I’ve been using GIMP 3.0 for a few weeks now and it’s great. New features and I got rid of two custom plugins because they’re in core now. Literally nothing broke for me. And I really appreciate that they kept the familiar UI (instead of changing things just for the sake of change).
Thank you! 🥳
I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
Just saw this user agent popping up:
blog.ratterobert.com yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
Tom Waits in 2025 looks and sounds exactly like you’d expect. 🥴
I’m a long-term mpd user (some 16+ years), but for $reasons I have to compile it myself now – and, boy, that is one heavy program. Takes several minutes to build. 😳
Super stressful day at work and, once I got home: Internet outage.
I guess that’s a sign.
Guilty pleasure, blasphemy, shitty audio, … something like that. Seven Nation Army on double bass. 🤪 https://movq.de/v/e3a4dcff2e/sad-nation-army.ogg
If you’ve played Grim Fandango back in the day, you’ll enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNc58NznIUM
The brokenness of the web can be examined by opening about:compat in Firefox.
Lots and lots of workarounds for specific websites.
Thinking about adding a little “focus” feature to my window manager: It hides all but one window, no wallpaper, no bars.
It would turn this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a0.jpg
into this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a1.jpg
or this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b0.jpg
into this:
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b1.jpg
🤔
I’ve identified several issues with my current (admittedly cheap) upright bass by now. It might be time to upgrade to a better model. 🤔
If only those things weren’t so damn expensive. I just checked the prices and simply burst out laughing. 😂
When will the flat UI craze end? Can I get my buttons, scrollbars, and toolbars back, please?
I lost my original Windows 95 CD (and it’s too expensive for my taste to buy on eBay), so I finally sat down and got an old disk image of one of my PCs to work in QEMU.
I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.
I saw 100% I/O wait in htop today but couldn’t find a process which actually does I/O. Turns out, I/O wait isn’t what it used to be anymore:
https://lwn.net/Articles/989272/
In my case, it was mpd which triggered this:
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/2241
mpd doesn’t actually do anything, it just sits there and waits for events. To my understanding, this is similar to something blocking on read(). I’m not quite sure yet if displaying this as I/O wait (or “PSI some io”) is intentional or not – but it sure is confusing.
I think I should try self-hosting some Mastodon thingy again.
The “export data” feature on the Mastodon instance I’m using seems to be broken. I’ve contacted the admins but we couldn’t find the issue – yet. I don’t want to bother them too much, it’s a free service after all.
But this means that everything I post over there is very, very volatile. It could all be gone in 5 minutes and I’ll have no way to restore it. Hmm.
This guy doing a dub techno mix and his GF in the background does yoga … which … sometimes … looks a bit like there’s just a dead body on the floor. 😂
NZ accent joke:
Work takes up 110% of my energy at the moment. All I can do is sit here and try to unwind.
On an entirely unrelated note, Resident Alien (Alan Tudyk!) and Ghosts (Rose McIver!) are great shows.
I’ve never liked the behavior of OpenBSD’s shell where it just scrolls horizontally:
https://movq.de/v/1371f7efbc/vid-1741714971.mp4
But now I’m this close to implementing the same thing in my own shell – because it’s probably much, much easier than multiline stuff. 😅
Boom. 24°C. No spring? I think my thermometer is wrong.
A depressing video about the current state of printers that just ends with “fuck this, I’m gonna talk about my cat now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE
These two degenerates … Fucking hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ56ibIel1U
The correct way to do Drum and Bass. // Om Live at Pioneer Works // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnDKcoVHmY #NowPlaying
Got myself a proper bass amp and now I really want to live in a small house in the middle of nowhere, where I won’t bother anyone. 😅
Oh, my feed rotated recently. Did anybody notice? 🤪
The Americans are spreading links to sites with European alternatives for popular services, yet here I am, scheduling appointments with the construction workers over WhatsApp.
Those are some impressive wigs: https://imgur.com/gallery/life-imitates-video-game-5KlJBhj I wonder how it feels to wear such a thing for a day – especially in summer. 😅🥵
Had some fun with my old Mandelbrot renderer: https://movq.de/v/83110057f5/
