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fractalf

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fractalf··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
I cant believe 50% of the "free world" (umerca) put him in that place, THATs the scary part
fractalf··on Firefox Enterprise
Once again Mozilla invents stuff noone wants. Its just incredible how an "org" with so much income fails again and again
fractalf··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
I usually dont comment, but just had to. Opus 5 talls garbage, Im back om 4.8 which is better but still verbose. I use the caveman skill, but after a while it is just ignored.. I switched to Deepseek for a task lately. It was a wow experience (the language part)
fractalf··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
You tell jokes to your model? :D
fractalf··on Claude Fable 5 on your plan
Bullshit. I'm on pro and can't use Fable anymore. Fable's gonna stay on top maybe a month or two more, and they want to loose customers like this? I really don't understand their strategy. I cancelled my pro, gonna try something else
fractalf··on Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
How is 2.7 a thing _now_ ? it's not even mentioned on moonshot's webpage..
fractalf··on It's death
Fantastic, thanks for that!
fractalf··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
It's not that hard. Just uninstall. I did. Everything got better
fractalf··on I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
Doing the same! The US is rapidly getting worse and worse
fractalf··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Hehe me too. Yesterday. Enough is enough. Using KLM5.1 and soon deepseek
fractalf··on DeepSeek v4
Right now Im much more worried about sending data to the US and A.. At least theres a less chanse it will be missused against -me-
fractalf··on Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815893
fractalf··on Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
Hi, author here. I was wondering why the hell my server was acting strange, then checked counter.dev and saw a huuuge spike. Ah, hackernews..

Anyway, thanks for the feedback regarding the site itself, both positive and negative. This is a 1-2 man project, just for fun, but any feedback are always welcome :)

AMA

fractalf··on Gemini 3
I dont think your comment justifies calling out any form of simplistic view. It doesnt make sense. All the big players are bad. They"re companies, their one and only purpose is to make money and they will do whatever it takes to do it. Most of which does not serve human kind.
fractalf··on Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
You can pretty much study the Dockerfile of each docker image and you'll see how it's installed. It's all there, no magic
fractalf··on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
Great! ...but doesn't work on my google-free Android. Ie, it requires play services. Please fix this :)
fractalf··on iPod Linux (2017)
Thank you for being awesome! I still use RockBox on my old tiny 8GB "mp3" (flac really) player
fractalf··on Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)
Haha my exact same reaction (and ive programmed a few)
fractalf··on Open source AI is the path forward
Well, he didn't do it to be "nice", you can be sure about that. Obviously they see a financial gain somewhere/sometime
fractalf··on What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
What if this is just a decoy and the real backdoor is elsewhere?
fractalf··on Building a USB to Mac ADB keyboard adapter
Kool project! Well done :) ..I feel for you having to ditsh Linux for Mac, don't think I could ever do that
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
Oh, nice, very interesting! I found you on mastadon, please write about your experience, I'm curious now :)
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
Hey man, thanks for elaborating, I do understand the limits you are presenting much better now. Aaand, this actually makes me want one of those cards myself! I could just have one of those PCI cards and 3-4 of the Behringer ADA8200 and I could run ALL of my synths into my PC.
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
> Because I don’t know of any USB device that can do 96 channels of pro IO

Holy crap, that's a lot of input channels, didn't know it was possible. I also have a Behringer ADA8200 that connect to the 1820 (ADAT) which gives me 16 inputs. I'll admit it's not enough to run all of my gear in at once and this is just a home studio. I can imagine 96 channels is very useful. Maybe 6x my setup would work = 96 inputs ;)

> How are you clocking the cards?

You are obviously more advanced than me, not sure what you mean here. I'm using the NI card basically just for the output and the Behringer for inputs, 24/48. When recording, if there is a latency (which normally Bitwig can "fix") it's just a matter of moving the audio a couple of ms.

> PCI

I've had earlier problems with PCI cards, in that they pick up a lot of internal noise from the motherboard, so I've stayed away from that after firewire/usb cards became available

fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
Why do you want/need a PCI based card? Most audio interfaces run off USB these days and Linux supports almost all USB audio class-compliant cards.. Personally I use NI Komplete Audio 1 and Behringer UMC 1820 (yes, on Linux with pipewire and Bitwig you can use multiple cards!)
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
The good'ol "organize your stuff" problem. The problem with "categories" is that a) usually a "thing" can only belong to 1 category and b) a category often belong in a hiarchy of categories and can only be 1 place. So that is why I've used _tags_ instead, which is more of a many to many "flat" releation. Not sure I understood your comment correctly? ..I've certainly given this quite some thought already, but nothing is perfect
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
hehe! ..I come from Ableton on Win7. But, Bitwig (formed by ex-Ableton devs) saved the world for me as it is a) similar but better than Ableton (ofc subjective) and b) it runs on Linux! Check it out, take it for a spin!
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
Ofc, your stuff is awesome man :) ..thanks!
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
Check out Bitwig (https://www.bitwig.com/), it's awesome (started by previous Ableton devs)
fractalf··on LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
You're most welcome! Yea, I know _exactly_ how you feel. This is why I had my last Win7 partition for so long, but now it's gone as there all I really need is available on Linux. Bitwig + u-he, what more do you really need ;)
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