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Un elemento divergente, perdido y solo entre la gente

Vibe coding is coding just the same way as ordering from McDonalds is cooking. Stop lying to yourself, you’re not a programmer, you’re an AI consumer. Make sure to keep paying that ChatGPT subscription.

As a follow up to my article “Defending technology in the age of AI slop”, I decided to remove all content that was generated with AI from my site. It wasn’t a lot, only a few images generated with Midjourney, when it was the “new cool thing”. Fuck Midjourney, and fuck AI slop.

Since people don’t seem to be interacting too much nowadays with the comments (or the Webmention feature), I’ve decided it’s time for them to go away. If you still want to drop me a line, you can always write to me on the guestbook, or drop a line over email. Peace!

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Today, Viktor Tsoy would have celebrated his 63rd birthday. While no longer in the physical plane of existence, his legacy lives on.

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God save us, everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hand, the sins of our tongue
The sins of our father, the sins of our young? No!

Yum. source

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Where do you think you’re going?
Don’t you know it’s dark outside?
Where do you think you’re going?
I wish they’d care about my pride

Where do you think you’re going?
I think you don’t know
You got no way of knowing
You got no place you can go

I understand your changes
How long before you reach the door
I know where you think you’re going
I know what you came here for

And now I’m sick of joking
You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you’re going?
I think you’d better go with me, girl

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Since people are “celebrating” the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, I also remembered that you can use a SteamDeck to set up Xbox Cloud Gaming Xbox Remote Play*, so you can play the games from your Xbox on the go. The process involves installing the Edge browser, adding it to Steam, and running a specific command in the terminal and customizing the Steam shortcut.

Just in case the video ever gets down, the terminal command that you need to run is:

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flatpak --user override --filesystem=/run/udev:ro com.microsoft.Edge

and the thing you need to append to the launch options of the shortcut is

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--window-size=1024,640 --force-device-scale-factor=1.25 --device-scale-factor=1.25  --kiosk "https://www.xbox.com/play"

FYI, while playing from at home I had no issue while playing a game (which I will review soon) and Forza Horizon 3, 4 and 5, and as long as the game is not extremely fast paced, the latency is decent to very good, depending on the title.

*PS: While Steam Cloud Gaming is only available in a very small list of countries, you can use Xbox Remote Play everywhere, which is what I wanted actually in the first place.

A few days ago I had to break apart some episodes of Top Cat from the uncompressed Blu-Ray rip to individual MKV files that can be read properly by Plex Media Server (as it’s not working with BDMV folders).

1. Install mkvtoolnix, using the instructions from their Downloads Page

As I’m using Ubuntu 18.04 Server on my home server (if it ain’t broken, why change it?) so I used the respective commands:

_You first have to import my public GPG key because all of my pools are signed. Run this once: _ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg https://mkvtoolnix.download/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg

Then

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/ubuntu/ bionic main deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/ubuntu/ bionic main

And then the only things left to do are to run sudo apt update followed by sudo apt install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui (I skipped the second package as I’m on the Server variant, so I don’t need a GUI)

2. Create a .sh script in the directory with the MKV files

touch fix_metadata.sh vi fix_metadata.sh

and added this content:

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#!/bin/bash

# This script takes all mkv files in the current directory and sets the filename
# (without .mkv) as its title in metadata

for mkvfile in *.mkv; do
    mkvpropedit "$mkvfile" -e info -s title="${mkvfile%.mkv}"
done

Then you just need to make the file executable and run it:

chmod +x fix_metadata.sh ./fix_metadata.sh

And presto! Each file should have the title set like the filename (so Top Cat - 01x02 - The Maharajah of Pookajee.mkv will have the title “Top Cat - 01x02 - The Maharajah of Pookajee” and generate this fairly generic output:

The file is being analyzed.
The changes are written to the file.
Done.

And this is it!

Unless you’re living under a rock, the entire Internet is buzzing around the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2. So basically, you get a SteamDeck that:

• Has no OLED screen
• Is severely underpowered
• Is completely locked
• Sells you the same games over again
• Is costing 80+ euros per game
• Has no music player
• Has no internet browser
• Has no apps for streaming services (or Plex 🏴‍☠️)
• A device that’s over 520 euros and is not a computer