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by daneel_w 2y ago
I played it a lot on the Commodore 64 when I was a kid. Unique, curious and entertaining.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
While this Swedish linguistic tendency isn't related to Russia, on that topic we have an old saying: "Lede fi [archaic: evil enemy] kommer från öst."
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by daneel_w 2y ago
I gave "bsky" a whirl just a couple of weeks back but unfortunately the impression was not very good. I ticked only tech-ish topics as my main interests, but practically nothing in my auto-generated feed fell into those topics - t
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by daneel_w 2y ago
The literal title is "If the crisis or the war comes". Swedes and the Swedish language has a somewhat poetic tendency to refer to things in definite article, embodying them, when wanting to underline the seriousness.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Fantastic movie, great political plot, great direction. Part 1 is decent, too.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
> You are using Opus on most VoIP/call providers. No. Opus support in the PSTN is still unfortunately almost non-existent. Adoption is growing but the pace is very slow. Source: me, working in the European telecommunications indus
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by daneel_w 2y ago
I'm neither deaf nor deluded. You're not reading me correctly. I'm saying that Opus is better than AAC, but not by much . Compared to MP3 it's a lot better.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Correct. Though AAC (when produced with a proper encoder) surpasses all other lossy formats with the exception of Opus.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Yes, iTunes also uses the same Core Audio framework. In fact, even iTunes on Windows uses the same code base through the Quicktime-for-Windows libraries it runs off of. I prefer to encode with afconvert on the command line because it gives
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Opus is better at same bitrate - not by much, but all the same it has the upper hand.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
One source would be the Hydrogen Audio forums where there are regular scientific comparisons - PSNR etc. instead of blind listening tests - between various encoders and formats. Apple's AAC encoder consistently comes out well above any
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by daneel_w 2y ago
I have three reasons: when using a good encoder (Core Audio, FDK or Nero) it's a quality-wise better lossy format than MP3, it's smaller than FLAC which matters for storage footprint, and unlike Opus and FLAC it's supported p
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Its quality is technically superior as evident from the product's PSNR and other factors. There are no "ads" here, I'm not a brand warrior, and nobody cares what formats are the last ones you'd encode your audio in.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
ffmpeg offers a few different encoders for many of its supported audio/video formats, and the result depends on what encoder you tell ffmpeg to use. It does not have support for using Core Audio on macOS but it does offer FDK AAC, whic
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by daneel_w 2y ago
A couple more: afconvert(1) - an audio file format converter, which includes Apple's superior AAC codec from the Core Audio framework diskutil(8) - tons of tools for fixed and removable storage Examples: afconvert i
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Expert bean counters, whose input always weigh heavier for the energy industry than the opinion of environmental scientists, already did the maths on this and concluded that solar is vastly cheaper already in the short run. You should let a
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by daneel_w 2y ago
They did not come from the same codebase, though that's less relevant in this case.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Where in Europe? Everywhere on the continent? Certainly not in Sweden where I live. The major banks here use 2FA but not mandated to a mobile app.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
There's no societal problem of hidden deaths because of fermented foods. But assuredly there is because of "safe" ultra-processed convenience foods.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
How do you know until you've fermented something at home and risked life, limb, dead babies etc. by consuming it? I think more people die from food poisoning in restaurants each year than people do from doing something stupid while mak
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by daneel_w 2y ago
You're not an idiot. You're just brand new.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
A truly underrated font.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
QEMU can use a number of different hypervisors, KVM and Xen being the two most common ones. Additionally it can also emulate any architecture if one would want/need that.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Some more data: Oracle Cloud - QEMU/KVM Scaleway - QEMU/KVM
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by daneel_w 2y ago
"• Emerging VMMs (OpenBSD’s vmm, etc): Haven’t been proven in production" It's a small operation, but https://openbsd.amsterdam/ have absolutely proven that OpenBSD's hypervisor is production-capable
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by daneel_w 2y ago
It's likely the actual problem you had was with the epoxy-encased "wedge" PSU model. Most of them have lasted fine through decades of use but there were some batches that kept giving people problems.
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by daneel_w 2y ago
"I knew the Commodore 128 was released in 1985 as a sort of bridge between the Commodore 64 and Amiga ..." That may have been Commodore's intention, I don't know, but technically the C128 is merely a modest step from t
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by daneel_w 2y ago
How many times have you reinvented your own wheel by now?
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Which as with everything else in construction these days ultimately ends up taking twice as long and costing thrice the initial estimate. Also, this is the cost for a bore hole . The cost for something with enough diameter to house a react
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by daneel_w 2y ago
Every Signal account is represented by the phone number the user provided in order to receive their SMS activation code, and messages are not sent directly between users' clients/apps but relayed through Signal's systems.

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