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- Blip: See Your Internet Latency #
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A nice tool I found while troubleshooting network issues.
Monday, 26 September 2022
- The Sound of All Human Knowledge #
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A fun challenge from the Wikimedia Foundation:
We invite you to create a sound that is global, smart, and familiar — a sound that will soon be recognised around the world as The Sound of All Human Knowledge. Your original submission must capture the essence of everything Wikimedia stands for. It should respond to questions like: “What is the sound of discovering something new?” or “What is the sound of trusted information?” or even “What is the sound of winning an argument?”
The winner will receive $2,500 USD and a trip to a recording studio to produce the final sound logo.
Friday, 23 September 2022
- AI-Powered VR Video Games #
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James Stanley:
Now put on your VR headset. Connect to your friend who lives on the other side of the world. Give it a world prompt:
I’m a cop, my friend is a robber. I am chasing him through the streets of Chicago at night time. In the rain. If I catch him within 15 minutes I win, otherwise he wins. Also we each have a radar on our wrist that tells us the direction to the other player. Go!
Even with things like Stable Diffusion and Copilot around I think completely computer-generated games are quite a distance away.
The nuances of human beings are difficult enough for us to understand, and these automagical technologies would run into the same problems of comprehension.
But we are living in exciting times indeed, and James’ vision sounds a bit like GTA Laugh Attack, today, at 2pm ET (1800 ZULU)!
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
- IL-2 Lead Engineer Moves to Asobo Studios #
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Andrey (An.Petrovich) Solomykin, the lead programmer of the IL-2 Sturmovik flight simulator is moving to Asobo Studios.
I wish all the best to Andrey, and am excited to see what he works on next!
Via StormBirds.
Saturday, 10 September 2022
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Tree
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A standing one, a beautiful tree, is yet another emote available for Hypertexthero stream subscribers to use in Twitch or Discord chat.
Type the following and press Enter to use it: :hypert23Tree
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- Goodbye, Mikhail Gorbachev #
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I failed to post a link for another of the great leaders of human beings who passed recently, the courageous Mikhail Gorbachev.
Maciej Cegłowski, writing at HN:
Gorbachev secured his place in history by what he didn’t do. While never endorsing the end of the eastern bloc, he made it clear beginning in the late 1980’s that unlike his predecessors, he would not oppose democratic reforms in Eastern Europe by force. To general astonishment, he kept this promise, and with the regrettable exception of Lithuania this commitment to not repeating the crimes of his predecessors is Gorbachev’s greatest legacy. In 1988 you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who could imagine the mostly peaceful collapse of the Eastern Bloc, but Gorbachev had the moral courage to accept this once unimaginable consequence of his policy and to see it through.
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Oh, Hi!
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Oh, hi! It’s another emote available for Hypertexthero stream subscribers to use in Twitch or Discord chat.
Type the following and press Enter to use it: :hypert23Ohhi
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Thursday, 8 September 2022
- Happy Star Trek Day #
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Star Trek was first aired on September 8, 1966, so September 8th is Star Trek day! Thank you to TimmyThumb for letting me know!
I first watched the entirety of the original series in a friend’s basement during a hot summer in Tunis, Tunisia, when I was a teenager. An excellent show that touched the lives of many.
Here is an idea for a Star Trek video game that came to mind during today’s stream, focussing on some of the lesser-known crew members, the Redshirts:
Star Trek: Redshirt · Roguelike shooter where as a crew member of the original Enterprise, you are beamed down to “investigate” various dangerous planets, derelict space ships, and so on, and when you inevitably die, you start again from the beginning in different environments with randomized objectives.
If you manage to live to the end of a play-through, you win the game and are promoted to a yellow-attire wearing Lieutenant.
- Goodbye, Elizabeth Windsor #
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A person of extraordinary character, integrity, and sense of humor. An exceptional leader of human beings, and probably the greatest diplomat in the history of humankind.
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
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Simulator Keybinding Locations
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Flight simulators are rather complex pieces of entertainment and training software, and when one loses keybindings, also known as controller mappings or simply keyboard shortcuts, perhaps due to errant operating system updates, hard disk drive crashes, or other phenomena, it is not uncommon to also lose one’s mind. 
In service of mental health for all sim fanatics everywhere, here are the keybinding locations for various simulators I have so that we can find them and back them up regularly, without ever forgetting to do so.
Arma 3
C:\Users\your_user_name\Documents\Arma 3\your_user_name.Arma3Profile
Balsa Model Flight Sim
Install_Drive_Letter:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\BALSA Model Flight Simulator\inputsettings.cfg
Digital Combat Simulator (DCS)
Open Beta version:
C:\Users\your_user_name\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\Input
Regular version:
C:\Users\your_user_name\Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input
Elite Dangerous (ED)
C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
Thank you EkeolNora.
IL-2 Sturmovik (IL2)
Install_Drive_Letter:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\input
Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS)
The keybinds are, we are told, saved by the gods in the clouds, though we suspect they may also be somewhere in our machine. If you know, please tell me and I will dance and chant, update this post, and credit you, whilst cursing the MS gods!
And thank you, Icebird4all, for the valiant attempts at helping me find it!
Star Citizen (SC)
Install_Drive_Letter:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE\USER\Client\0\Controls\Mappings
War Thunder (WT)
The default keybinds are in: Install_Drive_Letter\Users\your_user_name\Documents\My Games\WarThunder\Saves\LotsOfRandomNumbers\production\machine.blk, but it is recommended you save your keybindings to the directory of your choice by going to Controls → Disk symbol → Export. See here for my own WT keybindings.
If any of these are wrong and you know so, please yell at me on my stream chat or write me an email with the correct location.
Thank you, happy simulating, peace out!
HyperTextHero
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Monday, 5 September 2022
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Split Music From Game Audio in OBS
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OBS Studio, the world’s best and most popular software for streaming recently had an excellent update for their 10-year anniversary, OBS 28.
My favorite thing about OBS version 28 is the ability, currently in beta, to capture audio from individual applications so that you can, for example, play music during your live stream without recording it to your VOD.
Here’s how to do it in Windows:
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Make sure you have OBS version 28 or above.
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Click on Settings in the Controls window, then Output on the left-hand menu, and set the Output Mode dropdown to Advanced.
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Put a check mark on Twitch VOD Track and a little dark mark on radio input 6 then click Apply on the bottom.
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Click Audio on the left-hand menu and set both Desktop Audio and Desktop Audio 2 Global Audio Devies to Disabled. Make sure Mic/Aux is set to the device you are using for you Mic input. Click OK on the bottom.
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Click the plus + sign on the bottom of the Sources window, and select Application Audio Capture. Give it a name like “Music” and click OK. Choose the window that will be playing music, such as SOMA FM or MyNoise in your web browser, or a local application, and click OK.
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Repeat step 5, name it Game Audio and choose the game that you will be playing (you will need to remember to change this when you play a different game). Also repeat step 5 for any other audio sources you would like to capture, such as Discord voice chat.
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On the top application menu click on Edit → Advanced Audio Properties, and under Tracks make sure Track 1 (stream) is checked for all audio sources. Ensure Track 6 (Twitch VOD track) is unchecked for the “Music” source and any other sources that you do not want recorded to the VOD. Click Close.
Leap up from your seating or standing position towards the sky while roaring and high-fiving anyone nearby, because your are done!
I use the open source Open Broadcaster Software almost every day on my HyperTextHero stream on Twitch and am glad to be a patron of OBS project’s excellent work.
✌️ 🎶 📹
=todo:
- Make single-page PDF with visual step-by-step process.
- Make a video of the process.
- Add screenshots.
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Thursday, 1 September 2022
- Moments On Twitch #
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Yesterday I learned via TimmyThumb that streamers can now award viewers moments during the stream.
Viewers need to “claim” moments awarded them within 3 minutes in order to further embellish their digital text-plus-icons avatarial chat nameplates.
It looks like a good idea, though only 5 moments per month seem too few. The feature is currently in beta for selected users and has not materialized on my dashboard so far. If and when it does, I will give it a go.
Monday, 29 August 2022
- Duke Ellington Photograph by Gordon Parks #
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Listening to playback, Los Angeles, 1960.
- Adding Chapters to YouTube Videos #
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I like software features that can be created from plain text. In this case, writing
4:20 Bongiornoin the video description adds a chapter marker titled “Bongiorno” 4 minutes and 20 seconds into the video. Bravo!
Monday, 22 August 2022
- Up to $7,500 Tax Credit to Get Electric Vehicles #
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Arezou Rezvani, writing at NPR:
By incentivizing automakers to cater to a less affluent crowd and by pushing automakers to bring their supply chains to the U.S., the administration believes it can make EVs more mainstream and accelerate toward an ambitious goal: to have half of all new car sales be for electric models by 2030, up from only 3% today.
- First Webb Telescope Images of Jupiter #
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Astonishing and breathtaking, and another planet type I want to venture into in Elite.
Sunday, 21 August 2022
- Exaluminal #
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Get notified Earth is about to be destroyed by a supernova up to one hour before it happens.
Saturday, 20 August 2022
- Authagraph World Map #
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An approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Hajime Narukawa that reminds me of the Waterman Butterlfy projection.
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
- Thank you, Timmy Thumb #
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Dear Tim, Thank you so much for becoming my first ever Patreon patron! I have now begun the Dear Moment blog posts on my Patreon page! —Simon
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