There's a really cool project for the Organelle called Orac[1] that turns it into a super cool modular synthesizer. It's also available for Raspberry Pi and Bela Salt

[1] https://github.com/TheTechnobear/Orac

I was expecting this to use some formats that aren't from 2012. It would be interesting to see a neural network that could decide text for more complex meme formats that trend on twitter and instagram.

Yeah, I immediately looked for a date on this - feels like "neural net generates ancient text using ancient tomes"

Really not the same thing. You could produce the same C++ program in Notepad that you could in any other editor or IDE. Here the artist is working with restricted tools in a way that the restriction becomes part of the work itself

Not really, there are a few people in the world that CAN create an image pixel by pixel using MS paint and make it look like a photo (the top people on hyper-realism) and get the very same result they would get using Photoshop, just taking tons of more time.

And even if the "restricted tools" do make a difference we are splitting hairs here, because we can create a similar equivalence, e.g. a c++ program with artificial restrictions: A program where you can't use your own classes or structs, or a program that can't be bigger than 1KB, and so on.

As an intern in a Google training program in Brazil, they gave us the project to make a crawler, without any c++ libs other than curl.

It was difficult, but we really learned a lot.

I found it confusing it was mentioned in this article because of this. I wonder if they just wanted to show off how elegant arrow functions are and used those as an example?

It's not just design, there's also a heavy reliance on Mac only (or at least Mac and Windows only) pro video and audio programs. I will say though, I've always loved running Linux on desktops where this isn't the use case.

>It's not just design, there's also a heavy reliance on Mac only (or at least Mac and Windows only) pro video and audio programs.

It's even more so in programming. Go to any developer conference, whether it's for Rails, C, Java, Haskell or whatever: a huge percentage there will have MacBook Pros, much much more than the percentage of Mac users in the general market (e.g 10% in the general market and 40 to 60% in developer circles).

Which goes to say how silly the notion that "Mac's are for users who don't know about computers" is.

Macs are for users who want a working GUI and/or a UNIX subsystem, and don't want to do any self-building and/or tinkering.

> "Mac's are for users who don't know about computers"

I honestly haven't heard that argument in years from anyone I'd consider in touch with the current state of tech.

And for a decade I was right there with you on the OSX == *nix plus creature comforts.

But the landscape has changed since that argument held sway for me. Linux has gotten way less fiddly, and the size of my scripts to keep macOS on the straight and narrow has gotten larger.

And Mac OS X has an absolutely shitty software package management "ecosystem". App Store is shitty; compared to apt and dpkg. Brew is the only thing that helps me stay reasonably sane on OS X. But still; to "remove" any large commercial software is basically: reinstall the OS.

You see the same in virtually any physics department (I'm not aware of a similar trend in other STEM subjects, but presumably). Everyone uses a mixture of Linux and OS X. At the start of my PhD, the question wasn't "What laptop do you want?" it was "Do you want a Macbook or an iMac?"

Yes but the MacOS operating system is becoming more and more dumbed down in the UI experience, which nullifies most of the "its got a good UI" argument.

We do have DaVinci resolve and natron.fr available free now which are better than any I've used before so video editing in Linux is improving.

It's fixed in the dev channel, it just hasn't propagated to stable or beta yet.

I believe the significance is that Gnome 3.X+ relies on systemd? Though I may be mistaken.

My thoughts exactly. I'd love an article about how difficult (if it was at all) to port and run on BSD.

GNOME 3.16 optionally uses systemd interfaces. It still includes support for pre-systemd ways of doing things.

Well, "optionally" in the sense that you can non-trivially excise and shim your way into a working system (the patches for 3.14 on Slackware, at least, are non-trivial and I'd imagine it's even more invasive on OpenBSD which doesn't have, for instance, /proc or /sys). Personally, I can't stand GNOME 3.X so I haven't looked too closely, but even just a couple of versions ago OpenBSD could only do "fallback".

your comment is disingenuous. if GNOME still included support for pre-systemd ways of doing things:

1) why was this video even made to celebrate such a port, if it was trivial?

2) perhaps you can show us where the systemd interfaces were merely "optional" in GNOME?

Fest?

This looks really promising! I'll probably use it to make diagrams for org-mode in Emacs.

One thing though, please charge for it. I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to throw money at you for this.

Thank you :)

Yes, we are going to charge for it because we have to - we are a very small independent software studio without any funding.

The future of the software belongs in the hands of our users, they will decide if our work is worth it and support us financially.

It is the only reason I jailbreak, I couldn't deal without it.