BGZq7 · HackerTrans

vor 12 Monatendiscuss

Gajim is unrelated to Gaim. Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though, which still exists.

letztes Jahrdiscuss

I think the issue is those aren't integers, they are ffmpeg expressions evaluating to integers. See e.g. this example from the ffmpeg documentation:

  Draw a 2-pixel red 2.40:1 mask:
  drawbox=x=-t:y=0.5*(ih-iw/2.4)-t:w=iw+t*2:h=iw/2.4+t*2:t=2:c=red

Implementing type checking on this correctly would require something like a DSL.

BGZq7

letztes Jahrdiscuss

This is interesting, and it's good to see something that's actively developed, but it seems to have some of the same issues as ffmpeg-python:

- It doesn't appear to have any way of specifying filters that do not have inputs, such as "color"

- There is no way to provide flags to Popen, e.g. to specify subprocess.CREATE_NO_WINDOW to avoid CMD windows popping up in a GUI app on Windows. This isn't a big deal for running ffmpeg itself, because you can just ffmpeg.compile() then run it manually, but that can't be done for ffprobe with ffmpeg.probe().

Edit: OK, figured out the source filter thing, ffmpeg.sources.color. Is there a way to use arbitrary source filters, like vfilter/afilter can do for regular ones?

BGZq7

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> 2) there's typically no privacy-preserving way to pay

This is exactly my problem. I log into as few services as possible and clear my cookies on browser exit. Of course this is supplemented by ad-blocking and blocking most 3rd-party scripts and cookies to avoid cross-site tracking. I have no way to pay for a service while maintaining that level of privacy.

BGZq7

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

On Debian (and probably most of its derivatives), the package manager will not remove any running PostgreSQL versions and will let you have multiple versions side by side. It also has its own tool pg_upgradecluster, which can perform the upgrade using pg_dump+pg_restore or pg_upgrade (optionally with link or clone options).

BGZq7

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, I definitely miss this in Ruby since it also has optional parens for method calls but lacks sigils. Even the most basic-looking expressions can have arbitrarily complicated meanings:

  foo.bar = 1

Is that just an attribute set on an object, is it calling a method foo that returns an object containing a bar attribute with a normal getter/setter, or is bar= a method that has arbitrary functionality?

I also like the more explicit operators in Perl that help show context:

  $foo + $bar

This is specifically numeric addition and those operands are probably at least somewhat number-like. Yes you can potentially overload it, but by convention, it will still be something like addition, so you don't have to wonder if you are adding, concatenating, appending a list, or something else, because they have different operators.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

dist-upgrade is more likely to break things because it can uninstall packages. So it's sometimes useful to run a plain upgrade first just so there will be fewer packages in the dist-upgrade. This lets you review the dist-upgrade output closer and perhaps decide to cancel it if you need to make some changes before it's safe to run. If you are going to ignore the output or just run with -y, there's no reason to split them.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

You can post to YouTube and also another platform, then on Patreon/Twitter/Facebook/etc always link the other platform instead of YouTube. That way you would still be discoverable on YouTube, but hopefully get some amount of traffic funneled over to the other platform in case YouTube kicks you off.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

They're not really subdomains. If you try to do a whois against e.g. smith.name you'll see it's not a registerable domain. Only the second level can be registered, xxxx.smith.name. Similarly if you had xxxx.co.uk, you own a domain because co.uk isn't registerable. The only quirk about .name is that common names can't be registered at the top level, but uncommon ones can.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

It is also used for group chats, even without images.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

It's one thing to say that mail in voting could potentially have security issues. It's another to say that Democrats plan to light ballots on fire. In order to legitimately claim that with any certainty they would need actual proof of someone developing a plan or expressing an interest in doing so. They clearly don't have that. Maybe "false" or "misinformation" are not accurate enough terms but I think "unsubstantiated fear-mongering" is fair and would have the same effect.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> If they use a reputable bulk mailing service instead of using their first-party domain then they are indistinguishable from a phishing attack.

With most bulk mailing services, the message will come from the "first-party domain". They will have configured that service as a legitimate sender for the domain via SPF/DKIM DNS records.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

To me it looks like it's sorted by company (but not alphabetically), then by job function (also not alphabetically), then by first name alphabetically.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Not sure I completely understand it, but Jenkins is apparently auto-tagging things (maybe every commit that passes tests?). I think their actual releases have "stable" in the tag and release name, so "current" is "stable/jitsi-meet_4384".

4384 matches the latest versions I'm seeing for Ubuntu and Debian at https://jitsi.org/downloads/ under "Jitsi Desktop stable build line". For some reason other OSes seem to be much further behind.

BGZq7

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

But you can host your own and audit the source code. That has to count for something, right?

BGZq7

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

An ova file is just a tarball containing an ovf file and a vmdk file. The ovf file is a text-based configuration format, so you can get a basic idea of the config you'd need for qemu. Then the vmdk can be converted with qemu-img.

I used the following qemu-img command:

    qemu-img convert -O qcow2 archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013-disk001.vmdk archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013-disk001.qcow2

I use the following to run the VM (I gave it some more memory because I have plenty to space):

    qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013-disk001.qcow2

I think they were doing some kind of port forwarding, but I didn't bother, and I just access the web interface using the VM's IP (you can hit alt-right arrow to go to a login prompt and log in as root then run "ip a" to see the IP).

BGZq7

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Keep in mind, the AWS cost is already for a reserved instance. On-demand would cost more.

BGZq7

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Not quite - that is run before your prompt is displayed.

  $ PROMPT_COMMAND='time=$(date +%T)'
  $ echo $time;date +%T
  12:19:07
  12:20:19

Thus it will show the time after your last command returned rather than the current time.

BGZq7

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I can't say I entirely understand how the Elapsed Time Wait works, but testing in qemu, I was able to get it to a good speed by replacing the

  inc cl

with a

  nop
  inc dx

By opening in a hex editor, finding

  bf86 fec1

and replacing with

  bf86 9042

If you're on a very slow system, maybe just use 2 nops or a 2-byte nop.

BGZq7

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

> The first listing is indeed from Amazon.com as the seller. It has the cheapest price at $5.97 with "FREE Shipping" if you have Prime. So I assume that without Prime, there is a cost for shipping.

When I'm not logged in, it shows it has free Prime shipping. When I do log in to my account without Prime, it shows it has free shipping with an order of $49 or more. The only way I can find to see the shipping cost is to add it to my cart and proceed to checkout, which makes it a bit difficult to comparison shop.

> Assuming that that free shipping, unlike Prime, is unconditional, it is worth pointing out that TheHardwareCityCo offers a shipping date from "October 3-12". I'm assuming that you also don't get the return guarantees that you do from Amazon.com.

Amazon also seems to overstate these shipping dates to make Prime shipping look better. Almost every time I have ordered something via a 3rd party like that, it arrives before the earliest date Amazon says it could.

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