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miblo

@miblo@mas.to

video indexer & publishing services provider (for hire via https://miblo.net/cinera#hire) • software developer • strummer • baker • mistake maker–learner • coexister

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pervognsen, (edited ) to random
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How much RAM do you have in your dev workstation/laptop?

miblo,
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@pervognsen [32 GB] But only as of a few weeks ago when I included an upgrade from 8 GB with my storage space upgrade.

Nifflas, to random
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Function naming problems!

So, you know floor/ceiling/round

But, what do I name one that given the input 3.25 has a 75% chance of rounding it to 3 and 25% chance of rounding it to 4?

I realize it's going to be an incredibly useful function for adaptive music.

But... what do I call it?

miblo,
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@Nifflas TryToRound()?

buffyleigh, to random
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Oh geez, died.

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Oh no! Thanks for the news, though.

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Oh jeez. Taking me back to hearing the news of 9/11 on the radio. Glad I at least got to see him play live once when Shellac came to Manchester in 2017.

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Aww cool. So it was quite a coincidence I picked out KEXP when we were talking about scrobbling last week! Which reminds me, I meant to get back to you there. But first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EvB4pwdkVQ

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Hehe, ikr.

buffyleigh, to random
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I’m going to focus on my problem of whether I start a new list or just keep adding to the list of albums I listened to last month, because I can solve that problem and can’t do a damn thing about, like, anything else at all right now.

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Oh, you list the albums you listen to? Do you know about "scrobbling"? I've done it for years, first to last.fm and now to https://listenbrainz.org/user/M.%20del%20Carpio/

This all happens automatically for digital listens, but a cool thing about LBz is that we can submit, say, vinyl listens manually! I haven't actually done this myself, but it's possible. 😛

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Nice! Well, I haven't done this myself either (just from my music player mpd for me), but https://web-scrobbler.com/ that's mentioned at https://listenbrainz.org/add-data/ maaay well work with online radio stations. I mean, they have KEXP listed there as a supported site.

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Cool, yeah. If you have any issues setting it up, I'd be happy to try and help.

miblo, to music
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It's just possible I'll be playing video game on guitar live on stream at the top of the hour (16:00 BST).

The first in a new series, with new hardware and software setup.

https://twitch.tv/miblo

grimalkina, to random
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Whether or not knowledge workers are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for innovation. Just as whether or not children are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for whether a society cares about advancing.

Something that made an indelible impression on me way back in college was the Sartre notion of bad faith: our ability to unmake the consequences of our choices to such an extent that we negate choice, we abdicate as agents.

We are holding bad faith with human innovation.

miblo,
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@grimalkina If I understand it right, this bad faith is exactly the kind of thing my top pinned post would have down as seeking to erode the link between cause and effect: https://mas.to/@miblo/110408313643200600

miblo, to linux
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Yikes, since updating my @archlinux system's packages only two hours ago, a whopping 228 new package updates have become available. Seems like python going from version 3.11.8 to 3.12.3 is the cause.

It's updates like these that make me really appreciate the work of our package maintainers. Cheers, all!

miblo,
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@archlinux Update update: Just synced my system with the repositories. Almost totally uneventful. I just had to rebuild ranger-git afresh, which is from the AUR, so that one's on me.

buffyleigh, to random
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The last two full albums I listened to both had Roman numerals in the title, and were both numbered "II".

Anyone have other recommendations of albums with "II" in the title?

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Playing a bit fast and loose with the criteria to get this one in: https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/bare-nuckle-ii-1993

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Hehe, awesome! Hope you enjoy it!

futurebird, to random
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If you are in space and copying a file from earth to your space computer... isn't it uploading not downloading?

miblo,
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@futurebird Hehe! And if the computers are next to each other, isn't it sideloading?

forrestthewoods, to random
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One of the arguments against immediate mode UI is that it will drain your battery. I think that's bollocks!

Here is my "proof of life" test to measure power draw. Preliminary result is that Dear ImGui consumes less power than YouTube. That feels like a fairbar to compare against

I'll of course take some much more rigorous measurements and tests over longer periods of time. This is just the first time I have actual data.

miblo,
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@wolfpld @amonakov @forrestthewoods @castano Arch's turbostat package has as its URL https://www.kernel.org which'll probably explain why it's not on github as a mere random utility. It seems powerful from my first run and a glance at the manpage. Cheers for mentioning it, Alexander!

miblo,
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@wolfpld @amonakov @forrestthewoods @castano Yeah, I was actually interested myself in this power stuff just the other day, knew about powertop from my laptop days, but was disappointed to find it didn't do it for me on this desktop. So gave up, not having come across turbostat.

Here's the closest I can get to .csv just from turbostat itself: https://miblo.net/_files/turbostat_1714048427.txt

sudo turbostat --quiet --enable Time_Of_Day_Seconds --show Time_Of_Day_Seconds,power --Summary --out turbostat_$(date +%s)

stefan, to random
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Is there a more efficient way to check if two accounts follow each other via Mastodon's API, other than fetching followers of both accounts and finding a match?

miblo,
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@stefan Fairly sure there wasn't (for two accounts other than our own) when I looked into it a bit ago. But it you want "do I and this other person or people follow each other?", I'm pretty sure that's how /accounts/relationships works:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accounts/#relationships

pervognsen, to random
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Finally got so fed up with Windows that I installed Arch on my laptop (without the help of archinstall so it was a good learning experience). Gotta say, KDE Plasma 6 has blown me away. A few annoying defaults I had to change (e.g. floating panels as a default) but such a great experience coming from Windows 11: https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

miblo,
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@pervognsen Nice! Cool to see their Mastodon client Tokodon in there. Since switching from KDE to XFCE, then to today's Fluxbox, I don't really get to see programs like this mentioned in release announcements of things I use.

Also, while partitioning a new drive just the other day, I discovered the "Linux /var" and "Linux /home" partition types in gdisk. Not sure how long they've been an option, but they're perfect for the scheme I settled on way back.

All of this stuff just feels like home.

buffyleigh, to random
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New out today!!! They're always on my AOTY lists, and this release is no different.

https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com/album/a-chaos-of-flowers

miblo,
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@buffyleigh Oh my! ❤️

miblo, to hardware
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Nifflas, to random
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I'd like to share my opinion about analog vs digital synthesis and how it evolved for 20 years.

Beginning:

  • Analog better
  • It's just placebo, they sound the same
  • Actually, analog DOES sound different when compared
  • No wait, some new plugins actually simulate it convincingly, it doesn't matter which you use
  • Too many synths to test, can't make a fair comparison

Today I'm like:

  • Analog matters! Simply because I know this synthesizer is real analog and it makes me happy!
miblo,
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@Nifflas Same for me as a guitar player, hearing things like the squeak of the player's fingers sliding up and down the fretboard. Although we don't actually want to be letting this stuff – the artefacts / glitches of the physical process of playing – be too audible, I just like to know that "there was someone in there doing the same process I do".

sos, to infosec
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So, Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 systems and this is a disaster.

How can you push a tool that siphons data to a third party onto a security-critical system?

What privileges does it have upon install? Who thought this is a good idea? And most importantly, who needs this?

miblo,
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@dmakovec @Walrus @sos Okay, cool. That canvas idea – https://obsidian.md/canvas – is the thing that stuck out to me from OneNote. And I do fancy the idea of the links and graphing.

Just a shame it depends on electron, although understandable since publishing to the web seems to be built in in such a way that the note-taker and the website visitor get the same interface (I'm thinking with the graphing, really).

miblo,
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@dmakovec @Walrus @sos Ah, no worries, it's just the same old complaint about bloat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)#Reception#Reception)

Also, having been pretty oblivious of it for a while, I'm now seeing this farcical situation whereby Arch's package maintainers evidently have to keep six versions of electron in our [extra] repo. This is really unusual, and suggests to me a general lack of forethought in that ecosystem, you know? The fire-and-forget convenience for developers, and disrespect for everyone downstream.

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