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In the last 2 months, ardour.org has banned 1.2M (yes, million) distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository using http instead of git (i.e. AI trawlers). It's now been nearly a week since we shutdown the web frontend to our git repository, and there are still 22k or so new IP addresses per day trying to hit a site that returns only 404 errors, and the access log shows about one hit every 4-5 seconds. This AI trawling has to stop! They could just pull the git repo!

How the Trump administration calculated the "tariffs" charged by other countries: max(0.1, ((imports - exports) / imports) * 0.5) 😱 Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/user/bablakeluke/ #uspol #tariffs #morons

Years (26?) ago I saw Robert Fripp do a Q&A which was the first time I encountered something about my British heritage that I wanted to embrace Tonight I discovered another example. It's not that Jacob or Chris Martin are new to me, or that this performance could only have happened at the O2 or only in London. It's just that it did happen there, and somehow they and the audience are connected to a single strand of what is good about the UK Hugs & tears from New Mexico

1000 years ago, the people who lived at Chaco Canyon and the area around it knew about the 18.6 year lunar cycle, in which the rise/set position of the moon slowly moves between north and south. This is a generational project - you need 3+ generations to confirm the pattern, or 56 years of tracking and comparison. Globally, humans might have known this since 2500BC! Tonight is the END of the lunar cycle - the moon will be at the northern-most position of its cycle - aka the "lunastice".

After upgrading to #pipewire version 1.2.5. Finally, I am back to an audio system that works as well (or better!) than my old hand-tweaked setup with JACK1 and PulseAudio. Unlike that system, this one is fully integrated - things using any of the various Linux audio APIs are all visible and routable to each other. Latency is the same or better as I got with JACK1. Truly excellent. Good job @PipeWire Project (and for those who don't know, I wrote JACK1, with the help of a lot of amazing people).