This is suprisingly level headed. But the problem goes away the moment social media giants go away. The problem with the internet are the monopolies. Once you don’t have monopolies the free market can function. Censorship ceases to be a problem when a single platform doesn’t dominate the conversation.
I still think DDG is better than Google. Google can connect your search with lots of other services (email, youtube, android…). DDG obviously can’t do that.
John Oliver was great when his show first launched, but in the past years he just became a spokesperson for the American mainstream. This sounds like he’s going back to his roots as a troll. I like it.
Ukrainians are white people. That is why the western world cares about their suffering. Ethiopians are not white, so their suffering is beneath the notice of Western democracies.
Organic Maps looks like a great map, just learned about it.
One nitpick: it looks like the map used by Organic Maps is behind the currently available map in openstreetmap.org. Does anyone know why? I don’t see edits around my house that I merged months ago.
## Highlights
- Sample rate switching should work again.
- pw-dot can now use the output of pw-dump to render a graph.
- Bluetooth A2DP streaming was improved that would reduce stuttering on
some devices.
- A JACK bug was fixed that would sometimes make it impossible to add more
tracks in Ardour. (#1714)
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a potential crash when NULL params were configured.
- Add some simple functional tests to avoid some recent regressions. Improve
the test framework for this as well.
- Improvements to the poll loop to avoid some use-after-free scenarios.
- Fix samplerate switching again.
- setlocale is not called anymore from the pipewire library. This should be
called by the application. (#2223)
- pw_init() and pw_deinit() can now be nested and called multiple times.
- pw_stream will now report the resampler delay in the pw_time.queued field.
## modules
- module-filter-chain now supports arbitrary many properties and will use
property hints to assign them the right type.
- The ROC modules now accept a sink/source_properties parameter.
- The module-rt can now also be built without RT-Kit support.
- module-echo-cancel can now use a fraction to specify the delay for more
precise control.
## SPA
- The channelmixer will now do upmixing by default and will not use
normalization. It will also use a simple upmixing algorithm that duplicates
channels by default. A more interesting upmix method is also available (PSD)
but needs to be enabled manually. (#861)
- Add SSE optimized (de)interleave functions for 32 bits samples with and
without byteswap.
- JSON parsing of empty strings will now give an invalid number instead of
0.
- JSON numbers are now parsed and serialized in a locale independent way so
that , and . are not mixed up.
- The resampler will now report the resample delay and queued samples as the
extra delay.
## tools
- pw-cat will read more dsf files correctly and will not crash at the end.
- pw-top now has a man page.
- pw-dot can now use the output of pw-dump to render a graph.
## bluetooth
- Improve interactions with oFono.
- Fix recovery with slow connections.
- Improve frame size of AptX-ll.
- A2DP can now use any quantum and will flush packets in smaller chunks
when needed to adapt. This improves stuttering in some cases.
## pulse-server
- The server configuration can now be placed in pulse.properties section,
which also makes it possible to have custom overrides.
- Implement FIX_ flags for capture as well.
- Small fixes and improvements in module loading.
## JACK
- Clear the last error before executing a new action or else we could end up
with error from a previous action. This causes some problems in Ardour where
adding a track would fail after some time. (#1714)
Countless dead Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria…
Many in Cuba impoverished by an unjust embargo…
Do we need more examples? The West is extremely hypocritical.