While the subtitles of the VLC player on Gentoo looked rather ugly, they looked nice on Windows—to a point it really bothered me. After some online searching, I came across a forum post that…
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Dark Age of Camelot Shaman resources
The filming location database is online!
After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.
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OpenStreetMap: Updated Esri World Imagery in Pretoria
Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!
Ethical Tech Giving Guide
Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving…
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Logo of the OpenStreetMap project. Ken Vermette, OSM/CC BY-SA 2.0
State of the Map 2020 in Cape Town
It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!
Sony Xperia XA2: successfully update LineageOS 16.0
Updating LineageOS 16.0 on your Sony Xperia XA2 can result in no network, bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It’s a common problem, but there is a solution: update the firmware, but to an older version than 50.2.A.0.*. After that, updating to newer LineageOS versions won’t be a problem anymore. Here’s a step-by-step guide how it worked for me.
Note: If…
» read moreVorbis nominal bitrate
Vorbis nominal bitrate at quality levels for 44.1 kHz stereo input. The new libvorbis v1.2 usually compresses better than these values (effective bitrate may vary).
| Quality | Nominal bitrate | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Xiph.Org Foundation Vorbis | … | |
