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pospi

@pospi@kolektiva.social

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Programmer of psyches, socialities, languages and computers.

Currently exploring crises of governance in White 'alternative' movements; especially far-right recruitment in Beatnik communities throughout #Permaculture, #Web3 / #DWeb, #Tech & #SystemsChange.

Recovering anti-colonial #p2p & #p4p technologist.

Relationally #Enspiral #Valueflows #Neighbourhoods #Scuttlebutt
Instigator #Economikit #hREA

Nonbinary-erring transfemme mostly on unceded Woiworrung & Kulin lands.

they/them

website	https://pospi.spadgos.com
github	https://pospi.github.io

Blue Ghost 4d ago

ClearURLs is a browser extension that removes tracking elements from URLs.

Automatically removes trackers.
Blocks some ad domains.
Built-in tool to clean up multiple URLs at once.
Supports redirection to the destination.
Blocks hyperlink auditing (ping tracking).
Prevents ETag tracking.
Prevents Google from rewriting the search results.
Optimized for Firefox.

Website: https://clearurls.xyz
Mastodon: @clearurls

#ClearURLs #Firefox #Browser #Privacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Trackers #Tracking

@garbados Australia's former prime minister, everyone 😆 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hmPVCKnkKWA

Prime Minister Tony Abbott explains why he ate a raw onion

YouTube

Ben Lockwood, PhD 5d ago

Having to force people to use the product they don’t want is surely the litmus test for knowing you’ve created something of value

Morgan ⚧️5d ago

It's so fun (/s) watching people talk about the rise of technofeudalism, knowing that at this point it's kind of optional but most people simply choose the convenience of it over doing their own shit or being part of community infrastructure

Tobias Bernard 5d ago

New blog post about our local-first GNOME app initiative! Project Aardvark is growing up into a real app, called Reflection 🪩✨

Over the coming months we have a @PrototypeFund grant to expand the app into a proper local-first Hedgedoc replacement, with multi-cursor, sharing URLs, undo, permissions, and more.

Hopefully the first of many GTK+p2panda apps to come, especially once we add GObject bindings making this stack accessible to non-Rust apps :)

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/30/aardvark-summer-2025-update

Natasha Jay 5d ago

They are starting to get it ...

AnarchoNinaWrites Jun 27

Naw man, ask any marginalized person, or for that matter just look at your own experiences and the discourse environment you were raised in - there is a sense in America that marginalized people are in fact unreliable arbiters and narrators of their own oppression. They're too close to it, too emotionally invested, and thus their testimonies and experiences are open for interpretation and adjudication by enlightened, dispassionate Very Serious People who are NOT targets of that oppression.

You know back in my day, we had static analysis tooling that would give you exactly this kind of feedback, except it was correct. Now we have shit which only looks at the vibes of the source text and does no semantic analysis whatsoever, so of course it's just fucking wrong

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

@tinker in Australia we call this everyday democracy (OK it's actually called "preferential voting") and uhhh, sad to report that it still hasn't saved us from a broken 2 party system where both parties are wholesale selling our country to mining interests and bootlicking the US fascist ethnostate

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Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

You know back in my day, we had static analysis tooling that would give you exactly this kind of feedback, except it was correct. Now we have shit which only looks at the vibes of the source text and does no semantic analysis whatsoever, so of course it's just fucking wrong

I spent a couple of hours yesterday getting Audacity building, reproducing and diagnosing the bug, and wrapping my head around the complex logic in this part of the code so that I could implement a correct fix. To have copilot review my work, which I contributed back for free, is just so incredibly disrespectful to my time and effort.

EVERYTHING'S COMPUTER Jun 26

@hailey You could close the PR if you don't want to deal with refuting a bullshit generator.

Alexander The 1st Jun 27

@be @hailey Except that would mean the bug is still there.

And someone else may claim to make the fix, but apply the exact same reversal that Copilot insists is better without understanding why it doesn't fix the issue.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien Jun 27

@be @hailey I would delete it so they cant easily reuse the free contribution.

@hailey And they're doing it because they believe that if they keep spamming the programming community with this bullshit enough, it'll eventually learn to code itself better and then ✨✨✨magical AGI bullshit heaven!!!✨✨✨

Tenacity Audio Editor Jun 26

@hailey Not to self promo but we're working on rebasing off Audacity 3.7.4 (without the Muse stuff) and chances are we likely have this bug on our rebase branch. If you want to help us with our rebate efforts we'd be happy! No CLA and AI are involved too!

@gperson will be happy to help you with anything too. Just ask him and he'll help you out the best he can! (That's me writing this too. Hello 😄👋)

@tenacity @gperson I had already planned to send this fix across! I wasn't aware of the muse drama or Tenacity until today but I'll be switching over going forward :)

crypticcelery Jun 27

@hailey @tenacity for the uninitiated, what was/is the muse drama (if someone has the time to answer this or point me in a direction)?

@crypticcelery @hailey @tenacity
Telemetry: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
Contributor License Agreement:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932

Basic telemetry for the Audacity by crsib · Pull Request #835 · audacity/audacity

Please, see our response: #889 Dear all, Due to the large amount of worry about this PR, (which we completely understand), we want to clarify exactly what is going on: Telemetry is strictly optio...

GitHub

jaxter184 Jun 27

@crypticcelery there may have been additional happenings that im not aware of, but the main ones are that they introduced a CLA that would (i believe) hypothetically let MuseCY Holdings make proprietary releases based on the currently GPL codebase, and that they have had a couple kerfuffles with regards to privacy policies and telementry (which, imo, the reaction was more negative than would usually be warranted, probably in part because of the lack of transparency of MuseCY)

disorderlyf Jun 27

@jaxter184 I did not know about this, just the dumb analytics controversy. Welp, guess I'm going back to refusing to use Audacity.

Ilya Zverev Jun 27

@crypticcelery @hailey @tenacity https://tenacityaudio.org/docs/_content/Introduction_and_Motivation.html#history

Introduction — Tenacity 1.3e1 documentation

@hailey @tenacity @gperson awawa lol i reported this many years back and got multiple patch ideas at the time https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/2930

Crash when scrolling spectrogram partially off-screen · Issue #2930 · audacity/audacity

Describe the bug When I switch a clip to spectrogram view and scroll it partly off-screen, it calls memmove with an out-of-bounds source (which crashes on Flatpak Audacity, and is invalid but uncau...

GitHub

Generic Person Jun 28

@nyanpasu64 @tenacity @hailey Oh you know what that was probably it and it's been finally fixed after all this time. Nice to know how that finally got fixed! 😄

@gperson @tenacity @hailey Now we simply wait for the AI-powered spectrogram view... but unironically neural networks are the current meta for audio source separation and possibly transcription.

Generic Person 6d ago

@nyanpasu64 @tenacity @hailey OH GOD 💀

I do acknowledge the power AI, however, especially for audio, but I'd prefer if it is run locally at least. I don't have anything with NPUs, however,so you won't see that coming from me ateast.

Oh, and your horizontal scrolling work on Tenacity's plot spectrum window was recently reapplied to the rebase branch. Only proof that your contribution will live on for years! 😄

Generic Person 6d ago

@nyanpasu64 @tenacity @hailey And about the NPU thing: I'm down to using a 10-year-old laptop as my main right now. Gotta worry about getting a newer one first, then I'll worry about NPUs 💀

@tenacity @gperson btw I would be interested in contributing some work to move the processing for the spectrogram view off the UI thread to keep the UI snappy and responsive (it currently chugs a bit while h-scrolling with spectrogram on), but since this is a larger piece of work + I see that Tenacity is in the middle of an upstream rebase effort, I wanted to check in first to see what kind of appetite there would be for accepting such a change. Let me know!

Generic Person Jun 27

@hailey @tenacity I'd say go for it! Just keep in mind that we'd merge it after the rebate is complete, so maybe create the PR once it's all done and then we'll go from there! 😄

If you'd like to help us out with the rebate effort, you can port our dynamic compressor over. Just that plus the Matroska exporter are what we need left, which I'm handling the exporter right now. (There's also a few other things but these are the major things that need taking care if).

@gperson @tenacity should I base it off the rebase branch or main for now?

Generic Person Jun 27

@hailey @tenacity Base it off the rebase branch ('audacity-3.7-rebase'). That way, it's less work done when we ultimately merge that branch back into main.

Generic Person Jun 27

@hailey @tenacity Right now I have the default branch as 'audacity-3.7-rebase' as that's where active development is happening. Eventually, I'll merge it back into 'main' where normal things will continue.

@gperson @hailey @tenacity great to see this, for once things are working as they should:

(1) some "bigh tech" thing behaves in a way that is disgusting and unacceptable
(2) people move away from that awful thing to something better, in this case @Codeberg

🎉 😄

(I mean, too often it's like "this big tech thing is truly horrible. Now I'm going to keep using it as if nothing happened".)

Andrey Rys 🇨🇿Jun 27

@tenacity @hailey @gperson hi, does tenacity use conan still?

Generic Person Jun 27

@strlcat @tenacity @hailey Tenacity has long gotten rid of Conan. Instead, it uses vcpkg on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Most modern Linux distros can build Tenacity fully featured just fine, so you don't need vcpkg on Linux.

Andrey Rys 🇨🇿Jun 27

@tenacity @hailey @gperson niice!! Great work and much appreciated! I just built it on my Slackware RISC-V and it works, and no conan is required! ❤😻

Generic Person Jun 27

@strlcat @tenacity @hailey Wow! Did you have any issues? That's pretty awesome that it just built successfully! 😄

Andrey Rys 🇨🇿Jun 27

@gperson @tenacity @hailey well, the sound is heavily garbled, which I suppose because the system uses Slackware defaults, e.g. runs pulseaudio, and Tenacity says it outputs sound through ALSA via PortAudio. But this might be just because that machine is slow. I will try to build Tenacity on my gaming laptop today or tomorrow (I think there's no wxWidgets yet)

Andrey Rys 🇨🇿Jun 27

@tenacity @hailey @gperson okay quick update, I killed pulseaudio, redirected to pure alsa, and only after selecting my actual sound card it worked. Idk if software like Tenacity requires exclusive access to sound card by default, but at least it works there

Generic Person Jun 27

@strlcat @tenacity @hailey Tenacity doesn't need exclusive access to your sound card, but in this case it seems to have worked better since PulseAudio is out of the way.

Fun fact: if you build and use a recent development version of PortAudio, Tenacity will support PulseAudio directly. You can experiment with that if interested, but I haven't tried that.

Andrey Rys 🇨🇿Jun 27

@gperson @tenacity @hailey thank you! Gonna try this now

Andrey Rys 🇨🇿Jun 27

@gperson @tenacity @hailey issue fixed! I built latest portaudio, and it works flawlessly! I played with some effects, no problems found. Tenacity runs on riscv64 machine perfectly well.

Generic Person Jun 27

@strlcat @tenacity @hailey This is very great news! It also seems that Tenacity could perform better with direct PulseAudio support in PortAudio, so that's going to be great when PortAudio 19.8 is out!

This is also exactly what we intended! We want Tenacity to be buildable across a wide variety of platforms and architectures without issue! Granted, we still have work to be done with that too, but it's very great to know Tenacity works on Linux RISC-V! Hooray! 🥳🎉

Deborah Pickett Jun 26

@hailey The only reason I keep my github account alive these days is to stick solidarity emotes on other people’s issues and comments. I should be surprised that the audacity committers are like this, but I’m really not.

The Witch of Crow Briar Jun 27

@hailey I don’t blame you for being furious, all of this is absolutely appalling!

Irenes (many)Jun 27

@hailey oh, for sure. extremely disrespectful.

MaZderMind Jun 27

@hailey I can relate so much.

It is called social coding for a reason. Learning from each other and being nice to each other is so much part of PR work.

Mark Corbett Wilson Jun 27

@hailey
Is aishittification a word yet?

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru Jun 27

@mcorbettwilson @hailey I call AI "Artificial Incompetence." Once in that mindset, I have rarely been disappointed.

Those so-called AI systems keep making the kind of mistakes that would get humans fired.

Henri Verymetaldev Jun 27

@mcorbettwilson @hailey No but i'd happily propagate it.

Also pretty sure i'm going to use AI for complicated 3D printing model generation.

But in term of video and images the glossyness, sepia and utter lack of humor make AI ever so boring.

No worries, Robert Crumb is still King.

Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜Jun 27

@mcorbettwilson @annekekassteele @hailey thats a wise #language #innovation
#enshitification #aishitification

Mike Taylor 🦕Jun 27

@hanscees @mcorbettwilson @annekekassteele @hailey I prefer #enshittAIfication

SuperMoosie Jun 27

@mcorbettwilson

Ot just slop
@hailey

Greenpete Jun 27

@mcorbettwilson
It certainly should be! 👌
@hailey

guenther Jun 27

hey at least the team didn't send you an email threatening to get you deported to China

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5

(musescore and audacity are owned by the same company)

How to respond to the takedown request email? · Issue #5 · Xmader/musescore-downloader

Hi, I'm Musescore developer. You need to takedown this repository: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader and any other your public repositories with same code. Because you illegaly use our...

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Teun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Jun 27

@guenther @hailey

The more I read into the Copilot stuff and the API stuff, the shadier it gets.

This is really sad, because I feel like @tantacrul (their Head of Software) is really very critical of exactly this kind of late-capitalist nonsense.

guenther Jun 27

@teun I don't care what he is supposedly critical of. If your company threatens to deport people, that crosses a line.

(Also the entire analytics/privacy shitshow where they tried to forbid people under 13 to use Audacity (because children cannot legally consent to their data being collected) and Audacity's license change from GPL to MIT.)

But the China thing is just a whole other level of moral bankruptcy.

Teun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Jun 27

@guenther @hailey

I fully agree. I'm just saying that I cannot quite put these different things together in my head. I hope they will do something drastic in response to this because it doesn't look good.

guenther Jun 27

@teun nah, look at the dates in that github thread. happened five years ago, nobody cares.

Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤Jun 27

@hailey such a strong feeling of deja vu from this thread
it has happened before and it will happen again ;n;

Phosphenes Jun 27

Why the fuck is the Audacity team using copilot?

@hailey is it ok to take your screenshots and put it on LinkedIn to dunk on AIs.

I promise I will write an alt text on the image, and can remove your username if you rather not have it visible.

Happy to hear that no, you don't want me to do that (this is why I ask!).

Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼Jun 27

@hailey Your rage is both magnificent and eloquent! 👌

Soatok Dreamseeker Jun 27

@hailey Wow, the Audacity.

1.3.6.1.4.1.61513 Jun 27

@soatok @hailey soatok

@hailey replacing the compiler with sentiment analysis

0xC0DEC0DE07E9 Jun 26

@jcoglan @hailey I refuse to accept Sentimental Code Analysis as an overload for SCA (Static Code Analysis, Software Composition Analysis).

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@hailey static analysis was much better but it did not (does not) have correct output... You can absolutely confuse it with several valid code patterns (the one my company uses gets confused with using unique pointers for cleanup functions). But it was at least much better than that garbage