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… Read More »Transcribing A Video’s Audio Using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Ads-B-Gone I’ve been getting some quite obnoxious ads on my phone of late. In the past, I used Pi-hole, which blocks ads on the network… Read More »Pi-hole and WireGuard on LXC for Phone Ad-Blocking
Apparently, there’s something about Mary It’s night. I’m a private detective from Chicago named Joseph, on the hunt for someone named Jim, and I have… Read More »AI Dungeon 2 Is Fun Nonsense
It’s hard to not get excited about space, particularly when there’s something great to be excited about. Today I watched live the takeoff of the… Read More »Liftoff!
Update: Still using this 8 years later, but in the form of a quick script, which is useful if you are doing it more than… Read More »Extract A Single Image From A Video Using FFMPEG
Well, not completely useless. A follow up to my post from a few months ago. — So, by now I have decided to go to… Read More »Spanish Adventure Update: Banks Aren’t Useless After All
There is a very good writeup by Paul Lamere of Music Machinery of how Anonymous subverted a major poll by Time. AKA “moot wins, Time… Read More »How Not To Run a Poll
Since I decommissioned my home server in favour of an NSLU2 (a NAS), I’ve found myself without a Linux machine to much about with or… Read More »Installing Debian on QEMU
There is a good post by bluesky74656 detailing how you you can get a pretty cool representation of the BGP routing mess that took out… Read More »Visualising The YouTube Pakistan Outage
Soup, Soup-a-tasty Soup, soup-a-spicy Carrot and coriander; chili chowder! Crouton, crouton – crunchy friends in a liquid broth I am gaspachio – oh! – I… Read More »Soup Crimp