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About phone (and desktop) security

I know at least one former colleague who really cared about privacy and security concerning his mobile phone. And this morning, I’ve heard an interesting interview with Gabe, one of the developers of GrapheneOS, using NewPipe on GrapheneOS on my late brother’s Pixel 3a device – that looked like this:

That’s one and a half hours of a really interesting interview, so it’s really worth it. And I can confirm how secure those mentioned Titan M chips are, not even Google could hack or circumvent those, so if I wouldn’t have been able to guess my brother’s passcode, that device of his would have been an expensive paperweight.

I also liked how Gabe gave lots of credits to Apple because of their long-term support of their iPhones and devices, but yes, with the Pixel 6 and newer, things are improving on the Android side as well.

About desktop security: it’s actually worse than this, the same interviewer has some other interesting videos about that, or tips how to use Tor on your phone.

Recommended listening. And like always, thanks for reading.

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That iconic theme from Midsomer Murders

Mitchie loves the series – “Inspector Barnaby” like it is called here in Germany. And we all love the music. See and hear it being played on the Theremin by Celia Sheen:

Celia Sheen plays Midsomer Murders on Theremin

Like always, thanks for watching, and for listening.

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Another history lesson with Mary Beard

I’ve embedded a video from Professor Mary Beard lately, and here’s another, a bit longer one:

Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse With Mary Beard | Empire Without Limit | Odyssey

You’ll even meet Professor Beard‘s husband, Robin Cormack, another Professor and art historian. Oh, and she pronounces the German city of Trier like “tree-air”, it should be a bit shorter, more like “deer” with a hard “tr” like in “trill” in the beginning, which would make it something like “treer” 🙂 But I’m nitpicking, her lesson is wonderful.

Like always, thanks for viewing.

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Saying hello to and thanks for the “Blonde Bop”

Glen MacArthur aka GMaq, farmer, musician, and inventor/creator of AVLinux and the AVL drum kits has decided to give us all a new gift, his “Blonde Bop” drum kit. Here’s kind of a “making of” and explanation:

New Free Drumkit! AVL Drumkits Blonde Bop Kits and LV2 Plugin!

So if your DAW can take sfz or sf2 samples or even better, LV2 plugins, go and have a look – and as you can see, you can – at least in Ardour – even spread out Robin Gareus’ nice plugin over separate channels just like a drummer would do in the studio.

Seen/found in Linux Musicians and the Ardour Discourse, and thank you very much Glen – again!

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Standing ovations for Lars Reichow

Normally I don’t watch anything related to carnival, but I was glad that I did yesterday (pure coincidence). Listen in case you understand German and our politics:

Lars Reichow: “Die AfD-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag, ist ein Haufen ungehobelter Arschlöcher.”

Bravo Lars. It was about time someone said that. Link to his full speech is here.

Here’s another one from the talented young man:

Lars Reichow “Putins Krieg” – “Bойна Путина“ Русские субтитры через Настройки !!!
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Jim Stinnett (RIP) & Charles Berthoud

Someone opened a thread in the German-speaking bass players’ forum bassic.de, asking peoples opinions about Charles Berthoud who is well known because of his Youtube channel. I answered that I first saw and heard Charles together with his teacher, Mr. Jim Stinnett (RIP), and that I liked both of them, alone and also together. Here are the videos I embedded in that answer:

Both are/were incredibly good players, too bad that we lost Jim a while ago. Thanks for everything, sir!

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Cool video from Keno (in German)

I like Keno’s ct3003 video channel on Youtube – the man is fast, direct, and helpful, and he also says when something does *not* work as expected.

Here’s his latest one titled “Warum Linux schöner ist als macOS und Windows”, and although he had (and probably still has) some boot issues with EndeavourOS (which don’t occur in Debian or others btw), it’s a cool one. See for yourself in case you understand German:

Warum Linux schöner ist als macOS und Windows

Thanks Keno. Out of the c’t team you’re one of the best! Oh, and ‘os-prober’ is the program to detect Windows and other installations, and with ‘grub-detect’ and ‘sudo update grub’ you’ll get them added to your boot menu. No need to visit UEFI to manually select anything…

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“… if a cat can play, a cat can play”

One of my favourites from Roy Hargrove (RIP) is his famous “Strasbourg / St. Denis”:

Roy Hargrove Quintet: Strasbourg / St. Denis

He also has the opening track of this great album – one for bass players and others alike:

Disney Jazz Volume I: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat

This one? I was recently asked what makes a good bass line, and/or how to compose one. After giving it some thought, my answer would be that if I’d get this album as a birthday present myself and started studying the bass lines and where all the players come from, then I’d had enough to do for the next few years…

Enjoy, and thanks for reading & listening.

Edit: prefer a live version of that famous stop in the Parisian Métro? Here you go:

The Roy Hargrove Quintet – Strasbourg St. Denis

Again, thanks for viewing.