Charles 𝄢 H @celesteh@post.lurk.org

PD information online is oddly hard to discover given the size of its user base.

How does one lower the audio latency with #PureData on a #mac? Please help me answer this student question. I don't have a mac and won't be near one for some time.

#PD #OSX #Apple #PurrData

Anybody with experience marking/grading undergraduate code, can you please message me. I have an urgent question about best practice.

#ComputerScience #Academia

Project photo for tuba based live coding should be, I guess, me with a tuba?

We all use the internet for research and it's hard to imagine not doing so, but, aside from discouraging google, how do we inoculate them against disinformation? How do I tell students to please look up for themselves the history of A instead of messaging me without chucking them into radicalisation hell?

We want to get them back into libraries, but this seems like an uphill battle and this is also not how we actually work.

I just don't trust anything online anymore unless I recognise the publisher. Maybe it was always thus, but in the days of going to newsagents and libraries, I could trust that somebody else had done some level of due diligence. Obviously, many UK newspapers do publish untruths, but they're at least partly constrained by libel law. Websites that look like news can and do say anything about anyone.

Today, the QI elves tweeted an apparent untruth about Churchill (who's dead and can't be libelled).

It feels like stable ground is crumbling underneath us, leaving us nowhere to stand.

* YT's radicalisation feature was an emergent property. But once it was discovered and not removed, that became a design decision.

We tell students to look things up, which, obviously, they need to learn how to do. But 90% of them time, that means google.

The well of information that was the internet has been poisoned, however. Everything is the subject of a conspiracy theory. Once they confusedly click on a few dubious links, Google shunts them into a filter bubble and correct information gets harder to find.

The number and kind of conspiracy theory is an era of exceptional growth. Even previously, their subject-reach has been absurd. Students looking for information on tuning systems, looking for historical tunings for A will find out that it's been creeping slowly upwards. But some very highly ranked results tell them this is a conspiracy of Jews to ruin music. Not all at once, but in a slow tunnel down a rabbit hole, where each step looks relatively reasonable. That's just on text sites, not even YouTube, which is designed* to encourage extremism.

All conspiracy theories seem to run eventually into a grand unified theory which is, at it's core anti-Semitic. This is where google will try to lead them.

Ok, let's say you wanted to modify slightly a pre-existing #android #java app that had source on github:

How bound are these with the IDE used to develop them? Is there a way to look at a project and tell what IDE it uses, or does that matter? (Is there an IDE that's good on ubuntu that's faster/smaller than eclipse?)

I'm looking at the Halachic Times app on #fdroid and it's pointing at a defunct Source Forge site. The app is being developed on github. How does one tell @fdroidorg about this if one isn't involved in the project?

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sf.times/

https://github.com/pnemonic78/HalachicTimes

I have an idea for a serverless shared calendar using ssb, but I'm also extremely lazy.