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benjaminhollon

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Life is truly a journey. Mine began in Bakersfield, California, but three months later took me to northern Afghanistan 🇦🇫. I took the scenic route through India 🇮🇳 and Malaysia 🇲🇾, and am currently braving a four-year foray through higher education at Texas A&M University, studying Communication and Professional Writing. Along the way I've learned musicmaking, storytelling, the art of performance, and technological mastery.

Wanna see where my journey takes me next?

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clarkesworld, to random
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One year ago today, we had to close submissions due to "AI" spam. We've long since reopened, but it continues to be a problem for us. Even with the countermeasures we've developed, it is still eating up a significant amount of my time.

benjaminhollon,
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@clarkesworld

Dang, was that a year ago already? Wow, time flies.

benjaminhollon, to random
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So far, https://tty1.blog has largely been tutorials on how to use particular commands or workflows. I'll keep doing that, but I also want to highlight some real-world problems that can easily be solved with some knowledge of shell scripting and the command line.

To start off, here's how I used the find command to create a script for @nantucketebooks to help them easily update the code for all of their books at once.

https://tty1.blog/articles/real-world-solutions-updating-ebooks/

benjaminhollon, to random
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Whoa, whiptail looks cool.

nantucketebooks, to random
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@benjaminhollon I remember the Vim command for deleting a line by saying "Get outta my labora-tory!"

benjaminhollon,
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@nantucketebooks
Hmm, having trouble connecting that with "dd"…

clarkesworld, to random
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We're still trying to close the gap left by Amazon killing subscriptions. It's also our 10th anniversary of being on Patreon. If you are looking for someplace to support us, it's a good one.
https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld

benjaminhollon,
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@clarkesworld
Gonna stick with Weightless Books for now at least, but good luck! Hope you can close that gap well!

jp, to random
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All mobile web browsers are a bit crap. It's just a matter of finding the one that's slightly less crap than the others.

What are people using on Android these days?

benjaminhollon,
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@jp
if only iOS actually gave a choice

it's all safari under the hood

benjaminhollon,
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@jp
Really? My understanding is that it's an app store policy, not a technical issue to be surmounted.

clarkesworld, to random
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The November 2023 issue of Clarkesworld is now available at:

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_206

and features original stories by Bo Balder, Hannah Yang, James Van Pelt, Louise Hughes, Thomas Ha, Thoraiya Dyer, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, and Tia Tashiro.

Subscribe at:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

benjaminhollon,
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@clarkesworld
Gotta say I love this cover.

thelinuxcast, to random
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I'm sure that switching keyboard layouts right before is a great idea.

benjaminhollon,
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@thelinuxcast
Oooof. XD

Yeah I made sure to do my switch over the summer.

benjaminhollon, to random
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This week, I’m sharing a project of mine from one of my classes, “New Media and the Independent Voice”. The result is field audio recordings from Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center, accompanied by narration by me.

I’m really proud of how this turned out, I hope you enjoy it!

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/audio-postcard-the-msc/

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk

I recorded it while sitting on the floor of my closet so the clothes would absorb background sound, my laptop with the script and my microphone (which is actually fairly high-quality). :)

Yeah white noise is tricky. I had none in my own narration, but since I was overlaying all of that with a field recording, that was trickier. I'll see what I can do in the future.

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk
Good to hear! Yeah those recordings were pretty impromptu. In the future I'd like to mess with the settings on my microphone a bit to see if I can cut out some of that background right off the bat. Probably have my headphones in and listening to it as I do that; this time I just thought "oh right I need to record something, I'll take my microphone out and start it recording".
…

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk

As for the makeshift studio… yup! This was one of the strategies my prof mentioned as an option, and it worked pretty well! Another option, though: my uni provides no-extra-cost "whisper rooms" you can reserve that have professional-grade recording setups. I might try that, too.

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk
Yeah, it's a cool concept! I don't know what availability is like, but it is right nearby my dorm (a ~7 minute bike), at the library, so would be nice and convenient.

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk
Hmm, I wouldn't be surprised if my microphone has something like that built-in. I really need to reread its manual, it's been years.

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk
Oh neat, there's a "pre-recording" feature to keep a two-second buffer in case you start the recording right after the event you're trying to capture.

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk
Oh I see now, looking up what a Nose Gate is. Yeah, my microphone abbreviates it as a "LoCut" to remove low-frequency noises.

tdarb, to UX
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Great read:

"Scrollbars are becoming a problem"

https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html

benjaminhollon,
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@tdarb
Unfortunately I'm finding it difficult to read because of the dark mode. :P

I guess I'll have to set up my reader mode script for qutebrowser again.

joel, to random
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I made a mistake upgrading this old laptop of mine. It has 2128 updates and its Fedora with dnf :blobcatsadlife:

I wanna go sleep :blobfoxcry2:

benjaminhollon,
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@joel
Why'd you let it go so long between updates?? XD

benjaminhollon,
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@joel
Fair enough, I suppose I just updated a Fedora install for the first time in months because it was a dual boot.

benjaminhollon,
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@joel
I'm on :Debian: now! :BlobCatThinkCool:

benjaminhollon,
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@joel
Oh rats this isn't my GtS account, those emojis don't exist. XD

hyde, to books
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How to extract from your ?

: 80/100

https://lazybear.io/posts/how-to-extract-notes-from-your-remarkable2

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk @hyde
I mean for just text and ebooks I could see 8GB being fine, but you've gotta save the graphics of any marks that can be made, I'd assume. I don't know how much that takes up but it could be a contributor to storage space.

nantucketebooks, to random
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New blog post, in which I investigate ways of keeping text in SVG files consistent across browsers. https://nantucketebooks.com/blog/2023/09/2023-09-27_working_with_svgs,_and_new_books.html

benjaminhollon,
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@adamsdesk @nantucketebooks
Heh, yes. You either embed the paths or you need to embed the font.

I don't embed a font in the SVG favicon for https://tty1.blog, though; sizing doesn't vary much, and the rest of the page is using your default monospace font so using that font matches well.

RadicalGraffiti, to random
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"The rich won't save us, no matter how much we cut their taxes"
Sticker seen in Chicago

benjaminhollon,
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@RadicalGraffiti
I love the small print. :)

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