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1/ Huge win for encryption, confidentiality, and integrity in the EU with new text for the CSA proposal:
"Cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption technologies, including end-to-end encryption, are critical tools to safeguard the security of information within the Union
If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
https://sfzinstruments.github.io/
They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.
To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:
More about the SFZ format here:
https://sfzformat.com/
to quote an old tweet of mine:
Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.
ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/
As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-cases
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