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qbasic_forever commented on Building a digital music collection in 2023   worthe-it.co.za/blog/2023... · Posted by u/ingve
qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
git-annex is something to consider too. It's kind of like git LFS in that it doesn't directly store files in the git repo (so the files can be enormous or change frequently without all the overhead of commits in git), but it's more flexible and allows you to direct the files to be stored and retrieved from many different types of file stores (network drives, piles of discs/burned CDs/USB drives, S3 storage, etc.). Basically throw all your music files wherever you want, tell git-annex where they live, and then ask it what music you want on what machines and it will do the rest to go figure out what needs to happen to materialize those files in the right locations.

I'd be leery of storing the music files in a git repo directly as MP3 tags and metadata are a wild west and some music players do wacky things like update ID3 tags with play counts, etc. on every listen (which would require committing and pushing music on every listen!).

qbasic_forever commented on Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)   longreads.com/2021/03/23/... · Posted by u/mooreds
dylan604 · 2 years ago
I've heard this for years with the concept that the cat's vocal range developed to be like this. But not once had I ever heard a cat sound anything unlike a cat. Until...my recent adopted fur baby. He freaks me out how much like a kid he sounds. Just the other day, he let out a sound that even my coworkers on a meeting call thought I had a kid. It's a little unsettling at times
qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
Mine has learned exactly what corners to yell into such that their cry/meow echoes and reverberates everywhere so it can't be ignored. It's kind of impressive how smart and adaptable cats are, lol.
qbasic_forever commented on Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/jdkee
BurningFrog · 2 years ago
Counter-argument:

Beauty and art are important for human welfare and are worth spending resources on.

qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
Hang a freaking painting or photo.
qbasic_forever commented on Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland   espn.com/olympics/story/_... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
Is there some kind of bug or issue with HN comments? Maybe a bug in a client people are using? I've noticed over the last couple days what appear to be comments like this one above that are completely unrelated to the post. It almost seems like they were made in error or associated with the wrong post.
qbasic_forever commented on VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting   github.com/ozmartian/vidc... · Posted by u/pkkm
nolok · 2 years ago
Mount the ISO as a drive and play it ? It's a double click worth of effort on windows, and probably one mount call away on linux
qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
I was trying to play it on Android devices and can't mount it unfortunately.
qbasic_forever commented on VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting   github.com/ozmartian/vidc... · Posted by u/pkkm
washadjeffmad · 2 years ago
I was hired recently to author a set of DVDs (yes, I know!), discovered there's almost no commercial software still available outside of Scenarist and TMPGEnc, and tried a dozen modern projects while putting together a FOSS workflow, just in case I couldn't the conjure CDs, licenses, and keys for software I hadn't needed in a decade+.

vidcutter ultimately didn't help in this process. I built it from source and then tried the flatpak, but for all of its beauty, it hung or crashed when importing common but dated formats and containers, handling more than a few clips, and didn't allow precise jogging for splitting (when it didn't hang or crash). It's good for trimming up a smartphone video, but it's not on par with an NLE.

I ended up giving up and scripting out most of the project in ffmpeg and dvdauthor. If you know how to use core utilities, it's such an exercise in tedium struggling against underdeveloped front ends.

qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
I've also noticed playback of DVDs is terrible these days too. Long ago I ripped my DVD collection to iso files so I could preserve the full experience of the menus, etc. But almost nothing these days supports DVD iso playback and menus, not even VLC! The only software I can get to work to play them is Kodi. It's wild how much DVD software has disappeared, I don't remember it being this bad 20 years ago.
qbasic_forever commented on Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation   deat.tk/jazz2/... · Posted by u/generichuman
Waterluvian · 2 years ago
I’ve always been curious… are there concrete definitions of “abandonware” in the various major jurisdictions? Or is it just a loose concept that remains legally dubious?

I feel like “Adopt an Abandonware” would be a pretty great source of meaningful, educational, and productive projects for devs with extra cycles or looking to refine skills.

qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
There's mention of it in the DMCA if I remember correctly. It says DRM can be cracked if something isn't available to be sold anymore or something similar: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dmca-game-preservation-exemp...
qbasic_forever commented on Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/jdkee
paulddraper · 2 years ago
Wow, sorry guys my bad. I'll turn my TV off. Good day!
qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
You definitely should, I know some folks that keep their huge TV on 24/7 because they like the pretty screensaver and photos it shows when idle. These same folks take a lot of other steps in their life to try to help the environment (recycle, drive electric cars, etc) but simple stuff like turning things off completely confounds them.
qbasic_forever commented on Welcome to Datasette Cloud   datasette.cloud/blog/2023... · Posted by u/swyx
simonw · 2 years ago
Yeah Access is a really interesting comparison (Datasette has quite a way to go on that front).

I find it baffling that Microsoft haven't invested more in Access. The world needs a truly great desktop/mobile database solution! Excel isn't enough.

Regular human beings should be able to point a full database at their own problems.

qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
Totally agree, so many things people get strong feelings about customizing workflows--note taking, todo lists, personal document management, inventory of goods, etc.--are really just a sqlite database with some nice custom views and interfaces. I could definitely see a future where datasette or similar tools can replace some of that stuff.

Access is probably caught in a weird spot internally at MS. If they put effort into it then it just removes some of the need to sell proper SQL server or azure cloud database tech. Better to just limp it along then start internal wars with bigger organizations/products.

qbasic_forever commented on Welcome to Datasette Cloud   datasette.cloud/blog/2023... · Posted by u/swyx
brap · 2 years ago
I don't mean to be a partypooter, but I watched the full Datasette pitch video and there's something I probably just don't get.

Isn't this really just a SQL GUI? Like basically any other SQL admin panel out there (minus the the writes)?

What's the distinctive feature here? The extensions?

qbasic_forever · 2 years ago
I think of it more like MS Access but a sane backend of sqlite and python. There are thousands and thousands of critical business processes cludged together in Excel and Access--datasette could be a much better choice for those use cases. Something both devs and business people can use.

u/qbasic_forever

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