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Question: is there a free antivirus software? All that have paid options i have suspicion they are trying to make you start paying
Asked by IOeor (89.38.224.x) on June 17 2025, 8:15am
Reply on June 18 2025, 1:19am:

Nice thing about using Linux is you don't really have to think about it. macOS too for that matter. 1 Comment...

Question: In the latest version, Reaper's own effect plugins have added a user translation feature. However, there is still much content that remains untranslatable. Is this just how it is, or haven't they had time to add translations for these parts yet?
Asked by doom (112.254.92.x) on June 17 2025, 3:16am
Reply on June 18 2025, 1:21am:

Seems like there's a dwindling amount of non-localizable strings these days. Anyway there's like 18000 strings to translate now ugh. Comment...

Question: What would you try to code if you would have to write a song/program in the Rockstar programming language?
Asked by PedalingPanda (77.179.126.x) on June 16 2025, 4:01pm
Reply on June 16 2025, 9:09pm:

lol Comment...

Question: How does Media Explorer sort files? In my Chinese environment, the folder and file sorting is messy.
Asked by doom (129.153.24.x) on June 14 2025, 1:55pm
Reply on June 14 2025, 9:19pm:

hmm it might be using the utf-8 bytes directly as opposed to some more locale-aware sorting function? 1 Comment...

Question: What does the term AI mean for you? Artificial Intelligence? Automatic Idiot? And what is your take on vibe coding? I hope you are doing well!
Asked by i love the number pi (62.227.179.x) on June 13 2025, 7:40pm
Reply on June 14 2025, 12:52am:

hah superhyped. useful for discovery and playing around. wrote some blog posts about it recently actually. Comment...

Question: Can you please put ninjam on 24 bit /full freq. so we have decent audio quality? Love you thx
Asked by SebNL (87.209.148.x) on June 12 2025, 9:08pm
Reply on June 13 2025, 2:53am:

latest ninjam lets you crank up the vorbis bitrate, which should be plenty. Comment...

Question: thank you for this Render reveal Party in 7.40 ! the ReaNINJAM multioutput upgrade is golden... do you want to jam with us sometime ? i have a 1969 Marshall 50w Plexi here , that i could route your guitar to now ...
Asked by Bernd Keul (84.44.226.x) on June 11 2025, 9:16am
Reply on June 13 2025, 2:53am:

sounds like fun! Comment...

Question: hey whats up? i just wanted to thank you for all the gif manipulation implementations in reaper. i really didnt expect to be able to use stretch markers to time gifs, pretty crazy stuff. i got pretty pissed about your response about good limiter plugins but i guess you were just being honest. anyway, just noting the gif thing because gifs are a passion of mine and now i know i can composite them into videos. what a day.
Asked by WARTHOG (100.1.67.x) on June 10 2025, 11:15pm
Reply on June 13 2025, 2:53am:

lol sure Comment...

Question: what do you think of this? github.com/microsoft/edit
Asked by Rano (27.131.208.x) on June 10 2025, 6:39pm
Reply on June 13 2025, 2:54am:

shrug, vim for life over here heh Comment...

Question: What is a software solution you wish existed in the next 10 days?
Asked by SRJRSWE (104.193.171.x) on June 7 2025, 3:05am
Reply on June 9 2025, 1:24pm:

something involving time travel would be pretty sweet. 4 Comments...

Question: who wrote the Gnutella protocol? was it solely you and pepper?
Asked by shrimp (136.23.6.x) on June 3 2025, 8:48pm
Reply on June 4 2025, 6:40pm (edited at June 4 2025, 7:36pm):

'twas just me, iirc 4 Comments...

Question: You might find interesting this video about, how nerds at NASA fixed the software of the Voyager Probe last year. It's so interesting to watch how the old technology works: youtu.be/p0K7u3B_8rY?si=QE4WdSe6cj8nnIo5
Asked by Mespotine (109.104.32.x) on June 3 2025, 4:32pm
Reply on June 4 2025, 6:40pm:

ooh awesome thanks for the link! 1 Comment...

Question: Are you a Jew?
Asked by Mariusz.Misa@ts.fujitsu.com (77.111.247.x) on June 3 2025, 10:01am
Reply on June 4 2025, 6:41pm:

genetically yes but I'm a secular humanist 1 Comment...

Question: What does PCM_Sink_CreateEx expect to receive a pointer to for the configuration? I've tried to pass different things to it and get it to return not NULL. It works without a configuration, but wouid like 32bit float sink-goodness. Sorry if this violates the rules about questions :) I promise I've tried to search for the answer!
Asked by sad_programmer (58.160.90.x) on June 1 2025, 4:30pm
Reply on June 1 2025, 4:50pm:

send me an email, first name at company domain.com Comment...

Question: As a human I know you get sad or discouraged sometimes if not often. How do you cope or deal with it? What gives you hope? What keeps you going emotionally?
Asked by Coping (102.176.101.x) on June 1 2025, 3:58pm
Reply on June 1 2025, 4:51pm: