#openvibe

Well unfortunately, my time with Openvibe is over.

It was a decent app for a while, but constant problems with Bluesky and my following feed not loading, I was using it less and less.

Openvibe, an app that lets you comply with open social networks like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr in a single place, is now increasing its performance so you may comply with your favourite information websites and blogs, too. To take action, the startup is including help for RSS (aka Actually Easy Syndication or information feeds), an open normal that lets you subscribe to automated…

Often we have different friends on different social networks. This app allows you to have a single timeline to read across all these popular decentralised social networks, and to also cross post to all of them.

We’ve seen plenty of apps like this for X, Facebook, Instagram, and other old legacy platforms, but really not many at all for the modern decentralised platforms.

Mastodon, of course, allows your posts to be visible right across all the Fediverse social networks too.

It claims no ads, no data selling, and permissionless.

A potential downside, for any such aggregator, is going to be that it cannot support some of the more nuanced features that each platform offers. So, this will be ideal for reading a single timeline, liking, replying and posting. Still, that will save an awful lot of time for many users of these platforms.

A plus is because it signs in to each network with your existing profile at each network, you lose nothing if you decide not to use the app in future.

After fiddling endlessly with OpenViBE and EEGlab throughout the last two weeks, we were able to analyze some of the waveforms and discovered that the GDF file writer we were utilizing did strange things with the signal display of brain waves. We also were getting tired of having to go through so many hoops simply to filter the data, so we found code in python that could filter and graph waveforms so that we could automate some of the processes without having to use OpenViBE and EEGlab. I also quickly created a python program that could check to see if a P300 or N400 exists so that this process could be automated as well. We merged these two programs and then began to test. So far we have not reached any conclusive results, but we are detecting P300s.

Also this week the dean of computer science at UNT came by to talk to all of us about graduate school. We were all able to ask questions about what preparations we would need to take if graduate school was something we were interested in, and to learn some of their own personal tips and words of wisdom. One of the professors here for computational epidemiology spoke as well and I was very intrigued by some of the things he gets to research. I haven’t quite decided if I want to go straight into graduate school, but they certainly make a good case for it!