Hey all,
some of you (e.g. users of free.fr [1]) are currently seeing problems
with the LAD/LAU mailing lists. It seems to be triggered by those mail
servers still trying to negotiate handshakes using obsolete and unsafe
SSLv3 ciphers.
Several of you might have received an unsubscription notice from the
mailing list. Please note, that this is not done out of malice, but
because after several connection drops, mailman will automatically kick
subscribers off the list - which is usually good for non-existing
mail hosts or mail addresses.
However, in this particular instance I think it is due to us not
allowing those SSLv3 ciphers anymore (most mail providers actually
don't) and have not done so since the beginning of the year
(configuration-wise nothing has changed significantly in quite some time
either, which is even more pointing in an outwards direction).
The only solution to this - to my opinion - is to fix your mail server
setup (if you operate your own mail server) or ask your mail provider to
fix theirs (if you are using someone else's services).
You can validate the functionality of your TLS setup [2] before and/or
afterwards.
If both are non-viable options for you, I suggest switching to a mail
provider, that has a more well-maintained and configured mail server
setup (as we're able to deliver to other mail providers just fine).
Best,
David
[1] https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers/free.fr
[2] https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers/
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Hi all.
On Tuesday the 12th of December it's again the meeting at c-base.
Since I posted on both LAU and LAD, let's have the follow-up discussion
on LAU.
Cheers
/Daniel
Hey all,
I thought I'd spread the word about Open Source Design [1], which is a
community of designers and developers that wants to improve usability of
free software (never mind the name, I guess most people are not as
strict about it as e.g. Richard Stallman ;-) ).
A friend (hey Sam!) made me aware of this recently and I think the
community can be a great opportunity to either learn about design or
find someone to help your project get a facelift (or a logo, or
whatever). This can be done by posting a request for a "job" (paid or
unpaid) [2] on their site.
Maybe it's of help to anyone here.
Best,
David
[1] https://opensourcedesign.net/
[2] https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/
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Hi folks,
At the risk of igniting a flame war, if one were to develop softsynth
plugins for Linux, what would be the "framework" of choice these days?
Back in the day I wrote some using DSSI, which was a model I was pretty
comfortable with. I had a look at LV2 but couldn't work out how to
generate the huge incomprehensible non-human-readable "ttl" files.
Where does the world stand now?
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Gordonjcp
While testing some mixed floating point and integer calculations I found a
quite surprising difference when this compiler option was set (gcc 6.x). It was
clearly different at only 100 iterations and got dramatically worse with
larger counts.
My test routine was this:
int a = 0;
float b = 0;
float c = 0;
float inc = 0.1f;
float dec = 0.05f;
int it = 100;
for (int i = 0; i < it; ++ i)
{
a = (int)truncf(b);
c = b - floorf(b);
b += inc;
a = (int)truncf(b);
c = b - floorf(b);
b -= dec;
}
cout << "int " << a << " rem " << c << endl;
My suspicion is that the difference is due to accumulated rounding errors.
Curiously without the decrements the behavior with and without -ffast-math
seems to be identical well into the millions.
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Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
