Notices by Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz), page 12

Times New Rhombus (pentaro@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 10:33:54 EST Times New Rhombus

Someone on Twitter mentioned that in some regions of Germany, a common idiom for whenever there's mist in the forest is "The foxes are making coffee", and thought the image was evocative enough for an illustration.
Well, I took the bait! 🦊☕
#MastoArt #CreativeToot #Lineart

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 15:33:00 EST Garrett LeSage
- Professor Fischstörer
@theoutrider In Germany, there are corner casinos on various streets, especially in less well-to-do areas. The establishments are always shady and I've never seen anyone go on or out, but they never seem to go out of business, so there MUST be a bunch of people wasting their money at such places.
TV has flashy ads for gambling apps.
Normal TV shows (like Galileo, Taff, etc.) have gambling built-in with calling a for-pay number to possibly win something.

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Randy Noseworthy 😼 :debian: (randynose@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 13:48:55 EST Randy Noseworthy 😼 :debian:

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture - Vox - Pocket
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/living-in-switzerland-ruined-me-for-america-and-its-lousy-work-culture
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1. Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture - Vox - Pocket
  
  from Pocket
  
  I was halfway through a job interview when I realized I was wrinkling my nose. I couldn't help myself.
Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 09:02:05 EST Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

"I am surprised," the alien said, "that you ventured out into the hostile vacuum of space before you had fully explored your own planet."
"What do you mean?"
"The ocean depths!"
"We had a look at who live there. They're scary."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 15-Feb-2019 03:40:08 EST Elias Mårtenson
- GDPR Hall of Shame
@GDPR_HallOfShame Visiting Europe a few weeks ago, I observed how the GDPR compliance was implemented on various sites.
I can only recall a single site doing it right: Allowing me to accept or not. Clicking on deny closed the popup and let me keep using the site.
A lot of sites allowed me to configure with whom to share my personal information, but most of the time everything was preselected.
They break the rules in their GDBR-specific popup. Not doing anything would have been better.

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mastodon quixote (valrus@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Feb-2019 02:12:33 EST mastodon quixote

I was thinking that the existence of Macklemore implies the existence of a Macklemost, but another possibility is an infinite sequence of entities whose levels of Mackling asymptotically approach but never reach a theoretical upper limit

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Jiří Eischmann (sesivany@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 15:55:23 EST Jiří Eischmann

My writeup on supporting advanced Bluetooth codecs and thus improving wireless audio quality significantly on #Linux: https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/better-bluetooth-sound-quality-on-linux/
In conversation Monday, 11-Feb-2019 15:55:23 EST from mastodon.cloud permalink Repeated by garrett
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1. Better Bluetooth sound quality on Linux
  
  By eischmann from Brno hat
  
  Over a year ago I got my first serious Bluetooth headphones. They worked with Fedora well, they paired, connected, sound was directed to them. Just the sound quality was not overwhelming. I learnt that because of limited bandwidth of Bluetooth a codec with audio compression has to be used. There are quite a few of them to pick from: AAC (very widely supported because it’s the only one iPhone supports, partly freely available), AptX (also very widely supported, but proprietary), AptX-HD (enhanced AptX with a higher bitrate, also proprietary), LDAC (probably the best codec available, highest bitrate, available in Android, supported mostly by Sony devices), MP3 (also possible, but supported by virtually no devices). And also SBC which is a native Bluetooth, first generation compression codec with rather bad sound quality.
  
  My headphones supported SBC, AAC, AptX, AptX-HD, LDAC, so all the advanced codecs. Sadly on Linux it fallbacked to the basic SBC because no other was available for Bluetooth, and headphones for €200 produced rather underwhelming sound. I mostly listen to music on Spotify. Listening to it on my headphones meant transcoding OGG 320 kbps to SBC and losing a lot of sound quality.
  
  Then I recalled that Sony released LDAC as open source in the Android Open Source Project. And they really did because you can find libldac released under Apache 2.0 License there. So it could possibly be made available on Linux, too. Bluez was also able to negotiate LDAC with the end device. What was missing was a plugin for PulseAudio that would utilize the codec and encode the stream into LDAC before sending it over Bluetooth to the headphones.
  
  Today I learnt that such a plugin had been finally created. And besides LDAC it also supports AAC, AptX, and AptX-HD. Those are patent-protected codecs and the plugin relies on ffmpeg to support them, so it’s not likely they will be available in Fedora any time soon. But libldac is already in Fedora package review and is waiting for the final legal approval. The plugin currently depends on ffmpeg, but if it were made optional, we could at least ship LDAC support by default in Fedora Workstation.
  
  I thought we could also support AAC because its decoder/encoder is already available in Fedora, but I learnt that it only supported the original AAC format while what devices support these days is HE-AAC which is still protected by patents.
  
  Anyway, someone already built packages of both the plugin and libldac and I installed them to test it. And it worked on Fedora 29 Workstation, LDAC was used for Bluetooth stream encoding:
  
  I don’t have bat ears, but I could recognize a difference in sound quality immediately.
  
  If I’m not mistaken it makes Linux the first desktop system to support LDAC. And with support for other codecs it will make it the OS with the best Bluetooth sound quality support because all other systems support only a subset of the list, hence fewer headphones/speakers at their best sound quality.
Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 11:17:21 EST Garrett LeSage
- Jiří Eischmann
@sesivany Just playing around and selected input from my headphones and it dropped the audio down to HSP/HFP. Ouch. It's possibly even worse than a walkie-talkie.
(This is a shortcoming of Bluetooth audio. There's no hi-res (or even medium-res) audio output with input at the same time, sadly. Thankfully, it's easy enough to switch back to A2DP with LDAC... even in GNOME settings.)

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 11:13:37 EST Garrett LeSage
- Jiří Eischmann
@sesivany I restarted Pulseaudio (after restarting Bluetooth earlier) and got a few minutes to test it out on my Fedora 29 laptop:
1. LDAC from laptop to FiiO Btr3.
2. LDAC from laptop to Sony XM3 Headphones.
3. AptX HD from phone (OnePlus 6T) to laptop. Not sure why it's AptX HD instead of LDAC, but it's fantastic enough too. 😉
This is nice.

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 08:27:58 EST Garrett LeSage
- Jiří Eischmann
@sesivany That all said, I haven't gotten the RPMs to work on F29 here. But I haven't rebooted (yet); I've only restarted bluetooth on the laptop.

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 11-Feb-2019 08:21:10 EST Garrett LeSage
- Jiří Eischmann
@sesivany I wonder why https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt isn't part of pulseaudio-modules yet.
Meanwhile, there seem to be packages @ https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/20#issuecomment-461503659 — and LDAC in Fedora is pending legal review, apparently.
(And packages for more distros @ https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/wiki/Packages FWIW)
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1. EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
  
  from GitHub
  
  Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux - EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
2. Add Fedora COPR repo to wiki · Issue #20 · EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
  
  from GitHub
  
  Hi, I created this COPR (user) repo for the package: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/gombosg/pulseaudio-modules-bt-aptx/ I repackaged the original Fedora Pulseaudio source with your patches...
3. EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
  
  from GitHub
  
  Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux - EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
livolt (livolt@efdn.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 18:13:06 EST livolt

so what's mastodon's opinion on how a baguette would walk

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 17:42:17 EST Garrett LeSage
- codesections
@codesections Peek. It records GIF, WebM, or MP4 and works on X and Wayland too.
There are native packages for various distros and even a Flatpak of it on Flathub:
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.uploadedlobster.peek

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 17:23:29 EST Garrett LeSage

"I think I might actually be feeling a little bett-" *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*
"…Okay. Perhaps not."

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 13:54:33 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

“Critics of the big tech companies are often told, ‘If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.’ I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple. These companies are unavoidable because they control internet infrastructure, online commerce, and information flows. Many of them specialize in tracking you around the web, whether you use their products or not”

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
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1. I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
  
  from Gizmodo
  
  Week 6: Blocking them all
Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Feb-2019 14:25:38 EST Nolan
in reply to

USER AGENT: Hey website, please don't track me
WEBSITE: Aha, you are one of the 0.5% of users who request not to be tracked. This is an excellent way to track you

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jan-2019 12:38:07 EST Garrett LeSage
- mray
- Máirín Duffy 🙋
@mairin I agree with @mray, but of these, I like the glyph of e but the f of d

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𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝖆𝖕𝖊 (edgarallanfoe@cryptids.online)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 07:19:52 EST 𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝖆𝖕𝖊

KonMari Method: Keep only those things that speak to the heart, and discard items that no longer spark joy.
Katamari Method: Roll your stuff up in a ball, put it in space

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 11:40:31 EST Garrett LeSage
- 0day Interloper
@amydentata I don't star your toots enough. 🌠 This is such a hilarious dream sequence. Thanks for sharing.
(I usually err on the side of not starring everyone's toots enough.)

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Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:09:19 EST Garrett LeSage

When you specifically pick the quiet wagon of a train for a reason and a guy behind you blares videos with built-in audio turned up to 11 from both his MacBook Pro *and* iPhone… 😒

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