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apt-get··on Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
This Japanese stereotyping would be a little more credible if Sony Entertainment's headquarters hadn't moved to California years ago...
apt-get··on usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
I'd like to get a VDI infrastructure setup for me and my partner -- something that enables both of us to run our computers with a single big machine, and not have cables running everywhere through the house, while being able to sit wherever we want and use our infra from any given place.

At the moment, I've brainstormed:

- A main server that runs some type 1 hypervisor (Xen or Proxmox, will need to see which is more adequate)

- Light "client" devices (laptop, for example), that may either be connected in a wired manner to the server (e.g. separate desks), or remoting into it through Wireguard. Each desk will feature a KVM-style setup with a docking station that offers screens, keyboard, and a range of USB ports.

- Individual VMs for running our respective OSes to our preference, some flavor of linux distro. Inputs from the client device (e.g. USB, Keyboard, Screen) should be forwarded / matched to the VM.

- A windows VM for gaming, running two sessions for each of us: GPU passthrough is a must. I would like to make use of Looking Glass somehow, if possible either through the Linux VM on the same server, or on the client machine. The latter would probably be better for performance, I suppose, given you don't have to forward input devices twice... but I'm also worried about whether the buffer-copy mechanisms from Looking Glass would work with such a setup.

So far, I'm looking into Moonlight/Sunshine as a general desktop redirection setup: my hope is that I can pass something close to direct framebuffers on an ethernet connection while at home, and switch to compression while I'm away, hoping to achieve as little latency as possible in all cases (so giving absolute priority on the host to the streaming process, if possible, kind of like an RT system). One notable thing is that Sunshine by itself doesn't support generic USB redirection. Has anyone tried using usbredir for this purpose?

In general, it's hard to find relevant information for this kind of home hypervisor setup with a focus on gaming/latency and general transparency all around... would appreciate tips if anyone's attempted something similar before. Thanks!

apt-get··on TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression
> are there codecs that have much better (perceptible) quality than Apple AAC 256kbps (or achieving similar quality at, say, 160kbps?)

Opus achieves ABX transparency at around 128kbps (as in, the threshold where the vast majority of users taking a fidelity test are unable to tell the difference between the opus-encoded and lossless version).

https://abx.digitalfeed.net/opus.html

apt-get··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
Considering the precedent in circumventing decryption issues by calling out to a library (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss), what is the likelihood that someone just builds a libxcidecrypt and development of yuzu continues unimpeded on a fork (somewhere like Europe for example where the DMCA doesn't hold)?
apt-get··on Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
Similar thing in France, however related to degrees: a Master's Degree fits within the common framework of European tertiary studies, AKA your 2-year graduate cycle that ends up totalling 5 years if you include a standard undergrad cycle (Licence). However, a "mastère spécialisé" (which is an actual trademark) is not an officially recognized diploma at all, but a label used by schools to denote (usually paid and expensive) "specialization paths". They provide no academic credits, and you can't move forward to a PhD with one. Many prestigious schools (grandes écoles) provide those kind of certifications to clueless foreign students who end up paying huge sums of money for something that holds no formal weight in any academic framework.
apt-get··on Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more
There are some useful cases — for example, if you're taking a rather bloated image as a base and trimming it down with `rm` commands, those will be saved as differential layers, which will not reduce the size of the final image in the slightest. Only merging will actually "register" these deletions.
apt-get··on Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems
fsearch is the best locate front-end for Linux, but sadly, I've got many gripes with it... crappy drag'n'drop, no daemonization to minimize to system tray, closing the app resets the clipboard for some reason (EXTREMELY annoying when you open it to copy a file path), the list is long. Not to mention that locate itself doesn't auto-update the index with fs changes.

I miss Everything :(

apt-get··on Psytrance Guide
As other people have said, it's a shame that so much of psytrance relegates itself to being "electronic dance music", playing off the same clichés and subdividing itself so much such that the most minute production details are catalogued. While you could reasonably say that about any electronic genre, Psytrance really ups the level of having any given median track sounding indistinguishable. Yeah, the sound design experimentations are cool; yeah, it's a good sound... but I wish I would actually remember it for _something_ specific it does well.

In general, I think I miss the songwriting aspect most. Infected Mushroom really nailed it, which is why they're so popular. Nowadays, I can only find the Japanese doujin music scene among those that regularly mix and match psytrance with various other genres.

A few other recs going more in that direction:

- Talpa (https://sundancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-somberne...)

- Jerico's Law (https://juno909.bandcamp.com/album/another-law)

- Migma Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3dfWAOgloDDde... -- j-pop psytrance!)

- Hilight Tribe (https://hilighttribe.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-light)

- Koxbox (https://koxboxmemo604.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-unknown)

- Hallucinogen (https://hallucinogenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-lone-derang...)

- And finally, the best hi-tech work I've ever heard. Sephax - Electric Currents (https://alice-drecords.bandcamp.com/album/sephax-electric-cu...)

apt-get··on Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik
I personally use a file provider for the dynamic traefik configs (yaml files) loaded from a bind mount in the same folder I keep my compose. Auto-reload on changes, and it makes it clear what I'm routing to and from by having proper indentation for my router, service, and middleware fields. And since everything is in the same network, I can just define the container name as hostname -- the DNS entries are automatically created.
apt-get··on PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)
> A Czech linguist of Slovak descent, Karol Moravčík, identified him as Hungarian, and on 11 August 2000, Toma arrived back in Hungary where his family was identified through DNA matching.

Someone else recognized the language he was speaking, and that it wasn't actually gibberish (and so he wasn't some crazy old man).

apt-get··on Building a digital music collection in 2023
Please don't reencode your entire collection to "save space", or use git for version control.

Put your lossless files on a server as a source-of-truth (with a regular cold backup somewhere else) and install a streaming server, like Navidrome[1], which will allow you to transcode on-the-fly to all of your devices. This is how you build a true "digital music collection": so that you won't regret it 5 years from now, when the site you bought your flac's from closes down/erases your files (as has happened before on Bandcamp when an artist account gets deleted!), leaving you solely with the reencoded mp3/opus files you kept, unable to move to better formats as they progress.

[1] https://www.navidrome.org/

apt-get··on Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
Careful with performance if you're on an underpowered machine, as with all content injectors, it could provoke frequent freezes if you have a decent to large amount of tabs open.

https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/issues/323

apt-get··on Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (2019)
So what's the link to undivided attention?
apt-get··on “We Don't Need a Project Manager”
Indeed, once you reach a certain scale (even a small one), a separate manager is often needed. However, they can be elected as well, rather than imposed top-down.
apt-get··on Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Mine's https://apt-get.xyz/. Not much on there: an old-school blog (hosted with BBdiary[1]), and a tiddlywiki at https://knowledge.apt-get.xyz, which I try to use as a reference for everything complex I'm learning/exploring. The rest is hand-written HTML.

[1] https://github.com/yumi-xx/BBDiary

apt-get··on For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
Which is why 75% of France's farmers belong to an agricultural cooperative?
apt-get··on Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg
> Implants that restore normal function versus implants that do something else which healthy humans could not achieve without.

Where is that limit achieved? In the case of prosthetic limbs, should we seek to achieve perfect organic behavior replicability, or is anything further than that inhuman in some arcane way? Oscar Pistorius, AKA Blade Runner, earned Olympic medals despite having prosthetic legs. Is he advantaged or disadvantaged compared to other participants?

The anime series Texhnolyze touches heavily upon this subject, amongst others.

apt-get··on Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
Air France représente !
apt-get··on Soros, Charles Koch fund non-interventionist think tank
>he _defeated ISIS_

He didn't, the Syrian Arab Army and Russia did (and the Syrian Defense Forces, to an extent).

apt-get··on An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram
Yield of explosives is generally measured in kilograms of TNT, that's why.
apt-get··on Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
Officially, not really. The 'scene' is a tad too big for that, although some circles publish on bandcamp sometimes (mainly those who can't attend the physical convention).

In the west, there used to be forums (like doujinstyle) dedicated to sharing new releases after every event, which turned into large discord servers in the past year. Otherwise, a lot of the releases can be found on Asia-oriented private trackers as well.

These are often the only way to get a chance of actually listening to the album, since there's generally a limited number of physical albums available for sale at the event, and reprints during the next edition of the convention are uncommon.

apt-get··on Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
I listen to a lot of japanese doujin music (self-released albums produced by amateur circles at conventions). This is often a couple hundred albums every year, between Comiket, M3, and other smaller conventions. The overwhelming majority of it simply isn't available as a physical release on typical online marketplaces, much less on streaming services. Importing the physical release + ripping or relying on community downloads is often the only way to listen to these.

These are arranges or sometimes heavily sampled albums that simply wouldn't pass on typical streaming platforms. Just something like Death Grips' cult Exmilitary album got removed from Spotify because it used a tad too many samples to their taste (although luckily it's available for free on their website).

apt-get··on Top Scores: Video Game Music
One quite well-known playlist in certain circles is the Vidya Intarweb Playlist [0], along with its Mellow Out subcategory [1].

[0] http://vip.aersia.net/

[1] http://vip.aersia.net/mellow/

apt-get··on Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material
WaniKani is a lot more limiting than Anki (which is free and open source) since it has a fixed schedule, while Anki allows you to learn at whatever pace you wish. In addition, it offers next to no customization.

There's a WK deck if you really want to use their content.

apt-get··on Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
Moroccan arabic actually uses both word: the classical "shay" and "atay", which is more common.
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