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Re:Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:11AM (#47687445)
Re:SoX_ng on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:30AM (#46022031)
Original author isn't involved with this fork AFAIK, but fixes from SoX are backported which is why the author may appear in the commit history.
> Opus is also now supported in WebM, but you still can't just decode Ogg Opus

Apparently Ogg Opus and Ogg Vorbis has been supported since 18.4 (Mar 2025)[1]

I think it would be great to see more adoption of Opus in podcasting personally.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...

Google would retain copyright to all of it's employees contributions to Chromium. Which I recall being 90%+ of contributions. The propsal PDF from justice.gov doesn't mention Chromium anywhere, so maybe Google will retain copyrights, but the sale would seem pointless if they do.

The real question is to what level Google continue investment in Chrome after the sale. Remember both Mozilla and Apple will also loose out on the search engine deal.

Re:Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:13PM (#43226839)
Thank you. For some reason HN search wasn't showing me anything for CookLang

See also: FOSDEM 2025 lightning talk

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6651-cook...

Re:Rqbit – BitTorrent Client in Rust on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:38AM (#42031864)
This post was inspired by recent discussion here:

RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004219

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506835, 11 months ago, 14 comments

Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player on Saturday August 17, 2024 @05:53PM (#41278307)
In my input.conf file I've created filter keyboard shortcuts:

  F1 af toggle "acompressor=ratio=4,loudnorm"
  F2 vf toggle "bwdif"
First one is an alright dynamic range compressor (makes the loud parts quieter and quieter parts loud). Second is a deinterlace at default settings. These are standard ffmpeg filters and mpv let's you turn these on in real time.
Re:Google Search: Roboto Mono on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:08AM (#41066482)
Yep I first noticed this a month ago with OpenSans https://www.google.com/search?q=opensans
Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive on Sunday June 09, 2024 @01:00AM (#40622167)
You can actually do this with YouTube. By search for MOV001 etc.

Mental Outlaw did a video demonstrating this a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ho_KDPi_U

It was a journey for sure. I never contributed code, but color schemes and emojis. But I always enjoy Andreas' Serenity videos, even some coding videos were good (I cannot code). These are special and will forever live in my heart.
Would it be fair to assume this means the SerenityOS maintainers will have to pull LibWeb/LibJS changes in from Ladybird?
I hope it was a pleasant surprise, I found this from a data archivist perspective. I can't believe that only FLAC had the foresight to checksum large binary data in the media codec space.

I notice that LLM releases will include md5/sha256 for the binary data, while excluding the json metadata. I really wanted MKV to have this functionality.

My perspective. Checksumming is more useful on large binary data, whereas tools to check metadata/container corruption already exist[1].

This allows you to change metadata or the container entirely, while still being able to check if e.g. the H.264 video stream is okay.

[1]: https://www.matroska.org/downloads/mkvalidator.html

Re:PipeWire 1.0.0 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @03:50PM (#38424915)
Pipewire for the first time got Pulse and JACK to work together for me. Bravo.
Re:Helm by Matt Tytel on Sunday November 26, 2023 @02:37AM (#38419894)
Don't forget Vital which is Matt's newer synth. It continues to be open-source as well.

https://vital.audio/

https://github.com/mtytel/vital

Re:ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:47PM (#38386271)
As someone who just installed OpenZFS on Linux, I agree with you totally.

ZFS just is, no need to worry about layering device mappers and LVM. The automount is also very nice.

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