leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them
Joined Sep 2018
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Another petition to get the UK government to recognise non-binary gender.
Just to recap, this has already gone to court, and the government successfully pled that it is too hard not to discriminate against non-binary people.
If you think that's bullshit, as I do, and you're a UK citizen, sign this petition to get the issue debated in parliament.
@cinnamonvector Zorr is great, please feed him dragon snacks and call him a good dragon from me :) also yay for making it!
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It's that time again. There was no active UK parliament petition about #nonbinary identities being recognised in law, so I made one.
#UK #petition: Recognise nonbinary people's genders in law and in identity documents
Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659107
Track signatures here: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/659107
Deadline: 11th October 2024
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To whoever needs to hear this:
Your blog is better without an image than with an AI-generated one. I came here to read your words — let them stand for themselves!
If you *must* use an image, and some soulless AI mockery would suffice, do this instead:
Step outside, and take a photo of wherever you are.
Include a lot of sky, if you can.
This implicit "here's where I am" is a better reflection of your work than whatever midjourney or stable diffusion would splort out.
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Journey into space with Captain Rhys Griffiths in ‘Reborn’, a furry sci-fi novel by @jfrcoates
Now available on our website
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Still so happy about how my pride pins came out. I'm wearing mine every time I go out. :>
You can get one of these beauties here: https://ko-fi.com/s/9194908864
#KofiChallenge
@Saki It's sort of more that what i have to do is ensure that everything gets distributed correctly through our midi routing pipeline... by no means impossible, but it's kind of involved :D (plus i have to add in support for midi tuning to SamplerSynth at some point ;) )
As a result, well... the zynthbox swing implementation now works as people who use drum machines would expect it to ;) Also managed to squeeze in a few other little useful bits of polish while i was in there, and the code is much nicer to work with now :)
Thanks to Captain Pikant over on youtube (excellent channel, just by the by) for finally making the numbers for drum machine #sequencer swing settings make sense in my head ;) For those wondering, very simply put: The number is a percentage of the distance between two uneven numbered steps, and the position that represents is where the even numbered step between the two uneven numbered steps gets positioned. Super simple, it just never clicked for me before ;D
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Some of our departed friend Lucian's estate is up for auction.
Some may be of interest to the engineering lot here.
Bunch of vintage electrical test equipment (avo 8, philips scopes) Some AV stuff, some radio stuff and lots and lots of vintage electrical stuff (hairdriers, teasmaids, other appliances)
a few old educational kits too.
https://auctions.ramco.uk/auctions/8875/ramco-11355
All proceeds are going towards the storage costs of the rest of the collection and helping out his mother.
Eyes off the techtronics scope..... I'm tempted >.>
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Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*
Polychord detection? In my zynthbox #groovebox #synth #sequencer? It's more likely than you might think! ;) Couple of days work, and yeah, definite improvement over "lol that's six notes you got there i can count me" :D
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the lesson *I'm* choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons
@pippin @Doran_Eirok yeah- there's a number of things I support, because they are things I would like to see exist, more than them being things I would enjoy experiencing for myself :)
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Discord just announced a change to their Terms of Service, which restarts the clock on when you can opt out of binding arbitration. All you gotta do is read the "Opt-out" paragraph of Section 16 & send an email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com from the email address you use to log in which states something as simple as this:
I am confirming that as of the date of this email, I am choosing to opt out of binding arbitration to settle disputes with Discord.
Boosts pls.
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I hate using the word Fedi or Fediverse around non-fedi people. Like, anyone will hear you say that name and they'll look at you like you just said something very very different.
So I now I call it: "The Pub"
Because now you can be even more confusing with it, but people will be more understanding.
Example:
"Oh yeah, I saw someone talk about this on The Pub the other day"it just WORKS so well and genuinely will be my main nickname for this network protocol
I was reminded on the weekend that our #groovebox's #sampler #synth envelope settings were a bit narrow, limiting attack, decay, and sustain to 2 seconds each. Switched that to using our InfinitySlider #qml component, so now you can go just absolutely ham :) Will it #ambient? You bet it will ambient ;)
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them
Joined Sep 2018
