falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

as the person who pushed for the alpine core team (now TSC) to adopt a policy of rejecting telemetry features in alpine-packaged software, i have opinions on flathub

mostly i am concerned that pushing users to use vendor-provided builds distributed on flathub may be exposing users to harmful software misfeatures like telemetry in ways that they would not if those same users installed packages from a distribution which patches out these misfeatures as a matter of policy

i wish that flathub would explicitly ban telemetry and check for telemetry features during their review processes. i would be more likely to recommend flatpak in more cases if they did.

@falktx Dude! This looks amazing! I just bought a bass recently so I'm watching with interest. :) Steve from the open source musician podcast days! Good to see your face again in the video. :)

any TU Berlin students here? there's a brand new Open Source Hardware seminar this semester (MNT will also make an appearance if it happens) and so far only 3 students registered! they need at least 5 to make it work, so if you're interested or know potential candidates at TU, spread the word: https://www.tu.berlin/qw/studium-lehre/lehrveranstaltungen/oshs-open-source-hardware-seminar

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

Many people are thinking about ditching various US tech giants so I thought I'd try out how far I can go. I tried living about a month with as little Google, Microsoft, Apple & co as possible!

Here's the video:
https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-1-month-without-us-tech-giants

(On Nebula right now, YouTube coming later)

@amadeus You need to statically link plugins to not rely on any external resources. Sadly JUCE changed the default to dynamic link when Jules left...

As for flatpak. Nobody should distribute plugins in that format, it's not just technically wrong (sandboxing DSP) but also violates all plugin standards out there.

We finally got fixed system wide locations standardized (thanks VST3, CLAP, LV2), only for flatpak to come along and ruin it.

@falktx I added open source labels now but need to go through the list again to make sure I catched all of the OS developers. Thanks again for the suggestion!

Sonoj Convention 2025 – Oct 18–19, Cologne Independent event for those who create music and sound with computers—whether recording real instruments or working with digital tools. Visitor registration open, contributions for talks & concert / open mic welcome! https://sonoj.org/convention #music #audio #opensource

My workshop on #Ardour #Lua Scripting was accepted at the #linuxaudio conference.

Come join me in Marie Curie Library in Lyon on June 26th, 17h

Registration is free: https://jimlac25.inria.fr/register/#register-to-lac-25

PS. There will be macarons :)

Darkglass Electron announced Anagram, a multi-FX processor for the bass. It runs embedded Linux, uses open-source neural modeling tech, and relies on an LV2 plugins host and some FOSS plugins. @falktx is one of the fathers :)

https://librearts.org/2025/04/meet-anagram-a-linux-powered-bass-fx-processor/