tech and other interesting stuff
Pass me the yellow highlighter I have talked about how Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE) is pretty useful for editing conference videos (for example) compared to how it used it to be. As an aside, I seem to remember audio desynchronisation was a particularly problematic issue, the workaround being, essentially, don’t make videos with audio […]
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blOenBdeSr Virtual conferences are popular, but many request a pre-prepared video to explain a paper or a poster. Many conferences suggest using Zoom as means of putting together a short video to explain research. This is acceptable, but with a little bit of setup OBS can produce videos which are better quality and give the […]
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Note: I write this from the perspective of an awk beginner, which I am! This is a pretty basic example, and I make some simplifications for the purposes of understanding. For further reading, see eg Awk A tutorial and Introduction, and the GNU Awk Manual. Context: I wrote a script to go through a file […]
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Navigating a series of pitfalls Background: I created a highlights video recently for the monthly subscriber crown that I run. I figured the highlights video itself was worth posting, but I like to have the speech captioned. I’ve previously written a small script to generate the appropriate transparent PNGs for overlaying, but that was for […]
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check your whitespace A while back I beefed up vim with some plugins, mostly around python programming and one for ledger, or my case the excellent hledger entry. This is all great until something starts conflicting or stops working. For some reason — system update, plugin update, phase of moon changed — I started seeing […]
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tl;dr: read the compile guide, and set a PREFIX and / or LD_LIBRARY_PATH I did something I don’t normally do and compiled ffmpeg today, since the ffmpeg-user mailing list requires/strongly prefers/only supports current git head. I was doing this as I had some broken AVI files and wondered if they were salvageable: Since it’s been […]
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FoxCam not fully operational Over the last few weeks a family of foxes has been visiting my garden. A friend kindly lent me their Dohiker trail camera. You can see example output above (or here if embeds are disabled). I was interested to see what exactly they were doing in the garden- I’ve seen them […]
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Walking before I run I’m a relative beginner in Blender, having dabbled in the past with different things. I’ve used it to do bits and pieces, like stinger transitions. Having seen a decent simple ‘BRB’ screen on AliMackScot’s stream (Twitch link), so I figured I’d whip up one of my own. Blender is really powerful. […]
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tl;dr: use the userscript I modified to show preview images (or the original by ItsCinnabar) Recently, YouTube and Google have been showing modal cookie consent agreement forms when not logged on. This is slightly irksome if you don’t like browsing logged in to YT/Google. It has another effect: it breaks URL previews in Element, the […]
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tl;dr: use matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, you might be most interested in reading about the traefik aspect What’s All This About? I like Matrix for messaging / group chats. I like an open ecosystem, which gives people the choice of running their own services. Browsing the list of bridges listed on matrix.org (a bridge connects another service — […]
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