tech and other interesting stuff
But the date is valid! tl;dr: you can grab the ISRG Root X1 cert, then import and trust that in Keychain Access I have an old laptop that I don’t use terribly often. With the expiry of DST Root CA X3, I ran into connection issues with websites using LE- quite a few, including my […]
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Toddling along After setting up my TIG (Telegraf-InfluxDB2-Grafana) stack, there were a few tweaks I had to make to get things up and going. My goal was to do something simple to get started – get a graph of Matrix homeserver pings, like JMG has: Pretty simple, in theory. Telegraf I set up the ping […]
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The inodes have it When setting up the TIG stack, I saw that Telegraf has an option to reload its configuration from telegraf.conf, which it does on receiving a SIGHUP signal. Since in Docker, it gets pid 1, reloading config is easy: docker exec -it telegraf /bin/kill -HUP 1 Which worked well. At least until […]
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One of many There are umpteen “set this up” posts out there, so this falls squarely under the dual banners of “what I did” (to remind myself in case I need to set it up again, or describe to someone else), and “why I did it” (also to remind myself). aka tl;dr: this is how […]
Continue ReadingToo advanced tl;dr: if you have issues and can’t update, you can install the libffi7 package as a temporary workaround After a recent Arch update, python packages / applications using ctypes, such as yt-dlp, were throwing an error: ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory or more fully: (you may […]
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From ‘one-off’ to ‘actually I need to do this again…’ Context My often-talked-about video workflow has a bunch of useful features. For example, if I’ve uploaded a video to YouTube via the web interface (usually on a headless machine via xpra) I have a script which will grab the video id so that the metadata […]
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Poking and prodding at the Windows API Background There is an issue with cursors being rendered offset for DPI-scaled windows in OBS, illustrated in this video clip: I’ve been looking into this as it was suggested that my proposed fix of letting the user specify an offset amount was more of a workaround of the […]
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How do you spell ‘DPI’ ? Summary I was able to find a good place in OBS’ code to fix the issue, but it doesn’t seem likely that the PR will be accepted in its current form. Background & Part 1 There’s a general overview here: As you can see from what I previously wrote […]
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Capture, scaling and output, oh my! Background OBS, the excellent media recording/streaming software has a slightly annoying behaviour for me. The cursor in the output is not shown at the same place as in the input- it’s offset., further down and further right than it should be. This gets worse the further away from the […]
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Pixels all the way down Editor’s, who is also me, note: This was meant to be a somewhat organised overview of how xpra handles pixels, based on the dive into the source code I’ve done over the last day or so. Explaining things makes you lay things out logically, and helps one’s own understanding. However, […]
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