Hey fellow RSSizens!
Faircamp 2.0 is feature complete since a few weeks! If you want to help test 2.0 before it comes out (ETA: mid-September), beta packages are available for Windows, various Linux distros and macOS (CLI-only for the latter for now).
Further info and links in this post: https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/116879559734042405
Rejoice: Hyper 8 got awarded an https://nlnet.nl/ grant earlier this year! \o/ Today I began work on the first tasks, and I'm planning to release the coming major updates through multiple releases until the end of this year.
Detailed info on what's coming in this post: https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/116890617125860689
In June I had the pleasure of giving an interview to https://diyconspiracy.net/. Although the interview is mostly about Faircamp, much of what I wrote also applies to my other projects (Hyper 8 especially). It's a long read (easily 20-30mins), but if you're curious about my underlying motivations and goals, why I do things the way I do, this could be enlightening.
Teaser: «My personal excitement and ambitions lie especially with everything that exists outside the standardization of music consumption into a single, clean, neat, monetizable standard. The friction and “inconvenience” of dealing with something other than your personalized audio stream on autoplay is where culture happens just as much as within the audio signal itself, and that should be more than an afterthought when we collectively shape new systems.»
https://diyconspiracy.net/faircamp-interview/
Since the last newsletter two non-critical patch releases for Feber came out (https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/feber/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md), as always you can get the latest version from https://simonrepp.com/feber/
Thank you for your time and interest! Next time around: Faircamp 2.0, final release. \o/
– Simon