jaxter184

@jaxter184@social.linux.pizza

full-stack musician

hexagon^W aperiodic monotile enthusiast

In order of proficiency: eng, kor, deu, jpn, swe

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jaxter184, to random

we did it, reddit
https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.184

jaxter184,

now we can go back to incrementing the "days since last rustlang incident" counter

hailey, to random
@hailey@hails.org avatar

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

https://github.com/haileys/bark

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

jaxter184,

@hailey this looks really great! what are you using for your devices?

jaxter184,

@tommythorn @hailey yeah, i originally asked because i had vague desires to make a PoE AES67 speaker, but i got bogged down in the research. just a little ESP32 with regular UDP messages seems much more reasonable.

jaxter184,

@tommythorn @adafruit is the ESP32-C3 not already available? I'm pretty sure ive had one laying around somewhere for like a year at least

jaxter184,

@tommythorn @adafruit aha, i see, neat!

gerrymcgovern, to random
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

Keep digital devices for as long as possible

Hold on to your devices for as long as possible. It’s the single most important thing you can do to. Up to 80% of CO2 and other pollution is caused during the manufacture of a digital device.

We need smartphones that last 10 years.
We need laptops that last 20 years.

What you can do

  1. Hold onto your digital device for as long as possible (at least five years).
  2. Get your device repaired if it breaks.
  3. Buy from a brand like Fairphone.
jaxter184,

@gerrymcgovern whats this statistic from? im curious what they consider a "digital device". do cars and trucks and ships count? what about kids toys? 80% is higher than id expect if theyre just talking about computers et al.

though more repairs is something i can get behind regardless. e-waste seems like it would be particularly harmful in a landfill, so the less of it there is, the better.

jaxter184, to random

me applying for jobs: Why won't anyone hire me?

me during interviews: Here is an itemized list of reasons why hiring me would be risky, and if you ask me any questions about my skills, I will go "uhhhhh" for about 10 seconds before giving a very vague answer

matdevdug, to firefox
@matdevdug@c.im avatar

I am devastated that has decided to become an company and I’m going to have to go back to using . As a user, Google Meet is horrible software. Roughly 20% failure rate, either audio has issues or video quality collapses even on gigabit wired connections from both parties.

My dream is decides to finally offer a cross-platform version of group calls which remains the best audio and video quality I’ve ever seen in video conferencing. The 32 user limit would sometimes be a problem, but otherwise it’s really stellar software.

If you have a headset that supports spatial audio and you close your eyes, it is like the person is in the room with you. It’s that good.

jaxter184,

@matdevdug is there something about jitsi that prevents you from using it?

jaxter184,

@matdevdug ah, i see, i didnt realize your goal was to convince your company to switch. good luck!

attie, to random
@attie@chaos.social avatar

I like to pull the audio out of long-form video essays, and listen while I'm trying to get to sleep... I've also used comedy radio shows in the past.

The key is to be interested in the subject matter, but not so interested that you prick up your ears and listen. It's by far the best method for getting to sleep I've ever found.

I like a bunch of Hbomberguy's, and I've got my eyes on Philosophy Tube's recent video on "what is the law?" ...

Any other suggestions? 😀

jaxter184,

@attie if the visuals and theatrics aren't important, i think 99% invisible might fit the bill? if you don't mind ads, Wonderful is also really nice and reasonably mellow (both podcasts)

timClicks, to random
@timClicks@mastodon.nz avatar

Remember when Jon Gjengset, Luca Palmieri, Tim McNamara, Lucio Franco and Sean McArthur all worked at AWS? April feels like a long time ago.

jaxter184,

@timClicks doesnt amazon have notoriously high turnover rates?

jaxter184, to random

I built a tray holder last month for organizing my various projects. It has been full since about a week after I built it. My gut reaction is to build another one. I should be a highway planner.

jaxter184,
xirin2u, to pixelart
@xirin2u@mastodon.social avatar

Would it be acceptable for me to stand...?

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

video/mp4

jaxter184,

@xirin2u gosh i love the little "boop" whenever a bird lands on their head

nash, to random
@nash@labyrinth.social avatar

the interesting thing about 'then' and 'thin' is the vowels make the same sound, but the 'th's make different sounds

jaxter184,

@heavenlyevan @nash to add to this: phonemes are defined by "minimal pairs", which more or less says that in order for something to be considered a distinct phoneme, there has to be a pair of words that are exactly the same except for one sound. for example, a minimal pair for voiced/unvoiced TH is "thy" and "thigh".

It follows that even if the sounds are different (the "p" in "spin" is different from the "p" in "pin"), if there is no minimal pair, then it is not considered a distinct phoneme

dapgo, to random

"If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production"by Pete Seeger #right2repair https://repair.eu

jaxter184,

@dapgo "returned to the earth" sounds cooler than "composted"

ameo, to random
@ameo@mastodon.ameo.dev avatar

Trying out TikZ and really liking the results so far

Thinking I'm probably going to stick with this for the blog post's vizs

jaxter184,

@ameo heck yeah, these are beautiful

zersiax, to random
@zersiax@cupoftea.social avatar

random observation but why do so very many #TTS voices make absolutely no distinction between a period and an exclamation mark when the screen reader leaves it up to the TTS voice to interpret them? Question marks, no problem. Exclamation marks ...nope. Just like a period. They are different, folks!

jaxter184,

@zersiax im no pro, but id imagine that making a voice synth "exclaim" isnt necessarily trivial. the way "i cant believe youve done this!" is emoted depends on whether the speaker is pleasantly surprised or angry. also, it might hurt intelligibility in some cases.

that being said, it would be nice if the minimum expectation was to have something, even if its not perfect.

clarfonthey, to rust

since I'm particularly looking to Stir Controversy lately: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/discussions/6762

I decided to open a discussion on the crates.io repository to remove the dedicated cryptocurrencies category

jaxter184,

@clarfonthey while my support of your proposal cant be understated, i think youve mischaracterized burntsushi in this post. I don't mean to put words in someone elses mouth, but from what ive read in the discussion you linked in the issue, I think he'd either be in support of or indifferent towards your suggestion, as long as it wasnt accompanied by some sort of editorialized statement.

MLE_online, to random
@MLE_online@social.afront.org avatar

Owens Lake and rocks

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jaxter184,

@MLE_online if i didnt know they were rocks, i would want to eat them

deshipu, to random
@deshipu@fosstodon.org avatar

What is the opposite of bureaucracy?

jaxter184,

@deshipu If bureaucracy is a distribution of power across a net of intersecting motivations that makes decisions slow but careful, then the opposite would be autocracy, all the power concentrated in a single individual who is allowed to make decisions at the snap of their fingers.

I'm mostly thinking about this in relation to the "BDFL vs design by committee" tradeoff of software projects.

jaxter184, to random

ooh, i almost missed it; happy 184th day of the year everyone

jacqueline, to random
@jacqueline@chaos.social avatar

i have no idea who the new miniware solder station is for, but it’s really cool.

the iron part has no battery!! just a really huge supercapacitor that the base station charges (thank u @ErinRose for finding internal pic)

the inside of the soldering iron. fully half of it is just a single enormous capacitor

jaxter184,

@jacqueline @artemist interrupting to sing the praises of the TS80P: I've been using one for years, and I like it a lot. I haven't used a high-end pro soldering iron, but it's loads better than my old $60 solder station. The biggest benefit for me is how quickly it heats up (at least specifically for the tips; the portability is also super nice). It's ready to go within 8 seconds of turning it on. Pinecil tips are probably just as good, I've just never used them.

jaxter184, to random

i think ive invented a variant of ghost leg for creating random pairs from a single group? (instead of pairing random pairs between two different groups like in regular ghost leg)

jaxter184,

honestly, someone has probably done it somewhere at some point, but i thought it was neat, and worth documenting. it seems like it's guaranteed to never match something with itself, which makes sense if you think of each leg as swapping the position of two items

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