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bitbang··on Blend2D – 2D Vector Graphics Engine
That makes no sense. SVG _is_ the vector equivalent of PNG. Just because it's defined in an xml namespace that can be directly embedded in html, doesn't mean it is somehow bound to it.
bitbang··on Moving on from Rails and What’s Next
The one reason that might make sense is if the objective is to write webapps using webassembly. Rust can compile to webassembly. But that seems more like it would displace something like React or other frontend frameworks rather than Rails. Elixir/Phoenix seems like a much more logical progression from Rails.
bitbang··on Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
That's because the device is input only. By default Ardour uses the same device for capture and monitoring. The reason is that different audio devices have their own internal clocks, and using more than one devices introduces clock drift.

You get around this be setting JACK to use the snowball device for capture only (and by doing so you are using its clock) and then attach whatever device you are using for monitoring as a JACK client using zita_j2a from the zita-ajbridge tools package.

bitbang··on Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
If you're working on recording projects on linux, why the heck are you using Audacity? Seriously, save yourself a lot of headaches with Ardour.
bitbang··on “Hearing” the Hammond Organ
There's a very nice FOSS software emulator called SetBFree. The gui interface is a little goofy, but for real usage you would connect a midi keyboard controller anyway.

https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree

The best sounding commercial keyboard to emulate the B3 IMO is the Nord C2D/C2.

bitbang··on A Witch-Hunt on Instagram
I can picture them all with rocks and knitted beards...

Now look, no one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. Even...and I want to make this absolutely clear...even if they do say "White."

bitbang··on How to Secure a Linux Server
As someone who has had to implement STIG, that is not a realistic method. This stuff is implemented via automation over hundreds of nodes at a time, and having to click through anything in automation is slow and error prone.

STIG itself is just a fancy check-list. Ideally, real world implementation is automated via something like OpenSCAP.

bitbang··on The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
Nice! I had been wondering if the move to HTTP-3 over UDP would open up possibilities for media over a multicast HTTP transport. Looks like somebody's already doing just that.

Only downside is that multicast sucks over wifi when many devices (like in a corporate env) are all trying to view a multicast stream. The time slice allotted to multicast is way too small to handle it. I really wish there was a spec created for wifi simplex connections where a channel could be reserved for broadcast with one signal to be consumed by many receiver devices.

bitbang··on Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
No need to have somebody hand over a server. If the implant happened in two segments of the supply chain as the article claims, it shouldn't be very difficult to find one.
bitbang··on Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
The point about scale, is that if this happened at the scale that is being claimed, it shouldn't be too hard to find a compromised unit.
bitbang··on Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
All this assertion / denial stuff is getting tiresome. If this compromise was implemented at a significant scale, and people in-the-know have figured out how it functions, it shouldn't be too hard to get hold of one and provide a demo.
bitbang··on 'Distracted boyfriend meme' is sexist, rules Swedish advertising watchdog
https://www.imgur.com/t/funny/ucD8kUv
bitbang··on California governor signs nation’s strictest net neutrality rules into law
Justice Dept has already filed suit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-california/u...
bitbang··on 10 handy Bash aliases for Linux
That's emacs, not bash. It only works when "set -o emacs"
bitbang··on Elixir v1.7 released
It's possible to do it now, but not with the "Native" ui you may be implying.

Wings3D created a 3d modeling program with application, including UI, written in erlang. http://www.wings3d.com/

bitbang··on Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts
Perhaps open-source software licenses should start including a stipulation that anybody using open-source software in any product they produce or consume, must submit to arbitration for any software patent suits.
bitbang··on What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like
Try using fwknop. Similar concept to Port knocking, but much more secure.
bitbang··on AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
Iter-frame parallelizability is made possible (at least in the context of h264) by using slices. It comes with a minor penalty in the resulting data compression ratio.
bitbang··on NoScript Not Available for Latest Firefox
You can hide the tab bar manually. Supposedly the plug-in should be able to hide it but they claim there is a bug currently in 57 preventing it from working.
bitbang··on BCache Gets New Maintainer, NVMe Improvements and More for Linux 4.15
I have been using a BCache (SSD) in front of a BtrFS Native RAID (HDD) for quite a while without issue.
bitbang··on The art of the dinner party
When you know there is going to be too much time between mixing baking soda and citric/lactic/whatever acid is being used, use baking powder. It has the alkaline soda and acid pre-mixed together, but does not fully activate until heat is applied.
bitbang··on A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (2012)
True, but the author of that article doesn't seem to understand that.
bitbang··on A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (2012)
As somebody who regularly has to set up an 8 way projector blend to create a 120 ft x 20 ft screen for presentation graphics... Hell no.
bitbang··on Learn from your attackers – SSH HoneyPot
Fwknop is a much better solution than whack-a-mole blacklisting or even Fail2Ban.

https://github.com/mrash/fwknop

bitbang··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
I just changed to one of the rental companies that doesn't require pulling credit.
bitbang··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
Law limits it to no more than three days. My experience has been that it mostly takes place within 12-24 hours.
bitbang··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
Same people that pull from the other 3. It's not as commonly used, though its usage is trending upwards from what I understand.
bitbang··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
I did this about 8 years ago, and have only needed to temporally unfreeze it 3 times. Besides the big 3, I also froze reporting from Innovis.

The only unforeseen hangup from frozen credit reporting I've run into is with car rentals. With a few exceptions, most car rental companies (at least in the US) run your credit. Everything else was pretty predictable.

bitbang··on U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
What skill sets a person has (provided it's related in some way to the open position) is less important than how quickly they can adapt and acquire new skill sets.
bitbang··on KDE and the Menu Crisis
/molehill/mountain/g
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