neckro23

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by neckro23 2mo ago
The layering of compression really does get you. I've noticed (both in "Plexamp in my car" and "playing music on Twitch" contexts) that using a FLAC source makes an audible difference, even compared to a high-bitrat
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by neckro23 2mo ago
The 4k remasters of the classic Cameron films look awful. It's like someone cranked the denoise filter up to 200 and left it there.
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by neckro23 6mo ago
Pretty much all dramatic American TV shows were shot on film (at 24 fps) before the digital camera era. It's why so many old shows (ex. Star Trek TNG) are now available as HD remasters, they simply go back and rescan the film. It'
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by neckro23 8mo ago
Sure it is. Smart watches even do it using the simplest possible “camera” (an LED).
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by neckro23 9mo ago
At least for the PC versions of Vice City and San Andreas, the originals are missing the music too. A bunch of licenses expired 10 years after release and the Steam releases got updated accordingly.
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by neckro23 10mo ago
Milkdrop and Project M are both available as vis plugins for Foobar2k, on Windows at least: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_milk2
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by neckro23 11mo ago
Also one of the first DOS games that had Amiga-module-style music (mixed samples) instead of Adlib or MIDI. This later evolved into the UMX system used in Unreal and Deus Ex.
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by neckro23 11mo ago
Psst, you can get uBlock Origin (lite) for Safari now. Works pretty well.
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by neckro23 1y ago
Soulseek is still around (somehow) and thriving. Of course on there, discovery is more or less "check out the library of this person who had something you were looking for".
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by neckro23 1y ago
The GEP gun is ironically the pro choice to make if you know what you’re doing. All of the other weapons on offer can be found in the first level, and the GEP works as a fantastic “lockpick” even if you never fire it in anger.
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by neckro23 1y ago
Original iPods (and early iPhones) weren’t locked down as much. There were a number of utils that could manage your library. ml_ipod plugin for WinAmp comes to mind.
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by neckro23 1y ago
Outside of a private tracker (which takes measures to keep random untracked peers from getting on the torrent), not really. Individual seeder clients can detect bad behavior like leeching and ban by IP, but each torrent is likely to have a
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by neckro23 1y ago
Not necessarily. A lot of video software either leverages the Windows/MacOS system codecs (ex. Media Player Classic, Quicktime) or proprietary vendor codecs (Adobe/Blackmagic). Linux doesn't really have a system codec API tho
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by neckro23 1y ago
In my experience it works ok. The "English" model actually knows a lot of languages and will translate directly to English. You can also transcribe it to Japanese and use a translator to convert to English. This can sometimes help
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by neckro23 1y ago
Pre-processing with a vocal extraction model (bs-rofomer or similar) helps a lot with the hallucinations, especially with poor quality sources.
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by neckro23 1y ago
The Vista-style minimize/maximize icons on the inner windows look way out of place, and the style changes entirely when I maximize. Can't seem to minimize a window either. Windows 10 is applying smooth scrolling to the windows, wh
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by neckro23 1y ago
Silent films used several different speeds. The rest are for telecines.
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by neckro23 1y ago
No tracker necessary, you can just use DHT: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
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by neckro23 1y ago
You could do this with any terminal program. Your modem won't emit any noise until it hears a carrier tone, so you could just dial, pick up the extension, hang up the modem.
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by neckro23 1y ago
Android is overwhelmingly preferred by working-class people, in my experience. The phones are simply cheaper.
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by neckro23 1y ago
It would take a ton of work, especially for a show as long-running as The Simpsons. The original materials probably aren't even available anymore. I believe the reason they were able to remaster lots of old Japanese anime OVAs in HD
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by neckro23 1y ago
It's a travesty. I was sourcing video for an Alien/Aliens watch party (for a couple of adolescents who had never seen either) and I had to hunt down a copy of the older HD Bluray of Aliens because the 4k remaster looked so awful
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by neckro23 1y ago
I picked this tape at random and just got to this part. Imagine my surprise.
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by neckro23 1y ago
If you mix a square wave of one duty cycle with another of a different duty cycle, they partially cancel each other out and you get a new sound. I'm not sure, but I believe the original NES Castlevania does this in some places, like in
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by neckro23 1y ago
It is even worse on MacOS, because Apple bundles the BSD versions of common Unix utilities instead of the (generally more featureful) GNU versions. So good luck writing a Bash script that works on both MacOS and Linux...
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by neckro23 1y ago
IME some web security gateways block the Tailscale domains entirely, presumably because it's a VPN that can bypass said gateway.
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by neckro23 2y ago
Usually, but it depends on the state. Remember, America isn’t a country, it’s 50 countries in a trenchcoat. It’s often a mishmash of services too. I was told in-person at the DMV that I couldn’t renew my registration since I’m not the regis
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by neckro23 2y ago
I run a regular movie livestream and Whisper has been a godsend. It's really impressively accurate for the most part, at least when the audio is relatively clear. Lots of the stuff I play is long-forgotten 80s Z-movie trash, so there a
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by neckro23 2y ago
> An oscilloscope does not plot pitch vs time. You're right, it doesn't, and that's not what's happening here. It uses the X/Y deflection mode of the oscilloscope, plotting left channel vs right channel. If you d
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by neckro23 2y ago
You probably get the same result in the end, but yt-dlp can also do this if you point it at the m3u8 file. (Actually I just checked and it also supports downloading Twitter videos directly.)

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