SlurpingPus

@[email protected]

Y u no Mamaleek

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

SlurpingPus ,

The bassline is taken from a performance of the Sugar Hill house band (featuring bassist Doug Wimbish) covering ‘Cavern’, a single by New York City band Liquid Liquid.

SlurpingPus ,

If you modify it but then no one can use your modifications while at their work, then it's not much use being able to see the code.

SlurpingPus ,

I also really like how "Linux Studio Plugins" are standalone apps that you can run. I don't produce music or anything but I still use stuff like equalizers and spectrum analyzers. It is insane how flexible the "each app has inputs and outputs you can hook together" architecture is.

It's weird that parts of this approach have been around for a long time, but barely anyone can make them all work together out of the box.

Mac has AU Lab that can host AU apps, i.e. Apple's analog of VST, and feed system audio through them. Plugging any app into another is a bit more involved, though: there was the open-source Sunflower made like fifteen years ago, but bit rot gotten it, and another open-source clone doesn't work for some reason either — so paid apps are the best recourse, just like on Windows iirc.

Mac also has a feature where one can combine multiple audio inputs into one virtual input. A funny application of this is, if you put the mic into a virtual input and call it ‘Rocksmith Something Something Controller’, you can play guitar with Rocksmith without their special usb device.

Next stop: iOS has an audio bus for connecting apps together just like VST/AU on the desktop. Android has jackshit, and if you feel that audio latency could be lower, it'll spit in your face.

SlurpingPus ,

You got a machined-aluminium laptop with a battery lasting a full day and a hidpi screen, for fifty bucks?

SlurpingPus ,

80's Shuiten and Peeter's graphic novels

Those seem to borrow Mœbius' earlier style, which was defining for French and Belgian comics since the seventies. So it's rather ironic of you to say that it's S&P who were ‘ripped off’.

SlurpingPus ,

Thankfully many of us already seen all the jokes via gifs incessantly posted in Reddit comments. No need to watch the show.

SlurpingPus ,

For 25 squares of size 1x1 you'd need a square of size 5x5. The square into which 17 1x1 squares fit is smaller than 5x5, so you can't fit 25 squares into it.

SlurpingPus ,
SlurpingPus ,

Some people also just hold on to life until their dog dies of old age.

SlurpingPus ,

I'm guessing wine-drinking countries also have good diets. Seeing as it's mostly around the Mediterranean and thereabouts. E.g. people of Caucasus are traditionally known for longevity while being pretty hardcore drinkers of wine and other stuff during celebrations, but they also have kingly cuisines and live in resort climates.

SlurpingPus ,

Was Bosnia a member of NATO in 1995?

SlurpingPus ,

NATO has intervened in situations where they had a UN mandate.

Ah, so it's not a defensive alliance. Thanks for confirming.

SlurpingPus ,

defence of peace

Ah, like the US.

Yes, under this ‘definition’ they could be intervening all over the world, including in Iran.

SlurpingPus ,

GIF uses transparency to overlay a frame over the previous one, so colors for the unchanged pixels can be collapsed to the transparent color to get better compression.

Of course, this is rather primitive compared to anything invented since MPEG-2.

SlurpingPus ,

That's what they already do. Not only the ‘incest’ titles get slapped on every second video for the simple reason that it costs nothing and gets that audience covered, but videos are uploaded with different titles too.

SlurpingPus ,

They'll just add alternative titles for the videos to be shown in the UK. Nothing else changes.

SlurpingPus ,

I have to "forget" it and re-pair it.

If you're dual-booting, you need to sync the Bluetooth pairing keys between Windows and Linux.

SlurpingPus ,

Why would standard Bluetooth audio profiles need some specialty drivers?

SlurpingPus ,

I doubt it even more that the ‘audio plug is connected’ event is reliant on software.

SlurpingPus ,

Hm? Why would it be?

Afaik wired audio is a solved problem since the introduction of the AC'97 standard in, fittingly, 1997. Which, as it happens, relies on an audio controller that sits between the hardware and the OS. Major OSes have been shipped with standard drivers for AC'97 support for the past twenty-nine years or thereabouts.

This leads me to believe that the OP is talking about Bluetooth, still rather wonky between different software stacks.

SlurpingPus ,

Mamaleek: I typically listen to whole albums, but the latest favorite track is probably ‘Vileness Slim’. Least favorite is ‘Nothing But Loss’, the opening track from ‘Via Dolorosa’, which is brilliant for two minutes and then drags on and on. (Although there are also a handful of tracks to which I don't listen at all, because the whole EP is mid.)

Caveat: I have no idea what the lyrics are in these songs.

SlurpingPus ,

You know that the writer himself is quoted in the OP article, right?

SlurpingPus ,

It's Saint George killing a dragon. He seems oddly ripped, though.

SlurpingPus ,

Well, it's not on the flag, thankfully. The flag is just a tricolor. Putting coats of arms on flags is a bad idea.

SlurpingPus ,

As someone using a web app right this moment and also making websites at other times, I do want datacenters.

SlurpingPus ,

You forgot the weight of the battery for the motor that rotates the barrels. Afaik in the film a wire was run through the actor's pants.

SlurpingPus ,

Remarkable, it's rare to see someone just outright not comprehending that an actor and a role are different entities. But apparently, as of right now, there were fourteen such people here in one hour.

Is there an application that stabilizes the volume level of downloaded mp3 files?

As someone who downloads or buys their music to listen to via VLC, it's quite annoying when the volume level between files aren't consistent. Especially when I'm unable to easily to change the volume like when I'm doing physical labor as an example. So it can go from a perfectly reasonable volume, to damaging my ears, and then ...

SlurpingPus ,

Presumably the server should do the volume adjustment in this case.

SlurpingPus ,

One thing to note is that QMP3Gain seems to be a GUI for mp3gain, a terminal util. There are also aacgain and such for different formats, though some of them support multiple formats.

SlurpingPus , (edited )

There's a sequel to ‘Mutant League Football’, from 2017, called ‘Mutant Football League’. And a sequel to the sequel.

SlurpingPus ,

I'd guess that keeping configs in Ansible would reduce that setup time to an hour or two.

SlurpingPus , (edited )

I'm wondering where people like you and me, using non-LTS but not rolling distros, go in the OP pic.

SlurpingPus , (edited )

I'm referring rather to what is popularly known as ‘doomer music’, which includes coldwave, some darkwave, and post-punk, and to my knowledge emerged as a meme around mid-2010s. Molchat Doma are the prime exemplar of the genre. Netlabels like Detriti Records and Russian post-punk and online places like Harakiri Diat were cranking out both fresh gloomy music and some classic 80s-style sound. Dark Entries Records reissued some cool stuff from way back in the day.

Personally I'm unmoved by most indie-adjacent rock (while digging original old post-punk), but getting into modern underground-ish post-punk and darkwave really paid off, even though I was rather late to the party.

Check out e.g. toska po domu, My friend tape recorder, Dirty Beaches, Artificial intelligence created by a smart creature, Karl Kave, to some extent margenrot, ‘DETHWAVE MIX 2014’ by BLACkMOON77, and not least Glintshake and Inturist. And Filmmaker for the company.

SlurpingPus ,

I'll tell you two such bands: The Beatles and Iron Butterfly.

SlurpingPus ,

From what I've heard, progressive rock threw away the influence of black musicians that was there in blues and rock'n'roll, and continued in the European and ‘academic’/art music tradition instead.

I'm not versed in music theory anywhere near enough to tell if this is really true, though.

SlurpingPus ,

Check out ‘Digital William Tell Overture’ (particularly the finale), and ‘The Theiving Magpie’ from the same guy. And perhaps also ‘Infernal Galop hard synth remix’ and Reggae Far East's ‘Turkish March’.

SlurpingPus ,

LibreOffice's look stems in large part from the UI toolkit that they use. Which was guaranteed to look like Windows, since LO is made in Java, and is not gonna be changed easily.

SlurpingPus ,

required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA

Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you.

Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies.

SlurpingPus ,

I mean, there's no such thing as a good copy of Microsoft's ribbon interface.