Open source maintainer and PhD candidate @mklu.bsky.social first got curious about Linux as a teenager with a very slow internet connection but big passion for computer systems. That curiosity sparked a journey into open source that continues to this day.

Zu Open Source Week der Vereinten Nationen bringen wir eine Delegation von 12 Open-Source-Expert*innen zusammen, deren Arbeit die digitale Infrastruktur, auf die wir alle angewiesen sind, aufrechterhält. Ihre Teilnahme bringt wichtige...
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In case you missed it last week, here’s the first of a series of in-depth interviews from the first cohort of the Sovereign Tech Fellowship.

Open source maintainer Sarah Hoffmann loves to discover beautiful places IRL – and in code: www.sovereign.tech/news/meet-sa...

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The Intan stuff can likely be made working by using the arm64 version of OpalKelly's frontend for the FPGA. The rest should work for smaller experiments with little video encoding or large data ingestion on a Pi. Complex stuff (and AI things...) will likely need a ODROID-M2 or Jetson board. 2/2

It should work, and we build & distribute an arm64 version, but we haven't tested it yet on a RPi specifically (caveats will definitely be the RAM demand, slow storage of the Pi, possibly slow video encoding, and for Intan ephys hardware the missing arm64 support) 1/2

I am very honored to be part of the first Sovereign Tech Fellowship program!
This will directly support my work on #FreeDesktop, #AppStream and #PackageKit, so expect a lot more changes faster, and also way faster patch reviews. Also check out the amazing program and the other fellows!

I also want to thank the great projects we depend on, like @kde.org, #FFmpeg, Eclipse #Iceoryx, OpenCV, #MicroPython, and so many more! Kudos to hardware vendors with open libraries for their devices, and especially efforts like the UCLA Miniscope and #OpenEphys! You rock! 8/9

Last, but absolutely not least, I want to thank everyone who collaborated on the publication and helped get it over the finish line, especially the group of @grohlex.bsky.social. This was a team effort and I am so proud of the result we achieved! 7/9

No time to read the paper? Syntalos is also thoroughly documented and some short video tutorials are available to get you started with using the software! It is also already in use by many labs. Check out our website at syntalos.org! 6/9

You can download the open-access paper from @naturecomms.bsky.social here: nature.com/articles/s41...
It is written with a focus on the users of the software and contains many example experiments, as well as a thorough validation of the performance claims we make about the software! 5/9

Syntalos' multithread-/multiprocess-based design is optimized to reduce latency and improve robustness. The software is #opensource running on the #Linux operating system, allowing insight into every single step of the data acquisition pipeline. 4/9

In addition to that, its module-based intuitive UI to design DAQ schemes and integration of native #Python allows it to be extended easily for a wide array of data-acquisition and closed-loop intervention tasks. For many experiments, no programming skills are needed at all! 3/9

Many devices used in #biosciences do not allow hardware-level time synchronization, while integrating data from multiple sources becomes increasingly important. #Syntalos provides a novel statistics-based algorithm to keep timestamps in sync over long recording times. 2/9

I am excited to announce our publication of "Syntalos" in @naturecomms.bsky.social: A software to easily and reliably record from multi-modal data sources and design closed-loop interventions, with a focus on (neuro)scientific experiments, all while keeping timestamps synchronized! 🧵1/9