Am I the only one who somtimes likes to listen to music either sped up or slowed down? Some songs benefit exceptionally from that!

I'm talking here about proper speed change: that doesn't distort the sound, which is by lower/increasing pitch (audio physics, unfortunately). mpv allows that. Just spin up terminal, run mpv as below and control speed with square brackets keys.

mpv \
  -af-add=scaletempo=speed=both \
  -audio-pitch-correction=no \
  --no-audio-display \
  {filePath}

      

Does this trigger vinyl fans?

The amount of blueprint copy-pasted AI-generated slop on YouTube is lately especially visibile when you search for philosophical topics.

As an example: I want to look for Shopenhauer's take on intelligence. Something easily-digestable. Searching for "shopenhauer intelligence" returns me page of results out of which around 90% are similarly titled videos, with similarly looking miniature, with similarly sounding narrator, and the same slop having only 5% of variation in content.

Essentially this phenomena makes using Youtube impossible. Worse: it drowns the actual creators.

If you like Red Alert 2 you can play it online (in a browser!) at Chrono Divide. This is mostly for playing multiplayer. There is even a ladder! It's amazing that such projects to modernize experience of old games exist.

Fun fact: backend is written in TypeScript.

Today I decided to add this simple feed to post short forms of content and random thoughts. Maybe that way I'll publish something more often.

Each feed entry is linked to its date so entries can be easily shared. If anybody will ever read anything here of course...