The Ubuntu Studio guys, as well as the Ardour group, get my monthly donation with pleasure ..

I run both Ubuntu and MacOS systems in my studio, each functioning as DAW's in various capacities, and I find myself feeling very relieved, more and more, whenever I sit in front of the Ubuntu Studio DAW to work .. everything just works, and with every update the system is more and more of a joy to work with.

I just suffered through an automatic update on MacOS to Catalina - this has been the most painful, idiotic thing to happen in my studio in a long time, and I now feel about Apple the way I did about Microsoft last century, when I abandoned them .. just utterly disappointed, and more the point I feel exploited just so that Apple can update its OS and force us to move onto their next big thing.

More and more, I'll replace the Mac with an Ubuntu Studio-oriented DAW, and then I'll phase out using Macs entirely. Linux is catching up in a big way, especially for use as Audio/Media workstation. Its not 100%, but its certainly better than having arbitrary decisions forced on me by the OS masters in Cuppertino.

(And yes, I've disabled auto-update. Shouldn't have been on in the first place, on this production system...)