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Cake day: June 2nd, 2020

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  • I always see premium nowadays as “not the absolute bottom of the barrel”

    • Premium hotel room: not the cupboard in the basement with a single mattress and a broken TV but the next one up. No view or anything though unless you upgrade to a deluxe or higher

    • Premium economy seat on a flight: basically cattle class but with one inch extra leg room and fake leather seat cushions. Still can’t lie down or access better loos like in business or first class

    • Premium spirits: supermarket own-brand spirits but in a glass bottle rather than the super cheap shit they sell in plastic bottles

    Etc…



  • For me it’s more about keeping multiple systems in sync and working as intended. E.g. I have my laptop, a home server with couple different distros and a few cloud VMs. Whenever I change a keybind in neovim or tmux or whatever, I just save the changes in a slightly different way and now every machine has those changes so I don’t need to update each machine manually.

















  • I used yunohost for a bit and while it was easy setup, it wasn’t easy to troubleshoot weird errors because hardly anyone uses it.

    I’d recommend setting up:

    • debian with a desktop environment to start with
    • figure out how to ssh into it from your main machine and maybe how to use tmux
    • docker and how docker works
    • self-hosting services using docker

  • Unfortunately no, audio files are actually really dumb in that they’re basically just a file of 44100 (or 48000 or 96000 etc) amplitude numbers per second.

    So there’s nothing really to diff because it’s basically just a squiggly line, set of squiggly lines or, when compressed, a mathematical expression that when decompressed, recreates a squiggly line.

    You could isolate the dialog if you got ahold of a version with no dialog at all and then inverse the polarity of that and sum it with the original but it’s unlikely you’ll find a version without any vocals.

    Machine learning vocal isolation tools are probably going to be the best way to go about it as a DIY approach. Ultimate Vocal Remover 5 with the demucs 4 algo is great FOSS software to extract vocals and you could sum that with the original track and adjust the gain to get louder dialogue… it would be a lot of work though…