With radio on the internet, there's a ton of great worthwhile stations available.
WTMD, Colorado Sound, WEQX, Koto.fm, Mountain Chill, WETA, WMRW, 102 Cue, KCRW all get a lot of play around here.
Radio feels dead because most places have been taken over by a couple major broadcasters. Radio is awesome when people care about it, is still a fantastic institution of lots of small local shops doing amazing things for great good.
I'd love some good technical western coverage of OpenAtom's OpenHarmony or Huaweii's hard fork & rebuild Harmony NEXT.
In particular, they claim a distributed bus DSoftBus underneath, that allows very seamless inter-dice operation. An example use case from one of the few docs online talks about example use cases of videoconferencing using multiple devices... I've done similar with scrcpy on Android & felt like a small demi-gos. But ambient capabilities seem perhaps just part of the OS here, & apps can allegedly easily move between devices & tap a network of resources.
The world is sleeping hard on this. Would be so good to know more to have visibility into these very interesting creations. (Feels very Webinos to me, which was more an iot os & protocols than consumer os, but interesting at pooling distributed resources across networks).
Huweii's Harmony NEXT came about shortly after OpenAtom formed, which is sort of the Linux Foundation of Harmony. NEXT definitely has a lot of new & rebuilt aspects of Harmony, seems unlikely to be compatible or really the same; it's a major shift with new kernels & all.
I love when books keep making me think about the world we live in now, that keep feeling pertinent. To that, some of the #hopepunk / #solarpunk style books have been really fun. Malka Older's Infomocracy, Emry's A Half Built Garden.
I also loved being transported to the space-Byzantines in Arkady Martines's A Memory Called Empire; a reverberation of the past set far in the future. The interwoven Hives & world of Ada Palmer's Too Like The Lightning / Terra Ignota are an incredible backdrop for such a story of many powers of the intersecting and overlapping and coming against each other.
Or the rollicking fun and action, the oppressive decadent space elites & politicking and rebelling of young-adult+ Pierce Brown's Red Rising.
A lot of software does take a lot of trying & stumbling through to get good.
Alas many companies simply allow the rubble to build up around them, are on to new features, rather than figuring out how better to stitch their systems together after the first bad pass or two. Sure, X11 was there... it wasn't good. Trying to be more than haphazard takes work, and time.
So much of X was built on bad one time hacks that never died, that ossified into place.
It's zero surprise to me that Wayland folks didn't rapidly promote the first pass at color management to official status.
Headlines like this are misleading as fuck. It elevates the consternation of those wondering "why wasn't this here already?!". But this is the hopeful 1.0 of a long road, of compositor specific tries, of countless iterations & tweaks.
The case for respecting a long hard process are vastly vastly vastly undersold. Short un-understanding quickly dominates. It's easy to say why wasn't something there? But in 20 years, it would be way worse and way harder to say "why was such a bad thing approved?". It just takes a lot of time, for incredibly open ended problems to find reasonably good satisfactory resolution, that multiple implementers will feel is a good sound protocol to work from. It isn't a desire for minimalism that drove Wayland protocols, it's a shock horror & critical terror at what the sloppy past had allowed to grow up & a recognition that what gets 1.0'ed needs to face a much higher standard than what happened in the past, needs a far higher level fo confidence & future sightedness. Don't ship slop.
Appease the user of now, or build an enduring legacy that can keep building: the early-game people will forever protest & scream about how bad the late-game builds are at doing the thing, but the late game people almost never ever get the respect & accolades for ascertaining & achieving the true long term objectives. But if they weren't there, there's such a real chance the whole enterprise might have fallen over & collapsed.
Not required, but you can solder a Multi Link Operation wire between multiple cards (within a single system), to enable them to work in concert together (basically as a 4x4 or whatnot). In case you still really miss soldering extra shit onto your cards!!
I really hope we see Tesla lose hard the same way X loses hard:
By being greedy little good for nothing shits with their incredibly stingy ass API, and this leaving themselves open to disruption & being radically outcompeted by other companies, who are happy to let 3rd parties work for free to improve the experience.
It's just so sad when we squander so much vast possibility that digital connectivity enabled by senselessly pricing it so that only very few people can access and improve things. What a sad pitiful waste.
If I was a giant state running massive disinformation/propaganda campaigns, I'd be hella hella concerned about Bluesky.
Because the data is open, be cause researchers journalists academics & other best bedfellows of open society are going to be overjoyed, are going to be so happy to have a platform where once again research about the network & it's behaviors is possible.
R I fucking P Twitter. We slid so hard to a closed scary world overrun by a brand of speech that invasive as all fuck, an invisible shielded propaganda arm from all kinds of governments and actors, when Twitter fell, when the researchers all got kicked off the API. Such a huge democratic western civilization concern, having a noosphere where we can't see where information comes from, where the social network is a dark forest.
WTMD, Colorado Sound, WEQX, Koto.fm, Mountain Chill, WETA, WMRW, 102 Cue, KCRW all get a lot of play around here.
Radio feels dead because most places have been taken over by a couple major broadcasters. Radio is awesome when people care about it, is still a fantastic institution of lots of small local shops doing amazing things for great good.
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