Mastodawn

TIL: Harman bought AKG and closed their Vienna development office. The engineers didn't appreciate, and founded their own company, called Austrian Audio. Word has it that they produce high quality, affordable gear. I'll find out soon, wife made me get closed headphones.

Ela Apr 18

FX would have appreciated the irony of being buried in a place where smoking is not allowed.🕯️

Ela Apr 15

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf Apr 15

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. Seriously bad news.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The Guardian

Ela Apr 15

It fills my heart with joy to see that the current hype on the Interwebs is a band that combines microtonal music with odd time signatures. https://youtu.be/2lUC8Gimxz8

Angine de Poitrine - Sherpa

YouTube

Ela Apr 11

Peter Thiel thinks paying taxes is a sign of the Antichrist. I wish I was exaggerating or joking. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

The Guardian

Ela Mar 27

DSP? Where we correct room audio, we don't need a DSP! 💅

https://github.com/andreasdotorg/mugge

GitHub - andreasdotorg/mugge: Musikalisches Gelegenheitsgeschäft

Musikalisches Gelegenheitsgeschäft. Contribute to andreasdotorg/mugge development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Ela Mar 21

Katrin Rönicke Mar 21

“I am like a Tardis.” 🥹
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/mar/21/my-cultural-awakening-doctor-who-helped-me-better-understand-my-autistic-son

I was struggling to understand my autistic son - until we watched an episode of Doctor Who

A combination of autism and ADHD caused outbursts, confusion and stress that my son couldn’t understand – until he saw David Tennant behaving the same way

The Guardian

Ela Mar 21

Show thread

Eric Schultz Mar 21

In case anyone is unclear, since I hear he's also campaigning against this Linux age-gating trash:

Bryan Lunduke is a fascist hatemonger. He represents the absolute worst in free software and I believe he should be ostracized from any and all parts of our community. He wants software freedom for himself and in the abstract but despises individuals expressing their freedom. He believes in a software freedom that is hollowed out and missing love.

Ela Mar 21

Eric Schultz Mar 21

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

user: Add BirthDate with polkit-gated GetBirthDate and SetBirthDate methods (!176) · Merge requests · accountsservice / accountsservice · GitLab

Summary Add a BirthDate field to the user account interface. For non-homed users, the value is stored...

GitLab

Ela Mar 8

Heraus zum Internationalen Frauenkampftag!