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I look around and see what is going on around me, things have changed since last you looked; you can get surprisingly good at judging what time it is based off the sunlight through a window. Sometimes…

Is it possible (practical) to reverse engineer a synth that uses a custom and undocumented DSP? The Alesis Micron is probably my favorite synth and I have always wanted it in a little laptop groovebox…

>What would constitute being asked to be more than a user? That was mostly a way to say that I really don't want your job. Mostly, I want to retain my ability to occasionally make posts like t…

Reading a few hundred mostly low effort reactionary posts of people using the events in Venezuela as validation for their politics had a strong effect on my mood. These sorts of events are tricky on H…

We already have lobste.rs. I would not mind if flagged/dead got removed from active but I understand why they are kept. Flag and hide political threads which are likely to derail you.

I just spent way too much time reading through this thread looking for a single post more concerned about Venezuela and its people than the poster's own politics. I gave up when I noticed I was o…

You read the Guidelines and FAQ as you should have done when you made an account.

Thanks for letting us know, hope it works well for you.

The internet died in 2003, no one noticed.

If you hate it, leave and go somewhere that politics are not off topic, let us have our little corner of the internet.

I use it to explain and explore things I don't understand and I will have it give me code examples in multiple languages, explain the benefits and differences which each language offers for the t…

2026, YOTBSDD. This is the story of 2025 computing for me, FreeBSD is where I will probably go when Patrick calls it quits and steps down or ends Slackware. Although Haiku is also possible, I really l…

YOTLD has nothing to do with my needs and wants and I am perfectly happy with my thumb drive and the weird little ways linux imposes itself on my life.

I actually intended to set everything up but did not have time and needed to copy some files, so dusted off a thumb drive. I am liking it quite a bit and I think I prefer it to the alternatives.

The personal desktop has fallen in relevance enough for that to be possible. The goalposts moved, now linux needs to have phone, tablet, and laptop with smooth effortless integration between them all.…

Every assertion in this article is completely alien to me to the point that I can not even comprehend that people live like that, it seems untenable to life to me. A year did not feel like a fifth of …

I use cmus on my laptop and vanilla music player on my phone, I like things to be simple. I have never used a streaming service but I did just decide to go back to listening to the radio and ordered m…

California will take them to court and/or block them from doing business in the state, have various ways to penalize them, etc. California is big enough that many will want to play game with them…

One of the ways federal legislation gets passed is by state's passing their own laws, eventually industry gets fed up with having to comply with a dozen or more variations of the same law and sta…

I said that was something which would happen in the future, as in not the current level LLMs. But this is what people will pay the programmer for, the programmer will (hopefully) know when and where t…

Occasionally when right clicking on a misspelled word to correct it, I bump the track pad and accidentally add the misspelled word to my dictionary. Business is one of those words I apparently did tha…

I find it interesting but not surprising that this got downvoted. Sure my idea of the craft is different than the article's and of many people but if the craft only there if it is pure hand writt…

Sure, that is still a ways off, but being able to hire a programmer to meet my personal modest software needs is almost there. Also, the needs of any company that required a hundred people and million…

Personally I think AI is going to turn software into a cottage industry, it will make custom software something the individual can afford. AI is a very long ways off from being able to allow the avera…

>Which of course causes issues when languages with more proper strings interact with C but there you go. Is is an issue of "more proper strings" or just languages trying to have their cak…

Something I read somewhere years ago was that after the fall harvest there was generally a glut of food, all the stuff they did not have room to store for the winter, the crops which they did not have…

https://archive.ph/MeyfL ft.com is not loading for me so here is the archive.

>Sometimes I wish there was a commercial company behind 'linux for audio' that will give me a finely tuned Linux distro on a finely tuned desktop machine, based on whatever distro, That w…

PipeWire seems to solve all the audio stuff for me, zero problems since I made the switch. I had audio fail on resume once when I first installed PipeWire; if memory serves it was that the default set…

I am not arguing about a 20 pixel slider, not even arguing, that was just a random number which works just as well as any other number to demonstrate the problem and why knobs have their place despite…