Notices by Kirinn B. (mooncorebunny@social.linux.pizza)

Nice #transrights (and adjacent stuff) demonstration today in #Bristol, about 2-3000 in attendance in all. In addition to trans, enbies, and allies, it was nice to see existing political organisations joining in support, such as the greens, socialist workers, and a trade union or two.

When minorities band together, they become too big to step on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bristol/comments/1k31z7d/solidarity_from_bristol/

Another strong #transrights march in #Bristol today, also for #Palestine and against #disability support cuts. Looked like well over 2000+ people again, in all.

Protests also ongoing elsewhere in the country. Here's a photo from Bristol, another from Norwich.

@icedquinn @iska @Reiddragon @lispi314 I hold the view that ZStd is too complicated to count as a real "standard"; the zstd library is an order of magnitude larger than libdeflate, so the algorithm is very difficult to independently re-implement.

Therefore I'm very happy to learn about ROLZ! I may want to try re-implementing that.

I wonder if retrofitting ROLZ in place of LZ in DEFLATE would produce even better results... and, to speed things up, replace the one or two Huffman stages with FSE, which is after all the primary innovation enabling ZStd.

@Ghostie7649

Going straight into #LMMS or #FLStudio feels like jumping in the deep end. A decade or two ago I would have recommended taking a few weeks or months inspecting #tracker MODs or #MIDI files, taking them apart to see how the songs were put together, and then imitating and improvising on them until you have something new that you like the sound of; that's what I did.

But maybe modern #music #composing tools are so good that even without prior experience it's possible to quickly start producing interesting results?.. I wish I could offer something more useful.