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Show Notes

This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification.

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00:50 Intro

No Steve this week

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01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne

Helm Synth

Vital Synth

Tal NoizeMaker

Cardinal

Surge Synth

LSP Plugins

Calf Plugins

Reaper

ToneLib-GFX

kxstudio repositories

Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work

Tal baseline

MIDI

Noah's light bulb moment

Backing tracks

Cloud based

16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit

Never seen Dell requiring special drives

Requirements by card and drive specs

No longer using hardware raid

HBA Mode

Flashing HBA Firmware

Buy pre-flashed card

Use each drive as it's own raid array

20:16 News Wire

GCompris 26 - gcompris.net

LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org

Ardour - ardour.org

Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com

Peazip 10.9 - github.com

Linux 6.19 - lkml.org

Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com

LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com

GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com

Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu

Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com

21:16 Zynthian

Zynthian

No Soldering

Requires gentle "clock makers hand"

Based on a Raspberry Pi

Professional audio system

How it's built

First power up and usage

34:10 Matrix Protocol

Matrix Protocol is taking over

Digital sovereignty

The Register

Seems to solve problems

Beeper

41:45 Discord KYC

Requiring ID verification

Discords background inference model

Landscape for social media and connecting people

Noah's story of connecting

KNOX chat room

gomuks

The Register

51:20 Ring Camera's

Search Party

Ring has a history

eff.org

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