@casualcomputing

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Guy with family and friends, and now also a dog, living somewhere rainy and cold in the northern hemisphere.

Developer of Sputter Music #Sequencer for #android and accompanying #puredata patch Spitback.

The last couple of years I have also been into #3dprinting and #microcontrollers. They have become performant enough to do #audio and #musictechnology, which is awesome.

Hope to find more people on here to share those interests with.

Dev bloghttps://casualcomputing.info/
Spitback Pure Data Patchhttps://github.com/funkyfourier/spitback
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxwVhByaxnwujqrXs6q1Xxw

We've just released Ardour 9.5 with major MIDI editing improvements, user interface polishing, better track templates integration, MCP server control support for local use, and dozens of enhancements and bugfixes

See here for more information: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

Ardour 9.5 — What's new | Ardour DAW

The open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation

Ardour DAW
If you want to boycott Google/Alphabet services (and other "Big Tech", for that matter) for reasons and still watch my videos, you can do so via PeerTube: https://makertube.net/c/janbeta/videos
Jan Beta

Hi I'm Jan. I repair/hack/make/destroy stuff on camera. Electronics, Repair, Tinkering, Retrocomputing, VintageAudio. As unprofessional as it gets.

MakerTube

♻️ Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

「 Bambu saw a fork of OrcaSlicer that allowed you to use all your printer's features without having to route prints through Bambu's cloud called OrcaSlicer-bambulab and was like, "You know what? No. For the 0.1% of power users who want to run OrcaSlicer without the cloud delivery mechanism like we have in our AGPL-licensed Linux Bambu Studio code... no. You have to use our app, and only our app." 」
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

#opensource

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked the printer into Developer mode I deleted Bambu Studio and started using OrcaSlicer I had to do that to keep it under my control, instead of Bambu's.

Jeff Geerling
Making RAM at Home

YouTube

This is crazy! linuxdaw.org has reached 945 plugins with native Linux support. Lots of new free and paid plugins on the page the last week. And a "freebee" from Audio Damage (in change of your e-mail).

https://linuxdaw.org/

What a time to be a Linux user!

#LinuxAudio #MusicProduction #Bitwig

Linux DAW

Quality audio software for Linux Audio Production such as LV2, VST2, VST3, and CLAP effects, synthesizers and sampler plugins.

Linux DAW

The upcoming Ardour v9.3 release is going to feature easy chord insertion in pianoroll windows. You can help us improve this feature by naming & adding chords. Please see here for the background information:

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/help-ardour-by-naming-adding-chords/113178

Help Ardour by naming & adding chords

The upcoming 9.3 release will feature some new functionality for chord editing. As a part of that, Ardour now contains some chord definitions. Chord naming is a famously problematic area of musical practice, with many different approaches and conventions. So, below is a list of the chords that we currently defined, presented like this: {… list of intervals (using western-centric terms … } (“name1”), (“name 2”) … (any chord can have an unlimited number of names. The first one is consided the ca...

Ardour

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Keychron-announces-open-source-initiative-publishes-free-3D-models-for-all-keyboard-and-mouse-products.1269317.0.html

Keychron is making all of its hardware designs open source, publishing those files in a new GitHub repository for anyone to access for free.

The company's CEO noted in the announcement on Discord that “We think that making production hardware files available is a meaningful contribution to the broader hardware and keyboard community,

#Keychron #MechanicalKeyboard #OpenSource

Keychron announces open-source initiative, publishes free 3D models for all keyboard and mouse products

Keychron has officially made all of its keyboard and mouse designs open-source, including all of the wireless gaming keyboards and mice, making it significantly easier to design custom enclosures, mods, and add-ons for the relevant products. While these designs are not available for commercial use, the STEP files are free to download, and the community can suggest improvements in GitHub pull requests.

Notebookcheck

Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 4: Recapping the Power Supply

https://makertube.net/w/rSCTC3Ddwsij2vukLprWe1

Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 4: Recapping the Power Supply

PeerTube
Android is on the track to become closed down like iOS is. We need to do somethibg about it. Here's why and how:
https://keepandroidopen.org/
#keepandroidopen #android #freedom #smartphones #foss #software
Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.