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3dprinting, Brewing / Fermenting / Booze, Computer, Hobby, IOT / Domoticz, Movies, Music, Photography

Software i use(d)

My much used set of tools (old draft I edited)

File managers

  • Midnight Commander
  • Thunar
  • Nautilus
  • nnn
  • Dolphin

Generic tools

  • rsync
  • dcfldd – an enhanced version of dd
  • screen/tmux
  • fdupes
  • ghex / xxd

Connecting/networking tools

  • mosh – roaming, faster, using ssh
  • sshfs – mount remote filesystems over ssh (see ssh tricks)
  • wavemon – wifi info
  • GNS3 – Graphical Network Simulator-3
  • Wireshark
  • PHPIpam
  • Homelable

Encryption

  • Luks
  • ecryptfs

Graphical/Photo

  • Gimp
  • Eog
  • rawtherapee
  • Inkscape
  • Darktable
  • PureRef
  • digiKam
  • Krita
  • Hugin
  • ImageMagick

Documents/Notekeeping

  • Vim
  • Joplin
  • Paperless-ngx
  • DrawIO – For network drawings
  • LibreOffice/OnlyOffice -> EuroOffice
  • Scribus

3D Print/Lasercutting

  • Cura
  • Orcaslicer
  • Bambuddy
  • LightBurn
  • Model editors: Blender and OpenScad, Meshroom, Sketchup

Coding

  • Mostly CLI
  • PlatformIO
  • Arduino IDE
  • VSCodium (stripped Visual Studio)

Electronics

  • Fritzing
  • Kicad
  • Logic

Ebook / Comic readers

  • Calibre
  • FBReader

GFX/Video

  • Blender
  • kdenlive
  • OBS Studio
  • Shotwell
  • Handbrake
  • ffmpeg
  • VLC
  • Kodi/Libreelec

Music

  • CLI abc tools
  • Musescore
  • Bagpipe Music Player
  • Audacity (after removing all bad things be-ing added in 2021)
  • LMMS
  • Ardour

Virtualisation/Emulation

  • proxmox
  • libvirt
  • ovirt
  • guestfish
  • dosbox
  • pcem
  • Martypc

Password management

  • Keepass / KeepassXC

API

  • Postman
  • Flask (Python) see ledserver

Beamer

  • Mapmap
  • LPMT
  • Qprompt

Brewing

  • Brouwhulp
  • Brewfather (web)

Web/App alternatives for bad companies (Mostly own hosted)

  • Gmail – Hosted elsewhere – Thunderbird + web
  • Google Drive – Nextcloud
  • Spotify – Navidrome
  • Google Photos (I never used this, i used Gallery2/3/Wipigo ) – Immich
  • Youtube – Jellyfin for own movies
  • Whatsapp/Google Chat – My own mattermost server, signal and IRC
  • Teams – Ownhosted jitsi
  • Teamviewer – Rustdesk
  • Google Timeline – Dawarich

Server generic

  • Databases : mariadb/mongodb/influxdb/sqlite
  • Grafana
  • NodeRed
  • gitea
  • HomeAssistant
  • Bookstack
  • Librenms
  • Check_mk (i’ve started with Netsaint (1999), Nagios,Icinga,
  • Mosquitto

Unsorted stuff

  • vimperator (old)
  • links/curl/dsniff/urlsnarf
  • Databases (mariadb/mongodb/influxdb/sqlite)
  • Metabase
  • Adminder
  • Scrot (snapshot tool)
  • Luminace-hdr
  • GDlib
  • Dia (old)
  • Blackmagic Fusion
  • gcalcli
  • Gcalcron
  • Domoticz
  • MQTT-Explorer
  • Android studio
  • Nextion IDE
  • Irssi
  • Mutt
  • Mailcow
  • Tinymediamanager
  • Cacti (old)
  • Winbox (Mikrotik)
  • iptraf
  • ntopng
  • Twiki/Foswiki (old)
  • Digikam
  • My own photo manager
  • Cewe Photobooks
  • qdlsrdashboard
  • gphoto2
  • Ktechlab
  • Ardour5
  • Puredata
  • Cadence
  • Natron
  • yt-downloader
  • 4k downloader
  • Taggers
  • Mp3tag
  • Tinymediamanager
  • MusicBrainz Picard
  • Beets
  • Music players
  • MOC
  • SoftSqueeze
  • Clementine
  • My Badly Designed Sound Machine
  • Server stuff
  • Namazu2
  • Netdata
  • Ntopng
  • Snort/Snortsam
  • Virtualisation

Window managers (See other post)

  • Xmonad (current)
  • Gnome (current)
  • Enlightenment (old)
  • Compiz (old)
  • Fluxbox (old)
  • Ratpoison (tried)
  • Twm (tried)
  • Xfce (old)
  • Window Maker(old)
  • Sawfish (old)
  • Kde (old)
  • i3 (old)
  • IceWM (old)
  • Motif (old)
  • Flwm (old)
  • Fvwm (old)
  • Ximian desktop (bought) (old)

  • Home Drawing
    • Sweethome3D
    • Blender
    • Sketchup
    • Drawio
  • Old but cool
    • Mainactor
    • Appleshake
    • Zbruch
    • Povray
    • Lightzone

Other tools:

Git, tig, xdotool, nmon, ntop, iotop, etc etc (lijstje genereren)

Computer, Movies

Youtube fixed on Android Settop boxes

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I’ve installed an ad-free version using homebrew on my LG tv. (FreeTube)
Here is one for Android Settop boxes.
For phones use : NewPipe or Pipepipe

STEPS:

Install via playstore : Downloader (aftnews)

start and input this as a URL (kutt.to/stn_stable)

This will install below apk (Allow downloader to install packages!)

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

  • Clean interface
  • SponsorBlock integration
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • 8K resolution support
  • 60fps playback
  • HDR compatibility
  • View live chat
  • Customizable buttons
  • Does not require Google Services

I really like the SponsorBlock and DeArrow.

DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

Movies, Music

Avond van de Filmmuziek

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4th time we’ve been

  • Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30,(Richard Strauss cover)
  • Back to the Avond van de Filmmuziek,(intro film)
  • Back to the Future,(Alan Silvestri cover)
  • The Strength of the Righteous (main title),(Ennio Morricone cover) (from ‘The Untouchables’)
  • Downton Abbey: The Suite,(John Lunn cover)
  • Succession (Main Title Theme),(Nicholas Britell cover)
  • Renaissance (Main Title Theme),(Cristobal Tapia de Veer cover) (from ‘The White Lotus’)
  • This Is Berk,(John Powell cover) (with Anna Lapwood) (from ‘How to Train Your Dragon’)
  • Hymn to the Fallen,(John Williams cover) (from ‘Saving Private Ryan’)
  • La vita è bella,(Nicola Piovani cover)
  • I Could Use a Boost,(Kris Bowers cover) (from ‘The Wild Robot’)
  • Suite from ‘De Wilde Noordzee’,(Sven Figee cover) (with Sven Figee)
  • Mission: Impossible,(Lalo Schifrin cover)
  • Superdaan,(intro film)
  • Superman March,(John Williams cover)
  • Out of Africa,(John Barry cover)
  • 20th Century Fox Fanfare,(Alfred Newman cover)
  • American Beauty,(Thomas Newman cover) (with Sven Figee)
  • Mad World,(Tears for Fears cover) (with Gary Jules)
  • Of Separation,(Elliot Goldenthal cover) (from ‘Heat’)
  • Solomon,(Hans Zimmer cover) (from ’12 Years a Slave’)
  • Mommy’s Dollhouse,(Cristobal Tapia de Veer cover)
  • Chevaliers de Sangreal,(Hans Zimmer cover) (from ‘The Da Vinci Code’)
  • Suite from Interstellar,(Hans Zimmer cover) (with Anna Lapwood)
  • The Raiders March,(John Williams cover)
  • No One Mourns the Wicked,(Stephen Schwartz cover) (with Vajèn van den Bosch)
  • Defying Gravity,(Stephen Schwartz cover) (with Vajèn van den Bosch)

Other concerts we’ve been to, movie music related.

  • Hans Zimmer in Concert
  • Star Wars Suite
  • War of the worlds (Jeff Wayne)
  • ?? Forgot what it was called.

Movies

Last night I recognised some people in the short movie “Dead on time (1983)”

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While watching this movie on YouTube, I recognised several people in small roles. Most of them their first roles.
(I never knew about this short before last night)

It is the first (short) movie by Richard Curtis, a (now) famous writer/director. (Mr Bean, The Black Adder)
He only did “Not the nine O’clock News” before that.

Funny to see the young faces.

Many have worked together after this short.

Do you know who is who?

I made a short incomplete link graph.

Movies

Movie props and reusing stuff

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Follow-up on previous post.

I’ve posted about sounds before, annoying!

The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect that has been used in many films and TV series, beginning in 1951 with the film Distant Drums. The scream is usually used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion. See also Squeaky door.

Things in movies that bug me

About movie props

Not that annoying, but I can’t think about anything else as the previous film I saw the prop in.

Props in They Live (1988) I saw in 2024

Wait a minute! Thats from Ghostbusters (1984)

Even another film exists using the same prop (never seen this movie)

The prop was made using a shoe polisher thingy b.t.w.

Movies

Watching Movies – Noticing Rik Mayall

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I’m a big fan of Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson.

WRITING A MINI INTRO WITH PICTURE AND SID TUNE (C64) PART 2

(Bottom, Dangerous (Danger) Brothers, Young Ones, Black Adder etc)

I love the live shows, I’ve mentioned that before.

Today we were watching a movie, just one in our collection.
It was American Werewolf in London.
I knew there were some great practical effects in there.
(All pre CGI)

Then I saw a face a few seconds. Damn could it be Rik?

Yes it is ..

But I know he did several movies

  • Drop dead fred
  • Guest House Paradiso
  • Harry Potter

Welllllll, I more identify with Ade.

Bald, mostly interested in being drunk, and playing in a folkband. 🙂

Movies

We did it! .. The best movies according to IMDB watched! (TOP 250)

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Woo-hoo!

In 2013 I converted an online list of movies from here:
https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/

We watched all of them. ( And others .. )

Some unknown beauties. Some we didn’t understand or liked. But we persevered. We can do this!

Just a generic movie image .. Maybe i’ll make a complete movie cover thingy ..

See also:

Top IMDB 250 Movies (2000-2023) visualized
Top IMDB followup using python (openpyxl)
Pre 40’s movies that surprised me

Are we done? .. No, next to check, are the movies which entered the list after 250. Maybe half of the new ones we’ve seen ..

Computer, Movies

Triple screen movie player in python

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I didn’t find an easy and working movie player for wide screen setups.
Like double/triple monitor setups.

I’ve got 3x 1920×1080 monitors connected to my battlestation.
With a resolution of 5760×1080

Simple Python code to play a movie fullscreen

# importing vlc module
import vlc
 
# creating vlc media player object
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
 
# media object
media = vlc.Media("movie.mp4")
 
# setting media to the media player
media_player.set_media(media)
media_player.toggle_fullscreen()
 
# start playing video
media_player.play()

But trying to get this stable working, I resorted to pysimplegui

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import PySimpleGUI as sg
import vlc
import sys
from sys import platform as PLATFORM

try:
    movie=sys.argv[1] 
except:
    print(sys.argv[0] +  " filename")
    exit()

sg.theme('DarkBlue')

layout = [[sg.Image('', size=(5760, 1080), key='-VID_OUT-')]]
window = sg.Window('Triple movie player', layout, no_titlebar=True, margins=(0,0),location=(0,0), size=(5760,1080), keep_on_top=True, finalize=True,resizable=False)

window.bring_to_front()
window.Maximize()
window.bind("<Escape>", "-ESCAPE-")
window.bind("<Return>", "-ENTER-")

window['-VID_OUT-'].expand(True, True)

inst = vlc.Instance()
list_player = inst.media_list_player_new()

media_list = inst.media_list_new([])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
player = list_player.get_media_player()

if PLATFORM.startswith('linux'):
    player.set_xwindow(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())
else:
    player.set_hwnd(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())

media_list.add_media(movie)
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
list_player.play()
while True:
    event, values = window.read(timeout=1000)

    if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
        break
    if event == '-ENTER-':
        list_player.play()
    if event == '-ESCAPE-':
        list_player.stop()
        window.close()
window.close()

I’ve converted some of my Vuze media to the correct resolution using kdenlive.

I’ve added a new profile. 5760×1080 dont forget to change the display ratio!

Kdenlive howto

Movies

Identifying asian languages

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My girlfriend sometimes asks me what country/language is that?
(When seeing written text or hearing people talk)

I’ve studied japanese a long time ago, and I still can read some characters. Sometimes the western words are translated using katakana.
Those are easier. ( For years i had a little card in my wallet with katakana, written a large japanese scroll on ricepaper, a computer demo and terminal tools)

Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three basic scripts: Kanji — which are Chinese ideographic symbols — as well as Hiragana and Katakana — two phonetic alphabets (syllables). There are a few thousand Kanji characters, while Hiragana and Katakana have 46 each

Katakana chart
ア a イ i ウ u エ e オ o
カ ka キ ki ク ku ケ ke コ ko
サ sa シ shi ス su セ se ソ so
タ ta チ chi ツ tsu テ te ト to
ナ na ニ ni ヌ nu ネ ne ノ no
ハ ha ヒ hi フ fu ヘ he ホ ho
マ ma ミ mi ム mu メ me モ mo
ヤ ya ユ yu ヨ yo
ラ ra リ ri ル ru レ re ロ ro
ワ wa
ン n

So mostly a consonant combined with a vowel.
A dash – for a dubble vowel, and a u can be silent.

My name is ヘンリ

In my mind i use below to identify languages.

  • Indian: Lines with things hanging from it
  • Thai: round stuff with circles
  • Korean: straight lines with circles
  • Chinese: Very busy lines (blocks filled with lines)
  • Japanese: Blocks with lines alternated with simple characters
  • Vietnamese: They borrow chinese characters, rest “western” with dots and ^ ‘ stuff

Spoken language is difficult to explain, but these guys nail it.

Movies, Music, Photography

Movie stabilisation and music suggestions

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Some suggestions/answers for some friends.

Movie stabilisation from action cams:

Mostly I use kdenlive, but if you have an actioncam which also records movement (pan, tilt, zoom, and rotation) use a tool like Gyroflow!
This will use the motion data to correct the movement!

https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Clip_Menu/Stabilize

I’ve tried Davinci Resolve also. But I’m not sure which i’ve used for below movies.

Using blender : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHjdEODrpM
OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982RL4a899g

Me flying a Cessna 172
Arja on the Death Road in Bolivia (8x speed and stabilzed)
Stabilise and speedup movie – Death road Bolivia

If you want even an easier way, upload to YT, stabilise and download you movie. 🙂

Something else, what music to listen to? Any suggestions?

I had to name some (most by heart), I will edit/alter this list.
The folk/pipes artists will be in a next post.

Heavier stuff:
The prodigy, nightwish, in extremo, tanzwut, after forever, faun, gathering, therion, withintemptation

Folky
Trolska polska, dervish, gaelic storm, lunasa, michael mcgoldrick, peatbog faeries, beoga

Jazzy folk
Borne and mcleod, Bees Knees (Hamish moore and dick lee)

Film music
Akira, Vangelis (bladerunner), Kill Bill music (all kinds of sources)

Electro
Junky-xl, Trentemoller, Alt-j, Avcii

Classical
Einaudi, ennio morricone, Paganini,Rondò Veneziano

Easy listening
Aereda, Andreas Vollenweider,Anuna, Clannad, Dead can danve, enya, Era, Lais, kitaro, Moya Brennan,omnia

Blues
BB King

Divers
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Buddha bar, Buena Vista Social Club, Cafe del mar, Mark Knopfler, Easy Alohas

Indie
Kensington, Imagine Dragons, 77 bombay street, Mumford and Sons, Lumineers, Of monsters and men,

Scottish Rock
Runrig

Find other music/genre’s