@masterofthetiger I can't believe they set this "feature" by default. I hurt my ears so many times because of this behavior.

@masterofthetiger Pulse added a "feature" imitating Windows a while ago where they tried to "simplify" the volume levels so that instead of individual programs having their own volume levels, there was "one" volume level

Except even that wasn't really. It ended up really changing it as the volume went up, but when you moved an individual program down, that one program would be quieter, so you might turn up the general volume and be "blasted" by another program.

@masterofthetiger Pulse added a "feature" imitating Windows a while ago where they tried to "simplify" the volume levels so that instead of individual programs having their own volume levels, there was "one" volume level

Except even that wasn't really. It ended up really changing it as the volume went up, but when you moved an individual program down, that one program would be quieter, so you might turn up the general volume and be "blasted" by another program.

The flat-volumes behavior hurt my ears so many damn times until I changed this

Edit ~/.pulse/daemon.conf
Put in the following:

flat-volumes=no

Your ears will thank you

Never forget that there is an Amiga game named Fury of the Furries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_of_the_Furries

@Tryphon It is??? Wow, I didn't realize it.

Ok! I guess it's in the public domain then. Absolutely!

Already interesting is this page on the E website about ocap-safe macros ("double hygiene") http://erights.org/data/irrelevance.html

But on that page is this curious quote:

> Oleg Kiselyov has also pointed out the wonderful/terrible story of the boy that ended up with a police record because he accidentally put an extra pair of parens in a Perl program. This is an example of the kind of accident we hope to make less likely.

Here's that story: https://web.archive.org/web/20050225102046/http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1235/urm0105l/0105l.htm

@Tryphon I think that would still be a copyright violation

@Tryphon But maybe it could play https://opengameart.org/content/cyberpunk-moonlight-sonata which was the other candidate for the Libre Lounge intro music (by the same artist) :)

@Tryphon That would be fun, but I don't think that one is libre :)

This may sound like a huge distraction, but it actually isn't! I need a nice test program to show off how Goblins is useful even in a non-distributed setting, and this could be a nice example.

New goal on my Patreon account: if we hit $500/month I'll release a terminal based space shooter game built on top of the technology I've been building https://www.patreon.com/posts/30434803

We're actually already 75% of the way there. How long to get to the remaining 25%? :)

@alexcleac I'm working on Spritely Goblins, an ocap-secure distributed programming library for Racket, thanks for asking! https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblins