It's kind of vague and hit-and-miss though, even on non-NUC systems ASRock not always supports ECC. Supposedly it's because of AMD's (lack of) clarity about the matter (according to an ASRock rep, at least)
This is the mail I sent them in January. Still waiting for a response:
I don't know. I'd argue that if the production process is influenced by the loudness war, then it too becomes part of the loudness war.
For example, a technique of masking distortion (or clipping, rather) is adding something with rich harmonic content (a trumpet for example) to parts that are expected to be hitting the wall and otherwise distorting / clipping.
Would trumpets be there otherwise? I don't know, but I'm sure producers are aware of the limitations of digital audio and as such adapt the music to it.
I worked as a mastering engineer for a couple years back in the aughts, and I can confirm that to really max things out requires production techniques.
For example, analog tape naturally saturates high frequency sounds before low frequency sounds, which brings down the peak level of a close mic'd drum. Peak limiting a recording which already has analog-saturated drums produces fewer audible artifacts.
In the abstract, at mastering-time you can achieve any absolute level without hard-clipping by smushing down the peaks with peak limiting and multi-band compression, then dialing things back up with makeup gain. But when compared against the original recording in a level matched test, at some point the processed result becomes unacceptably degraded.
It's the first time they actually did it and got caught. The article specifically mentioned the same actor has been in contact with politicians from Estonia, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom.
This could mean that video calls can be compressed more aggressively. I.e., just send someone's face once, and then send posture and facial expression parameters for the remainder of the session.
That's a great idea. You could have low latency, high def, high FPS video convos. Couldn't someone launch a plausible competitor to Zoom doing this? I'd certainly prefer that service.
Yes, but IMO the Matrix team should _really_ focus on Dendrite since Synapse is extremely resource hungry and prevents a lot of people (including me) from running their own servers.
It's not that resource hungry anymore. Hovering stably around 500M RSS and 8% CPU for me right now. That's with ~25 users and a lot of federated, public rooms, some of them quite large.
What CPU are you running it on and how many cores are being used? Are you also in really large rooms like Techlore and Matrix HQ? Because I think I'm in all of the largest rooms (and a lot of the smaller ones)
I'm running my instance with lots of bridges in a 3-core 4GB server, paying about eight euros a month for it. Synapse runs just fine, but I'll probably switch to the Rust impl when it's done.
If you want to go cheaper and have only 300-400 Mbps of bandwidth, I've heard lots of good things about this provider:
Contabo is great: finally a provider that does not save on mem and disk space. I moved everything to them and I save tons of money. The 400mbps is only for the cheapest as well: you can pay more to get more. Not that most people would need more. Especially for running matrix for a company etc.
Not those two (and I know those are especially large), but we are in many 5-10k rooms, including bridged Freenode rooms which are known to be some of the worst offenders.
Note that many significant improvements have landed very recently, for instance the chain cover stuff which significantly improves handling of rooms with frequent membership changes (such as the aforementioned bridged IRC rooms).
The federation is chatting around the clock. Remember, joining a Matrix room means that your server needs to handle all of the room's traffic. And 25 users can easily be in a lot of large rooms. However, each room only needs to be handled once, so if more of my users join a room in which my server is already participating, the cost doesn't increase.
That said, this isn't an average but a spot value. It frequently falls below 8% (though typically stays above 5%). Note that this is a cheap and relatively weak VPS.
I'm not saying Matrix is terribly lightweight. I'm saying you can easily run a small personal instance on a cheap machine without any performance problems.
If I run Weechat on my VPS, and join a few high-traffic IRC rooms, I expect my average CPU use to be 0%. Same if I run mailman with a few messages per minute, or an IRC server.
The fact that we can now run it on a VPS is an improvement, but it is still orders of magnitude heavier than equivalent non-decentralized systems.
I see this as a missed opportunity by not including independent artists that release their music licensed under Creative Commons.
Imagine offering an option to switch to only CC music. That would boost exposure of (usually) independent artists while at the same time clearing streamers from any copyright issues.
As an independent music producer myself, I for one would love the notion of my music being included in a game like this, even for free.
> Unfortunately there are massive headwinds against open source in US healthcare settings.
This reminds me of one of the first articles I've read about Linux and open source in general. It was about a CEO (and largest shareholder) of Medsphere Systems Corp, who open sourced their tech stack (I believe called OpenVista) and was promptly sued by his own company (!)
Unfortunately it seems that the sands of time have eroded the original content (which was apparently hosted on linux-watch.com, which now redirects to a VPS provider), but I've still managed to find something [0] [1] [2]
There is a whole bunch to the behind the scenes of Medsphere and OpenVista. I am not sure what I can say except that a lot of big personalities were involved. WebVista by ClearHealth is still in use by a few very large hospital chains.
