I’ve learned over the years that there’s a big knowledge gap in the world when it comes to understanding the legal landscape of music ownership. I find this topic fascinating, and terrifying in some cases (cue the classic horror movie orchestra). Anyway, here’s a story for your Friday afternoon:

https://subj.am/copyright-performing-and-music-rights-oh-my/

Cheers,
Jordan

#copyright #cc #creativecommons #license #music #subjam

Copyright, Performing and Music Rights (oh my)

The Journey Begins... I've learned over the years that there's a big knowledge gap in the world when it comes to understanding the legal landscape of music ownership. I find this topic fascinating, and terrifying in some cases (cue the classic horror movie orchestra). Anyway, here's a story for your Friday afternoon: A long time [...]

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Makerfabs MaTouch ESP32-P4 10.1-inch HMI display features 4G LTE and Ethernet connectivity, a 2MP camera

Makerfabs MaTouch ESP32-P4 TFTTouch 10.1 MIPI with 4G LTE is an ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C6-based display development platform for HMI edge AI, and connected embedded applications. The development board features a 10.1-inch IPS LCD, very similar to those of Seeed Studio’s reTerminal D1001, Waveshare ESP32-P4-WIFI6-Touch-LCD, and CrowPanel Advanced 7-inch displays. However, what makes it unique compared to other devices is that it also features a SIM7670G 4G LTE modem with a SIM card slot, an RJ45 Ethernet jack, and a 2MP camera. The HMI display also comes with microphone and speaker connectors, a microSD card slot, various USB interfaces, lithium battery support, and two 2.54 mm pitch GPIO expansion headers exposing UART, I2C, SPI, and other peripheral interfaces. All these features make it suitable for HMI, edge AI, and connected embedded applications. Makerfabs MaTouch ESP32-P4 10.1-inch 4G LTE specifications: SoC – Espressif Systems ESP32-P4NRW32 CPU Dual-core 32-bit RISC-V HP (High-performance) CPU @ up to 400

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❯ use #cc-token-saver mcp to summarize commit message

● All 9 tools are now live. Let me load the schemas and grab the recent commits to summarize.

Called cc-token-saver, ran 1 shell command

● It works — qwen2.5-coder:7b via Ollama responded directly through the MCP tool. The local LLM summarized the 10 commits in one call, no Claude tokens spent on it.

Now let me also try generate_commit_message on the actual last diff so you can see it end-to-end:

Called cc-token-saver, ran 2 shell commands

● Both tools working perfectly via Ollama. Here's what just happened:

- summarize_text — condensed 10 commit log lines into a 60-word paragraph, focusing on "what changed and why"
- generate_commit_message — read the diff and produced refactor(debian): move and update files for package structure with a two-line body, following Conventional Commits — entirely on your local GPU, zero Claude tokens spent

#ItWorks #Agent #LLM #MCP

Tagirijus Music - Enigmatic Facts

A mysterious and very minimalistic piano piece with abandoned sound. Perfect for enigmatic film scenes or investigative documentaries.

Tagirijus Music - Enigmatic Facts
Some upcoming changes - 2D Game Development: From Zero To Hero by Penaz

Hello everyone, It's been a long while, hasn't it? I'll try to keep this short, there are some upcoming changes that will impact the project itself, but shouldn't impact you, as readers, too much. I a...

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Closing down our short lived Federated Community. (Would love for someone to take over)

You can track the main post on our community while it is still up (https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/topic/46/unfinishedprojects-will-be-closing-down.)

But essentially our community that was started not too long ago was an experiment by myself and two others who were hoping to create a space on the fediverse that acted as a sort of Commons for people to iterate and work on various Openly licensed projects together (of all types, to include not only software but all various disciplines). See here for more on what our community hoped to become: [ https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Vision ]

In short, it is a combination of a federated forum and a public Wiki, where individuals can collaborate and contribute to a wide array of projects - using their diverse skills, knowledge and experience - to create a hub of open projects… and allowing individuals to make small contributions without needing to commit long term to any one project.

The reason I am posting this is not to promote the platform (because I have already tried and mostly failed), but because I truly still believe in the ideas and vision that we had for it. Ultimately, I just realized that I am not able to be the one to bring this vision to life.

Although I know it’s unlikely, it would be nice if someone else saw the same potential for this platform to create a space on the internet that fights against the internet that “big tech” has been pushing for it to become.

So all that to say, I hope that this short lived experiment can either inspire someone else to iterate and improve on our failed attempt, or maybe even “take over” the already existing platform.

Either way, it was a short lived experiment, but I enjoyed the journey and the few connections I made along the way! If nothing else, it helped me reflect on our current standing of internet spaces, and what they might someday be able to evolve into given we have enough buy-in from like minded individuals.

I know most of you have probably never heard of our platform, but for those of you that have and engaged with it in any way, I appreciate your time and I apologize for any wasted time or effort in our shutting down after only launching recently.

  • Anthony and the Unfinished Projects Team

Closing down our short lived Federated Community. (Would love for someone to take over)

You can track the main post on our community while it is still up (https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/topic/46/unfinishedprojects-will-be-closing-down.)

But essentially our community that was started not too long ago was an experiment by myself and two others who were hoping to create a space on the fediverse that acted as a sort of Commons for people to iterate and work on various Openly licensed projects together (of all types, to include not only software but all various disciplines). See here for more on what our community hoped to become: [ https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Vision ]

In short, it is a combination of a federated forum and a public Wiki, where individuals can collaborate and contribute to a wide array of projects - using their diverse skills, knowledge and experience - to create a hub of open projects… and allowing individuals to make small contributions without needing to commit long term to any one project.

The reason I am posting this is not to promote the platform (because I have already tried and mostly failed), but because I truly still believe in the ideas and vision that we had for it. Ultimately, I just realized that I am not able to be the one to bring this vision to life.

Although I know it’s unlikely, it would be nice if someone else saw the same potential for this platform to create a space on the internet that fights against the internet that “big tech” has been pushing for it to become.

So all that to say, I hope that this short lived experiment can either inspire someone else to iterate and improve on our failed attempt, or maybe even “take over” the already existing platform.

Either way, it was a short lived experiment, but I enjoyed the journey and the few connections I made along the way! If nothing else, it helped me reflect on our current standing of internet spaces, and what they might someday be able to evolve into given we have enough buy-in from like minded individuals.

I know most of you have probably never heard of our platform, but for those of you that have and engaged with it in any way, I appreciate your time and I apologize for any wasted time or effort in our shutting down after only launching recently.

  • Anthony and the Unfinished Projects Team
UTFS is a lightweight, zero-allocation file system for embedded devices

CLI Systems has introduced UTFS (μTFS), a simple, lightweight embedded storage system designed for small MCUs. Unlike traditional file systems like FAT32 or EXT4, or even lighter options like LittleFS and SPIFFS used on boards like the ESP32, UTFS is much simpler. It does not use dynamic memory and avoids complex features like wear leveling, making it easier to use on low-resource devices. Designed for flat, byte-addressable memory like raw EEPROM, CPU flash pages, or external SPI/I²C flash, UTFS allows bare-metal firmware to store named data blobs ("files") back-to-back. Each file is appended with a fixed 24-byte header containing metadata like identifiers, sizes, and application-defined signatures. UTFS specifications and features Footprint – Fixed 24-byte header per file; zero heap usage (no malloc) Format – TAR-inspired sequential layout; forward-compatible so files can be added later without breaking existing memory layouts Storage Agnostic – Requires porting only two functions to interface with

CNX Software - Embedded Systems News
🌗 記憶體安全的內嵌組語實作
➤ 當高效原生指令遇上嚴格的安全性規範
https://fil-c.org/inlineasm
雖然傳統 C/C++ 的內嵌組語(Inline Assembly)常因開發者疏忽而導致編譯錯誤或記憶體崩潰,但 Fil-C 透過一套創新的安全檢測機制,成功讓內嵌組語既能保持高效的原生運作,又具備強大的記憶體安全性。本文探討了為什麼專案需要支援內嵌組語(如效能優化、原子操作與加密演算法需求),並詳細說明 Fil-C 如何在 LLVM IR 層級解析組語模板與約束條件,透過嚴格的指令檢查確保程式在發生錯誤時僅會觸發陷阱(Trap)而非導致系統崩潰,開創了記憶體安全語言的新標竿。
+ 這對舊有 C/C++ 專案移植到現代安全環境來說簡直是福音,不用再為了相容性被迫重寫大量的底層程式碼了。
+ 雖然概念很棒,但「記憶體存取」的部分目前仍被列為不支援(Out of scope),這意味著如果要處理複雜的系統呼叫或記憶體操作,仍然得依賴 Fil-C 的特定 API,離完全的自動化轉換還有一段距離。
#程式語言 #編譯器設計 #記憶體安全 #CC++
Memory Safe Inline Assembly

🌘 利用 Computed Goto 實現高效的分派表(Dispatch Tables)
➤ 從編譯器優化與分支預測角度,剖析虛擬機效能提升之道。
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-efficient-dispatch-tables
本文探討了在 C 語言編寫的字節碼虛擬機中,使用 GCC 擴展功能「Computed Goto」替代傳統 `switch` 語句以提升執行效率的技術。作者透過自建小型虛擬機進行實測,發現 Computed Goto 能有效減少編譯器生成的邊界檢查邏輯,並顯著優化 CPU 的分支預測表現。實驗結果顯示,該做法在效能上比傳統 `switch` 快約 15% 至 25%,許多主流虛擬機如 Python (CPython)、Ruby (YARV) 及 Dalvik 均採用此技術來加速指令調度。
+ 這篇文章精闢地解釋了為何 CPython 在處理字節碼分派時會選擇這種看起來有點「非標準」的寫法,對於理解編譯器底層行為非常有幫助。
#Assembly #CC++ #虛擬機技術
Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables - Eli Bendersky's website