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milkmirukuon Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral

Once I didn't have any USB sticks handy and didn't know about DriveDroid, so I used Servers Ultimate to host a TFTP server so I could PXE boot the netboot.xzy image from my phone to my laptop then download+install Arch Linux.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapp...

milkmirukuon Carla – a fully-featured audio plugin host

While the Github text is clearer, there are videos on the official page: https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla

milkmirukuon I found an easter egg from 1977

https://i.imgur.com/5t6k1uj.png

milkmirukuon Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding

To LV2 also would be awesome if possible!

milkmirukuon The Seaboard: discreteness and continuity in musical interface design [pdf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAN98p7a4AY - "WHATS INSIDE A ROLI SEABOARD?" by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

milkmirukuon A guide to difficult conversations

aside; https://nvc.neocities.org/nonviolent-communication-a-languag...

milkmirukuon China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

As seen on some YouTube channels, the 'SPIM08HP' cell - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/42-SPIM08HP-3-7V-8AH-LITHIUM-POLY...

milkmirukuon Here's how you can set YouTube video playback rate to any speed you like

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/videospeed/

milkmirukuon Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers

Urban Dictionary is generally pretty good when a word/term isn't defined in a more general dictionary, though in some cases what you're looking for might not be the first entry.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tfa

Aside: a quick shortcut url for the free dictionary;

[F6]

tfd.com/word

milkmirukuon The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]

https://gitlab.com/tslocum/meditationassistant - Android meditation session timer and logger with numerous features and customization options.

available via Google Play, Amazon and F-Droid.

milkmirukuon Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

recently created an alias;

ncdu='ncdu --color dark -q'

-q for quiet, slows updating the ncurses interface down for a quicker scan.

also; -1 for scan info pre ncurses display and -0 for no scan info.

milkmirukuon Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting

Can anyone clarify why this link is now flagged on HN? Thanks.

milkmirukuon Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years

Might anyone know of a web/*nix alternative that has the Winamp Media Library like functionality, i.e. enqueuing? That was, to me, the killer feature from "later" versions of Winamp.

milkmirukuon Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?

I love AvE, though do grimace every time they start a clip with "Gentlemen!".

milkmirukuon DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Chip_Set#Paula

https://bel.fi/alankila/modguide/interpolate.txt

N.b. the Mixxx method [using libmodplug] renders the modules as a regular stereo track in memory, so no subtrack muting/etc.

milkmirukuon DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs

Mixxx can mix modules, though needs to be compiled with modplug=1 in the scons arguments. AUR mixxx-git and Fedora RPM Fusion packages at least have that enabled.

- https://www.mixxx.org

There's also Chipdisco, in Java, but mono (one channel for preview, one for live).

- https://echolevel.co.uk/post/1486312636973-Chipdisco

Some links to module repos and a download script:

- https://gist.github.com/milkmiruku/32a9d023c3e05fdb41c4dc8a9...

milkmirukuon Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

I set this up recently (the 'Play with MPV' method) after noting that viewing YouTube in the browser had a far greater CPU usage than watching the same in mpv.

I've also given gtk-youtube-viewer a spin but it doesn't do "new videos of your subscriptions" (though it's command=line equivalent 'youtube-viewer -SV' does). Any recommendations out there for similar YouTube frontends?

Also, at least in the UK, youtube-dl can access BBC iPlayer content without the login required on the web.

milkmirukuon Scientists find 'friendliness' genes that distinguish dogs from wolves

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wVIlaJB...

* http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700398 - Structural variants in genes associated with human Williams-Beuren syndrome underlie stereotypical hypersociability in domestic dogs

2017

milkmirukuon Lobotomizing Gnome

Here's a current thread regarding Ableton Live registration via Wine - https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18590 - apparently it's not the easiest.

Alternatively, Bitwig runs natively, though costs. It's about the only native software that does the clip launching style of production/performance well.

milkmirukuon A tool that lets you hear both Yanny and Laurel

I'm from the Kingdom of Fife (i.e., Scotland) and I also hear yelly (someone being a certain kind of shouty).

milkmirukuon Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu++

Also, Sujato Bhikkhu;

http://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_Hi... - "A History of Mindfulness", large pdf

http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/... - "Satipaṭṭhāna Mūla: A reconstruction of the 'original' pre-sectarian Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta", small pdf

milkmirukuon AV1: A new general-purpose video codec

Aside: I did laugh the other day when I saw a video of the Amiga Vampire FPGA enabling an A600 to decode and play MP3 files.

http://www.apollo-accelerators.com

milkmirukuon A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks

Here's an 2D outline bookmarklet I picked up and modified slightly along the way, slightly out of date though;

javascript:(function(){var t=['div','header','nav','main','section','footer','table','th','td','tr','form','fieldset','label','img','address','blockquote','h1','h2','h3','h4','h5','h6','p','pre','dd','dl','dt','ol','ul','li'];var c=['blue','blue','blue','blue','blue','blue','teal','teal','teal','teal','orange','orange','orange','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','green','green','green','green','green','green','yellow'];for (var i in t){var l=document.getElementsByTagName(t[i]);var j=0,e;while(e=l.item(j++)){e.style.outline='solid '+c[i]+' 1px';}}})();

milkmirukuon I wandered off and built an IDE

Is there a DMOZ meets Reddit out there?

milkmirukuon Cloudflare's new DNS attracting 'gigabits per second' of rubbish

Previously (February 2010);

"As part of an effort to de-bogonise this newly allocated address space, RIPE, in cooperation with APNIC, made some test advertisements to the global BGP table for several prefixes with 1.0.0.0/8. Specifically, these networks included 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.2.3.0/24. Why these networks? Because they contain the novel (and illegal) IPv4 addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4, of course.

"Shortly after announcing the routes to the world, RIPE's RIS was flooded with over 50 Mbps of traffic destined for what is still an unallocated network; it should not appear on the global Internet."

* http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/feb/5/ripe-plays-with-1-0-0-...

milkmirukuon Git Magic

something gets marked as a dupe, but no op link?

milkmirukuon The tiny red dots taking over our lives

If anyone can find a link on the project that appeared on /. or k5 roughly 20 years ago about a 1bit red dot communication program that sat in the systray that had a report on emergent behaviours between 2 folk at either end, I'd be ever so grateful.

milkmirukuon Stack Overflow: Support for OpenID Ends on July 1, 2018

FWIW, I've used OpenID for login on my personal wiki [1] for a few years and haven't had a spam issue [yet].

To forgo the bother of managing being provider or even relayer, I just use a Dreamwidth (the LiveJournal fork) profile [2]. Always interesting using a url as a login. For those who say that's confusing for the masses, there was a method of mapping e-mail address to OpenID profiles. [3]

I was a bit confused as to why OpenID Connect turned out the way it did, moving focus from federated to the closed "Login with Facebook/Twitter/GitHub/Dropbox/Google" thing (if they is Oauth/OIDC based?).

I guess the above could be related - I get no spam because federated OpenID didn't take off, and federated OpenID didn't take off because companies wished to sidestep a future spam problem.

[1] https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org

[2] https://www.dreamwidth.org/openid

[3] https://mashable.com/2008/09/30/openid-email-addres

milkmirukuon Fedora 27 released

They might benefit from checking out https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux - includes a nice though two years out-of-date flowchart from /g/.

milkmirukuon Watch demos all day [video]

A full screen of something from "demoscene 2017" with an HD filter then autoplay, muted with a mix on for audio, can work great for parties.