aarbrk

brunoph, 9 days ago to random

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.

tca, 10 days ago to art

I've been with a high fever, COVID related, during these past few days. I guess made some break through with my machine paintings.
#penplotter #brushplotter #art #genart

aarbrk, 12 days ago to Help Spanish

Hi #oss folks, I need #help with a possible #malware infection in #Firefox on #Linux. After accidentally visiting a spammy website I am getting suspicious and short-lived #popup windows with a grey border in the corner of the screen. Their text seems to always starts with (A). The first one was ostensibly about Norton, this one McAfee. Tough to verify any fix since they only appear once in a while; I did get a photo of one:

Please advise me!

aarbrk, 14 days ago to Houston Spanish

Ejemplo curioso de la cultura tejana, supuestamente chicana: “Mexicans and Cappin’". La última palabra es una jerga que podría decir lanzando balas o insultando. Del #Houston de 2002, los tres raperos son Slinkey, Pranksta y Big Deuce. Dan pocas señas de #mexicanidad. No usan casi ninguna palabra española (y claro que nada indígena fuera del título), aunque “varrio,” “locs” y “loced” [loc'ed] aparecen en los nombres de canciones.

#texas #tejas #méxico #mexican #chicano #chicanos #música #music

aarbrk, 17 days ago to SanFrancisco Spanish

Would anyone local benefit from this audio gear? Write to me if you would like to come take it all away (seven items).

• Asus O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player
• Audio Authority 1154A Signal Sensing Digital A/V Input Selector
• Lanzar Heritage HTG237 Mosfet Amplifier
• M-Audio Fasttrack guitar/mic recording interface
• Mackie HM-54 1U Headphone Mixer/Amplifier
• Niles SPS-6 Speaker Selection System
• Psyclone Component Source Selector

#sanfrancisco #sfbay #free #audio #av

aarbrk, 25 days ago to Fonts Spanish

For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap #fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?

#typography #font #letters #lettering #history #histodons

Image credit: https://myfontlib.com/font/gorgeous-pixel-font

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sundogplanets, 30 days ago to random

I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

aarbrk, 1 month ago to SanFrancisco Spanish

World's most violent beauty products store, 4696 Mission Street.

#sanfrancisco #california #photo

aarbrk, 1 month ago to Israel Spanish

People in the U.S. complain about disruptive #protests, but the country has systematically closed down venues for #dissent. Want to vote for a non-genocidal President? Sorry, two-party system. Want to pass progressive legislation? Sorry, filibuster. Want to support the #Palestinians? Sorry, our ally is #Israel. Want your #university to divest from armaments? Sorry, fiduciary duty. Want to write some graffiti? Sorry, #vandalism. So disruption may be all we have left, short of #violence.

#uspol

DJDarren, 1 month ago to random

Just been idly scrolling Ali Express, looking for weird shit, and wouldn’t you know that I’ve found the ugliest shoes ever made.

They’re like veiny blue alien footcocks.

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

My astro 101 students are doing their final project peer review right now. They all had to find some piece of astronomy misinformation (like the earth is flat, or there are 2 suns, or UFO things) and make a 5 minute video explaining why it's false, using information from our class. They had to submit the videos earlier today, and now they are watching and grading 5 of their randomly-assigned peers (for a tiny fraction of their grade). And oh my gosh...so many email questions. So. Many.

aarbrk, 1 month ago to France Spanish

#Bonjour! I need the help of someone who is located in #Paris, to go into the Cimetière Montmarte and take a couple of photos for me.

The De la Cruz family tombstone is in division 21, ligne 2/65, on the Avenue Cordier. I'm happy to offer 20 EUR to anyone who can get me some good snapshots of it.

For all of you not in Paris, please boost so that this request reaches #France!

#genealogy #généalogie #history #histoire #death #mort #cimetière #cemetery #españa #spain #méxico

simevidas, 1 month ago to random

Re https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/, is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?

aarbrk, 1 month ago to california Spanish

170

#santacruz #california #bear

aarbrk, 1 month ago to california Spanish

How many #cities have concentric #neighborhoods? This one is in #SantaCruz, #California.

#archive #document #map #plat

enobacon, 2 months ago to random

Testing this flexible solar panel for the electric bakfiets roof, looking at 20-50W realistic rate with sub-optimal exposure and a lot of clouds, it's a 100W panel. With the 1.6lb box it's 5.2lb, probably 10-12lb by the time I have a stiff enough roof mounted, (articulated?) and charging the bike battery. What should I make the roof out of?

simon, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

ChatGPT is now available for anyone to try for free without even creating an account - in an undocumented set of regions (works for me in California) https://openai.com/blog/start-using-chatgpt-instantly

It's the GPT-3.5 version, which is prone to all sorts of mistakes and hallucinations - further strengthening the pattern where most people form their impressions of what this stuff can and can't be useful for through access to the weaker models

alissaazar, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone know if there’s a way to request help from Portland Street Response without calling 911?

meganL, 2 months ago to cycling

Is there someone here who knows what part of CVC the Davis PD are referring to which apparently allows rich people/corporations to ignore the signs saying "No Parking At Any Time"?

Because clearly this is a job for CalBike. We need to change that part of the vehicle code. #BikeTooter #Cycling #Law #CarCentrism @bikenite @mastobikes @fedibikes

scott, 2 months ago to random

how do we make progress on transit, pedestrian safety, and bikes under a bad mayor?

every candidate—Breed, Farrell, Peskin, Safai, Lurie—is bad on this issue. we ain't getting a Hidalgo or Wu. there will be no bike mayor. it's just us.

so how are we going to fight an apathetic-to-hostile, powerful executive for the next four years and win?