Crusaders of the lost idols
edit 20160718: Improved the bot & made it available on github. Check this: more info.
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Q: so what do you do in your leisure time?
A: i play games
Q: wtf man, you are a grown up!
A: actually it is just an free-to-play idle-game
Q: this is even worse. you find satisfaction in collecting money and distributing upgrades and waiting for them to arrive in dribs and drabs?
A: actually i wrote a clicker-bot to gain 1 million-clicks-achivement xD
weather-forecast without annoying advertisments
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curl http://wttr.in/hamburg |
Small advice: netdata
It will be quite seldom that I suggest to use certain programs (or Neudeutsch: ‘apps’), but this one blew my mind, because its resource-usage is quite frugal, is “just running if started (and needed)”, has some nice views and incorporates sensor-data: netdata!
Data is displayed via http://localhost:19999/ in your local browser 😉
Sounds from the underground
Found a one-liner which uses input from urandom to create music. And: I’ve experienced worse musical accentuation in games xD
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cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | aplay -c 2 -f S32_LE -r 16000 |
Original source is that blog. Also offers explanations and how to tune the scale. Great!
What to do with spare 2 TB-drives?
Let’s prevent that this blog turns into pure rants and finalize some articles which were (almost) finished for weeks.
I had a spare 2 TiByte 3.5″-SATA-drive from the NAS (replaced with 4 TiByte each), but did not want to use it in my PC. Why? An SSD with 128 GiByte is enough. I don’t want to replicate the archive.org ..
So I decided to make an Apple-fanboi happy: external drive for TimeMachine (tm!) XD
that blogs speed
quote: If you can’t quantify it, you’re just making it up with your mind”
– quote from someone I can’t currently determine
The subscription for that page expired. As you can check, it’s hosted by bplaced. Why? Because I used that provider for years for some other minor pages and blogs and I experienced never anything bad and their support was also really fast & helpful. Manus manum lavat.
So I wanted to know if there will be an experienceable difference in speed of delivery for the page. It’s dynamic content, so not just the size of the text+pictures matter. I picked randomly three webpage-speed-check-pages from the search results (does not matter which – in two weeks others will own the first ranks, no one cares) and did three runs each. The first was while all three check-pages ran simultaneously, then the following two runs with each separated.