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  1. Comment on What's your favorite RSS reader? in ~comp

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    For podcasts and video RSS feeds yt-dlp is quite good. For text Calibre custom recipes and calibre-smtp works wonders :)

    For podcasts and video RSS feeds yt-dlp is quite good.

    For text Calibre custom recipes and calibre-smtp works wonders :)

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  2. Comment on Question regarding these songs and autotune in ~music

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    The truth is most digitally mixed music and even some live performances use auto-tune and retiming (fine-tuning drum hits for example) to correct small mistakes. But it's only done if you wouldn't...

    The truth is most digitally mixed music and even some live performances use auto-tune and retiming (fine-tuning drum hits for example) to correct small mistakes. But it's only done if you wouldn't be able to tell (if you notice it then it's a stylistic choice or a novice engineer) and often the small details like these things are without the explicit foreknowledge of the artist.

  3. Comment on One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics in ~tech

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    Thanks for posting this! A lot of great links inside that article that led me down several rabbit holes... One surprising thing I learned recently is that the reason the CompuServe system used...

    Thanks for posting this! A lot of great links inside that article that led me down several rabbit holes...

    One surprising thing I learned recently is that the reason the CompuServe system used weird numbers for the user id was because it is running on PDP-10:

    http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-microsoft-network/

  4. Comment on National Data Buoy Center - BuoyCAMs in ~enviro

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    46047 has some aquatic birds

    46047 has some aquatic birds

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  7. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I recently read Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection which is a collection of short stories and articles by Isaac Asimov collected posthumously with a forward by Orson Scott Card. The book...

    I recently read Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection which is a collection of short stories and articles by Isaac Asimov collected posthumously with a forward by Orson Scott Card.

    The book itself is split into three parts. The first part is fifteen short stories. The second part is essays about science fiction--most of these seem to be forwards for other short story collections--there is some repetition but still enjoyable. The third part is essays about writing science fiction.

    The structure of the book is a bit unusual but very satisfying. It felt like an appetizer and I'm craving more. Luckily, I haven't read many Asimov and he's written over four hundred works. I've been concurrently listening to the audiobooks for Nemesis and The Gods Themselves and feel like my head is about to explode. I've been enjoying both stories a lot but I should probably slow down.

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  8. Comment on Markdown/inline links don't work unless URL starts with http(s) in ~tildes

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    Maybe relative links are less useful for this specific site but it's good hygiene anyways to always include the URL scheme. Markdown links on all other sites will very likely behave like this even...

    Maybe relative links are less useful for this specific site but it's good hygiene anyways to always include the URL scheme. Markdown links on all other sites will very likely behave like this even if there is a special fix on this site to convert relative markdown links into absolute ones.

    14 votes

  9. Comment on BairesDev - Palette app in ~arts

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    I stumbled upon this app and it's really neat how it shows the relationship between Saturation, Hue, and Value between palette colors. I have never seen something quite like this, though it is a...

    I stumbled upon this app and it's really neat how it shows the relationship between Saturation, Hue, and Value between palette colors. I have never seen something quite like this, though it is a pretty simple idea

    4 votes

  11. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been working on building a GUI for selective Syncthing downloading. I like the plugins system that Filestash provides so I've been building on top of that. The core functionality is mostly...

    I've been working on building a GUI for selective Syncthing downloading. I like the plugins system that Filestash provides so I've been building on top of that. The core functionality is mostly there but the UI needs some adjustment...

    The way to override default code via patches is really interesting but because it's a compiled program I think I'll just keep track of changes inside git commits instead.

    Here are some other interesting repos that I found but didn't end up using:

    WFM begun its life around 1994 as a Perl CGI script for CERN httpd server. It was developed to allow uploading logs, traces, dumps and other case data by support engineers and customers. Later rewritten in C language, when CGIC library and Apache httpd were released. Up until 2015, it has been a closed source commercial application used for lightweight document management and supported by a few customers. It has now been open sourced. In 2022 WFM has been rewritten in Go as a stand-alone application with a built-in web server for modern deployment scenarios.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Tips for FL Studio in ~music

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    I would recommend just keeping it simple and doing as much as you can outside the computer. Then when you have something somewhat concrete lay it out and play around with it in the Playlist area....

    I would recommend just keeping it simple and doing as much as you can outside the computer. Then when you have something somewhat concrete lay it out and play around with it in the Playlist area.

    Personally, I'm not a fan of the Channel Rack. It's powerful... but also really bad UI design (imho). Thankfully, you don't have to use it most of the time if you don't want to.

    https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/basics_workflow.htm

    Once you have something that sounds pretty good look into adding effects, sidechaining, and other weird things to see if you can squeeze a few percentage points more polish but it's easy to over do it--it's often better to do less.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Feedback doesn't scale in ~society

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    Seems like a good use case for not making work your life (don't take system deficiencies personally) and Sankey diagrams. (Or, if you're too time constrained to read and classify each complaint,...

    Seems like a good use case for not making work your life (don't take system deficiencies personally) and Sankey diagrams.

    (Or, if you're too time constrained to read and classify each complaint, sort everything by the number of items in each cluster library cluster-sort --groups sentences.txt)

    If one person is saying something either they have a unique insight or they are totally off base. If 50 people are saying the same thing perhaps it's gossip, mass hallucination, or subterfuge; but most likely, if 50 different people are complaining, regardless of your personal relationship to them, perhaps there is something to what they are trying to communicate to you.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Opinions on NPU laptops? in ~comp

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    I'm pretty sure my laptop has this but I don't even know if it's being used. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1isx272/accessing_an_npu_on_linux/...

    I'm pretty sure my laptop has this but I don't even know if it's being used.

    It seems like even if you are planning on using it to develop AI applications you would do better by supporting GPUs first as that's what everyone else is primarily supporting

    9 votes

  15. Comment on New community suggestion: ~tech.electronics in ~tildes

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    ~engineering.electronics is quite a bit more clear. ~tech.electronics might be interpreted as consumer electronics like TVs and dish washers I think you could just post to ~engineering and tag...

    ~engineering.electronics is quite a bit more clear. ~tech.electronics might be interpreted as consumer electronics like TVs and dish washers

    I think you could just post to ~engineering and tag with electronics (or electrical for electrical work)

    Prior art which might be helpful:

    If a new group is to be justified, its topic must already be under discussion somewhere in existing Usenet groups. The question is: under what circumstances is a new group warranted?

    1. If the topic is consistently dominating discussion in a more general group (e.g. 80% of discussion in alt.books.horror is about one author). Forming a new group because of this reason is called "splitting". If you want to form a newsgroup by splitting from an existing group, you should discuss the idea of a new group in the existing group before coming to alt.config with a proposal. People have to agree that there is a logical way to split the discussion. The old and new group would both be need to be viable after the split.

      Make sure the people contributing to the existing group will be happy moving to a new group. Put the findings of your discussion within the group in your proposal.

    2. The topic is being discussed in many different groups (and is being cross-posted to those groups) because people can't decide which group is most suitable. (e.g. a game is discussed in several different newsgroups). Forming a new group because of this reason is called "consolidating". You must be able to come to alt.config with numerical evidence that there is enough relevant discussion already happening in existing groups to warrant the new group. More on this later.

    Note: you cannot claim that you need a new group because there is no place on Usenet to discuss your topic. If that were true, no-one would be posting to Usenet on that topic, therefore there is no justification for creating the group!

    https://nylon.net/alt/

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  16. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I spent quite a bit of time renaming my fish functions to be a bit more consistent, consolidated similar ones, and deleted any that I don't use often. I had about 1000 and now only around 850 or...

    I spent quite a bit of time renaming my fish functions to be a bit more consistent, consolidated similar ones, and deleted any that I don't use often.
    I had about 1000 and now only around 850 or so. I used an LLM to write a script to help with this task: fish_functions_rename.py

    The funcmv.fish function has improved significantly over the past week but it's still imperfect. I recommend committing your .config/fish folder to a local git repo prior to attempting this so you can see where it is making mistakes.
    I should probably do something similar for my ~/bin folder but fewer of those have poor names

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    One thing that I'm very happy to discover is that recent versions of tmux support OSC 133:

    bind -T copy-mode C-Up send-keys -X previous-prompt
bind -T copy-mode C-Down send-keys -X next-prompt
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  17. Comment on iiSU, a new front-end for emulation on Android, announces its plans in ~games

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    The first time I saw WiiFlow I didn't believe it. The design was too good. It seemed like a scam. It hit all the right design notes that any young WAD Manager enthusiast could yearn for in the...

    The first time I saw WiiFlow I didn't believe it. The design was too good. It seemed like a scam. It hit all the right design notes that any young WAD Manager enthusiast could yearn for in the early 2010s...

    I haven't used it personally but Launchbox runs on Android and it looks pretty good! Different aesthetic though

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Weathering software winter (2022) in ~tech

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    I think that's a big drive for the people who arrive at a more extreme position as well. The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 (referenced in the page above) was really illuminating for me to understand...

    I want to make things and know that they will persist as I made them

    I think that's a big drive for the people who arrive at a more extreme position as well. The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 (referenced in the page above) was really illuminating for me to understand more of their perspective.

    Personally, I don't think we'll one day wake up in alien planet Kin-dza-dza where we lost a gap of knowledge that makes it impossible for us to run old programs--but there's still value in building low-power and more sustainable computing platforms.

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  20. Comment on Weathering software winter (2022) in ~tech