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  1. Graph of web site third party dependencies on Even the Ad Industry Doesn't Know Who's Tracking You · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I built a script to generate a graph of third-party resources a web page loads, which often represent advertising and tracking (sample output for Spiegel Online, a German newspaper).

    I also wrote a blog post about how advertising and tracking make sites slow (in German) that contains even more graphs from when I ran the script in January 2013.

  2. Re:Oops, forgot the C compiler part. on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 1

    This page asserts that "Xcode 4 is a free download for all members of the iOS and Mac Developer Programs.", continuing "Sign in to your account to begin the download." and according to Apple, an account costs 99$/year.

    Maybe I am missing something big here, for example "free" meaning "free" as in "free beer if you buy a subscription", but I have since suggested installing Debian. Proper package management makes it vastly easier to install and develop software.

  3. Re:libglitch and making music a with C compiler on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 1
  4. Re:libglitch and making music a with C compiler on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 1

    The glitter.py script is your friend; it just outputs the audio bitstream. You can pipe that into sox but I wouldnt know how to capture the output of this in Windows *SCNR*.

    Working example that outputs 16 seconds of the track "sidekick" (128000 = 8000 * 16): ./glitter.py `cat tracks/sidekick.glitch` | head -c128000 | sox -c 1 -r 8000 -t u8 - sidekick.wav

  5. Oops, forgot the C compiler part. on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 2

    Before IBNIZ, viznut was using a C compiler to, well, discover minimal music. You should read his paper regarding algorithmic composition using small programs. und check out my repository of formulas for C programs that generate sound.

    People without easy access to compilers (I met a gal a few days ago who had old OS X and no 99$ to spare for a dev account) should still check out a track from the repository as wave file to get an impression of the style.

    I also wrote a program generating a crude chiptunes version of the IT crowd melody (of course, the melody is not algorithmically generated, but rather encoded in the source, feel free to consider that cheating).

  6. libglitch and making music a with C compiler on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wrote something similar to IBNIZ, yet vastly simpler, a composing software called glitched (needs pygame 1.9.1). The forth variant I use has no subroutines or recursion and is not even turing complete and the stack has only 256 fields. However, it is compatible with that of several other implementations (see README). Like IBNIZ, it has live editing and stack visualisation.

    It is important to note that sound made with this kind of tools is not limited to chiptunes. There is a video of an older version of glitched, doing Karplus-Strong-string synthesis.

    (Apologies in advance to the users of a totally unrelated glitch library, which is also written in python. I have met one of it's developers last night and we agreed insane troll logic dictates a merger of our two projects to rectify the namespace collision. I may have to bring that up again when he is sober.)

  7. Re:Rewrite in C/C++ on Notch Announces Minecraft 'Adventure Update' · · Score: 1

    There is a project called Minetest-c55. It is not as featureful as Minecraft, but written in C++ (using Irrlicht) and licensed under the GPL2 (or – as I remember – at your option, any later version). You can check it out on Bitbucket.

    Disclaimer: I maintain a fork called Minetest (Minetest Delta) with some added features (new block types etc.), which can be found on GitHub. Look at the screenshots.

  8. Re:Limitations of Dead Tree on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest filing a bug then.

  9. Re:Limitations of Dead Tree on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 1

    That really isn't supposed to happen, but then I only tested it with Gecko and Webkit. What Opera version are you using ?

  10. Re:Limitations of Dead Tree on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 1

    Used to love XKCD.

    Me too, I think the noise ratio is going up for at least a year. But then he is not at NASA anymore, so he probably does less math stuff. I think another problem is that honest criticism is not taken into account -- actually I asked Randall on IRC and he said that he fears getting obsessed with quality and prefers not worrying. While I see that this might be enjoyable, I think a little more thought couldn't be that damaging; just compare his approach to the Debian/OpenSSL disaster to my one to see what I mean.

  11. Re:4chan on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, 4chan is on the australian censorship list. Google is also censoring its search results regarding /b/.

  12. Re:wtf on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMO, an "educated" opinion from a technical crowd is in any way better than a simple Google query. I don't know, for example, how Google could possibly have a differentiated answer to the pros and cons of particular clients.

  13. IRC is obsolete on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 1

    Unless you are looking for massive scalability (as in: 500 users in a single chat room), Jabber / XMPP can handle everything better than IRC. There are things like automagic contact lists (have everyone in your department on the list, centrally administrated), working encryption, publish-subscribe ... and of course the XMPP standard is easy to extend, as it's XML based.

  14. Re:Pidgin on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 2, Informative

    considering that its been around for 5 years, the answer may not surprise you - or anyone for that matter: yes it is. i know only of one reliable way to crash it and that was a problem with the xmpp specification and has since been fixed. even running svn - which i do - does not necessarily mean there will be any instabilities.

  15. Re:Pidgin on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 2, Informative

    While Pidgin may be a reasonable multi-protocol client as a Jabber client I would suggest Gajim, which also does PGP and esession encryption (Pidgin cannot do either, AFAIK).

    Disclaimer (possible conflict of interest): I contributed the :3 smilie to the Gajim icon set.

  16. Already taken, unfortunately, because ... on Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon · · Score: 1

    It's a lion - quick, get in the car !

    >:3

  17. Here ... on Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon · · Score: 1

    =O=

    (I wonder if he makes the list next time ?)

  18. Bad Idea on Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As someone who once used text browsers, I can only advise everyone not to do this - it breaks accessibility at a fundamental level: I got banned from a forum once because they mislabeled fields.

    What however, works really great for comment spam is a simple question like "What is the name of Barack Obama ?".

  19. Re:Google Trends on Google Zeitgeist 2008 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So can you explain the great anal fisting surge of 2006 ?

  20. Re:The worst part.. on French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Internet is a vital part of participating in modern society.

    Exactly. Try getting by on a somewhat modern western university without having access to the online materials (Stallman wrote about that.)

  21. Re:(Cynacism Alert) Good on French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sometimes I think it would be acceptable to sacrifice a certain amount of due process in return for reasonable sanctions. A few people who receive the injustice of losing their internet connections is better than the mockery that the RIAA has perpetrated on the US justice system.

    Wait, what ?

    Just because the USAsian system doesn't work out, the alternative should be this ? I'll tell you something: In Germany, state attorneys apparently have enough of the music & film industries' claims and apparently only act if hundreds to thousands of files are shared (link in German).

  22. It's similar to a trademark. on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 1

    The protection of phrases is intended to protect from artificial distortion of the marketplace and also serves as consumer protection. However, OSI does not have a registered trademark on this phrase (probably because it is too generic).

  23. quickly corrected on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    From http://www.opensource.org

    Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria: [...]

    Emphasis mine.

  24. Excuse me ... on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I believe you still have my err, uh, stapler.

  25. They don't get it. on California Sec. of State Wants Open Source E-Voting Systems · · Score: 1

    The main problem with e-voting is that the average citizen can not reasonably check the ballot counting. With paper, even a seven-year-old can check if it is counted correctly. No one can look into the computer, so even if you have paper ballots, they still need to be counted. Nothing won there.