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Ukraine is running out of munitions which are unlikely to be replaced as US support wavers and Europe is unable to step up, General Sir John McColl, the
A judge is hearing arguments as dozens of students request that the court extend a freeze on a move by President Trump's administration to revoke the student visas for some international students. CBS News' Scott Macfarlane reports.
Russia yesterday attacked Kyiv with an hours-long barrage of missiles and drones, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 70 in its deadliest
A Venezuelan immigrant in Detroit making a McDonald's delivery was detained in January after he made a wrong turn into Canada. Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said he'd been sent to El Salvador. CBS News Detroit reports.
I've often wondered if i would enjoy the result from singing into a ribbon microphone. Unfortunately I know so little about the ones currently available (or vintage models that actually have an XLR out).
What are your thoughts? Better off using a plug-in to emulate? What models have you tried?
the former cascade microphones were bang on top of bang for buck. the fathead or fathead II will do you good. i pretty much never see a reason not to use a ribbon. i sold off all but 1 of my condenser mics a few years ago bc i wasn't reaching for anything that wasn't a ribbon. they have great detail. historically, they have low output but I don't know if that's a problem with newer ribbon mics bc I have never had a problem getting enough gain. some would say they're tonally dark, but i think they gently roll off the end of high spectrum you don't need anyways.
finally, i think "pinnacle" is the name of the brand that is still producing the fat head and some other of the best cascade models (brother of the late cascade mic dude).
ah yeah i think there's something funny about the tonal qualities of the AT series. granted, i had a much cheaper model (the 2035 if i recall correctly). could never find a good use for it, at least not in my bedroom applications. Even as a room mic, it seems to have attenuate and augment all frequencies all over the place. i really think any decent ribbon mic is the best of all worlds. you'll get detail and texture thats very close to a condenser without all the unflattering detail that you don't need if you're not recording in a professional studio.
This community, I tell ya. Such a willingness to explain without 'splaining.
Definitely going to keep this thread in my back pocket.
But I just learned I'm going to have to spend my microphone money on fixing my (broken when I bought it) arch-top tenor.
Fortunately, from what I've learned in the studio and elsewhere is that a good recording seems to be 85% performance, 8% instruments, 5% placement, and 2% gear.
Haven't tried yet but I, too, am curious. Admittedly, it's partly from an aesthetic angle. Just not quite curious enough to invest yet, because I actually like the very detailed response of my condensor.
I guess you could use a plugin to get a ballpark idea, to test the waters before investing. OTOH, there are cheap off-brand options that get good reviews.
ribbon microphones are great on vocals in my experience. The Royer stuff is modern and handles very high SPL.. but it's quite expensive. The Mojave brand is by the same folks but is more affordable. The ribbon element itself is generally very sensitive to plosives though, so definitely use a pop filter/screen in front of it.
You need a preamp with a lot of clean gain on tap, or you can use a line booster like the Cloudlifter. Ribbons tend to need a lot more juice.
@benda I'm sort of thinking of ditching my AT-4033. It's good for some things, but it's too merciless for my voice. I like it on my acoustic, but that same precision records about 10x the string noise that my ears hear.
The only thing holding me back is that it's surprisingly good on stage, especially with an ensemble.
I did pick up a PZM I'm looking forward to trying out in the studio in place of the AT.
I have a Cascade Microphone fathead ribbon mic. (Cascade appears to be out of business now). I like to use this mic on my accordion as it tames some of the harsher treble overtones. I have used it on vocals in the past and it sounds pretty good but I think works better with a stronger voice than a softer one. It lacks some of the high end clarity that large diaphragm condensers have. I had a pair of MXL R144 ribbons but they had a lot of noise so I sold them.
Every studio needs at least one ribbon mic. Fortunately, it’s such old, simple tech that even very inexpensive ones can sound really nice. MXL makes a very affordable one. I own a Royer R10. I’ve also owned the sE VR1 and an old Cascade Victor (now the Pinnacle Vinnie in it’s current iteration) which are also great.
@Libranet Support @Friendica Support For the past few days I've had trouble logging in to Libranet from my laptop. I'm getting a 'bad gateway' page most of the time. Sometimes (like now) the login succeeds after several minutes. I've had more luck logging in from an app (Relatica). Any ideas what's happening? Thank you.
Update: It seems I can log in to view contacts or local conversations. But viewing the timeline or my own conversations is where the problem is. Sometimes it works, but sometimes several minutes of trying to load gives me 'bad gateway' or 'timed out'.
Same thing here on venera.social, some pages work smoothly enough, some timeout. “Latest posts” feed usually opens OK, but “Latest activity” has troubles, and it's close to impossible to see profile of someone who posts often.
Knowing nothing about inner working of the system, I'd make a long shot for database indexing problems — at least this is what I usually encounter, when similar queries over same dataset complete in wildly different time, depending on conditions specified.
Update: for about two days I'm unable to see my network feed. Every time it's “gateway timeout”. Before it was hit-and-miss, now — 100% failure rate.
Everything else works, quite decently: local and global community feed, contacts, settings, single contacts (some, at least, haven't checked all), threads and single posts (reached from notifications).
Is it something endemic to a few profiles, mine included? By look of local community feed, others don't seem to have problems…
The same thing happens here with the client and the website of the instance. The 500 error occurs with almost every other action. #Friendica is no longer usable.
[ Santa Fe New Mexican: YouTuber brands Albuquerque's International District 'most frightful neighborhood in America' ] santafenewmexican.com/news/loc… #YouTube "#Influencers" should not exist, and they definitely shouldn't be given a voice or an audience. Fuck this guy and his "views" (pun intended). He doesn't know shit about what's going on there, how it happened, or what to do about it.
His video was nothing more than "disaster tourism" just so he could exploit these people for money. #ABQ #Albuquerque #NM #NewMexico
What if one of us gets a job as an audio engineer for streaming services, and when they send us new movies, which are already mixed correctly for their physical release, and at most need a little compression, instead of making the sound good, we mix the music WAY TOO FUCKING LOUD and turn the dialogue down so it's quiet and you can't hear it.
i feel like not a lot of people even bother to do seperate mixes these days they just send out the theater mix to streaming and assume everyone has a good home theater setup where they aren't limited by how loud they can be
Die Zeiten, in denen die Berliner AfD als „gemäßigt“ bezeichnet werden konnte, sind vorbei. Gleichzeitig ist die Partei im Umfragehoch. Berliner AfD: Völkische Wende
Wow. China just called out the Trump administration for blatantly lying about the existence of any ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and China. (Meidas Touch)
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Wow. China just called out the Trump administration for blatantly lying about the existence of any ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and China. (Meidas Touch)
Join us for Episode #12 of Absolute Storm! Tonight we will be discussing some DEW truth bombs, the military brings back an opt out for vaccines, more missile/drone news, and RFK/Musk/Flynn updates! We
The fines were seen as a development that could stoke tensions between the EU and U.S. President Donald #Trump who has threatened to levy #tariffs against countries that penalize American companies.
The VanMoof E-Bike was abandonware from the very beginning. An expensive toy, so to speak. The front light, for example is a bad joke. So is a light that needs an app to function.
Western nations are experiencing a spiritual awakening as church pews fill up and baptismal fonts overflow. From France to Belgium, from the United Kingdom to the United States, a dramatic surge in Christian faith is sweeping across the West—a revival many are calling a “silent revolution” against the failures of globalism, mass migration, and leftist cultural engineering.
In a striking contrast to political discontent, Europe witnesses a remarkable rise in church attendance and baptisms, signaling a profound societal shift. This phenomenon reflects a growing disillusionment with current leadership.
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In a striking contrast to political discontent, Europe witnesses a remarkable rise in church attendance and baptisms, signaling a profound societal shift. This phenomenon reflects a growing disillusionment with current leadership.
I am surprised, constantly, at how many people want more violence in this world.
If every European war is a civil war, as has been argued, then at some point people need to stop blowing eachother up, because we've all got to live with eachother afterwards.
There needs to be peace.
In Syria, Sudan, India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, all the violence needs to end.
Don't listen to people who want to see it continue, who want our European cousins humiliated and destroyed. We need to bring them together.
Ja, irgendwie funktioniert es. Aber man stelle sich mal $cholzes oder Mer$kels oder gar Merz$, Weidel$ oder so vor 😀 Wobei Baerböcke$ vermutlich schon gekauft werden würden, für ein Candle-Dinner. Da haben die Visagisten gute Arbeit geleistet 😀
@Tfmonkey I would say they're not only unwilling to do blue collar work, but also they don't pay enough to pay off rent and their student debt. They can't even dream of a mortgage.
For each repository I restored deleted files, found dangling blobs and unpacked .pack files to search in them for exposed #API keys, tokens, and #credentials.
TL;DR — I built an automation that cloned and scanned tens of thousands of public GitHub repos for leaked secrets. For each repository I restored deleted files, found dangling blobs and unpacked…
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So, what we call "packages" are debs, for Debian and Ubuntu based distros, and RPMs for Red Hat and SUSE based distros. These packages can contain libraries, or apps, and all libraries are shared between applications.
We then have Flatpaks, which are distro-agnostic. Flatpaks are sandboxed, and while they share a lot of libraries through runtimes, they can use more space over time.
Snaps are basically the same concept as flatpaks, made by Ubuntu. There are a few technical differences with flatpaks, the big one being that Snaps are suitable for graphical apps, and for command line programs.
AppImages are a more portable format: the whole app is shipped inside a single file, with most, if not all of its libraries. This means you can copy/paste apps from a system to another, and they run on any distro that has access to FUSE2.
Now, let's look at some performance comparison between different packaging formats. I ran all these tests on the same Ubuntu 23.04 VM, with 16 gigs of RAM, 4 cores of my 13th gen i7 13700h.
Judging from the results, we can see that all packaging formats take longer to start than basic deb packages. It's especially visible with heavy apps that need to do some setup when they first open, like LibreOffice or GIMP. But we also notice that on subsequent openings of an app, all packaging formats are pretty close.
I ran the Speedometer test in all 4 versions of Firefox: the snap performs worse for jetstream, but much better for Speedometer, while flatpak performs on par for SPeedometer, but worse for jetstream. Deb packages perform well for jetstream, but worse for speedometer., and the Appimage is generally just a good performer.
A sandboxed application runs in its own environment, with very few ways to access things outside of that sandbox. This is similar to how web browsers run each tab in a separate process.
Regular packages aren't sandboxed by default: basically it means that you should only install these packages from sources you trust: either your distro's repos, or well vetted third party repos.
As per Flatpaks, they're all sandboxed. The sandbox isn't 100% bulletproof, nothing is, but it does limit what the app can access. This is all managed through app permissions, much like what you'd find in Android or iOS apps.
Snaps can be sandboxed, but the sandbox isn't mandatory: developers can decide to not use it, although this triggers a manual review of the snap app when it's uploaded to the Snap Store, to check if it does anything weird. As per AppImages, they don't have a sandbox natively.
Now let's see what's missing in terms of features. Regular packages can access everything, so there are no missing features there.
Flatpaks and snaps have more restrictions. The main missing piece is native messaging support: this is what lets an app communicate with another, and one main use case is for password managers: currently, no web browser packaged as flatpak or snap can interact with a third party password manager reliably.
Support for the system theme is also not perfect for snaps and flatpaks, or for AppImages.
As per various problems with these packaging formats, you also have the size of packages: while Snaps and Flatpaks do share libraries between apps, they don't share as much as regular packages, which means they can take up more space.
Snaps also have the added problem that they mount each app in its own virtual filesystem, that is decompressed on the fly: this can clutter your mount points, which can be annoying if you need to manage these regularly. The Snap Store backend is also proprietary, and it's centralized.
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President Trump just sidestepped a judge’s order attempting to block the deportation of illegal gang members by the DHS to countries like El Salvador. Trump deported them through the DOD instead, stating the judge’s order only applied to the DHS
In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of images that were recently taken by Hubble has been released today. This stretches from the planet Mars to images of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. After over three decades of scrutinising our Universe, Hubble remains a household word as the most well-recognised telescope in scientific history.
ESA's Biomass mission is on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Don’t miss the live coverage of liftoff on Tuesday 29 April, on ESA WebTV. Watch Biomass launch live
When I was a girl, I got on my knees beside my bed each night and said my prayers. I prayed before eating at mealtime. Looking back, it seems that prayer was a system, the entry ticket to forgivene…
Egal ob jemand noch Schüler-/Hochschulpraktikant (Realschule 9./10. Klasse) ist oder sonst nix weiter an Ausbildung hat: Wer bei uns in der Firma arbeitet, kriegt mindestens 15 EUR/h. Und ich hab da für jeden nen Job gefunden, wo er dieses Geld wert war. Und wer das als "Arbeitgeber" nicht hinkriegt damit zu wirtschaften, der sollte es halt bleiben lassen.
Wir könnten auch mal anfangen, uns über Gehälter und Extrazuckerl der Chefetagen zu unterhalten und inwieweit die gerechtfertigt sind.
A new era of forest monitoring is quite literally taking off, ushering in what scientists are calling the ‘forest space age’. On April 29, ESA will launch its revolutionary Biomass mission, the first satellite to carry a P-band radar into space – technology that is set to transform how we understand forests and the carbon they store. Along with other space agencies’ instruments already in orbit or soon to be launched, there has never been so many ‘eyes in the sky’ focused on forests.
Yet, the work of people on the ground –often in the most remote and challenging forest regions – also remains essential.
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in reply to Zach Everson • • •The Trump 2028 hat comes on the heels of the Trump Store pitching a new $47 “Presidential Gold Aurum Note” as the price of gold spikes.
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Trump Store Touts ‘Presidential Gold Note’ As Tariffs Rattle Markets And Gold Prices Soar
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in reply to Zach Everson • • •Also, Trump 2028 hat debuted on the same day Trump sacked his business's ethics attorney via a post on Truth Social.
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Trump Organization Fires Its Ethics Attorney — After Harvard Hired Him To Help With Lawsuit
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