Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Pifanjr]

Anyone able to give more insight on this. Guy is pretty much talking Greek to me, but security risk and spying seem to be the in thing here.

Is it time to switch to Linux?

View: https://youtu.be/t1eX_vvAlUc?si=rWHulDeosg8nU7sp

I didn't watch the video, but as far as I'm aware the TPM chip is just a separate storage for keys used for encryption. for example those used by Bitlocker. It just makes it harder for that encryption to be cracked/circumvented.

From what I understand however is that this chip can also be used for Remote Attestation, which is basically a way to prove to another piece of software you're connecting to that your PC hasn't been tampered with. However, what is considered as "tampered" is subjective. One example is that some apps no longer work on GrapheneOS, a modified version of Android, because it isn't seen as "safe". There are plenty of reasons one might not want to use products developed by Google, but if those are the only ones considered "safe" by, for example, your bank or your government you might not have a choice.

 

[Charagma]

I didn't watch the video, but as far as I'm aware the TPM chip is just a separate storage for keys used for encryption. for example those used by Bitlocker. It just makes it harder for that encryption to be cracked/circumvented.

From what I understand however is that this chip can also be used for Remote Attestation, which is basically a way to prove to another piece of software you're connecting to that your PC hasn't been tampered with. However, what is considered as "tampered" is subjective. One example is that some apps no longer work on GrapheneOS, a modified version of Android, because it isn't seen as "safe". There are plenty of reasons one might not want to use products developed by Google, but if those are the only ones considered "safe" by, for example, your bank or your government you might not have a choice.

Long tedious video but yes, he mentions BitLocker and AI and several other things in there. Pretty much said that due to TPM Microsoft decides what is allowed to work on your pc. In specific said that Win11 deleted his Ubuntu installations (twice) because of tpm that was not registered or something like that.

 

[Charagma]

I've never heard of Optimist

LMAO, only reason I know about it is because I own one, else would also have said I never heard of it.

, but I just got an email from BikeInn of Mark Cavendish with a new model of cycling glasses by Oakley that has a small camera just above the nose bridge. It's said to be AI driven (isn't just about everything that's high tech anymore?)

I am very interested in the iGPSPORT BSC300. In specific for the GPS function.

Pretty much nothing I want to video while I am riding. In my case if it has an audio function all you will hear is me blowing like a steam train and granny gearing up anything that looks remotely uphill.

As far as Windows OSes go, Microsoft ever since Windows became used as a widespread OS decades ago, worked with agencies like the NSA to build code into their OSes that can be used to filter trigger words used by terrorists. It's never been about randomly spying on civilians. Anything you hear otherwise is strictly tin foil hat conspiracy theorist ramblings. Nothing to worry about.

Yeah, had a look at Linux (Bazzite) and they pretty much said I need a better GPU to run it. So, MS will have to look if they want to, nothing I can do anyway. LMAO

 

[Colif]

Two weeks ago I complained that the National Weather website in my country sux now, they went from a website that you could just sit on and it would refresh the weather every 15 minutes by redrawing the page, to one that does not refresh manually and if you reset it to get a new page, forgets your local location and you have to let it look every time... this got tiring after about 2 times.

The new map is a replica of the phone app but the phone app refreshes? Why doesn't this one? Its not exactly the same function wise either, the phone app shows last 45 minutes and then guesses what it might do for next 90, whereas the PC one just shows last 45... and who wants/needs to know the weather from 45 minutes to now?

Anyway, I always seem to spot problems that only later do others see. As now everyone is complaining about the site, and the Govt has responded but so far only change made doesn't resolve this issue. Going back to old site would make more sense. It should go back into beta, it only recently left... what did they test? Who did they ask to use it? Seems the pool size was too small. Sounds like they didn't know who their user base was.

 

[Frindis]

@Colif Every country should have a (not the storm, but the person)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlK03-tSdk

 

[Colif]

Watched video of Ball X Pit and they classified Breakout as just some mobile game.... it might be now but 40 years ago we were impressed by much less and didn't need prettier graphics to sell it.

 

[Charagma]

Actually, specifically directed at Neogun (LMAO tried for 10 minutes to pin him here)

Because of me sucking piles at drums, I decided to get the full Groove Agent (Vs 5) with all the bells and whistles. Yeah, big number (Money wise) and HUGE download (Just over 150 Gb).

Since most of everything I do everywhere (Except talk here) is Student wise orientated, one of my students entered me personally (Charagma) (Aka not a school/study project) into a SoundCloud competition. The song being No Doubt's Don't Speak and to make it more ummmm DOOF DOOF, aka EDM/Dance/D&B.

I started splitting stems and got a fairly OK....Ish intro and first few bars, but then everything goes downhill from there. My bass does not fit the lyrics and my beat sounds "Offbeat"

Doing a "scan" on the original song I get 53.279 as the tempo, but adding drums to that odd number is like trying to put a nail into a concrete wall without tools. Manual scanning the beat (Tapping) gives me 77BPM. Again, same problem. Lyrics vs tempo just does not match.

Any suggestions as to how to get even just a kick drum into a project like this without sounding "offbeat"?

BTW, eventually switched to FL studios, the add-ons compared to Cubase is better. I have no Idea why but getting the feeling Steinberg is not pushing that hard into Cubase anymore.

I can send you the intro and you can have a listen to it (If you need to hear it for clarity), but how to you get D&B on something with a peculiar tempo? (Can do it via one of the admins if it gets to that or we can ask one of the admins extremely nicely to exchange email addresses between us). But pretty much need help on this one. There is no "Classical" in it and My name is already on the "Must do it" list.