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dither8on SoX_ng

Original author isn't involved with this fork AFAIK, but fixes from SoX are backported which is why the author may appear in the commit history.

dither8on AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2

> Opus is also now supported in WebM, but you still can't just decode Ogg Opus

Apparently Ogg Opus and Ogg Vorbis has been supported since 18.4 (Mar 2025)[1]

I think it would be great to see more adoption of Opus in podcasting personally.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...

dither8on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web

Google would retain copyright to all of it's employees contributions to Chromium. Which I recall being 90%+ of contributions. The propsal PDF from justice.gov doesn't mention Chromium anywhere, so maybe Google will retain copyrights, but the sale would seem pointless if they do.

The real question is to what level Google continue investment in Chrome after the sale. Remember both Mozilla and Apple will also loose out on the search engine deal.

dither8on Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language

Thank you. For some reason HN search wasn't showing me anything for CookLang

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506835, 11 months ago, 14 comments

dither8on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

In my input.conf file I've created filter keyboard shortcuts:

  F1 af toggle "acompressor=ratio=4,loudnorm"
  F2 vf toggle "bwdif"

First one is an alright dynamic range compressor (makes the loud parts quieter and quieter parts loud). Second is a deinterlace at default settings. These are standard ffmpeg filters and mpv let's you turn these on in real time.

dither8on Google Search: Roboto Mono

Yep I first noticed this a month ago with OpenSans https://www.google.com/search?q=opensans

dither8on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

You can actually do this with YouTube. By search for MOV001 etc.

Mental Outlaw did a video demonstrating this a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ho_KDPi_U

dither8on I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

It was a journey for sure. I never contributed code, but color schemes and emojis. But I always enjoy Andreas' Serenity videos, even some coding videos were good (I cannot code). These are special and will forever live in my heart.

dither8on I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

Would it be fair to assume this means the SerenityOS maintainers will have to pull LibWeb/LibJS changes in from Ladybird?

dither8on Dano is a wrapper for FFmpeg that checksums the internal file streams

I hope it was a pleasant surprise, I found this from a data archivist perspective. I can't believe that only FLAC had the foresight to checksum large binary data in the media codec space.

I notice that LLM releases will include md5/sha256 for the binary data, while excluding the json metadata. I really wanted MKV to have this functionality.

dither8on Dano is a wrapper for FFmpeg that checksums the internal file streams

My perspective. Checksumming is more useful on large binary data, whereas tools to check metadata/container corruption already exist[1].

This allows you to change metadata or the container entirely, while still being able to check if e.g. the H.264 video stream is okay.

[1]: https://www.matroska.org/downloads/mkvalidator.html

dither8on PipeWire 1.0.0

Pipewire for the first time got Pulse and JACK to work together for me. Bravo.

dither8on Helm

Don't forget Vital which is Matt's newer synth. It continues to be open-source as well.

https://vital.audio/

https://github.com/mtytel/vital

dither8on ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption

As someone who just installed OpenZFS on Linux, I agree with you totally.

ZFS just is, no need to worry about layering device mappers and LVM. The automount is also very nice.

dither8on Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?

I don't hate the UI choice made in Dune 3D. But I still think the menu bar approach is the best for complex applications.

I don't like the GTK crowd's approach in regards trying to make everything work within the GNOME design paradigm. It doesn't look good on all platforms, and feels more hamfisted then anything else.

Sad to see some in the comments criticise GIMP so hard, I get it doesn't compete with professional proprietary software. But it's still a very useful image editing tool, that I use a lot.