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brunoph

@brunoph@breakpoint.cafe

:xcode: Software Engineer at :apple_inc:

Author of https://mastodon.social/@mastonaut, Kodex, Noto, Pro:Sudoku, Cakebrew, and other Apps.

I toot/boost lots of random memes. he/him 🏳️‍🌈

Around the fediland since Aug 2018. I moved from @brunoph. 🪦 RIP mastodon.technology.

#Swift #ObjectiveC #macOSDev #music #photography #analog #minidisc #cassette

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brunoph, to random
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Idea: print a bunch of these as huge stickers, go to the google campus parking lot, and stick it to the windshield of a bunch of parked cars.

brunoph, to random
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Say you take a hardcover book out to read (and maybe pack it for a trip) and that it came with a pretty dust cover, do you take the dust cover off and leave it in the shelf?

I have bought one for the first time and feel really scared of damaging the dust cover (the hard cover seems pretty resilient.)

brunoph,
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@shadowfacts yeah, in the past I've almost exclusively bought digital books (since they used to be cheaper), and only really started getting physical ones in the past couple of years.

The other one I bought before didn't have a dust jacket. It still feels too precious a thing

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gn sf 🌅

brunoph,
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@kyleve awesome shot! 👏

brunoph, to random
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If you're using OCR or language model software to write your alt-text, you're doing your readers a disservice. Read that thing yourself. I'm sure many people using a screen-reader have access to those.

Instead, pretend you forgot what the image looks like. Would that text be helpful? Even just useful?

brunoph, to random
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Hey guy has been out on a spree trying to prove what a fucking idiot he is, it's amazing. Satire is dead.

brunoph,
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@DerLobi just a minor case of god complex

kyle, to random
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Now that I drive an EV I have to ask: why don’t they make all the roads out of downhill?

brunoph,
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@kyle if grandpas are to be believed, all roads used to be uphill both ways, and now they're more or less randomly distributed as both uphill and downhill. If the trend continues, they should all be downhill both ways in a few decades.

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Incorrect assumptions airlines make:

  • if you have a passport from $region, therefore your credit card billing address must also be in $region
_patmurray, to random
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FYI if you’re planning to travel up and down the San Francisco peninsula on the weekend before WWDC, the Caltrain will be closed for electric rail testing (so heck yeah you’ll see electric trains, but boo make alternative plans)

brunoph,
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@_patmurray "it's the final shutdown" tee tee teeee teee

NanoRaptor, to random
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Things that amuse me; Looking back through old Siri-generated reminders on my phone where it failed picking up slang context or my accent and tried to turn it into some kind of formal Americanspeak, or something. Some I can interpret. Others I have no idea.

A screenshot of reminders reminding me of “copy shop”, “pump”, and “get Craig shoot them up”. I do not remotely remember what these were. Probably "Coffee shop" which always gets reinterpreted to "Copy shop", a term we generally don't use.
A screenshot of three reminders from 20th of March this year reminding me to “cats”, “30” and again “cats”. I've got no idea.
A screenshot of a reminder to “pop one for Craig”. I do not remember if I popped one for Craig or what indeed popping one for Craig might have entailed.

brunoph,
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@NanoRaptor "the trout has to have a Richard check" is my new favourite out of context line

brunoph, to random
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For the second time in a few months, my gaming PC started acting completely bonkers out of the blue. At some point it would refuse to start with all sorts of errors.

And for the second time, removing two of the RAM boards solved the problem.

The first time I thought it was a fluke, but now I have to accept I found the holy grail of crap: bad RAM.

brunoph, to random
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Spotify keeps outdoing itself
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/spotify-begins-offering-car-thing-refunds-as-it-faces-lawsuit-over-bricking-the-streaming-device/

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Trump could do the funniest thing right now

brunoph, to random
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One crime, two crimes, three crimes, four crimes…

The count, from Sesame Street, shaking his head with his mouth agape, while holding his hands up, getting ready to count

brunoph, to random
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Oh baby jeebus

brunoph, to random
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Sun is out, lunch outside ☀️

tommarmstrong, to random
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Hey friends, holding another photography meetup on the Sunday morning before WWDC. This year it'll be at the Electronics Flea Market which has been running for 50 years. Come join us for some street photography if you're in the area.

We'll meet at 8:30am on the 9th at West Valley College where it's held. See their website for more info about it https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com

Please let me know in the comments if you're going to come along and boost for reach :)

Two people walk away from the camera pulling trolleys full of electronics behind them. In the background there are vendor tables/trucks and people walking around
Three people look at the wares on a vendors table. In front of them there are the three vendors at their van. One sits in the open van door while conversing with another
A vendor rests against the tailgate of his ute and behind his table covered in cables and plastic bags full of electronics. Across from him, a man looks down at the table

brunoph,
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@tommarmstrong featuring a @nathan in his natural habitat

brunoph, to random
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Removing pops from a vinyl record rip is tedious as hell. I was trying to come up with a better (or automated) way to identify where pops are without listening to the entire thing in real time, and I thought of using a derivative of the signal (the idea being that pops should show as abrupt changes).

But then I just stumbled upon a simple solution: looking at the spectrogram!

Pops show as ghostly bars in the background of the signal.

brunoph,
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Here's a better screenshot, with both waveform and spectrogram visible, before and after repairing the pop:

a screenshot of an audio editor program showing a waveform and a spectrogram of an audio signal. the glitch in the waveform has been repaired, and the vertical bar in the spectrogram is gone

brunoph,
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@aarbrk in my experience the click remover is useless. I've tried it on dozens of combinations of settings and it does nothing, at least for the pops in my signal. They're really abrupt, rarely longer than 8-16 samples.

brunoph,
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This all just makes Audiophiles™ love for vinyl records just more hilarious. Even cassette tapes are better shielded from environmental damage than records. They're literally the least resilient audio format that made it to the modern age, and their replacement with the CD was way overdue.

The only reasons I buy records is: only way to find some old, out-of-print music, and the packaging is pretty.

brunoph,
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@danep Oh, you're absolutely right. I also have some old records that are still very enjoyable.

I think my main pet peeve is that some people will swear that the audio quality of vinyl records is unmatched when simply playing them will often be enough to damage them, and I enjoy poking fun at them for that. =P

brunoph,
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@kylestarr hands down records are the most fun format to enjoy, I totally agree.

brunoph, (edited )
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@wklj I think what really did cassettes a big disfavor is that, unlike records, the pre-recorded ones were spec'd to the lowest common denominator: ferric tapes with Dolby-B NR. And those sound dreadful. But if you get a decent chrome tape and use Dolby-C/S, they sound fantastic, even today.

Edit: Techmoan did a video about that, I just remembered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA

brunoph,
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I had to stop because I started going over the whole rip a second time, and I'm pretty sure at this point I'm fixing issues in the original studio master 😅

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