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The mastodon boop sounds are called boop and were created by Josef Kenny

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/24

You can find the binary files sound files of the Mastodon beep sound at

They were created by [Wayback/Archive] Josef Kenny (blog: [Wayback/Archive] josef.one; Mastodon “i made that mastodon boop sound”: [Wayback/Archive] josef (@jk@mastodon.social) – Mastodon) early 2017 and updated with metadata later that year. In 2022 it became clear that using the sound is allowed as long as there is credit:

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DaVinci Resolve – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/23

In case I occasionally need something that supports most features of Adobe Premiere: DaVinci Resolve – Wikipedia

Via [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds 086 – Gone in 37 minutes – YouTube

–jeroen

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GitHub – spotDL/spotify-downloader: Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/01

Need to check the matching algorithm of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – spotDL/spotify-downloader: Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

I wanted to download [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits – song and lyrics by Michael Giacchino | Spotify for music practice, but then found Michael listed it on his YouTube channel twice:

A bit later I also found [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits – Transcription (with original score) – YouTube with [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits Sheet Music for Piano, Trombone, Tuba, Flute piccolo & more instruments (Symphony Orchestra) | MuseScore.com

Via [Wayback/Archive] Youtube-dl supports Spotify. How to use it? : youtubedl.

--jeroen

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In 2024, I missed a great flash-mob in Utrecht – Hoog Catharijne by the Wish You Were Here -Pink Floyd Project Tour

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25

From [Wayback/Archive] Beach Roy☀️🏄‍♂️🏝️🏖️ on X: “Ik huil niet. Jullie huilen. Wat een ontzettend gave flashmob. Utrecht – Hoog Catharijne Wish You Were Here -Pink Floyd Project Tour – 2024”

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON

Edit 20251227 – Note: the Twitter account does not exist any more, but the media did at the time of writing early 2025.

Currently, the Wayback Machine is having issues from The Netherlands, but hopefully their archivals appear to be complete when the Wayback Machine gets fully up again.

--jeroen

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Micro Men – 720p (2009) – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/23

Interesting dramatised video about Clive Sinclair, Chris Curry, early Acorn Computer days and more early home computer days: [Wayback/Archive] Micro Men – 720p (2009) – YouTube originally for the UK market at [Wayback/Archive] BBC Four – Micro Men.

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A Practically Invisible remote Microphone… – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/01

Interesting tiny battery powered remote Lavalier microphone with USB-C receiver: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Practically Invisible…

The video covers the Hollyland LARKM2S.

I wonder about other devices like it.

--jeroen

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DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12

From a while ago. I wonder what the current state is.

[Wayback/Archive] DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register

--jeroen

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World Health Organisation – “Quick reference guide: responsible reporting on suicide”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05

With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up in less than a week, this is a reminder on how to report on this. Not just important to the media at large, but everyone on social media too.

When you are in The Netherlands:

  • Is your life in immediate danger? Call 112 immediately.
  • If your life is not in immediate danger but you could still use help, call 113 (standard rate) or 0800-0113 (free of charge) or start an online chat.

When you are outside The Netherlands, find help via these links:

Please read the 1 page large font and visually clear [Wayback/Archive] responsible-reporting-on-suicide.pdf.

The [Wayback/Archive] World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 started with the 2024-2026 triennial theme “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, so please please please read the above PDF.

If you cannot view PDF on your computer, you can read it through the picture below, or an on-line PDF viewer in your web-browser through these links:

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Windows: extracting CD-audio for a funeral: CDex, MP3Gain (a replaygain like implementation which modifies MP3 metadata) plus UI wrapper and audacity (for combining tracks)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/27

It has been a very long time since I played around with ripping audio from audio CDs and wrote software for audio handling. I lost access to that source code some 20 years ago, so part of this post is from memory. Hopefully that is still good memory (:

Yes, I am one of those old farts that still has computing equipment with optical drives (:

Much has improved since then, so one needs to write far less code nowadays as a of tooling is now open source or has been open source for quite some time. The hardest part was finding back CDex (which I think is still very useful especially as it handles not-so-well-handled audio CDs quite OK).

Anyway: I didn’t document much of my audio history. The only post I mentioned CDex in was Streaming your mp3 collection through an Icecast server using ezstream, which does not does it justice as back then it had been reliable for such a long time.

Funeral web-site

That web-site was horrible, especially as it was picky on audio formats. In the end, it handled 128-bit fixed bit-rate MP3 files best.

CDEX

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VideoLAN on Twitter: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.” (video)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/11

Weekend, so catching up on CES 2025 news.

If you are at CES, be sure to go visit the VideoLAN booth in Eureka Park to witness what I think is likely the most important CES 2025 AI news:

[Wayback/Archive] VideoLAN on X: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.”

In my opinion, though a remarkable statistic, their 6-billion downloads gimmick is just a teaser for the way more important news what this AI LLM is:

  • free / open-source
  • off-line
  • subtitles plus translations
  • 100 languages

Whisper already ran circles around the YouTube automatic subtitle generator, and their automatic translations are far below par (see video below), so having new contender is great!

VideoLAN tremendously raises the bar for all commercial vendors, and at the same time makes:

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