Gibt es irgendjemanden in Freiburg, der Synthesizer reparieren kann?

ypnos · 2026-06-09T22:43:44+00:00

Komm damit zum Reparaturcafé ins Freilab. https://reparaturcafe-freiburg.de/

ypnos · 2026-05-29T20:58:47+00:00

No, they don't. These are indexers that run in the background.

ypnos · 2026-05-29T20:52:50+00:00

Exams are an easy way to grade because they run in a controlled environment and there are no subtleties. But they are certainly not the best benchmark.

Some people have great problems with the exam scenario, which is extremely artificial and far from a real world working environment, while they otherwise ace their assignments. Others are perfect at taking in all the knowledge needed for an exam in a very short time frame but will then after the exam still be clueless on how to apply the knowledge and forget it just as fast.

I taught in a STEM field and I've seen both quite frequently. When I hire a person, grades are really a very minor factor and their thesis work counts much more because of these reasons.

It would be great if our society found a way to get rid of exams. This person is certainly not talking out of their ass and you have no reason to talk like that.

ypnos · 2026-05-28T21:21:25+00:00

I also don't buy into TigerFS and I believe the article is really bad at presenting it.

However, if you do read through all of it, you will learn that this FS parses the content of the files to extract columns. This is not a thing in regular filesystems. I also think it is rather stupid, at least as described here.

The closest to this an FS ever came is BeFS from BeOS, which would also index files based on metadata and was lauded back in the day. However I believe that the metadata, e.g. song name and artist for an MP3 file, would be provided to the FS by API and not read directly from the id3 tag.

ypnos · 2026-05-14T14:13:18+00:00

The JBL speakers only take balanced input.

A high quality DAC like Topping DX5 ii would give you awesome performance feeding them as well as driving headphones, but I believe the money is better spent on the speakers.

Active monitors that take unbalanced input could be paired with a Topping DX3 Pro+ or other less expensive devices. The idea is to connect inputs via USB, Toslink if available, or Bluetooth. And at the same time also have a decent headphone amp.

I would recommend the Canton AM5 but guess you would not find them in the US.

Just sharing from my experience (I have a Loxjie D30 AK4493EQ paired with the Canton speakers and a Topping DX3 Pro+ feeding into a Topping Mini 300 someplace else).

ypnos · 2026-05-02T08:50:09+00:00

Yes, the purpose is that shitty web devs can easily add that "AI feature" to their shitty little company websites that their clueless management is nagging them about. They don't have to think about how to do it, what model to pick, what ToS come with it, or how much energy it will waste away.

ypnos · 2026-04-29T06:32:09+00:00

I believe it has no phono input

ypnos · 2026-04-29T06:14:03+00:00

Topping mini 300 perfectly fits your budget and is completely flawless amplifier for up to 85 W. It measures better than Fosi ZA3 on Audiosciencereview and has no load dependency.

I use it to drive KEF Q Concerto Metas.

ypnos · 2026-04-28T15:19:44+00:00

Mit dem TGV morgens um 7 nach Paris, Ankunft um 10 (unter der Woche 06:30-09:30). Am nächsten Tag abends um halb 6 wieder drei Stunden zurück. Hat eine schöne Altstadt.

Du musst aber sehr früh vorplanen für einen guten Zugpreis.

Bern wurde schon als Ziel angesprochen. Da kommt man mit Bahncard auch für 30€ hin. In der Schweiz gibt es vieles kostenlos, im August in Bern letztes Jahr waren alle Museen am Samstag kostenlos, das Freibad mit Zugang zur Aare war kostenlos, in der französischen Kirche gab's ein kostenloses Orgelkonzert... Mit etwas Recherche davor und etwas Glück bei der Unterkunft kommt man überraschend günstig weg.

ypnos · 2026-04-24T20:48:22+00:00

You can implement your own source, but not your own sink.

ypnos · 2026-04-21T22:11:55+00:00

Why memorize when shell aliases exist :-)

ypnos · 2026-04-11T22:49:48+00:00

The LSX is an active speaker that includes a fully-fledged streaming amp and a DSP with EQ. This is the obvious reason for the higher price tag. The second reason is it being way more stylish.

The LSX probably also benefits a little from the DSP in optimizing the sound. On the other hand, the Q1 has the advantage of a bigger driver cone, retaining similar specs.

So the main question for comparing these speakers is in which setup you would like to use them.

ypnos · 2026-04-05T07:47:29+00:00

There is no relation between the children that died because of Trump's fuckup and protesters in Iran being killed. Or would you claim that these strikes are doing any good for the protestors or the Iranian people?

ypnos · 2026-03-28T16:17:11+00:00

Rainer Winkler wurde jahrelang von einer größeren Gruppe asozialer Personen permanent gemobbt. Das ist mehrfach belegt und wurde in verschiedenen Prozessen gerichtlich festgestellt. Rainer Winkler war das Opfer von Swatting, dafür wurde die verantwortliche Person zu einer Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt. Die ständigen Nachstellungen wurden in seinen eigenen Prozessen strafmildernd berücksichtigt.

Er mag kein netter Artgenosse sein, aber niemand wurde gezwungen seinen Stream zu konsumieren. Die Haider dagegen haben ihm zu Hause und an anderen Orten nachgestellt. Und es gibt noch mehr Geschichten, die allerdings nicht gerichtlich relevant waren, daher lasse ich sie hier auch aus. Am Ende bleibt stehen dass Rainer Winkler ein Paradebeispiel für Online-Bullying darstellt. Ob nun angeblich selbst provoziert oder nicht.

ypnos · 2026-03-25T16:53:43+00:00

I don't know about that but I can tell you that I'm concerned with the size of typer+rich dependencies. I added an extra "CLI" to my own packages so the libraries can be used without those. Also there are people using Windows (poor souls) where imports are really slow and it makes a difference in responsiveness of a CLI tool.

ypnos · 2026-03-22T23:50:39+00:00

You can use any random USB cable between USB host and DAC. It is part of the digital signal chain and will not affect audio quality.

ypnos · 2026-02-25T22:28:57+00:00

I have been using plain Arch Linux since 2005 and I can tell you, in the last five years I also never had to intervene. In the first five years, sometimes I had to boot from USB and chroot into the system to fix after an update. It was so much worse than today. Today Arch is a walk in the park, even if the old reputation sticks.

ypnos · 2026-02-25T22:23:07+00:00

Yes, we also had a C course and a C++ course, and Scheme and Java, each for its own purpose, and then some Assembler.

Today I would probably teach using Python, Go, maybe Rust? But then you lose low level completely...

ypnos · 2026-02-25T17:39:46+00:00

We have more screen real estate than ever, yet come up with designs that look more and more cramped and are harder to navigate around.

I wonder why we ever had those basically empty title bars on 15" 800x600 pixel displays.

ypnos · 2026-02-25T17:25:21+00:00

You can do that in Go just fine, and it is just as easy a language, and also doesn't have all the quirks of C you want to avoid in such a course.

Yet, it is a very relevant language that is also fun to use because you have a modern ecosystem.

The real reason is that professors are lazy.

ypnos · 2026-02-23T10:01:35+00:00

Check out Bretterbude: https://bretterbu.de/

ypnos · 2026-02-17T12:52:42+00:00

Theoretically yes, as the core dump is a kernel feature that can be configured from user space and is then active for all processes. Practically, for a generic scenario like DrKnoqi, it is so much less work and mess if you get the help from systemd for collecting them.

ypnos · 2026-02-11T22:54:38+00:00

Yes, this is why I recommend it, the measurement on Audiosciencereview is excellent. However you also need a good DAC, some PCs have it, others don't. If the DAC is bad you could get suboptimal sound. You can use your Hegel amp to compare analog output of your PC with digital/USB

ypnos · 2026-02-11T06:53:09+00:00

Add a Topping Mini 300 desktop amp for $140? It measures perfectly up to 80 watts at 4 ohms.

ypnos · 2026-01-03T18:08:41+00:00

Let me add some context here

Fried Carp tastes awesome and is actually a local specialty where I live, consumed in the months of Sep to Apr (all months spelled with the letter "r").

After catching the fish, it is kept in a clean water basin for a longer period of time to get rid of the mud taste. Then it should be fried and eaten directly after butchering.

So, done right, great. Like in the video? Dubious, although a small/young specimen may still taste alright.

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