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Ignore me. I’m faffing around with things.
Category: Ramblings
Make that two years
The Web is dead, consumed by adverts that chase you around the page, cat memes and pr0n. I remember when it was full of the promise of free information for everyone and then the fucking suits arrived. I guess I’m guilty of aiding and abetting them.
State of the cluster
Here we see, in all its glory, the little mini-cluster of Computery Goodness which serves you these hallowed pages.
Abe Yospe’s Wife.
There is a scurrilous rumour circulating that Abe Yospe’s wife googles things really quickly to prove him wrong. This is untrue.
The best “New Mail” sound ever.
You’re welcome. You can download it by right-clicking here and selecting “save link as..”.
Another platform upgrade
It seems platform upgrades are the only time I post here now! Anyhoo – the Raspberry Pi 3B+, grand though it was, was struggling a bit with running MariaDB, so I’ve upgraded to a Raspberry Pi 4. Quad core, 4Gb of RAM and a wee fan to keep it cool – it’s a compact wee
What the actual…
So I was wondering how Eventide could possibly get away with charging $200 for their Blackhole reverb VST plugin. I downloaded the demo, fired up the Toraiz AS-1 and played the Bladerunner intro. Oh. That’s why it’s $200.
The Lonely Death of Lizal Anders.
I’m a big fan of storytelling in video games. The scripted stories in big RPGs can vary dramatically between the purely functional setups of things like Diablo to the heartbreaking sagas of Final Fantasy VII or X. The silly procedural stories that drop out of the bottom of Dwarf Fortress are, for me, one of