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New comment by _spduchamp in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

_spduchamp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:35:44 +0000

This post seems yo raise speculation, not end it.

Is LibreOffice at risk?

New comment by _spduchamp in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

_spduchamp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:17:03 +0000

I like this idea of building your own software to run your own business rather than trying to sell software.

My wife and I run a small chain of second-hand clothing stores that buy from the public, and we run it on our own custom software built on top of a rails e-commerce engine. (Solidus) We don't do anything online, but instead use the engine to run our point-of-sale and credit system. We have one part-time developer who works from home and occasionally comes and works directly with the staff in the stores, and now she leans a little on Claude for assistance.

I would never want the hassle of trying to make our system work for other companies. I love that we have a system that can adapt and change based on our needs without being beholden to some else's SaaS.

If we were to rebuild it all today, we'd probably lean even harder on Claude, but still work using a good open source e-commerce framework.

New comment by _spduchamp in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

_spduchamp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:56:45 +0000

BeOS had the BEST icons.

New comment by _spduchamp in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

_spduchamp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:53:47 +0000

This is me. It's like a super power.

New comment by _spduchamp in "A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas"

_spduchamp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:37:53 +0000

What a coincidence... I was just in my backyard shed playing with my robot chopstick. https://youtu.be/BhBXliscj0I

New comment by _spduchamp in "MIDI 2.0 (and enhanced MIDI 1.0) comes to Windows 11"

_spduchamp — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:21:11 +0000

Yup, has been for a while but it seems a lot of people were waiting for the dust to settle with Windows support. With that now released and the APIs locked down, there are some things starting to happen, such as JUCE now supporting MIDI 2.0.

New comment by _spduchamp in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

_spduchamp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:56:47 +0000

Well that's just beyond.

New comment by _spduchamp in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

_spduchamp — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:05:05 +0000

How about a button?

I'd prefer to physically press a button on an intercom box than having something churning away constantly processing sound.

New comment by _spduchamp in "BC got rid of Daylight Savings"

_spduchamp — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:22:52 +0000

Here is the petition for Canada to standardise on standard time.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Peti...

Health research supports staying with standard time. Staying with daylight savings may be good for business, but businesses can adjust, while our bodies can't.

New comment by _spduchamp in "Running Neural Amp Modeler on embedded hardware"

_spduchamp — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:47:56 +0000

This seems geared towards make a microcontroller do that one thing, so that's fine if you are aiming at having lots of little boxes all connected on your pedalboard.

That's cool, but I'm curious about the whole virtual pedalboard thing to make it all more affordable, adaptable, and easier to change between setups while playing live.

Here is a project that seems to do a pretty good job at creating a UI for all this virtual pedal stuff... https://rerdavies.github.io/pipedal/

I've only dabbled with it a bit. I'm still trying to figure out good robust hardware setup for this that works for how I play shows.

New comment by _spduchamp in "QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)"

_spduchamp — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:23:40 +0000

A bit like the ANS synthesiser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer

And with sonograms you can do live manipulation like this... https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU

New comment by _spduchamp in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

_spduchamp — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:56:13 +0000

Now THAT is a nice looking device!

New comment by _spduchamp in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

_spduchamp — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:02:14 +0000

For years I've been so close to ordering one of their previous generation phones, and now I feel like I've dodged a bullet by not buying from this company. This new phone is a huge step in the wrong direction.

Can someone please release a nice Sidekick like device with physical keyboard that supports Signal.

New comment by _spduchamp in "Dancing around the rhythm space with Euclid"

_spduchamp — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:47:50 +0000

I've been experimenting with rhythms like Euclideans but using oscillators in Pure Data. One main oscillator for BPM, and then up to 5 oscillators with frequencies set ratios of the main oscillator. Adjust the amplitudes and phases of the oscillators, add them all together and stike a beat at the zero crossings. This makes for a very interesting way to play stuff morphing between rhythms.

Recently, I've has some success at working out ways to derive some of the Euclidean rhythms by solving for the zero crossings, so now I'm pretty sure that this continuous rhythm synthesis is also capable of all the Euclidean variations.

Experiments: https://youtu.be/zeHJXyyhJ70 https://youtu.be/zILWhOu--Go

A little performance using a Gametrak controller. https://youtu.be/SlSujIOGamk

New comment by _spduchamp in "Generative Optogenetics"

_spduchamp — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:33:30 +0000

Did I miss a Black Mirror episode?

New comment by _spduchamp in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

_spduchamp — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:14:09 +0000

I use a google spreadsheet. Shortcut on my phone home screen so I can add items any time easily.

I log all my lab work and how many hours I've worked in a day and it calculates my hours in a separate tab automatically. Items I need to follow up on are in bold, and get unbolded when I've followed up on them. When I have to write a report, everything is there in chronological order and it is super easy to take the relevant lines and write out the path of my work. When I get into the lab, I open my sheet and bam! I'm right where I left off before I can have the first sip of coffee.

This has been a complete game changer for me.

I've never been so organized in my life.

New comment by _spduchamp in "DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution"

_spduchamp — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:54:12 +0000

You can find Bill Atkinson's open-source instructions for Jaguar (5-MeO-DMT) Vape Pens from a link here: https://boingboing.net/2025/07/10/apples-bill-atkinson-creat...

New comment by _spduchamp in "Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation"

_spduchamp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:02:27 +0000

Thank you for the confirmation.

New comment by _spduchamp in "Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation"

_spduchamp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:32:11 +0000

Oh wow! I think I found part of the problem. I replied earlier about algorithmic accountability, and the need for Algorithm Impact Assessments, and I got a snarky reply and down voted like I've never seen before. I guess accountability hits a nerve.

So I'll just say...

Algorithm Impact Assessments

New comment by _spduchamp in "Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation"

_spduchamp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:44:50 +0000

Algorithmic Accountability. Not just for AI, but also social media, advertising, voting systems, etc. Algorithm Impact Assessments need to become mandatory.