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Panos Alevropoulos

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he/him. Lawyer. Administrator of the End Software Patents campaign.

  • Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System Crafters

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  • Could you share how you do that? It didn't work last time I tried it (using Nix on top of Guix).

  • What's the most niche genre you like?

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  • At least the stuff I like (if it would actually be called ‘drumstep’, which I’m not certain about) is generally quite a bit slower than drum’n’bass.

    Depends on what you mean slower. Drum and bass is in the 160-180 BPM range. Halftime is in the same range, but the drums are slower -- typically the snare hits less frequently.

    Is that not what drum’n’bass is doing, too? I don’t think I’ve ever heard a drum’n’bass track that wasn’t halftime with some kind of two step pattern.

    Drum and bass is typically 2-step, but not halftime. For example: Lost Friends by Halogenix is classic 2-step drum and bass, but Orange by Halogenix & Two Fingers is halftime. Both tracks are in the 170-175 range, yet they sound quite different. Both are considered drum and bass and easily mixable with each other.

    The two tracks you mentioned in your other comment are both halftime. One is 160 BPM, the other is 172 (I checked in Mixxx). That is drum and bass territory. If they were slower, around 140-150, they would probably be classified as dubstep. To be honest, genre labeling doesn't really matter because producers tend to experiment a lot. But you'll have much more success searching for "halftime" than "drumstep" for the style you like.

  • What's the most niche genre you like?

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  • It's easier to understand drumstep as a subgenre of drum and bass. It has the same tempo as drum and bass but employs a halftime 2-step drum pattern like dubstep, using synth sounds that are also reminiscent of dubstep.

    Drumstep was popular in the early 2010s but it's mostly out of fashion today. Some classic examples are Rob Swire's drumstep remix of Witchcraft or Knife Party's Bonfire.

    People still produce halftime drum and bass tracks today but they use much deeper basses and sounds reminiscent of breaks/garage/techno, not 2010s dubstep sounds. That style is more known as simply "halftime". Ivy Lab are classic, reputable halftime producers.

  • Is there a way to apply settings only to some websites?

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  • Depends on the system you are using, but the principle is the same.

    First, you need to set up your profiles in about:profiles. Then, you launch these profiles with firefox -P "<profile name>" in your terminal. Once that works, you can use anything that can launch programs via keybindings. It's easier on window managers. For example, in my Hyprland config, I have the following lines:

     
        
bind = SUPER, Z, exec, $browser -P "default"
bind = SUPER SHIFT, Z, exec, $browser -P "lesser"

    SUPER+Z launches my hardened browser (no JS), SUPER+SHIFT+Z launches my vanilla browser (JS enabled, some options turned off). The $browser variable is set to GNU Icecat, a Firefox fork.

  • Is there a way to apply settings only to some websites?

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  • You can create separate profiles with different settings. That means you will have to use a different profile (a separate browser instance) for some websites. I personally launch each profile with keybindings.

  • e-waste go brrrrrrr

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  • Update 2 months later: this was it. I just didn't know how to install it on Mint. Turns out there's a Driver Manager that you can use. Thanks!

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    GIMP 3.0.0 RC1 Released

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  • That is true. IIRC, Krita is the only one of the 3 that has native CMYK support.

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    GIMP 3.0.0 RC1 Released

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  • In my experience, Inkscape can be used as a professional replacement for Illustrator. It has never crashed on me. There may be some limitations, but nothing super inconvenient or something there isn't a workaround for.

    GIMP, on the other hand, is a mixed bag. I believe Krita is a much better candidate to be used professionally than GIMP. GIMP has an objectively bad UI, has weird quirks for very simple tasks, and is prone to crashes. I use GIMP for simple image editing and Krita for more complex projects. GIMP 3.0 is their best chance to fix their reputation and I'm hopeful it will deliver.

    If you don't have time to try them yourself, follow creators who use them and check their workflow. I recommend Davies Media Design on YouTube for great videos on Inkscape especially.

    Edit: No program is completely immune to crashes, it's good practice to routinely save projects no matter how stable or unstable the program is.

  • e-waste go brrrrrrr

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  • I recently flashed Mint on a MacBook Air 2012, but WiFi is really unstable and slow. Probably a driver issue. I had worse luck with Debian and Fedora.

  • What to do when a giant company refuses to honor a GPL claim?

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  • Active combat against surveillance instead of passive defense

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  • Some superficial thoughts, please correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't AdNauseam generating more traffic to ads, thus increasing their value in terms of metrics? Also, do people really think that agencies like NSA, which are capable of extremely sophisticated surveillance, can be disrupted by random text in emails? These tools sound like a waste of time to me.

  • Greece @lemmy.world
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Σήμερα: συνάντηση ελληνικής ομάδας FSFE

    mastodon.social /@fsfe/111584711161842705

  • I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

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  • For DAW, you may also want to check out Zrythm and Ardour.

  • Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

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  • The patent was about a "sorting system". More info here.

  • Technology @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

    www.nytimes.com /2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

    www.nytimes.com /2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

    www.nytimes.com /2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

    www.nytimes.com /2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html
  • Libre Culture @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

    www.nytimes.com /2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    ESP Wiki is looking for moderators

  • Libre Culture @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense!

    tutanota.com /blog/open-source-oin-patent-rules
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense!

    tutanota.com /blog/open-source-oin-patent-rules

  • Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political!

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  • That's true. It's the human element that creates the political attribute.

  • Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political!

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  • You are thinking of software as if it exists in a vacuum. Software that is libre is a political statement. Software that is proprietary is also a political statement. Lemmy choosing to be decentralized/federated/interoperable is also a conscious political decision just as Apple chose to create its own proprietary ecosystem instead of caring about interoperability.

  • Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense

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  • Blocking Google+Amazon+Cloudflare? [asking for a friend]

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  • It is correct to refer to GNU/Linux as GNU/Linux

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  • Someone on Hacker News suggested the name "Gnux" instead of "GNU/Linux".

  • Libre Culture @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    ESP Wiki is looking for moderators

    wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org
  • Libre Hardware @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    ESP Wiki is looking for moderators

    wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org
  • Libre Software @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    ESP Wiki is looking for moderators

    wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org /wiki/Main_Page
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    ESP Wiki is looking for moderators

    wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org /wiki/Main_Page

  • Lemmymap Update!

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  • Very impressive! It would be awesome to have this kind of overview for all Fediverse instances.

  • Announcements @lemmy.ml
    Panos Alevropoulos @lemmy.ml

    Announcing /c/endsoftwarepatents, a community for FSF's campaign

    lemmy.ml /c/endsoftwarepatents