Total flow to date on the Rio Grande at Otowi is the lowest since 1964. Otowi is the place where the river leaves the upper valleys and enters the canyons that lie at the head of the valley of Albuquerque, what we in New Mexico call the “Middle Rio Grande.” The graph shows total ...Continue reading ‘The driest year on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande since 1964’ »| jfleck at inkstain
Developer Vitling has released Crypt, a free hyper-unison synth for macOS and Windows. When it comes to free effects and instruments, being spoiled for choice is never a complaint, but we are lucky to have so many outstanding options available to us. The problem (not that it’s an actual problem) with so many options is [...] View post: Vitling releases Crypt, a FREE hyper-unison synth for macOS and Windows| Bedroom Producers Blog
Sonatura has released Superhet, a freeware experimental heterodyning synthesizer for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS. There are probably thousands of plugins being developed every year, and most of them are reskinned, rehashed, and recycled versions of things we already have more than enough of—obviously, with a fair share of honorable exceptions. Today, we’ll [...] View post: Sonatura releases Superhet, a FREE experimental heterodyning synthesizer| Bedroom Producers Blog
Air Music Tech is giving away Amp Sim, a compact guitar and bass amp simulation plugin, completely free when you sign up for their newsletter. The offer is valid until December 31st, so you have a couple of months to grab it while it lasts. Please note that you’ll need to provide your first name, [...] View post: Air Music Tech offers Amp Sim plugin FREE until December 31st| Bedroom Producers Blog
From the Crow Hill Company comes Harmonium, their latest addition to the free Vaults series. The Vaults series from The Crow Hill Company has already delivered some wonderful free instruments in its relatively short existence. Lo-Fi Strings and Bridge Guitar are two great examples from earlier this year. Harmonium is the latest addition, and, like [...] View post: The Crow Hill Company releases Harmonium, the latest addition to the FREE Vaults series| Bedroom Producers Blog
It feels like we can’t turn any corner without running into a DAWJunkie plugin these days, and that’s no bad thing. Their latest release is the Lil Bottom bass synth, which is free for a limited time. We’ve covered the prolific developer multiple times already this month and last, with releases like Slurpy Jr., RazorPluck| Bedroom Producers Blog
Safari Pedals is offering its Rhino Reverb plugin (list price $49) for free with the code SanjaySafariMadnessRhino for a limited time. Rhino Reverb is a retro-inspired verb for macOS (macOSX 10.15 or later) and Windows (Windows 8 or later, 64-bit only). The formats are macOS (VST3, AU, AAX) and Windows (VST3, AAX). To get your| Bedroom Producers Blog
If you’re on the lookout for an addition to your delay effects, Karanyi Sounds currently offers their flexible Matra delay plugin for free! I couldn’t determine the exact time window for this offer, so act quickly if you want to secure the plugin. You must provide an email address, and Karanyi Sounds will instantly send| Bedroom Producers Blog
Black Rooster Audio is offering its limited VPRE-73 Halloween Edition for free this month. However, there is a three-step process to claim the plugin. Here’s how it works: Visit any product/bundle detail page on blackroosteraudio.com. Set your star rating & write your review. Send a screenshot alongside your registered e-mail to info@blackroosteraudio.com. After that, you| Bedroom Producers Blog
NoiseWorks Audio is once again giving away TranSplit, its innovative transient and body balancing plugin, completely free for a limited time. The plugin normally costs €49, but you can grab it right now at no charge from the NoiseWorks website. If you’ve missed it the first time around (it was briefly free back in June 2023),| Bedroom Producers Blog
Alex from Germany, the creator behind MIDI Pusher MK2, has released MIDIpushr, a free browser-based virtual MIDI controller that lets you play and send chords directly to your DAW or hardware synths. Funny timing with this one. Just the other day, while watching the awesome “How to Orchid” marketing video for the Orchid ORC—1 chord| Bedroom Producers Blog
Initial Audio has released Initial Clipper 2, a free soft clipper plugin for Windows and macOS. This isn’t the first time Initial Audio has offered a free clipper. Some of you might remember the original Initial Clipper from 2021. Version 2 brings a refreshed interface, higher-resolution real-time scope, and a new ceiling control, while keeping| Bedroom Producers Blog
W. A. Production is offering its Vocal Compressor plugin for free in collaboration with Gearspace for a limited time. This isn’t a new release. Vocal Compressor is a previously paid plugin that usually sells for $39.90, now available at no cost for just a few more days. Its sibling Vocal Limiter was free a while| Bedroom Producers Blog
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There’s a popular podcast produced by the New York Times: Hard Fork. It talks about technology, and since a lot of people these days find it difficult to talk about technology without mention…| Aharoni in Unicode
My keynote, Decentralising Freedom: Open Source for Sovereignty, was the featured talk on day 2 of FrOSCon 2025.| The lost outpost
Red Sounds has released deFORM 2, a free pitch modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. It is available for free for a limited time via VST Alarm. DeFORM 2 is a simple pitch modulator designed as a quick tool for achieving a lo-fi vibe. You get two LFOs: one sine wave and one irregular shape,| Bedroom Producers Blog
Tag2upload? The tag2upload service has finally gone live for Debian Developers in an open beta. If you’ve never heard of tag2upload before, here is a great primer presented by Ian Jackson and prepared by Ian Jackson and Sean Whitton. In...| Jonathan Carter
Beer, cake and ISO testing amidst rugby and jazz band chaos On Saturday, the Debian South Africa team got together in Cape Town to celebrate Debian’s 31st birthday and to perform ISO testing for the Debian 11.11 and 12.7 point...| Jonathan Carter
Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache – a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux. At that stage, ZFS on Linux was nowhere close to where it is today, so any progress on gaining more ZFS features in general Linux systems was very welcome. These days we care a bit less about tiered storage, since any cost benefit in using anything else than nvme tends to quickly evaporate compared to time you eventually...| Jonathan Carter
© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen| That grumpy BSD guy
Stone Voices now offers the Ambient Reverb 7 plugin as a free download for Windows and macOS, previously priced at $52.28. This isn’t the developer’s first foray into freeware reverbs. DReverb 2.0 is another excellent reverb from Stone Voices, widely regarded as one of the best algorithmic reverbs you can get without spending a cent.| Bedroom Producers Blog
HyperspaceCore originates from JMG Sound’s flagship reverb plugin, Hyperspace, and serves as a successor to the discontinued Hyperspace CM (Computer Magazine Edition). Hyperspace has been around for years now, but a free version will be welcome news to anyone put off by the hefty price tag. Hyperspace developed a reputation as a reverb plugin that| Bedroom Producers Blog
Beat and Erica Synths have teamed up to create NOCTURNA, a collection of 66 free impulse responses crafted from their Echolocator and Nightverb hardware units. This is a cool set of unusual reverb impulses, especially if you’re interested in exploring convolution reverb beyond the basic bread and butter sounds. If you’ve ever used reverb impulse| Bedroom Producers Blog
When it comes to large volume of data management, health in general and health informatics in particular are in the top of the list. In this post I’d like to bring the attention on how we can…| MeanMicio
Hello, friends! I’ve been using a brilliant tool called Ventoy, recently, and I wanted to tell you guys about it. When I started out in my Linux journey in 2014, I learned to flash a single I…| Shaffan's Blog
Welcome to another month of rambling status reports. Not much in terms of technology this month, my work at Codethink is still focused on proprietary corporate infrastructure, and the weather is to…| Sam Thursfield
A few years ago, I joked about FLOSS activists refusing to use closed-source firmware devices needing to build…| Flameeyes's Weblog
© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen The system you develop and maintain does not exist in isolation. Providing SBOMs for our work is o...| bsdly.blogspot.com
There are enough updates to last year’s “In Search of Foundational FLOSS Freedom(s)” to make a blog category of its own, or almost so....| Interpeer Project
The OpenBSD packet filter PF was introduced a little more than 20 years ago as part of OpenBSD 3.0. We'll take a short tour of PF features and tools that I have enjoyed using.| That grumpy BSD guy
We have been used to hearing that free and open source software and enterprise environments in Big Business are fundamentally opposed and do not mix well. Is that actually the case, or should we rather explore how business and free software can both benefit going forward?| That grumpy BSD guy
Effective FX is an independent, experimental audio tech studio based in Baltimore, Maryland. Their latest release is Poltergeist, a free experimental modulation effect for macOS and Windows. Poltergeist is a multi-stage effect that definitely fits the experimental category. The plugin generates fractal-like phasing patterns using the incoming audio at multiple stages. That short description already| Bedroom Producers Blog
Tubeshifter is a free analogue-style tube saturation plugin for macOS and Windows from the developer Frostwave Audio. Frostwave Audio is a Nordic developer founded by Reidar Schæfer Olsen, who later partnered with sound designer Niklas Eurén. Reidar Schæfer Olsen is perhaps better known as Danheim, an acclaimed Nordic folk artist whose penchant for epic Viking| Bedroom Producers Blog
If you want to add more interesting harmonic content to your tracks, we have a great free plugin for you today. Resonator is a free plugin from Thony Audio, a seemingly new developer. That’s safe to assume since their website looks brand new. Nevertheless, Resonator is an exciting plugin that’ll be a great addition to| Bedroom Producers Blog
FKFX Audio’s Dyna usually costs $29.99, but it’s available to download for free for a limited time. The limited-time offer is part of an introductory promotion lasting until 2025. So, if it’s New Year’s Eve, 2024, and you’re partying like it’s 1999, and you suddenly remember it’s about to be 2025, and you end up| Bedroom Producers Blog
Over the weekend Wire Grind Audio dropped Rasp, a Windows-exclusive plugin that can add grit, noise and a raspy sound to tracks. Now you might be thinking that sounds a whole lot like distortion, but the dev explains that while Rasp sounds similar to distortion, it is not a conventional distortion effect. Wire Grind Audio’s| Bedroom Producers Blog
PSP Audioware released PSP Chamber, a freeware reverb plugin for Windows and macOS (Intel and Silicon). The plugin is inspired by classic hardware verbs and is available in AU, AAX, VST, and VST3 formats. As you might have guessed from the name, PSP Chamber emulates the acoustics of physical spaces of different shapes and sizes| Bedroom Producers Blog
Fine Classic Plugins has released Subtle Spaces, a reverb plugin for macOS and Windows. and the developer’s first free plugin. Subtle Spaces is a new convolution reverb effect with a simple and intuitive GUI. The featured IRs (impulse responses) include sixteen rooms and spaces of various sizes. The various shapes and sizes of the rooms| Bedroom Producers Blog
By making any purchase on Plugin Boutique this December, you can nab yourself a free copy of either UAD’s Oxide Tape Recorder ($149), Karanyi Sounds’ Vapor Keys ($49), Izotope’s Nectar 4 Elements ($49), or Pitch Innovations’ Rhythm Box ($29). All four plugins are macOS and Windows releases, and the December offer will expire on January| Bedroom Producers Blog
Chaos Audio is offering seven pedal plugins for free in their Freebie Plugin Bundle, which includes reverb, drive, delay, and EQ. I don’t know about you, but I find it harder to find guitar pedal-style plugins. There have been lots of amp sims but not too many emulations of pedals. There are, of course, other| Bedroom Producers Blog
If you’re new to reading this blog, you might not already be aware of my efforts to develop end-to-end encryption for ActivityPub-based software. It’s worth being aware of before you co…| Dhole Moments
I’m finishing typing up this blog entry hours before my last 13 hour leg back home, after I spent 2 weeks in Busan, South Korea for DebCamp24 and DebCamp24. I had a rough year and decided to take it easy this DebConf. So this is the first DebConf in a long time where I didn’t give any talks. I mostly caught up on a bit of packaging, worked on DebConf video stuff, attended a few BoFs and talked to people. Overall it was a very good DebConf, which also turned out to be more productive than...| Jonathan Carter
I very, very nearly didn’t make it to DebConf this year, I had a bad cold/flu for a few days before I left, and after a negative covid-19 test just minutes before my flight, I decided to take the plunge and travel.| Jonathan Carter
Inspired by the fine Debian Local Groups all over the world, I’ve long since wanted to start one in Cape Town. Unfortunately, there’s been many obstacles over the years. Shiny distractions, an epidemic, DPL terms… these are just some of the things that got in the way.| Jonathan Carter
Last month, the Debian project released Debian 12, with the usual low-key fanfare that Debian usually announces a release with. Even though we shipped with some bugs we’d rather not have (which are at least fixable over the next point releases), the feedback for Debian 12 has been nothing short of overwhelmingly good. From users to the independent Linux blogs to the YouTubers to the tech news sites, the vast majority of feedback so far is that it’s not just one of Debian’s most importan...| Jonathan Carter
Last night I attended the first local Linux User Group talk since before the pandemic (possibly even… long before the pandemic!)| Jonathan Carter
This year I attended Debian Reunion Hamburg (aka MiniDebConf Germany) for the second time. My goal for this MiniDebConf was just to talk to people and make the most of the time I have there. No other specific plans or goals. Despite this simple goal, it was a very productive and successful event for me.| Jonathan Carter
It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that I’ve had a lot on my plate in the last few years, and that I have a *huge* backlog of little tasks to finish. Just last week, I finally got to all my keysigning from DebConf22. This week, I’m at MiniDebConf Germany in Hamburg. It’s the second time I’m here! And it’s great already. Last year I drafted a blog entry, but never got around to publishing it. So, in order to mentally tick off yet another thing, here follows a somewhat imperfect (I ha...| Jonathan Carter
It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, o…| Aharoni in Unicode
A personal reflection on how I moved from my Debian home to find two new homes with Trisquel and Guix for my own ethical computing, and while doing so settled my dilemma about further Debian contributions. Debian‘s contributions to the Continue reading Coping with non-free software in Debian→| Simon Josefsson's blog
As a maintainer of several software packages I often find myself copying text snippets from the README file into different places (savannah, github, freecode, emails, etc). Recently I had a need to generate a list of software packages that included Continue reading BLURB: Software repository metadata convention→| Simon Josefsson's blog
Two factor authentication (2FA) is an amazing invention. For one thing, it can significantly increase the security of your online accounts without significantly increasing the hassle of logging in. Additionally, the most popular 2FA algorithms are available in both free software and proprietary software implementations. This weekend, I reverse engineered Symantec's proprietary 2FA token solution with the goal of creating a free software alternative. Motivation Why did I do this? Well, like ma...| Cyrozap's Tech Projects
Assumed Audience: anyone who cares about the success of free and open-source software. A New Rustacean listener sent me a note lamenting the way Mozilla’s transition from IRC to Discord—i.e., from an open protocol to a proprietary service. For many advocates of free software, this is a deeply unsettling move. The kind listener who sent me an email pointed to Matrix, an open-protocol service, and noted: “perhaps the default web interface is slightly less slick, but there’s not much in ...| Chris Krycho
In which application development and packaging are discussed, vis-a-vis old and new practices| halting problem
The new tablet UI for Firefox on Android is now available on Nightly and, soon, Aurora! Here’s a quick overview of the design goals, development process, and implementation.| Lucas Rocha
I joined Mozilla 3 years, 4 months, and 6 days ago. Time flies!| Lucas Rocha
Up until now, Probe relied on dynamic view proxies generated at runtime to intercept View calls. Although very convenient, this approach greatly affects the time to inflate your layouts—which limits the number of use cases for the library, especially in more complex apps.| Lucas Rocha
I’ve always been a big fan of Picasso, the Android image loading library by the Square folks. It provides some powerful features with a rather simple API.| Lucas Rocha
We’ve all heard of the best practices regarding layouts on Android: keep your view tree as simple as possible, avoid multi-pass layouts high up in the hierarchy, etc. But the truth is, it’s pretty hard to see what’s actually going on in your view tree in each UI traversal (measure → layout → draw).| Lucas Rocha
With all the recent focus on baseline grids, keylines, and spacing markers from Android’s material design, I found myself wondering how I could make it easier to check the correctness of my Android UI implementation against the intended spec.| Lucas Rocha
What if writing custom view recycling layouts was a lot simpler? This question stuck in my mind since I started writing Android apps a few years ago.| Lucas Rocha
If you ever built an Android app, you have definitely used some of the built-in layouts available in the platform—RelativeLayout, LinearLayout, FrameLayout, etc. They are our bread and butter for building Android UIs.| Lucas Rocha
Here are some recent updates to our Free Tools and Libraries page:| Ada Resource Association
The ARA congratulates Dr. Peter Chapin on his receipt of ACM SIGAda’s Robert Dewar Award, which acknowledges outstanding contributions to the Ada community. Dr. Chapin was a major contributor to the Vermont Tech Lunar CubeSat project (cubesatlab.org) whose software was written in SPARK/Ada. The Vermont Tech CubeSat was launched in November 2013 and successfully completed its full two-year mission, the only one out of twelve academic CubeSats to do so. Dr. Chapin attributes the software’s ...| Ada Resource Association
Best general-purpose Operating System QubesOS is still (and has been for some years) the most secure general-purpose operating system for computer users who wish to protect their privacy and mainta…| usability | security | freedom
It’s now mid-2016. How should we be communicating with people with some semblance of privacy/decency, without having others record and monetize our every thought or feeling put in words? By n…| usability | security | freedom
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It was wonderful to see an outpouring of support for Conservancy last week at LCA 2016. A number of speakers highlighted Conservancy during their...| stumbles.id.au
