I will be working on the GNU Guix continuous integration system for the next few months thanks to the NGI0 PET Fund: https://othacehe.org/gnu-guix-continuous-integration---nlnet-grant.html
Trump, Youtube, Violence
This video from Vice is a collection of things said/cahnted as the attempted US Coup. It's sad, funny, and terrifying
OpenPilot
This video of OpenPilot on American Truck Simulator is interesting.
It seems to struggle more here than even with some real world road conditions.
My /e/ privacy OS won't update, and I can't get the darn thing to sideload. Getting it installed at all was a feat. I'm banging my head against a virtual wall.
I have one of the older Pine64 phones... Is it hard to put a different/better OS on it than UBPorts?
Is it worth it?
@Lofenyy you've done this if I recall?
I'm attending a virtual Cypurr event 👍 but they're running it on Zoom 👎
It makes me sad. Kinda wish they'd set a better example.
long, megagrrl changelog since last release
* New: Fade out at the end of looping tracks * New: Playback pitch adjustment * New: Narrow font option for file browser * New: Support shuffling of playlists and entire SD card * New: High quality FM clock output - substantially reduced clock jitter * New: Easter Egg :) * Improvement: Support single AY-3-8910 playback on OPNA MegaMod * Improvement: Better behavior when loop count changed during playback * Improvement: Faster handling of very large playlists * Improvement: Faster ADPCM data uploads on OPNA MegaMod * Improvement: Add circular method of scrolling long text * Improvement: Better playback performance * Improvement: Better LED control performance * Improvement: Ignore Windows recycle bin files * Improvement: Better firmware update UX/reliability * Improvement: Better debug output for troubleshooting assembly problems * Fix: Various UI issues * Fix: Don't miss short channel key-ons for LEDs * Fix: Prevent playback hitches on tracks that write to Game Gear registers * Fix: Resolve rare PSG timing issues * Fix: Resolve rare settings file corruption * Fix: Resolve incorrect LED state caused by invalid writes to key-on registers * Fix: Stalled playback on some badly-made OPNA VGMs * Fix: Crashes on VGMs that use Mega CD hardware * Meta: ESP-IDF version bumped to 3.3.4 * Meta: Add mgu packfile creation script
releasing this later today probably, then finishing up a few remaining things (opna adpcm fades, opl3 fades, opl3 channel muting), then probably 1.0. then 1.1 will add better scrolling UX based on my experiences in several weeks of using mp3 players
CW: LARPers
As much as I want to enjoy LARPers, and like Mega64... this is what it's like being around people who are using the entire school/hotel/whatever to LARP and you're not in the game.
It's Miyazaki's 80th birthday and because he loves us and wants us to be happy, Ghibli just release almost 2,000 hi-res images from their films for reasonable use. So get on that.
Another nice thing about Victoria, BC:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-taxi-driver-took-drunk-171802048.html
But also... Minature World.
Krembo
According to halacha, when eating a dish of mixed components, one need pronounce only the blessing over the main components, thus for a chocolate croissant one would say the blessing over the dough, and skip the blessing over the chocolate.But in the case of the Krembo, there is no consensus as to which is the "main" component: the biscuit, or the cream and chocolate. One solution is to bless over each component separately.
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