If you just want correct metadata (no own adjustments), then getting it from the MusicBrainz database is probably easiest. You can use MusicBrainz Picard for that: https://picard.musicbrainz.org

It does also seem to have a scripting API. No idea how well that works, though.

I don’t have a dryer, but I just hang them up to dry on the clothes hanger. Probably works even better, since the weight of the water pulls them straight.

Huh, so Tony Hoare invented null and then Graydon Hoare invented Rust, immediately terminating the existence of null which does not have a traditional null value.

I’m using Simon Tatham’s Puzzles for nonograms.

It’s basically this webpage in app form: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/pattern.html

It doesn’t result in a pixel art picture when you solve it, if you care for that, but the solutions do have contiguous regions.

My mum would iron everything. Then I moved out a few years ago. I still do not own a clothes iron.

It’s certainly simpler than Forza et al, but there’s an open-source racing simulator, called Speed Dreams: https://www.speed-dreams.net/
If you watch the “Latest Release” video, there’s some engine sounds in that.

They seem to have a bunch of samples for how different car models’ engines sound: https://sourceforge.net/p/speed-dreams/code/HEAD/tree/tags/2.3.0/data/data/sound/

And then they modulate that in code, based on the car’s speed, gear, turbo etc.:
https://sourceforge.net/p/speed-dreams/code/HEAD/tree/tags/2.3.0/src/modules/sound/snddefault/CarSoundData.cpp#l171

They also do that for gear changes, tyre sounds, collisions and backfires.

From what I know about audio, I would expect AAA games to still use the same approach of recordings+modulations.
While it is possible to fully synthesize an engine sound, it doesn’t help you much with making it sound right in all different situations.

With that name, I hope the guy is also a fan of Minetest: https://wiki.minetest.net/Mese_Block

🙃

It’s a format published by Google without much industry input. I imagine, that’s why it isn’t seeing terribly much adoption.

AVIF and JPEG-XL might do better, but they’re still relatively young formats.

Yeah, GIF is an extremely old format and rarely used these days. You just still see files being called “.gif”, even though they’re APNG or MP4 or something else under the hood.

Making the API version a feature flag is a very interesting idea.

It’s like camouflage, but for stairs.

Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can’t come inside.

Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.

Man, I hate the detours you’re supposed to take as a pedestrian or bicyclist, so that car drivers don’t get inconvenienced.

after a test version of Firefox leaked

I don’t think, that’s quite the right verb in an open-source context…

Yeah, Tree-Style Tabs is the most popular extension, although there’s various others, and this has been a highly requested feature for a while.

In Southern Germany, we have a food roughly like a baguette, called a “Seele”, which also happens to be the German word for “soul”.

So, in my headcanon, the guy ate a baguette and they split his stomach in half. 🙃

I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.

I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.

Redditors gladly fall for drama and clickbait. Mozilla being a non-profit at its core means they’re supposed to be the good guys, so if they do anything that could be interpreted badly, or even if they don’t, journalists will publish stories about it and Redditors will gladly lap that shit up.
If Google tries to rape them, that’s yet another Tuesday, boring.

Make that two.