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I don’t know if this is still the case, but before Wayland came along, colord was the service that applied ICC profiles to a display. I’m not sure it still works on Wayland though. I feel like DisplayCal should be able to disable it, but you can too: sudo systemctl stop colord

That’s when you have to scrape off the excess with a trowel.

If you need a GUI, Audacity is a popular audio editor that has many features, one of which is normalizing levels. If you need to automate via CLI, ffmpeg is probably the tool for the job, as others have mentioned.

Fuck you, Jennifer B. Johnston.

This is a good read and makes a lot of great points. I think everyone in tech needs to understand the arguments here. The biggest thing for me is that LLMs are incredibly useful tools, but not in the way they are advertised. They are great for learning how existing code works, but shit at writing anything novel or innovative. From the article: The past is a prison when you’re inventing the future. In my opinion, if you’re using LLMs to do anything but help you learn from the past, you’re doing it wrong. LLMs cannot move you forward, and I think that may be the point.