Nostr notes by Jure Repinc

This is the 1.6 release that is API and ABI compatible with ...

2026-02-19T11:33:01Z

This is the 1.6 release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.4.x releases.
This release contains some of the bigger changes that happened since
the 1.4 release last year, including:

- An LDAC decoder was added for bluetooth.
- SpanDSP for bluetooth packet loss concealment.
- Safe parsing and building of PODs in shared memory.
- Added support for metadata features. This is used to signal that
the sync_timeline metadata supports the RELEASE operation.
- Node commands and events can contain extra user data.
- Support for more compressed format helper functions to create
and parse formats.
- Support for compile time max channels. The max channels was
increased to 128.
- Support for audio channel layouts was added. This makes it possible
to set "audio.layout" = "5.1" instead of the more verbose
audio.position = [ FL, FR, FC, LFE, SL, SR ]
- Support for Capability Params was added. This can be used to
negotiate capabilities on a link before format and buffer
negotiation takes place.
- More HDR colortypes are added.
- Loops now have locking with priority inversion. Most code was adapted
to use the faster locks instead of epoll/eventfd to update shared state.
- Channel position are parsed from EDID data.
- Channel maps are now set on ALSA.
- The resampler now supports configurable window functions such
as blackman and kaiser windows. The phases are now also calculated
with fixed point math, which makes it more accurate.
- Many bluetooth updates and improvements.
- The filter-graph has an ffmpeg and ONNX plugin. The ffmpeg plugin
can run an audio AVFilterGraph. The ONNX plugin can run some models
such as the silero VAD.
- Many AVB updates. Work is ongoing to merge the Milan protocol.
- Support for v0 clients was removed.
- The jack-tunnel module can now autoconnect ports.
- ROC support multitrack layouts now.
- Many RTP updates.
- rlimits can now be set in the config file.
- Thread reset on fork can now be configured. JACK clients expect this
to be disabled.
- node.exclusive is now enforced.
- node.reliable enables reliable transport.
- pw-cat supports sysex and midiclip as well as some more uncompressed
formats. Options were added to set the container and codec formats
as well as list the supported containers, codecs, layouts and channel
names.
- Documentation updates.

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to ...

2025-06-04T06:09:13Z

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28202261 > The ...

2025-04-06T12:41:20Z

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28202261

> The international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement are calling on people to cancel Game Pass subscriptions, avoid Microsoft-owned video game properties such as Minecraft and Call Of Duty, and boycott all Microsoft Gaming and Xbox-branded products in protest at the company’s reported business connections with the Israeli military.
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> The call follows allegations this January about the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology and artificial intelligence products in the course of its bombardment and invasion of Gaza.
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> According to a joint investigation between the Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, with additional reporting from Drop Site News, Microsoft have “deepened” their relationship with Israel’s defence establishment since 7th October 2023, when several Palestinian militant groups struck across the border and massacred over a thousand people. Israel responded to the attack by mounting a ground offensive and airstrikes that have destroyed much of Gaza and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Speed Dreams is a Motorsport Simulator featuring high-quality 3D ...

2024-10-15T12:46:00Z

Speed Dreams is a Motorsport Simulator featuring high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine, all targeting maximum realism. Initially forked from TORCS, it has now reached a clearly higher realism level in visual and physics simulation, thanks to its active development team and growing community. It mainly aims to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, while constantly pushing forward visual and physics realism. It is also intended for any research, study or teaching activity, around physics and AI, thanks to its GPL v2+ license, and the clear and modular architecture of its C/C++ code base.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21232355 > At ...

2024-10-11T09:58:35Z

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21232355

> At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20858435 > Will AI ...

2024-10-07T09:04:48Z

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20858435

> Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.