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Yeah. For a moment I found this interesting but then I remembered that KDE Plasma has perfect integration with all of the streaming services I use through my browser. It seems to just work without any additional software. You can even control media from an Android phone if you have the KDE Connect app installed.

Bitwig will work with all of your existing VSTs, MIDI hardware and of course media (audio samples, Soundfonts etc.) as will Ardour and any other DAW worth using. There's no need to start from scratch.

As a weirdo who makes music and uses Linux as their only OS, I suppose I'll leave a little positivity in this thread. Yes, JACK does take some effort to setup and configure but once everything's in place it really is a dream environment. One of my favorite features (which I'm sure exists on other platforms but just works so well on Linux) is using Catia to route audio and MIDI between software and hardware devices on the fly. It also works perfectly with my external USB audio device (Behringer UMC404HD) which always gave me problems on Windows for some reason.

I've been running this on my Ryzen desktop with Arch Linux installed for about a year now and it's been incredibly stable and reliable. I haven't had any issues with playback or recording latency either. Along with Bitwig this is my favorite audio production setup ever and I used Ableton on a Mac for years. If you're looking for a good tutorial on configuring JACK, I'd highly recommend this video from Unfa on YouTube [0]. He does a lot of Linux and free software audio production content which you might find interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgrqMv3Lzfk

Sounds about right to me.

Trump supporters have done nothing but alienate and engage in acts of harassment and violence against non-white folks, religious minorities and members of the LGBTQ community for the past 4-5 years. Should we be civil toward members of the KKK as well? Why is it always on us to be nice to people who hate us and want us dead?

Nice little retrospective. I’ve been using Elixir and Phoenix both for personal projects and in production at Househappy since 2015. It’s been nothing short of wonderful and to this day it remains my favorite programming language and ecosystem to work in. Congratulations to José and the rest of the core Elixir team for this milestone!

How many active Linux projects are still written in Objective C? Personally, I see no compelling reason to use Swift on Linux. Programming languages are dime-a-dozen. The libraries and ecosystem surrounding a language are what’s important to me. Currently, I’m at a handicap if I try to write Swift on anything but macOS; no Xcode, most third party libraries depend on proprietary Apple SDKs and most of the Swift community just assumes you’re working on a Mac because why wouldn’t you be? So if I’m a Linux user and I’m choosing a language, why choose Swift over other languages like Rust, Go or even modern C++?

Don’t get me wrong, I love Swift. It’s an absolute pleasure to work in and my first language of choice for projects targeting Apple platforms. But I’m very skeptical of its long-term potential outside of that ecosystem, especially with Apple’s move toward custom silicon and relying on hardware-level implementations of what would traditionally reside in software. This approach has worked out well for Apple with the rest of their product line and I’m completely on board from an engineering perspective - but it’s a path that will not result in higher cross-platform adoption.

+1 for Inter. I’ve been using it as my system font on KDE for years and it renders really well at every display resolution I’ve tried. I’m picky about my OS fonts too.

There is no suckless "philosophy". The official page explaining it makes a few solid points about simplicity vs. complexity [0] but for the most part its just thinly-veiled programmer rage and elitism. This is reinforced by the community's purity tests which include enforcing arbitrary limits on the lines of code in a given project (about as dumb and wrong as dogmatically asserting that more lines of code in a commit is better - complexity is about abstraction). That's not even getting into the racial purity tests [1].

Aside from that, suckless software just sucks. Software is more than just source code; it's the user experience, it's the community, it's what comes out of that software. The Blender source code certainly wouldn't fulfill the suckless vision (in sofar as one even exists) and yet it's infinitely more important and useful than any piece of suckless software. Showing off your minimalist desktop on /r/unixporn or /g/ is fun and all but eventually you're going to want to do real work with your computer and realize how much time you've wasted recompiling C code to make basic configuration changes.

[0] http://suckless.org/philosophy/

[1] https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177

If you want something that runs 100% locally with a persistent environment, take a look at macOS-Simple-KVM [0]. With some trivial tweaks in virt-manager as well as the guest OS, you can easily create a local macOS VM that you can SSH into from the host machine (EULA concerns still apply). This also allows you to pass-through devices such as USB devices or a secondary GPU to achieve near-native graphics performance in your macOS VM.

[0] https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

Are other countries even allowing US citizens in right now? It was my understanding that we’re pretty much banned from the rest of the world due to our batshit insane Covid response.

Thanks! I’ll try this out.

For anyone looking to set up a virtual OBS webcam in Arch Linux, here's how I did it:

1. Install headers for your Linux kernel:

  - sudo pacman -S linux56-headers

2. Install v4l2loopback-dkms from AUR:

  - git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/v4l2loopback-dkms.git

  - cd v4l2loopback-dkms

  - makepkg -scCi

3. Create a virtual video capture device:

  - sudo modprobe v4l2loopback devices=1 video_nr=10 card_label="OBS Cam" exclusive_caps=1

4. Set up a virtual audio device to avoid latency:

  - sudo modprobe snd-aloop index=10 id="OBS Mic"

  - pacmd 'update-source-proplist alsa_input.platform-snd_aloop.0.analog-stereo device.description="OBS Mic"'

5. Run ffmpeg:

  ffmpeg -an -probesize 32 -analyzeduration 0 -listen 1 -i rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/test -f v4l2 -vcodec rawvideo /dev/video10

6. Setup OBS to stream to ffmpeg:

  - File > Settings > Stream, set Service to "Custom..." and "Server" to `rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/test`

7. Setup low latency streaming:

  - File > Settings > Output, set Buffer Size to 0, CPU Usage Preset to "ultrafast" and Tune to "zerolatency".

8. Start Streaming in OBS.

9. Select your virtual camera and audio devices in Google Meet / Zoom / etc.

I get virtually no latency with this setup but I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X with 32GB of RAM. As always, YMMV.

No. If I start a message board and you break the rules, I should be able to delete your posts and ban you without legal consequence. It’s my platform. Twitter has the freedom to determine what content they allow and don’t allow on their platform. I don’t see why this is so hard for people to understand.

The first sentence of your post is simply not true. Demilitarization does help to reduce police violence [0]. Your points about union contracts and civilian oversight are valid and important to point out though.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20531680177128...

The irony is that Hacker News is literally unsafe to use as it puts users at risk of doxxing by not providing basic privacy functions like post and/or account deletion or even the ability to change your username. I really don’t understand why the HN crowd (which claims to be privacy focused) never seems to call this site out on that. Did I miss the text when you sign up telling you that everything you post will be publicly accessible for the rest of time? Is there even a mention of it anywhere?

To answer the original question though, no Facebook isn’t safe and never was. Delete your account. I did four years ago and I’ve never missed it.

Thank you for this! Your site might be a good place to signal-boost potential solutions to the problem of police brutality as well. I stumbled across a Twitter thread earlier which has some interesting ideas: https://mobile.twitter.com/samswey/status/118065570127173222...

As far as I know the air pollution in Thailand is largely attributed to forest fires rather than vehicle emissions [0]. Funny enough, this also seems to be the case for Portland, Oregon [1].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/07/northern-tha...

[1] https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/weather/air-quality/portl...

> Techies have been leaving San Francisco for cities like Portland, Austin, Denver and Seattle (PADS) for over a decade. We seek a place to settle down and improve cost-to-quality-of-life ratio.

As someone born in a small North Carolina town into poverty who has lived in Portland for close to a decade, this is both hilarious and depressing.

Bay Area tech folks are really suffering from some sort of economic Stockholm Syndrome. I’d love to see what would happen if one were to move from San Francisco to a city like Chiang Mai, Thailand. It can’t be much different than winning the lottery.

> By abandon, I guess you mean closing the old one and creating a new one?

Yeah that seems to be the way to go. Although to be honest I haven’t really used PayPal much in recent years. Apple Pay / Card has pretty much usurped all other payment methods for the vast majority of my purchases. All it needs it single-use card numbers and I think it would be perfect as far as a payment solution is concerned (assuming you’re as invested in the Apple ecosystem as I am).

As far as receiving money is concerned, I just don’t see the appeal of PayPal in this day and age. If I’m taking money from a friend who wants to pay me back (for drinks or whatever), I would much rather use something like Venmo or Cash App. Fast, easy, straight to the point. When it comes to e-commerce however, I don’t think anyone holds a candle to Stripe. It doesn’t bring me any pleasure to say that (I don’t love caping for any large corporation) but they really do have the best solution. The APIs are a joy to work with and they really seem to have thought out every situation as far as business requirements and compliance are concerned. Even Square (which you might think is a worthy competitor) fails to provide solutions to specific use cases, something I had to learn the hard way.

All in all, I really just don’t see the point of using PayPal in 2020. There are so many superior options out there. But I guess the ubiquity of PayPal means it is here to stay.

My name consists of four parts and I have a similar experience as your friend. My birth certificate just combines all four names into one string but systems represent me as either having two middle names, two hyphenated last names (which is technically incorrect although one of my middle names happens to be my mother’s surname) or only the first of my two middle names. It hasn’t really caused a meaningful impact on my life with the notable exception of when I was applying for my passport. That ended up turning into a month-long side project of acquiring updated documentation with consistent naming just so I could verify my identity to the passport office.

To add more chaos to the equation, I’m transgender and going through the process of changing my legal name now. I feel oddly prepared to handle this given my past experiences with legal name based verification. I’ll probably end up abandoning my PayPal account of 17 years though. I hear you need some sort of blood sacrifice for them to update your name and honestly their service just isn’t good enough.

Just remember that Arch is a rolling release distribution so the updates you do get will be bleeding edge. I recommend setting up Timeshift and always backing up your system before updating; if you’re using BTRFS it’s instant (although ext4 is practically instant on modern NVMe drives).

Also consider Manjaro if you want an Arch-based distro but don’t want to go through the trouble of manually setting everything up on first install. I’ve been running the KDE edition as my main OS and it’s fantastic!

BBSes are still alive and well [0].

[0] https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/lists/new-bbs-systems/

+1 for DBeaver. It doesn’t have a pretty UI like TablePlus but it’s FOSS, cross platform and has all of the same features (maybe more).

I don't know if this counts but I really enjoy Notion [0]. We use it at work for developer guides but I also have a personal workspace where I keep notes and bookmarks, track my progress on goals and projects, and upload files for quick access across devices. Notion isn't perfect - I'd love recurring calendar events and overall performance could be improved - but for me it's so useful. I can open it from any device and start writing (think Simplenote) or build "micro apps" that perform some basic software function.

[0] https://www.notion.so

I've moved to Linux for 99% of my computing but still use macOS for some audio production work. Catalina is unusable for me personally (most of the software I need just silently crashes) so I disabled the upgrade prompt:

  sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
  defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0
  killall Dock

Apple should really slow down on major releases of macOS or stop altogether in my opinion. macOS Mojave is a great OS and it's basically feature complete. Just stick with that, introduce bug fixes and security patches as needed and I think people will be happy.

So we should just bury our heads in the sand and ignore President Trump's blatant lies and misinformation about a deadly pandemic because calling him out offends Republicans who are responsible for putting the deranged lunatic into power in the first place? "Hey, you know the people who are destroying the world and have spent the last four years engaging in constant vitriol toward anyone to the left of them? Please just stay calm and respect their opinion." Laughable.

Please make sure any startup you fund doesn’t take a selfish approach to patents and intellectual property. Any progress on fighting Covid-19 needs to be shared with the world and not used as a cynical tool for profit.

Straight from the horse's mouth: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

This happens to me from time to time! It really is bizarre. I’m hyper attuned to sound, particularly which direction sounds are coming from. When a sound seems to be emitted from within your own head, it creates a disorienting sensation that I experience as a sort of extreme vertigo. For me the sound is never really abrasive and usually manifests as a woman’s voice calmly saying one or two words. The disturbing part is just how “clear” the sounds are, like every other sound I’ve ever heard seems distant in comparison.