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gidam··on Curated list of communication tools that work during internet blackout
Inclusion and exclusion are my decisions, made by hand.

AI tooling assists with drafting text and cross-checking licenses, audit citations, and project status. I've added a note on this to the README.

On the second point: censorship and shutdowns are listed as separate scopes, and the circumvention section states up front that those tools don't work in a full shutdown.

Thanks for the critique, it helps me improve the list.

gidam··on Show HN: Mdrone – a microtonal drone instrument in the browser
what OS are you using? It normally works without issues on Chrome. It can be hard on CPU so better have no other tabs open on your browser.
gidam··on Show HN: Mdrone – a microtonal drone instrument in the browser
Maker here. mdrone is a drone instrument: you hold one sustained tone, layer a few voices, and let it evolve for minutes or hours. With microtonal tuning the partials beat against each other and "phantom" melodies start to surface that you never actually played.

It ships several tuning systems: Pythagorean, several just-intonation sets, Kirnberger III, 31-TET, plus maqam-leaning scales like Yaman and Bayati, and a custom scale editor. The same held interval is a different sound in each.

Tech: it's all client-side Web Audio + AudioWorklets, no backend, no account. The whole scene (voices, tuning, FX, two slow modulators) serializes into the URL, so a sound is just a link you can bookmark or share. There's a small adaptive-stability layer that eases off visuals/FX/voice count if it detects the audio thread struggling, to avoid dropouts on weaker devices.

Free and open source (AGPL): https://github.com/gdamdam/mdrone

gidam··on Mpump: A browser groovebox you can share as a link
Built this as a browser groovebox with no account or backend. Grooves are fully encoded in the URL, so you can share and remix them just by sending a link. It runs entirely client-side using the Web Audio API. Would love feedback, especially on the workflow and usability.
gidam··on Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
probably in their TOS, where they give themself right to do anything.
gidam··on As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective
Mine is not a generic idelogical flamewar. It's an objective observation based on the History and the politics of authoritarian governments. It's sad how in 2021, in a respected website like this, facts are considered to have the same value as opinions. And if someone dont like the facts call them "ideological flames".
gidam··on As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective
Yes sure, everyone knows that librarians hide books with which they disagree, because, since Socrates, their only goal is to corrupt the young, the innocent and the virgins. LOL You don't look very familiar with libraries and books.
gidam··on Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple
I will say only one thing: the touch bar.
gidam··on Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
it's funny what tech people consider Art. LOL
gidam··on Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
what best way to "to preserve end-to-end encryption" than shipping a technology that can bypass it anytime?
gidam··on Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
to avoid confusion Ferros should have chosen a different and better name, considering that magic-warmhole is an older project doing more or less the same thing (with different and better technology and it's real free software)
gidam··on Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
the phone book are completely a different animal. As example they are almost useless to reverse lookup a number...
gidam··on I hope work from home continues
wow you work in a pretty bad place...
gidam··on Countries That Consumer More or Less Electricity Than Bitcoin in 2021
If the profit is the only measure that a lot of people here seem to consider: why not just burning the trash in the air, pouring polluted water directly in the ocean and allowing toxic material in our food chain? Do we want forbidding people to become rich doing nothing for others? These markets are bigger than several GDP of many countries, "whether you like it or not".
gidam··on Bitcoin as a Battery
this guy really understand thermodynamics and physics of batteries... We are safe! I propose to entrust him with the solution of all the energy problems of the planet.
gidam··on Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
Brave has a long way to go to build real trust. Too many reckless stuff: hijacking links, suspicious url-rewriting, crypto-token stunts, forgetting to communicate with users about serious privacy leaks with their faulty TOR window... also it looks like they care about privacy only in their PR brochures.
gidam··on Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech
Brave has a long way to go to build real trust. Too many reckless stuff: hijacking links, suspicious url-rewriting, crypto-token stunts, forgetting to communicate with users about serious privacy leaks with their faulty TOR window... also it looks like they care about privacy only in their PR brochures.
gidam··on Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk
It does not seems very different than other trades made illegal/wrong because they make people rich at huge community costs: like destroying the nature and the planet. I am thinking about Ivory trade, or rare animals, or furs etc etc... But people are too busy to get rich to thing about the consequences.
gidam··on Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
because Vim is beautiful.
gidam··on What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)
With the lack of empathy another very sad thing of living in USA is to discover how almost all the people measures success in life with the size of the paycheck/bank account.
gidam··on Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)
Jitsi-meet is very easy to install and to setup. "apt install jitsi-meet" and you have almost all done. The documentation is very good. It works great and it is super userfriendly. You have no excuses.