deactivated/hirbernated bsky some weeks ago and linkedin today. i got my dose of model discussions :-)

hooray, i learned to use restic by mistake while writing about tarball audio backups :-) already going to S4 bucket.

#restic #backup

On macOS I use Podman given that https://github.com/podman-desktop/extension-apple-container. I.e. it's fast.

I've got a bit further with the audio code that has been appearing once in a while.

It's a tracker but there is not instrument list. Instead instrument number is plugin number in the mixer tracks chain.

It neither has internal sampler or similar instruments i.e. a purist clap tracker ;-)

To simplify things, or keep sequencing ergnomic, I won't support group tracks. Intead you have route sinks to the source of some bus track. This importantly reduces tracker's command format to something that it is understandble.

mind the OS but as a personal laptop neo is best that i've ever had. loading battery with a phone charger makes it a thing. for my use, it is better than more expensive models. it does run a compiler, vim and bitwig studio 🤷

Interested in distributed CI? Radicle? CI in general?

I organize a weekly office hour, for questions about Radicle CI and related topics, in https://meet.ffmuc.net/radicleciofficehour (Jitsi, only needs browser, mic and webcam optional but helpful).

This week: Wednesday, 07 UTC (09 CEST, 10 EEST).

Please join if you have questions, are curious, or need help.

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How to backup audio shenanigans like skins presets and shit?

This how I do it in macOS:

$ cat audio-dirs.txt
Library/Application Support/Sonic Academy/
Library/Application Support/u-he/
Library/Audio/Presets/u-he/
Library/Audio/Presets/Xfer Records/
Users/jarkko/Documents/FabFilter/
Users/jarkko/Library/Application Support/com.xfer.serum2/
Users/jarkko/Library/Application Support/com.xferrecords.serum/
Users/jarkko/Library/Application Support/FabFilter/
Users/jarkko/Library/Application Support/Sonic Academy/
Users/jarkko/Library/Application Support/ToguAudioLine/
Users/jarkko/Library/Application Support/u-he/
Users/jarkko/Library/Audio/Presets/u-he/
Users/jarkko/Library/Preferences/com.fabfilter.*.plist
Users/jarkko/Library/Preferences/Serum2Prefs.json
Users/jarkko/Library/Preferences/SerumPrefs.json

$ tar -cvjpf audio-dirs-$(date +%F).tar.bz2 -T audio-dirs.txt

There has been enough supply chain attacks for modern system languages that I consider them a real security issue in the current Landstrip implementation.

To address these issues in long-term I'll migrate in the runtime over time to C++20, follow Google's C++ style guide for syntax and conventions, and compile release binaries with zig cc (to enable local publishing).

Controversial take but as Flatpak completely bans AI assisted code, it will put people in inequal position:

1. Some simply won’t announce how they produce code; whether they use AI or not. This will inevitably result a corrupted user community.
2. Proprietary applications will get a free pass; no questions asked.
3. Flatpak relies on multiple software packages such as Linux kernel and SystemD that are influenced by AI. It is hypocritical to ask others for what you are not prepared to do yourself.

I’m not claiming that defining AI metrics would be easy define but objectively this at least won’t play out well.

i should drop that goose background :-( 🪿 🪿

I've been spending few hours a week the audio code I wrote early this year :-) It's a mess but human slop i.e., not artificial slop. I know how to write bad code too :-)

I cannot believe I had not heard of Zen browser few days ago. It is exactly what I was looking for. And it has AppImage!

There’s an AI startup in my hometown of Tampere called GitHits. I see their product’s value and a glimpse of actually “doing better for the ecosystem” overall. I got in touch with them because I had one very specific use case in mind.

While at Intel, it was underlined that even copy-pasting code from Stack Overflow is something you should not be doing, given the unknown source of origin. It got really delivered for me through annual trainings, and as a consequence have never copy-pasted anything from there :-)

Where I see GitHits as useful is on the legal/licensing side of software IP i.e., tracking and documenting known sources and providing better legal and licensing feedback.

For instance, even a “permissive” license might require attribution despite allowing unrestricted use otherwise. Having these details screened is crucial software when it has actual IP value.

I believe doing the legally right thing with IP almost unconditionally also improves the legitimate use of open source.

#git #githits #ai

HotFlow 0.1.7 aka "trying cyclopts"

This seems to do the job for the command-line but I make it less fancy in the end. Just wanted try out features.

Anyway, this version starts to feel like a useful tool :-)

lol, i've forgot to switch the goose-background :-) well, i'm promoting our products i guess.

"K&R C" is just LSD with all of the letters decremented by one. makes u think

I bought MacBook Neo for my software projects :-) It's good platform to test NEON SIMD. For kernel testing I trust RPI 3B.

I think HotFlow will form into a real project. It's a performance profiler, which does not execute. I made it for deduce around inference workloads. In general, the gist is that with HotFlow I can profile workloads that the machine I'm developing on could not cope with.

It's still somewhat experimental code, many things are a bit broken etc. but core ideas do work.

For anyone interested to help and contribute: https://codeberg.org/jarkko/hotflow.

Still waiting for XCOM 3 but MENACE is such a great game. First game in this genre that has given me any satisfaction since XCOM 2 :-)

I've never met a person F2F who knows what Goose is when I start to rant about it :-)

Very difficult piece of software to hate...