#hivemind help please,
I'm trying to find a humorous video that was on Youtube three years or more ago. Junk search means I can't find it any more.
It was about a nightmare exam paper. The student sits down to write the paper and it is absurdly easy to begin with, but progresses to delivering a baby, defusing a bomb, and so on.
Ring any bells with anyone?
#hiveMind - Any recommendations between the Sennheiser Momentum 4 & the Sony WH1000XM5 #headphones?
My wife's birthday is coming up and she mentioned wanting a new pair of ANC headphones. I've narrowed it down to these two but I'm not sure if there is anything massively "better" about one over the other.
In the eye, you have the high-rez section in the middle called the "fovea". That's a noun.
Then the rest of your vision is called "peripheral". That's an adjective.
Is there a noun for the peripheral area?
While I'm bugging the #hivemind for feedback and ideas: Who can recommend a good #passwordManager for a #LinuxMint and #Debian user? I'll repay your wisdom with virtual #highfives and a #follow if you're so inclined.
Hey #HiveMind in the UK! Does anyone know of any implications for #UniversalCredit recipients helping to manage a #MutualAid group account on #OpenCollective? #AskFedi #FediHelp
I need to assist a nonprofit in choosing:
1. A google-drive equivalent
2. A cloud backup service
3. A tiny server to host a tiny Django app for mostly private use
I can easily find any number of services to deal with the first two (which can easily be one, of course) but it would be great if I could find a provider that offers all three together.
Does the #hivemind have suggestions? Europe-based, because GDPR and to avoid random executive orders.
UPDATE: Found an elegant hack, with thanks to @drhaywardj
for x in 0 20 40 60 80; do curl -sL "https://mastodon.social/api/v1/trends/tags?limit=20&offset=$x"; done |grep -o '"name":"[^"]*"' |cut -f4 -d\"
This yields the top 100 hashtags.
I might run a modified version for the top 1000 every month or so and save them somewhere
Hey #HiveMind,
Is there a quick and easy way to get a list of prominent hashtags on the #fediverse?
I ask, because search in #GoToSocial is kinda slow, and I'm looking for alternate ways of finding useful hashtags.
All I've been able to come up with so far is
curl -sL https://www.fedistats.cc/trends |grep h1
...but that only gives me 20 results.
Any ideas?
I realized on my last trip that it's time for a new point & shoot camera (current one is 10 years old). I'm tired of lugging around my old DSLR. So mastodon #hivemind - what point & shoot cameras do you recommend? and why do you like particular ones? In the past I was very happy with my #Panasonic #Lumix cameras but reading current reviews I'm not sure I'll stick with them. Currently leaning toward #Sony or maybe #Canon. #Photography #DigitalPhotography #Travel #Point&ShootCamera #Camera
I know wat: we need a search engine for the terminal for man pages #truestory #hivemind
Hey #HiveMind,
Is there such a thing as a generic USB-Wireless bridge device?
My idea is that I like my #Wacom tablet, but it'd be cool if it was #wireless, even if that meant it'd have to be twice as thick.
Some kind of generic wireless bridge for #USB that just passed USB commands bidirectionally without changing anything would be really neat. Plug the dongle into the USB host, and the other side (with a battery) into the USB guest, and presto changeo, the wired device becomes a wireless one, and neither devices are the wiser.
Anyone seen anything like this? I'm guessing there might be a way to do it with a couple zigbee devices or something like that, but I've never messed with that.
Is there an adapter that goes from USB-C to HDMI?
I want to put downloaded video from my iPhone to the TV in the camper
Has to be hardwired for use without WiFi or cell service
Edit: Of course there is! Thanks for all the help, further replies no longer necessary!
MOAR #hometheater #technology #hivemind questions:
We have a home Plex Media Server, a Disney+, a YouTube Premium and an AppleTV subscription.
And a Samsung TV that runs all that.
For $Reasons, I am thinking of removing the network from the TV and thus use some own hardware under my control to do all the viewing. Not being able to watch Ted Lasso or Andor or @TechConnectify isn't an option though.
Any suggestions on a couch friendly setup that I can install on ye old Intel NUC?
Dear #HiveMind
Can you help me find an old blog (?) post describing the story of a #LaserSafety accident at a small company where people decided it was a good idea to take the #laser out in the car park without realizing their beam was hitting a car's door and reflected all around? 
EDIT:
Dear #Fediverse #HiveMind, please help me. How do I transfer my domain name/email away from g**gle workspace? Explain it to me like I'm an idiot, please. #DeGoogle
UPDATE: I've now got a Tuta account, if that helps
Update: Thanks to @furicle for this suggestion. I think it's about perfect:
tmp $ AV_LOG_FORCE_NOCOLOR=true ffmpeg -hide_banner -i example.opus -filter:a volumedetect -f null /dev/null
Input #0, ogg, from 'example.opus':
Duration: 02:13:19.89, start: 0.007500, bitrate: 118 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf58.45.100
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x563ea07eeb00] n_samples: 0
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (opus (native) -> pcm_s16le (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, null, to '/dev/null':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf61.7.100
Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc61.19.101 pcm_s16le
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] n_samples: 767987856
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] mean_volume: -21.0 dB
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] max_volume: -2.8 dB
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] histogram_2db: 1
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] histogram_3db: 70
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] histogram_4db: 3872
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] histogram_5db: 98331
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 0x7f9920003c00] histogram_6db: 750534
[out#0/null @ 0x563ea084bf80] video:0KiB audio:1499976KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: unknown
size=N/A time=02:13:19.87 bitrate=N/A speed= 573x
Dear sound/audio folks and engineers,
[Update: just for clarity: I'm looking for a command line utility that will help me decide which of 70 audio recordings need amplification/compression/normalization. Something that can print out media stats like average loudness, or something like that]
I have a directory with 3.5GiB of audio files (chiefly opus & m4a) which are spoken word recordings.
Some of them are quite low, and some of them are quite dynamic such that it's a whisper at times and nearly a shout at other times.
I've processed a lot of them with #audacity's compressor filter or #ffmpeg (ffmpeg -i audio.m4a -filter:a "speechnorm=e=50:r=0.0001:l=1" audio-normalized.m4a), but there are some unprocessed files in the collection, which are a pain to individually find and fix.
Is there a way from the #CommandLine to detect the loudness and/or dynamic range of audio files so that I can automatically flag them for processing with ffmpeg?
Thanks!!
@aral you should add “closed minded #hivemind #hipster shitting on entire classes of technologies and problem spaces that I refuse to take the time to understand” to your CV.
Don’t come crying to the crypto devs you mocked when your country sends you your tax return in a central bank digital currency with a spending time-limit that can be tracked FOREVER.
#decentralization seems to be a problem that you won’t understand until you are utterly imprisoned by centralization.
#Hivemind: Best #MichaelMantler #album with #JackBruce singing on it? Any thoughts? #jazz #JazzSky #music
Hi there #hivemind!
Who would be a good EU hosting platform for an @openrightsgroup #peertube instance?
Bearing in mind, we would need a lot of (expandable) disk storage.
