Nostr notes by Mistress Remilia

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2026-10-25T19:42:41Z

I had both on-hand, so...

2026-10-16T21:39:34Z

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I had both on-hand, so...

Nah, I bribed it ahead of time so that it wouldn't.

2026-10-16T21:07:03Z

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Nah, I bribed it ahead of time so that it wouldn't.

Full image of me that my old avatar came from if anyone is ...

2026-10-16T21:01:42Z

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Full image of me that my old avatar came from if anyone is curious.

And here's a link to the full version of my current one: https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=10685930

There we go, artwork from s_vileblood like I usually use.

2026-10-16T20:52:18Z

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There we go, artwork from s_vileblood like I usually use.

Think I'll switch my avatar from a picture of me back to a ...

2026-10-16T20:38:30Z

Think I'll switch my avatar from a picture of me back to a picture of Remilia. Been a while and I kinda miss having a Remi avatar to go with my name.

Was a2x the package name that you needed after all? If so, ...

2026-08-31T08:19:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…efqg
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Was a2x the package name that you needed after all? If so, I'll mention that in my documentation :happyremi:

Also, there is no 0.1.0 yet. It's v0.0.4.

2026-08-31T01:03:02Z

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Also, there is no 0.1.0 yet. It's v0.0.4.

Maybe a2x is a separate package in your distro? It comes with ...

2026-08-31T01:01:22Z

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Maybe a2x is a separate package in your distro? It comes with asciidoc on some, but it might be separate.

All updated: ...

2026-08-31T00:45:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…n8se
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All updated: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/wiki?name=Building+Aika

I discovered the bit about FPC and CPU architectures just last night 😅

Thank you! tl;dr: Either for now will work. I'd recommend ...

2026-08-30T20:19:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…kdg3
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Thank you!

tl;dr: Either for now will work. I'd recommend Benben if you need more VGM support, want to use certain foramts (.xspf, .jspf, .sid, MIDI, music out of Doom WAD files), or if you want an AppImage. Otherwise, I'd recommend Aika.

For a comparison table: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/wiki?name=Relationship%20to%20Benben

Longer answer:

Benben still supports more stuff at the moment: playlists, MIDI, C64 SID files, WAV and Au playback, Doom WAD files, more comprehensive VGM support, XSPF/JSPF playlists, remote control... So if you want any of those features, stick with Benben. Also stick with Benben if you want to quickly convert to WAV or Au, 'cause that is not in Aika's future.

At the moment, Benben also has a working reverb and stereo expander effect. Aika does not yet have these. Howerver, Aika v0.1.0 will support an equal loudness curve effect, which Benben will not have.

However, Aika will eventually support all the same formats. It already supports most of them (mp3, FLAC, Opus, Vorbis, WavPack, QOA, XQAF, and some VGMs). It also uses a fraction of the RAM, is *much* easier to build from source, can be extended with plugins, and is slightly faster. But, it's not possible to distribute Aika as an AppImage, so you're stuck compiling it from source unless you're on Haiku. But, if you just play MP3s or FLACs or whatever, Aika will probably give you a nicer experience.

Benben will also eventually become just a tool to convert to WAV/Au once Aika meets or surpasses all of its features. So keep that in mind. But that'll take quite a while.

Aika is in HaikuPorts now! :happyremi: So you should be able to ...

2026-08-28T22:04:31Z

Aika is in HaikuPorts now! :happyremi: So you should be able to find it in HaikuDepot now. It's version v0.0.4, which I just released yesterday (it's a very small release to fix an issue with the default skin in v0.0.3).

HaikuPorts is not the only way to get Aika in #HaikuOS . You can also download it and compile from source, make your own package with `rake package`, or download one of my own pre-built .hpkg files. And of course it works on Linux, too. Links below.

v0.0.4 release, along with my own .hpkg: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/technote/374d8b56230213ae29e3831cf6d58906b5158aa4

The older v0.0.3 release, which mainly added a bunch of VGM chips to the VGM plugin: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/technote?name=859ee08fde4e919389d65e2de04a5833aef417fc

Now to do v0.1.0 proper :happyremi:

#HaikuOS #Aika

Oh, I almost forgot... Aika v0.0.2 is now out :D ...

2026-08-05T09:05:28Z

Oh, I almost forgot... Aika v0.0.2 is now out :D https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/technote?name=4e8853635bf0b47f25b6c17a9621fa56fc04aea4

Aside from a host of fixes, here is a partial list of new things in it:

* New: Add Opus support.
* New: Add a proper help screen (hit 'h' to show it, 'c' to close it).
* New: Add "stop after finish" functionality (toggle with 'S' at runtime).
* New: Add playlist repeating (toggle with 'R' at runtime).
* New: Display the elapsed time in terms of tracks and total playqueue time at the bottom of the play queue.
* New: Add the --theme and --list-themes command line arguments.
* Bunch of new themes!
* Official SlackBuild for #slackware (see the release page for the link)

There's a #Haiku package on the release page as well. I'm going to see about getting it added to HaikuPorts tonight or tomorrow as well so that a user of #HaikuOs can easily install it from the HaikuDepot.

#aika #LinuxAudio #tui

Aika v0.0.1: ...

2026-07-22T23:20:01Z

Aika v0.0.1: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/technote?name=e9ed914ac227e5d1fda225e690e24c88e5f06ee4

Build instructions: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/wiki?name=Building+Aika

I don't touch Flatpaks at all, but a Gimp Flatpak using the ...

2026-06-20T21:23:42Z

I don't touch Flatpaks at all, but a Gimp Flatpak using the Motif toolkit? Nice to see someone still gives us decent UIs ^_^

I wonder if I should find an online or local philosophy course... ...

2026-05-03T22:03:40Z

I wonder if I should find an online or local philosophy course... I sure get interested in it often enough.

I was intending this to be a blog post, but I guess it'll be ...

2026-04-10T14:30:51Z

I was intending this to be a blog post, but I guess it'll be a long Fedi post instead since I have a large char limit on my instance :-P Time to explain what I've been doing lately!

Basic, new music player: "Aika". I've named it after the character in Agent Aika because I like that anime and I'm just a lewd girl like that. If you know me well, you should not be surprised. Ask me who my Reika program is named after sometime...

Anyway, Aika is **NOT** a replacement for #Benben (that ain't going away, I love it too much). I gotta emphasize that. Benben will continue. Aika is simply another option for people. This one is special in that the UI is entirely based around #ZeroMQ sockets. So imagine having a local player, running like you see here, but then you can securely connect additional "Remote UIs" to it over a network. These can just connect/disconnect whenever you need, however many you want, and Aika will just keep doing its thing. Kinda like MPD, but easier to use, and you always have a local interface like you see here, never just an invisible process in the background. I call these "Remote UIs". Extremely useful for someone like me who goes around the house to multiple computers while wearing Bluetooth headphones... but it could technically also stream the audio over the network in the future, too. Anyway, I call this ZeroMQ UI stuff the "Remote UI Protocol", and it's Aika's main special thing.

Also, unlike Benben, this one will allow you to add and remove files while it's running through a built-in file browser. So whereas Benben was designed to be like a super sexy version of mpg123 from the start, Aika will be more like a terminal version of Audacious. Sorta. It'll still have its own feel.

Oh, and Aika uses plugins so that support for audio formats, playlist formats, backends, etc. can be changed without changing Aika itself (herself?). So that's another difference. They're just .so files.

The video here just shows a **temporary UI** that I'm using while I build out the Remote UI Protocol and get things working. It'll look different and more complete in time. This UI here is not yet a true Remote UI, it's entirely local and built into Aika (the "Local UI"), but it _is_ using the Remote UI Protocol over ZeroMQ internally while I design it. Once I have that protocol finished and implemented, I'll convert this Local UI to not use ZeroMQ for some things (for latency reasons), then implement a true example Remote UI that mimics Benben's interface and can run on an entirely separate machine (even across the world if you want).

Lastly, Aika is written in Object #Pascal, not #CommonLisp. So whereas Benben has a 106mb binary (uncompressed, give or take), Aika currently has a 900kb binary. Whereas Benben uses 133 mb of RAM at runtime to play the Quake 2 soundtrack in FLAC format, Aika currently uses 5mb. Also, Aika has been using about half to one quarter less CPU than Benben so far.

It'll be quite a while until Aika is ready for a v0.1.0 release, but I've got the beginnings going on here. The code will be a bit messy at first until the protocol designs solidify, the UI is very incomplete, there's no resampling yet, and it crashes/deadlocks sometimes... but it's at least able to play albums in FLAC format right now :happyremi: https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/

As for Benben.. I blasted through the milestones for v1.0.0 a lot quicker than I expected, so expect it out sooner than later. Maybe mid summer.

EDIT: Oh, and Aika is specifically targeting any POSIX-compatible OS. I'm actually testing things fairly regularly on #Haiku to ensure it works there in particular.

Does finding the fish on the thumbnail count? :blobcatgiggle:

2025-12-29T20:58:54Z

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Does finding the fish on the thumbnail count? :blobcatgiggle:

my cat may have stolen them

2025-12-25T00:04:50Z

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my cat may have stolen them

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2025-12-24T21:09:30Z

Someone should make low-budget full-80s-stereotype movie ...

2025-12-14T13:47:44Z

Someone should make low-budget full-80s-stereotype movie adaptation of Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja. And the tagline should be, "Only a Bad Dude can stop bad dudes."

New version of my TUI music player Benben is up! Version 0.7.1 is ...

2025-11-06T07:45:15Z

New version of my TUI music player Benben is up! Version 0.7.1 is just a small update that brings just a few small fixes and changes, and also adds support for IMA ADPCM encoded .wav files.

Linux x86-64 AppImage and source code:
https://chiselapp.com/user/MistressRemilia/repository/benben/technote?name=b51812d3d4592e916bb390ea96940cbbff86d157

Don't forget to check out the skins/themes area as well, as it was updated not long ago: https://chiselapp.com/user/MistressRemilia/repository/benben/dir?ci=tip&name=themes

#benben #CommonLisp #LinuxAudio #AppImage

How you can tell I'm building a new kernel with `-j72`. Yay ...

2025-09-10T07:12:50Z

How you can tell I'm building a new kernel with `-j72`. Yay icecream :D

the primary room address. We could not set it to matrix.org, only ...

2025-08-29T23:18:14Z

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the primary room address. We could not set it to matrix.org, only nanako.mooo.com, which is undesirable. An alias was also undesirable. We've had `#slackware:matrix.org` since the beginning.

yeah I know how the rooms work, but having the public address ...

2025-08-29T23:08:35Z

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yeah I know how the rooms work, but having the public address change to my homeserver was very unexpected and definitely not desired. We sidegraded the room to fix it, causing our users a headache by having to jump rooms twice. Having my homeserver in the history chain is also not exactly desirable.

That rooms have "versions" sure is a trip. A bad trip.

Well fuck. If a room in #Matrix is on Homeserver A, and an admin ...

2025-08-28T01:56:26Z

Well fuck. If a room in #Matrix is on Homeserver A, and an admin on Homeserver B runs /upgraderoom, then the room is moved to Homeserver B. It does not stay on Homeserver A.

I uhh... do not want the unofficial Slackware matrix server on my homeserver.

Edit: omfg sidegrading it does not move it back

EDIT EDIT: FINALLY

There's an account for GrapheneOS there that has the verified ...

2025-07-19T09:39:51Z

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There's an account for GrapheneOS there that has the verified checkmark next to its webpage and Github URLs (like they had a link back to it)... but those pages don't link back to "mastodon.arell.ai" at all o.o It looks like it also copied some of the legit posts on the _real_ account for GrapheneOS so that it looks even more authentic.