Saturday, 7. May 12022
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Just encountered the band “The Metric” in Oliver Assayas’ “Noise” movie and I am so happy to get to know this specific live version of their song “Monster Hospital”.

Not sure Emily Haines means “I fought the war but the war won” when she does not sing the full chorus but i’d appreciate if it was a pun.

The way Haines is vocalizing at the beginning of the song and during the guitar solo amazes me so much. Sounds so cool. Breathtaking.

Black Flowers kann das.

Wie erzeugt man diese magische Stimmung... diesen Moment, wenn man einen Raum betritt und sich überrascht, gerührt oder überwältigt fühlt?

Dino: Modern XMPP ("Jabber") Chat Client using GTK+/Vala.

Infinite Mac: An Instant-Booting Quadra in Your Browser.

Monday, 21. February 12022
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Capturing a video with working audio on my setup using ffmpeg and lossless recording (the CPU is not fast enough for live transcoding):

ffmpeg -video_size 1024x768 -framerate 25 -f x11grab -thread_queue_size 4096 -i :0.0+0,0 -f pulse -ac 2 -thread_queue_size 4096 -i 0 -c:v libx264rgb -crf 0 -preset ultrafast -color_range 2 Downloads/video.mp4

The result is huge but then I use Handbrake or KDEnlive for transcoding and finalizing the footage.

Wednesday, 29. December 12021
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Senza fine 💕

Gerlinde Lang als Vogel Strauss bei der Klangwolke 2009.

Relevant: Erinnerungen an Gerlinde Lang.

Wednesday, 22. December 12021
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Kai's Power Goo (MetaTools).

Relevant: Revisiting the mid 1990s to explore the world of gooey image manipulation from MetaTools!

Source: archive.org

Tech-Revolution in Jugoslawien? Wie Computer-DIY-Kulturen im “Kommunismus” entstanden.

In diesem Text werde ich versuchen, die Computertechnik im Jugoslawien der 1980er Jahre zu entschlüsseln, insbesondere in der Form, wie sie von der einflussreichen Zeitschrift Racunari geprägt wurde. Dabei werde ich untersuchen, wie sich der Computerdiskurs mit einer geopolitischen und wirtschaftlichen Perspektive vermischte.

Intro to CSS 3D transforms.

How much is the NFT of this book review?

The Ministry for the Blockchain.

As blockchain continues to see a swell of investment and a migration of very smart people, we are seeing the tokenization of everything. But how much of human life has a legitimate market price on it? And is our assumption that we need a market price to show value just an imprint in our brains from runaway capitalism?