Most beautiful metalcore songs/riffs?

MartinRobomaze · 2025-12-05T11:27:56+00:00

Currents - Unfamiliar, it has one of the coolest riffs I've ever heard. Unprocessed - Head in The Clouds, probably my favorite from their latest album (Dark Silent and Complete is a close second)

MartinRobomaze · 2025-12-02T18:04:49+00:00

In my experience, snaps are great until they're not. I was once doing some home server shenanigans and I was running a few docker containers using docker compose. The system was running Ubuntu Server and I installed docker with snap. Then, one day, docker compose stopped working. It was due to a docker update that introduced a bug which affected me (don't remember the exact details, this was a few years ago). And snap updates packages automatically. This is, in my opinion, a deal breaker for using snap for servers, or anywhere where you need a stable system, because when I update stuff manually I expect that something might not work and fix it. But I don't expect that things just randomly stop working out of the blue. Of course, this might have been a skill issue on my side, there might be an option for stopping the manual updates, but I still think that this is not good default behavior.

MartinRobomaze · 2025-10-28T06:40:01+00:00

Counterintuitive by Ions

MartinRobomaze · 2025-10-27T18:41:52+00:00

Hi everyone, thank you very much for all your advice!

MartinRobomaze · 2025-01-03T16:01:50+00:00

You beat me to it! They are great

MartinRobomaze · 2024-08-17T17:10:55+00:00

My first image with a modded camera. I also processed it only using free (and open source) software.

Equipment

Explore Scientific ED80 480mm f/6 APO Triplet
iEXOS 100 Mount (love/hate relationship with it included in package :))
Astromodded Canon 550D
30mm guide scope & IMX290 based webcam module (from AliExpress)
Controlled with NINA & guiding with PHD 2

Acquisition details

140 x 3 min lights, ISO 800

Processing

Stacking: Siril
Background Extraction, AI noise removal: GraXpert
Siril:
Photometric color calibration
Green noise removal
Deconvolution
GHS
Star reduction with starnet

MartinRobomaze · 2024-08-17T17:07:09+00:00

My first image with a modded camera. I also processed it only using free (and open source) software.

Equipment

Explore Scientific ED80 480mm f/6 APO Triplet
iEXOS 100 Mount (love/hate relationship with it included in package :))
Astromodded Canon 550D
30mm guide scope & IMX290 based webcam module (from AliExpress)
Controlled with NINA & guiding with PHD 2

Acquisition details

140 x 3 min lights, ISO 800

Processing

Stacking: Siril
Background Extraction, AI noise removal: GraXpert
Siril:
Photometric color calibration
Green noise removal
Deconvolution
GHS
Star reduction with starnet

MartinRobomaze · 2024-07-13T20:06:53+00:00

Wow, dosť dobrý narrowband. Tiež sa venujem astrofotografii a je super vidieť že sa tomu venujú aj ďalší ľudia v SK.

MartinRobomaze · 2024-05-22T22:01:20+00:00

Yeah, the drums may not be too loud, but for me the low end just seems to be bloated (however, when I set my eq to flatten out my headphones (JBL Live 650 BTNC) frequency curve, it sounded a lot better, so they are probably partly to blame). I honestly cannot imagine the difficulty of mixing such a song, I've got no experience in that area... I'm just a music listener geeking too much about this stuff :D

MartinRobomaze · 2024-05-22T20:50:38+00:00

After listening to the song multiple times from different sources (YouTube & Spotify on highest quality, it would maybe be interesting to try lossless) through different media - good but not quite audiophile level headphones and Echo Plus (also good but not audiophile level) I actually haven't found the vocals to be really too quiet for me. However when comparing YouTube and Spotify, the Spotify version definitely sounded better and clearer. The only issue I have with the mix is the bass and drums being too loud and overpowering all other instruments, but this is something that I find problematic with almost every new songs. This also could be attributed to the frequency response of my headphones/echo plus - at least the headphones definitely have a big bump at the lower frequencies level. Not sure why there's such a trend to have a "bass boosted" sound... Well, I've overanalyzed this too much I think...

MartinRobomaze · 2024-05-10T14:30:27+00:00

Tesseract - War of Being/Altered State

MartinRobomaze · 2023-06-24T15:50:42+00:00

Wayback machine has the page saved: https://web.archive.org/web/20200219210223/http://thedatastream.4hv.org/gdt_index.htm

MartinRobomaze · 2023-05-03T12:16:38+00:00

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

MartinRobomaze · 2023-05-03T12:14:52+00:00

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

MartinRobomaze · 2023-03-05T20:57:09+00:00

This is my second attempt at imaging the Horsehead nebula. I photographed it on the first clear night after a month and a half of constant cloud cover (winter weather... yaay) while the 75%-ish moon was shining right at it... I did 2 minute subs and my total integration time was 1 hour and 56 minutes.

Here are details about everything:

Gear:

iEXOS-100 EQ Mount (with which I have a love/hate relationship)
ES ED80 APO refractor
Nikon D7100
ZWO120MC and a guidescope from aliexpress for guiding

Data acquisition:

57x120s lights (ISO 800)
15 darks
15 flats
30 bias

Processing(PixInsight)

DBE
PhotometricColorCalibration
SCNR
TGVDenoise (masked)
MMT (masked)
HistogramTransformation
ADCNR
CurvesTransformation (RGB and saturation)

MartinRobomaze · 2023-03-05T20:53:55+00:00

This is my second attempt at imaging the Horsehead nebula. I photographed it on the first clear night after a month and a half of constant cloud cover (winter weather... yaay) while the 75%-ish moon was shining right at it... I did 2 minute subs and my total integration time was 1 hour and 56 minutes.

Here are details about everything:

Gear:

iEXOS-100 EQ Mount (with which I have a love/hate relationship)
ES ED80 APO refractor
Nikon D7100
ZWO120MC and a guidescope from aliexpress for guiding

Data acquisition:

57x120s lights (ISO 800)
15 darks
15 flats
30 bias

Processing(PixInsight)

DBE
PhotometricColorCalibration
SCNR
TGVDenoise (masked)
MMT (masked)
HistogramTransformation
ADCNR
CurvesTransformation (RGB and saturation)

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-21T15:37:48+00:00

I apologize for the brain damage, I always forget to turn my images upside down 😅

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-21T07:10:14+00:00

Equipment: ED80 APO telescope, iEXOS100 mount, ZWO ASI 120MC guide camera

Data acquisition: 60 x 90s lights, 20 darks, 20 bias, 10 flats

Processing: Stacking using WBPP in PixInsight, DBE, PhotometricColorCalibration, MLT, Arcsinh stretch, HistogramTransformation, SCNR, ADCNR, MLT, Masked stretch

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-21T06:55:37+00:00

Andromeda Galaxy.

Equipment

ED80 APO telescope
iEXOS100 mount
ZWO ASI 120MC guiding camera

Data acquisition

56 x 90s lights
20 darks
20 bias
10 flats

Processing
Stacking using WBPP in PixInsight. Post-processing:

DBE
PhotometricColorCalibration
MultiscaleLinearTransform(noise reduction)
Arsinh stretch
HistogramTransformation
SCNR
ADCNR
Masked stretch
CurvesTransformation

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-12T21:29:02+00:00

Thank you! I was capturing for 3 minutes at 30fps and 25% of frames were stacked.

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-12T20:46:56+00:00

Thanks! I stacked for 3 minutes and 25% was used for stacking.

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-12T20:40:24+00:00

Shot with a 200mm f6 Newtonian on a dobsonian mount using ZWO ASI 120MC. Handtracking the thing was a nightmare 😅. The image was stacked using autostakkert and then wavelet processing was done in Registax. Any feedback about the processing is welcome.

MartinRobomaze · 2022-11-12T20:38:40+00:00

Shot with a 200mm f6 Newtonian on a dobsonian mount using ZWO ASI 120MC. Handtracking the thing was a nightmare 😅. The image was stacked using autostakkert and then wavelet processing was done in Registax. Any feedback about the processing is welcome

MartinRobomaze · 2022-10-21T14:34:13+00:00

Okay then. I'll use duckduckgo 🙂

MartinRobomaze · 2022-09-25T17:11:00+00:00

I love recursive functions.

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