Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io), page 3

@kuba and rsync them daily?

Convince me why I should not buy a Thinkpad, assuming I'm looking for <=14" x86 ultrabook with an ethernet port.

Also, spectrograms (log scale):

don't know what to make of them though, they look rather similar, except Unitek seems to have more of those exp-like lines at high frequencies... are those aliases?

Looks like the internet hates the ALC tho.

Why?

Then there's my laptop's builtin ALC892 (bottom graph, top one is SB Play for comparison).

So. Darn. Flat.

Pretty noisy tho, probably since I had to set output volume very low, to avoid clipping on the line in.

conclusions:
- that was fun
- realtek and SB Play are the only soundcards I have with an input that's good for anything other than voice
- SB Play is the only one I have with a stereo input
- I wasn't able to figure out why I the unitek sounds awful to me... maybe it's all in my head?

yeah looks like that was the case for all the other cards as well - the differences are in the input, not in the output

Ok, I tested across cards:
- Unitek's output -> ALC's input (upper)
- ALC's output -> Unitek's input (lower)

Turns out all of the visible difference I measured previously was due to input.

Unitek Y-247A
vs
uGo UKD-1086
vs
Creative SB Play 3

each card was tested by connecting its input to its output with a janky cable and running

play -n synth 6 sin 20-20000

while recording with audacity.

This is a somewhat flawed, since I'm including each card's input path in the comparison, but at least both input and output run on the same clock, and only one USB card is in use at a time.

Deus Ex and Metal Gear were like, the AI will arise from state surveillence systems and will be better at filtering out misinformatiom than humans are.

And now that I think of it, maybe that kind of AI would've been nice.

But that's not the AI we got. No, the AI we got is good at creating misinformation.

@torvalds @Inginsub
I think there's a significant difference between how ChatGPT is trained and how humans are trained.

When humans learn, they're not just rewarded for saying plausibly-sounding things, but for saying useful things, and for getting things right. There's often a teacher, or a physical process one's trying to master, that has rather strict criteria of what is correct and what's wrong.

Meanwhile ChatGPT seems to be optimized for making non-experts believe it.

@matrix those in the blue box are for ffmpeg

I hope I'm doing something wrong, but this looks sus.

git-annex external remote tree export protocol be like

> EXPORT <remote name with spaces>
> <somecommand> <hash> <local name with spaces>
< <somecommand>-SUCCESS <hash>

except sometimes it forgets to send EXPORT?

And then is surprised I give it the same file instead of the one it asked for, judging by the hash?

wtf?

Why does school teach us to selectively pick evidence that supports our thesis? It's the opposite of what it should teach...

How come I finished university and never had a class about intellectual honesty?

@lanodan @drewdevault @ska
Therefore, unlike Open Source, Free Software movement must not be limited to the matter of licenses.

If we want to maximize the number of people who can experience Software Freedom, we need to make sure modifying the software people run is not just possible, but practical.

Make simpler programs.

Avoid feature creep, and situations that require perpetual updates.

Teach people to program.

Make it easy to download and build source of any software package.
etc.
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@lanodan @drewdevault @ska
Another example is people who cannot program - they can never directly experience freedom 1.

They can still benefit from it indirectly - eg. due to the power dynamics around free software making it likely that if the author adds an anti-feature, someone will make a fork without it, and our non-programmer will be able to use that fork.

But such a person will never be able to fully experience software freedom.

2/

@lanodan @drewdevault @ska
Free Software Definition talks about 4 essential freedoms, not in terms of whether a license preserves them, but in terms of whether the user has them.

For example, freedom 1 - to modify and run modified versions - doesn't work if the software in question is Firefox and web standards are evolving so fast, that you can't reasonably keep a modified version functional for an extended period of time.

Web browsers deny you that freedom through non-license means.
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@mntmn is it parallel so that the FPGA can keep up, or is it the display that requires parallel?

Also, is my intuition wrong that a serial link would be more interference-resistant because it'd go over differential pairs and you'd have lots of free pins to put ground on both sides of it?

@mntmn lol

was the clock interfering with the other lines?