Tim Janik ✅ @timj@social.tchncs.de

The Future of #Surveillance with Edward #Snowden - ORGCon 2019 keynote

https://peertube.nomagic.uk/videos/watch/536c0bc0-aecf-4784-9f21-a96fb9aa047f

I keep seeing this really odd interaction, where the second I start google-chrome or a newer #Electron version (>= 4), my currently running #Firefox processes start overloading the CPU.

Firefox becomes unresponsive for several seconds, burning CPU. Yesterday I decided to watch FF in gdb and saw that it's accessing thousands of font files , each causing a "SIGSYS, Bad system call".

Can anyone guess why FF gets SIGSYS, failing to access a world-readable file? Bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566053

Not being satisfied with the #FontAwesome 5 looks, I've ended up creating an SVG sprite file from the #ForkAwesome project. This includes all icons from Font Awesome 4.

Here are the gory details:
https://testbit.eu/2019/fork-awesome-sprites

So I've been working on "upgrading" the Font Awesome package used by the new #Beast UI from 4.7.0 to 5.9.0.

Just — in the end I found that the icons look way more crispy and professional in the 4.7.0 version.

Is it just me, or did anyone else experience this with #fontawesome ?

Beast version 0.14.0 is released.

#Beast is an LGPLv2+ music synthesizer and composer (#DAW), for #Linux, including a #MIDI #sequencer, real-time #synthesis and support for #Audio Plugins.

The full release announcement is out now:

https://beast.testbit.org/#news
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2019-July/msg00000.html

Just uploaded the beast-0.14.0 tarball, AppImage and Git tags.
Working on the release announcement now...

I'm setting up #Redmine for a test installation. Should be easy using the community maintained docker image:
https://hub.docker.com/_/redmine/

Except for two things that aren't obvious:

a) You need to figure to create the default ticket structures, as described here (github closed issue search is your friend): https://github.com/docker-library/redmine/issues/111#issuecomment-379728491

b) To reduce fragmentation, btrfs users might want to re-create /usr/src/redmine/sqlite/redmine.db to add chattr +C

Tentative NEWS for the upcoming Beast release:
https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/blob/master/NEWS.md#system-requirements

Summer definitely has arrived in Hamburg, has been a hot day here.
I inflated the wading pool for the kids, which was well received. After all we had 30°C, sweating hot!

Then I read "India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius", that really puts things in perspective...

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-india-heatwave-temperatures-celsius.html

I am working on new UI controls (numbers, switches, text, etc) for #Beast (#electron based).

Sometimes it'd be nice to have a designer on the project who is familiar with #DAW software to bounce ideas back and forth with.

Courtesy of Stefan Westerfeld (who yet needs to create a Mastodon account), we now have fluidsynth2 support in #Beast master. And that means .sf3 (#soundfont + #vorbis) support.

Hm, C++14 supports lambda arguments of type 'auto', i.e. /nice/ function templates.
That allows me to throw away hundreds of lines of visitor code.

Just came back from #HM19 (industrial production fair in Hannover).

It's incredible how many products have to carry "#blockchain" in the title or description these days, it's infected almost everything that deals with sensor or log data.
One presenter literally said "we also put 'blockchain' into the sensors software because the client WANTED it."

OTOH, it's nice to see that fabrication companies increasingly base their software stacks on #OpenSource and have learned to contribute back.

The #Beast source code is currently being rewritten in various places (CI, IPC, Build system, etc)

During the process, the various pieces of Beast documentation were converted to Markdown, structured and merged into a single cohesive document. Formulas can now facilitate #Latex (and #Mathjax) and syntax highlighting was introduced. It is rendered to #HTML and #PDF and the #CSS was adjusted to closely match the Latex based PDF looks.

https://beast.testbit.org/#news

In
"Walking in my (Electron) shoes"
Gergely Nagy writes about having to deal with hate (!!) received from people for developing on #Electron.

Since I started moving #Beast to Electron, I've also had several interesting discussions (but not
"hateful" encounters) with people claiming that it must be slow or resource wasteful compared to native toolkits, both of which aren't really true in Beast's development context. Development itself is vastly superior though.

https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2018/10/26/Walking-in-my-shoes/

#EU #Copyright #Reform 2019 – Why Upload Filters Are a Bad Idea

Nice visualisation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUh9wOp_Rw

#UploadFilter

New Blog article…

Here’s my take on how "Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C Applications" relates to GSlice:

GSlice considerations and possible improvements

https://testbit.eu/2019/gslice-considerations

#GSlice #MESH #Slab #Hugepages #HUGETLB #Malloc #memalign etc