catnash [she/her, ae/aer]

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  • You’re correct but in my experience everything I’ve used at a venue is analog, running almost entirely off of the mixing desk, without an external computer running Win/Mac/Linux. And half of these consoles I’ve used had a USB port which was used for, among other things, storing templates. This allowed for our front-of-house mix engineers and monitor mix engineers to cruise along because most of the work was done at home or in other venues. The software for writing those was Windows/Mac at the least, I don’t know if any used Linux and I’m not sure if they were “human-readable” text formats.

    At that price point I’m not so motivated to work on something FOSS, I care more for working with the hand-to-mouth musicians than the large institutions.



  • This is about FOSS and I can’t see that Audiotool is FOSS, and Samplers are not Sample Libraries. Sample Libraries are ubiquitous among producers who want a good sounding recreation of a real instrument but cannot afford (or morally support), for example, Pianoteq’s modelling algorithms or Spitfire’s premium libraries, neither of which are FOSS, or the instrument itself or a session player.

    As I said, the most promising multi-sampler or sample library software with an active community was Decent Sampler, which isn’t open-source and now supports DRM.






  • It’s not about the files, I’m very happy with files being local and easily synced and messed with. It is as you say, you create a folder which Obsidian reads as a “vault” and create .md files and folders in there, plus the hidden folders that let Obsidian organise plugins…

    But I’m also not exclusively using it on Android, it’s my desktop driver for just about everything text. Especially please with the community plugins which make it extremely accessible for someone with additional needs when it comes to reading or writing, the recent improvements to tables and the plugins that integrate it with Pandoc and Zotero.

    I was never able to replace what it was with anything except maybe Logseq, and even the Logseq couldn’t replace all of the functionality and theming. I tried living a few days in Logseq, just moving my vault there, but it didn’t work so well.

    It’s not a major issue, I would like to move to FOSS but it’s not an emergency like moving away from Google is an emergency.









  • This functional consequence of defederation is telling their users they shouldn’t be allowed to interact with an instance.

    Again, if lemmy.blahaj.zone’s admin team have stated Threads has a transphobia problem (and they have) then I’m not going to tell them they’re wrong (ignoring the fact that I agree with them) because, as admins, they’ve seen more than I have and if I’m on their instance I’m implicitly putting my trust in them. My trust has been well-placed, so far. If you do not trust your instance’s admins to make decisions you find reasonable, find a new instance.

    Moving servers is certainly a viable option, but it’s a pain and doesn’t transfer content

    On one level I agree but that’s the case with moving any social media without linking it and saying “This used to be mine, I don’t maintain it anymore”. I see no reason why federations (or “bubbles”) in the fediverse should be held to a higher standard. I suppose I just can’t relate because I don’t particularly care much about the things I post and I’m only really in one place: here. In any case I can empathise with the fact moving instance is a pain but if your instance admins make decisions you don’t like you should consider leaving it before you fall in to the Sunk Cost Fallacy and have even more posts you can’t port over!

    you can block instances.

    A user blocking instances isn’t the same as instances defederating. The difference between user-level blocking and instance-level defederation is that (1.) users need to see the offending content to be able to know to block it and (2.) I do not want bad-actors to see my content and want to put as many walls as possible up to stop them from seeing my content and interacting with me.

    In either case this thread is about instances defederating from Threads. If moderators and admins notice their modlog or pending actions have a disproportionate amount of users misbehaving from a certain instance they might consider defederating until the instance can instill a more acceptable culture as it’ll clear the queue up in future. Some communities and instances have already done this pre-emptively.

    Your desire to have Threads blocked at the instance level is at odds with Katy’s desire to follow trans people on it.

    Again, if an instance does not align with your values you can and probably should move instance. Maintaining an account on both two instances is as simple as having two different tabs. I would also advocate for improved tooling to transfer your content. The right to choose extends as far as your instance admins allow you the right to choose.