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The IMU arrived today; looks pretty neat; someone wrote it looks like a christmas tree with red, gree, blue LEDs - but you can turn them all off in the software. Talking about, that's just amazing, you've got debian packages for all architectures, language bindings for all common languages, and the trick is it runs a daemon that translates USB to TCP, so if you write for example for the JVM, you don't need any native libs.

We're having a #Mäanderungen weekend. Reactivated my portable Pi camera, a walk around the block pointing mostly upwards. On close-up, they are quite blurry because of exposure time. I want to couple the trigger to an accel sensor so it will be in sync to my movement.

@nikita Well, German media landscape is certainly dominated by the big corporations, including Springer, Funke, Burda, Bertelsmann, WAZ, and probably they are all entangled, like one holds parts of the shares of the others. Yet, I think Spiegel is not part of that picture. Many formerly independent papers are gone, like good old Frankfurter Rundschau. Nowadays even "competing" Süddeutsche (centre left) and FAZ (centre right) are partly owned by the same folks.

@nikita I wrote this little script that polls instances.social : https://scastie.scala-lang.org/Sciss/d5s8mt7kScqPEjnBwSppdw

(Scastie is a bit crappy - it replays the cached output; you have to reload the page, then hit run to get current figures)

@nikita Spiegel is certainly independent (shitty nevertheless ;)

@nikita It must be understood though that today Axel Springer is a huge multi-country publisher, not just Welt and BILD. I recently saw the Politico.eu is financed by A. Springer.

@seanl Well, I guess enforcement would be a second question. Twist is, Adblock Plus, the company behind it, is based in Cologne, Germany. Axel Springer's main attack was on that company, because they thought they had leverage as Eyeo is making money from it by allowing companies to be white-listed.

Anyway, story is not over, they are now thinking to appeal to constitutional court :-E

@yogthos that final moment of reflection lol

Suspending or propping up? Now I'm thinking that elevating the plates with metal sticks from floor could work better than hanging from steel wires. Test with broken ceramics, transducers still sound as required, although not much colouring through the ceramics are audible.

#Körper

Developing possible covers for the #Schwärmen catalog

Retracing image with GNG (growing neural gas)

@luka The word 'please' is the trick here :)

I realised I don't really like editing Scala code in #Mellite, because the Scala editor is just too weak. So I warmed up again to the idea of utilising the #Scala plug-in for #IntelliJ. It basically seems to be possible, although I anticipate a lot of problems, e.g. state persistence, windowing...

Here's my proof of concept that the app can be embedded...

The big next question is if and how the Scala editor could be used from my program.

Ok, we're a few minutes past #Caturday here in Austria. But this happened today 😸

I'm experimenting with my pattern library (originally inspired from SuperCollider's) - now adding serialization support to streams, which means that probably you could eventually use that system (inside SoundProcesses) to create behaviour that persists over long periods of time, workspace re-loads or computer reboots.

Still a hell lot of manual serialization glue code to write :-( I should invest in getting a macro written for this.

https://github.com/Sciss/Patterns/tree/sys

@celesteh Did you invent that, or what's the source? I can publish my version of Scala Patterns library by then, which has a variant of Pbind now :)

@derek_g @ajroach42 P.S. well, La Jetée is pretty short, but the frame rate is molasses-slow :-D

@derek_g Chris Marker, La Jetée.

Otherwise, I agree iwth @ajroach42 about Solaris. Arguably, Stalker is also "sci-fi".