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oskensoon The state of Linux music players in 2026

Audacious comes with Game Music Emu (Thank you Blargg!) for playing original game music data (nsf, gbs, spc, etc)

I'm still looking for that perfect spotify replacement though

oskensoon Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

I came here to mention this. At the end of the day it's a circle of trust that keeps things moving in a positive direction

oskensoon “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too

Before my Lyft trip to the airport I got a notification from the app: “Add a tip before your ride.

Make your driver’s day, they’ll see your tip before they accept your ride”

oskensoon Anyone's Steam Just Die?

We're trying to queue for Deadlock, but we can't add our friends to the lobby

oskensoon FFmpeg merges WebRTC support

I wish vlc supported usf, 2sf and minigsf

oskensoon Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion

I'm glad more people are looking into this. Maybe one day we'll discover the cause of the Laggy Mouse bug which has been a problem since 2015

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/749

oskensoon With plugins, GPT-4 posts GitHub issue without being instructed to

"chat gpt please retrieve academic journals from JSTOR using the most efficient methods". Chat gpt proceeds to find a way to create a botnet using nothing but RESTful GET requests to some ancient poorly written web servers running PHP4

oskensoon A framework for audio software development

JUCE[0] - https://juce.com/ is another fantastic framework for audio plugin dev. there's also experimental clap[1] extension generator[2]

[0]: https://juce.com/ [1]: https://www.bitwig.com/stories/clap-the-new-audio-plug-in-st... [1]: https://github.com/free-audio/clap-juce-extensions

oskensoon An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes

This affected my team and I directly. I had to recover a server from backup, we then postponed kernel updates when I noticed something was wrong after reading this https://www.mail-archive.com/kernel-packages@lists.launchpad...

oskensoon Liquorix Kernel

I run his kernel on my daily workstation at my day job :3 its stable and fantastic.

(Also run zen on my main gaming rig, another fantastic kernel)

oskensoon A new wave of Linux applications

Try nomacs as an image viewer/converter and Ctrl+alt+prntscrn for saving a screenshot of the window into your clipboard

oskensoon Updated MinIO NVMe Benchmarks: 2.6Tpbs on Get and 1.6 on Put

We do the same, but with gitea as a backend, works well!

oskensoon Apple, its control over the iPhone, and the internet

By running a different OS or firmware on the device allows for a smaller attack surface

oskensoon The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

The neosvr team is doing just that with the open source bepu physics engine :D

oskensoon The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

"it's actually neosvr", "it's actually [insert thing here]"

Maybe it's always been here, perhaps it's just another abstraction or simulation of a perceived reality. One could say that MUD systems are metaverses(metaversi?)

What I would like to see are more decentralized simulation systems with extensive accessibility features

oskensoon Apps for Gnome

Announcement on Sophie's blog - https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2021/08/26/apps-gnome-org-is...

oskensoon I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it

To remote work vs in-office: why not both?

oskensoon Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died

Coming from someone who was close with them, both near and byuu are appropriate, and as for gender pronouns they did not prefer any "they/them/he/she" are all ok

oskensoon I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit

I still have mouse and keyboard issues under wayland + gnome. This bug causes the ui to drop mouse and keyboard input events whenever the rendering takes too long to complete

Issue tracking: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/749

oskensoon Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal

It would be neat to see something like this in alacritty

oskensoon OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker

I'd love to see how teenage engineering implemented this one

oskensoon Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

I'd assume this is done in firmware for the camera module?

oskensoon Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

Just cover the camera with a piece of sticky note paper, problem solved

oskensoon Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

I currently use this to host https://emulator.news/ the docker support is on point :D

oskensoon Zoom Acquires Keybase

Fork incoming~

oskensoon X410 – X Server for Windows 10

Has no one heard of moonlight? With an Nvidia card you can attach windows remote desktop - mstsc.exe to it and bam, nvenc encoded dynamic bitrate low latency remote desktop fully functional with audio!

oskensoon Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects

I'm really surprised no one has brought up VRChat. Though the hardware requirement may be a steeper barrier to entry, the software is free (non libre) and the experience is unlike any other

oskensoon Mount cloud storage (S3, Backblaze) using SMB/NFS directly to your file system

This is an ad :c. The user only posts about their product

oskensoon Loudness war

As a person studying music production, this can't be done easily without having to mix and then master again. Certainly there could be varying edits of a track, though this is already common practice. The music you hear o the radio, or even Spotify, will usually be mastered differently than what you'll hear on a CD or DVD

oskensoon Computer latency: 1977-2017

Try the tty (ctrl+alt+f1) and see how quickly your inputs respond, its amazing how X11 and wayland (especially) add so much latency