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obrhoff, to Spotify
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

People say that the sound quality in Apple Music is way better than in Spotify. What is the technical explanation here?
It can't be a problem of the encoding pipeline. This problem has been solved decades ago.

obrhoff,
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

@nighthawk Might be a good explanation, but would this not mostly apply to older music that got remastered or what's the difference between a normal master and an Apple digital master?

nighthawk,
@nighthawk@aus.social avatar

@obrhoff Good question. There’s this document from Apple but I personally don’t have enough knowledge to assess it: https://www.apple.com/apple-music/apple-digital-masters/docs/apple-digital-masters.pdf

obrhoff, to random
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@rafa Did you have anything to do with it? I'm still very proud of it, that I got it as a present from the company!

rafa,
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@obrhoff I wish! You're one of few lucky ones — it's a super limited print designed by Stevenson and hand printed by Mama's Sause: https://www.sketch.com/blog/from-sketch-to-screen-how-blake-stevenson-created-our-ambassador-art-print/

obrhoff, to VideoGames
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I really get the feeling that AAA games are dying.

Layoffs everywhere, huge budgets, too big to fail; indie devs are eating their lunch and ex-McKinsey MBAs are leading the Xbox division into their disaster. It was cool while it lasted… but maybe its a good thing.

I wonder why Valve is not laying off people. Maybe it's because they understand gamers and keep career-centric managers out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpc8VZ3Bnw

nighthawk,
@nighthawk@aus.social avatar

@obrhoff Valve haven’t created much in terms of notable AAA games since Portal 2 in 2011. There’s Alyx and CS2, but compare that to what they did the in the 13 years before starting with Half-Life 1. Steam really has taken over. Kinda proves your point. It’s not layoffs but a change in focus, where resources go, and similar drop in output.

obrhoff, to audiophile
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Okay, I'm leveling up my hipster audio experience. After 20 years, my Sennheiser 595s are breaking apart. Which headphones can you recommend?

cenbe,
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@obrhoff Very happy with my Sennheiser HD 560s.

obrhoff, to random German
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

In Deutschland sind mehr als 50% der Überstunden unbezahlt. Zum Glück will die CDU nun keine Steuern darauf, weil Leistung sich wieder lohnen soll.

obrhoff, to random
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Anyone already using the ARM Servers from @netcup? Anything that you should know? How do they perform compared to the AMD x86 servers?

mackuba,
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@obrhoff I've done a comparison of x86 VPS vs. ARM VPS vs. "Root" a couple of months ago, see thread here: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/111840495080806526

Note, "very slow" for single core just means that benchmark tests in compilation times come out slower than on my old VPS, it's not slow in practice in normal use - I ended up running this Mastodon instance I'm posting on on an ARM server and it's working pretty fine there.

obrhoff, to llm
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

The amazing thing about LLMs is how much knowledge they posess in their small size. The llama3-8b model, for instance, weighs only 4.7GB yet can still answer your questions about everything (despite some hallucinations).

noplasticshower,
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@obrhoff being DEAD WRONG is not really a "hallucination"...but your point is well taken. Cramming information into a smaller space is amazing.

When you re-represent and compress information in the long tails of gradient Gaussians disappears.

obrhoff, to StarTrek
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Working again on a new image for my new office.

I want to recreate a poster of the original Star Trek Tricorder based on the blueprints released in the '70s. So far, I've got this, but I'm not happy with the fonts I found online.
Does anyone have a better one that matches the original more closely?

When I'm done, I will release the source files for everyone else. I could image doing more of these posters.

obrhoff, to Starwars
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How it started… how it's going…

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rafa,
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obrhoff, to Banking German
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

Sehe ich das richtig? Bei einigen Sparkassen kostet die Push Nachricht bei Kontobewegung Geld?
Gefühlt sage ich es mir jeden Tag. Ich bin seit dem Knax Konto aus den 90zigern dabei, aber jetzt ist genug.

ctietze,
@ctietze@mastodon.social avatar

@obrhoff Den kleinen Banken muss es superschlecht gehen, oder alle IT'ler scammen die so richtig hart mit laufenden Kosten. :)

Ich verstehe z.B. auch nicht, wieso ich für mehr als 5 Transaktionen bei der Volksbank Kontoführungsgebühren zahlen soll. Die halten meine Kohle und machen Geld damit, und ich halte Geschäftsanteile, und trotzdem wollen die ~5 EUR/Monat für das Eintragen von Zeilen in eine Datenbank.

Moment. Oder die machen das händisch. Sparkasse mit Push notifications dann auch

obrhoff, to random German
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

Starting to build up my office space after moving to a new place.

ctietze,
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@obrhoff I think I know that towel holder from IKEA :)

obrhoff, to Artist
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One day I will meet the artist who created this…

obrhoff, to iPod
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This iPod (iPod 3G) was just weird with buttons. I also got no clue how to charge it
#ipod

RobW,
@RobW@iosdev.space avatar

@obrhoff My first iPod. I loved the buttons at the top.
It charges from FireWire only!

obrhoff, to opensource
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

Looks like Redis changed their license.

„Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis offerings will no longer be permitted to use the source code of Redis free of charge.“

https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt

obrhoff, to random German
@obrhoff@chaos.social avatar

Grundsicherung anstelle von Bürgergeld und Zwang zur Arbeit.

Rückblick: 2004 bin ich als Jugendlicher in das Hartz-4-System geraten. Ich wurde gezwungen, jeden Job anzunehmen.

Ich saß in zwielichtigen Call-Centern und habe Telefonverträge an Rentner verkauft oder saß in Bewerbungstrainings von Firmen, wo man, hauptsächlich die Fördergelder abgreifen wollte. Gebracht hat das alles nichts.

Der Zwang zur Annahme jeder Arbeit ist nur eine Subvention der Ausbeutung von Menschen.

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