coldblues
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Comment · 20 days ago
In hobbyist audiophile communities, there is a focus on downmixing Dolby Atmos music, which is 5.1 surround and has a much higher dynamic range. As an example: https://github.com/peqdb/macos
If you have Apple Music and you're on Windows, in the settings there is an option to downmix to stereo. Give it a try on any of the music here: https://helloatmos.app/library/
There are also people experimenting with spatial audio using HRTF, but I don't think it's very good for music.
Comment · 1 month ago
I recommend that people give I2P and Yggdrasil a try as well, especially Yggdrasil. It makes no compromises on speed and latency, but it has no anonymity.
Comment · 1 month ago
Horribly vibe-coded like most of the Nostr projects out there. There is no sign of quality or technical interest in this project. There is also this tendency to build black boxes that do not show the innards of the protocol for reasons of "user-friendliness". The project does exactly this, to its detriment. Just like Mastodon and Matrix, most people will be centralized on the few Nostr relays set by default.
Comment · 1 month ago
Performance is poor with frequent stutters.
I think we peaked at https://www.gather.town/
The only on-par open source solution is https://workadventu.re/, but it is impossible to self-host to the point that one would think they're doing it on purpose so that you pay them for hosting.
Comment · 1 month ago
Reading the replies in this post gives me a headache. All of this anthropomorphism. LLMs are not conscious, they do not have rational faculties. They are not communicating or inventing anything. Please stop with this insanity bordering on mysticism. At this point it's a cult.
Comment · 2 months ago
The author is making up a pretext to hide their use of LLMs.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Would be sweet if it could use the microphone to auto-tune the speakers by playing audio and listening to the result.
You need an omnidirectional mic.
Comment · 2 months ago
Shout-out to the PEQdB Diamond Target and the IG955, iykyk. I use those EQ filters to make my music listening experience considerably better. Your audio equipment most definitely sounds bad by default and needs equalization.
Comment · 3 months ago
Addressing all the people here talking about latency of under 10ms, I direct you towards these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
Comment · 3 months ago
I have gained so much by reading comments on Hacker News, articles, lurking in groups and forums, watching YouTube videos. Reading books is important because they have knowledge that is not accessible in another format. It is an efficient way to condense information and pass it around. At least it used to be, when paper was more scarce. Now books get fluffed up for padding. A lot of people should be writing articles instead of books. Those who are reading a large volume of books are most certainly reading a large volume of garbage. I have gained more from reading comments on here than I would have otherwise by reading junk self-help books, romance novels, and other kinds of YA. You should be reading the right books. The classics, the culturally relevant, the historically significant, the hallmarks of a domain or expertise, etc. The medium of publishing used to be a marker of quality, a filter, a selection mechanism. But as publishing became more accessible, the amount of investment required also plummeted. And just as it allowed many creatives and geniuses access to the medium, it also introduced a large volume of cheap material that can be easily dismissed as irrelevant noise, as you should.
Comment · 3 months ago
Irrational how? What higher values does it undermine for you to make fast software?
https://smp11.simplex.im/a#ESE7iMv24KbMzxzY7CtwWaN1W80NpKvK3zZKER366Gs