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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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using partition magic to copy and resize my main windows 98 partition onto a new 16gb drive
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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now I've got a luxurious 16gb of space to install MSDN 6.0 into
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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"dang it, I've got to defrag my windows 98 machine again" - something I've not had to think in like 25 years
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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ahh yes, now the shitpost reaches the "scope creep" phase where I say to myself:
"You know, I could make this twice as funny by spending ten times as much time on it!"
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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ugh. I'm gonna have to make my own photomosaic software, with blackjack and hookers.

or punt and make bad apple, I guess.

knowing me I'll end up doing both
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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hey foone
hey foone
this shitpost would be much better if you added two windows 95 fonts to the death generator and then ported the death generator rendering engine to python

<-- the devil speaking on my shoulder
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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don't be silly, I can just call the death generator through puppeteer!

(I need to port the death generator core to node.js for like 100 reasons, but this is another one: I'd be able to test it/run it outside the browser!)
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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why NOT add windows 95 defrag to the death generator?
I added Minesweeper once!
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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what if I just faked it and made it look like I had a defrag death generator? hmmm

delightfully devilish foone
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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save hours of font extraction/recreation with this one weird trick:

screenshotting notepad in a VM
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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wait. I extracted a 30 FPS video that was 03:39 long, resulting in 6572 frames. 6572/60 is 3 with 39 left over, so that all tracks.

I then told ffmpeg to combine those extracted images back together at 30 fps, and I got back a video that's 04:22. at 30 fps?

something's fucky
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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wait I bet I got it... yep

$ ffmpeg -i frames\%08d.png -r 30 out.mkv

AND

$ ffmpeg -r 30 -i frames\%08d.png out.mkv

do very different things!
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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the former is taking in a set of PNGs at THE DEFAULT FRAMERATE OF 25 FPS and then resampling that 25 FPS video to 30 FPS

the later imports the PNGs at 30 FPS, which is the thing I was trying to do in the first place
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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well that's... something.
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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oh god it's even worse in motion

This is exactly what time is like for someone with ADHD, btw
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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remind me never to work with fucking audio ever again. it's not worth the hassle
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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speaking of which, WEE NOW I HAVE TO RETIME SUBTITLES IN A LANGUAGE I DON'T SPEAK, BETWEEN THREE VIDEOS!
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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also my video editor is showing me the wrong times, because I technically have negative frames
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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this video starts at frame -149 and ends at frame 6572 for completely normal reasons
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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fun fact: one of the top versions of Bad Apple on youtube, the "full version with lyrics", was made using a screen recorder pointed at a flash animation.
You know how I know?
THEIR 2011 COMPUTER WASN'T FAST ENOUGH TO DO THIS, AND IT LAGS AT SOME POINTS, DESYNCING THE AUDIO

43 million views anyway.
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
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@foone
Oh I'd wondered why that was. It's even in the decryption but without an explanation, "At some places, it's not lag. It's just the video that is slow down."
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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@walnut I think what happened is that they're saying that because they're not the one with the slow computer: they got this video from someone else, who had the slow computer.
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