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PSA: the default AAC encoder in ffmpeg is terrible even at very high bitrates, you are literally better off telling it to use MP3, even at a similar bitrate (e.g. -acodec mp3 -b:a 256k) https://twitter.com/puella_meiberu/status/1819373771280535810

if the purpose of a system is what it does then the purpose of github dot com is to make git commit history useless

i think it would be funny if, should i eventually learn guitar, i only play it through a hexaphonic pickup into a midi converter.

i'm really glad that nukeykt made Nuked SC-55, a fully accurate software emulation of the Roland SC-55. the SC-55 is a very important device: it's the original General MIDI and GS synth, used for e.g. DOOM's OST. but most people know it only through bad imitation soundfonts

programming is still overwhelmingly a single-threaded discipline. this is because most programmers are men,

shout out to the Polyphone soundfont (.sf2) editor, it's free and open-source, it runs natively on Linux, but more importantly the interface is lovely, very easy-to-use and well-thought-out. enjoying speedrunning making a soundfont for the first time with this

re: https://twitter.com/cleardabidness/status/1818628104983609346 (see image)

i read a piece about how the rohingya genocide happened: in a country where suddenly everyone has facebook on their phones, whereas just a year or two ago nobody had internet at all, people have no exposure to the idea that stuff online can be fake. and they fell for photoshops

we're about to find out what happens when boomers everywhere drown in ai slop they don't have the necessary literacy to recognise. sure, gen z can tell, but we're the lucky ones.

(to be clear, i'm not implying the outcome will be genocide, this was hardly myanmar's only problem)

ffxiv catgirl reading newspaper dot jpg, i should rewatch madoka

https://friend.com/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk4

the friend is a reverse soul gem from puella magi madoka magica. this thing around your neck is a body the friend can't live without, but their soul is in a datacenter, and removal of the body too far from the soul will cause a fate similar to death

much like kyuubey, their marketing doesn't want you to be aware of this

mario kart is a skill-based game even with items