Yesterday, I boosted a post with a music stem separator for Windows. I have since tried it, and it's amazing. The interface is simple and basic, and the outputs of my first test were great. It kept a bit of keyboard in the vocals, but that was the only problem, and it has a bunch of models I could try. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jnicbs8cjc8orukpe8vhv/AA2n8ya1sWTvldMvyslOk_0?rlkey=au1g8jwx30xub8n9b5uks8gv5&e=1&dl=0
Alex Hall
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I have a computer science degree and work in IT. I'm a fan of Apple, but not to an extreme. I enjoy playing acoustic guitar and electric bass. I'm blind.
More on the stem separator: at least for the default models, it seems to assume that instruments will be present. If your song has guitars, bass, drums, piano, and vocals, it'll do fine. I threw a song at it that had vocals, several horns, drums, and an organ-style keyboard, and it didn't get those at all. I imagine I'd have to choose models meant for such instruments, but there are a LOT of models, and they don't always have helpful names.
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/116346873808693566
With quote support, timeline ordering, streaming, and some of the other features, this might become my main Mastodon app. I love my invisible interface, but I appreciate the distraction argument.
I've just released version 0.3.0 of Fedra, my and @Aryan's blazing fast, fully native desktop Mastodon client. Changelog:
* Added an option to hide the totals from polls, and switched to preset amounts of time for poll durations.
* Added an option to restore previously opened timelines on startup.
* Added an option to show link previews in the timeline.
* Added many more supported extensions to the add media dialog.
* Added support for managing and opening list timelines.
* Added support for reading and writing quote posts.
* Added a new timeline filters tab to the options dialog, allowing you to filter your timelines on the client side.
* Added the ability to schedule posts.
* Added the {{ booster_username }} template variable for consistent @username display.
* Added a thread mode check box to the new post dialog. When checked, every time you hit post, you'll get the dialog again, and be replying to your previous post.
* Fedra will now respect the account-wide default post visibility in the new post dialog.
* Fixed message duplication in the direct messages timeline.
* Fixed the description fields in the add media dialog not showing up.
* Fixed the post context menu not showing hotkeys and post-specific actions such as edit or delete.
* Fixed the post context menu showing incorrect labels for actions on boosted/favorited posts.
* It is now possible to interact with follower requests.
* It is now possible to reorder your timelines with ctrl+shift+left/right arrow.
* It is now possible to search your timelines with ctrl+f and f3/shift+f3.
* List timelines now stream.
* Opening the select user dialog is now much more responsive.
* Pinned posts are now shown at the top of user timelines.
* Removed the buggy global template system for now. There are plans to rewrite it in a much more stable way in the future.
* The default templates now hide the reply/boost/favorite counts if they're zero.
* The post details webview will now come up much faster and smoother.
* The timeline switching hotkeys now work in the list of timelines as well as the timeline list.
* You can now pin/unpin posts.
Portable zip: https://github.com/trypsynth/fedra/releases/download/v0.3.0/fedra.zip
Installer: https://github.com/trypsynth/fedra/releases/download/v0.3.0/fedra_setup.exe
Enjoy!
Larvitz 
New post: shell tricks that aren't exactly secret, but aren't always taught either.
Split into two sections: what works on any POSIX sh (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Alpine...) and what's Bash/Zsh-specific. Because not everyone is on Linux with bash as their login shell.
Things like CTRL+W, $_, pushd/popd, fc, set -euo pipefail caveats, and more.
https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
Some sports bot (US Sport Channel) boosted my hashtagged post. I am amused. I hope all the followers of such an unsophisticated bot enjoy my #baseball content. The good news is that the filter worked!
I just used FastSM to make a server-side filter. Now I want to test it. I will thus tag this post with one of the hashtags I included in the filter, to see what happens. For all you sports fans out there: I'm sorry that this post does not, in fact, have anything to do with #baseball
Andre LouisGianluca, @Leowyatt88 has made a very easy-to-use, accessible stem separation tool for windows.
One uses CPU, another uses GPU so simply download the version you need.
AppleInsiderResearchers have determined that Microsoft's LinkedIn is scanning browser plug-ins and other information without permission, building user profiles using data that the company did not get permission to take.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/03/microsofts-linkedin-is-scanning-installed-browser-extensions-without-user-permission?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/03/microsofts-linkedin-is-scanning-installed-browser-extensions-without-user-permission?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
Microsoft's LinkedIn is scanning installed browser extensions without user permission
Researchers have determined that Microsoft's LinkedIn is scanning browser plug-ins and other information without permission, building user profiles using data that the company did not get permission to take.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116340254810925367
But yes, we should all believe Microsoft's claims that they want to regain user trust and make Windows 11 more pleasant to use.