Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@lynne@pars.ee Nice, thanks!

@lynne@pars.ee I'm not sure what "keep the HDR" means, but for my immediate needs I've got ~150 GB of 4k HDR videos synced between my phone and my computer.

I think that for the purposes of viewing on a phone or computer screen, I could downsample to 1080p or 720p and possibly a higher compression ratio to cut the space requirements down by like 75% and free up over 100GB of space.

I'm thinking of setting up a pipeline where the high quality videos go onto my local server, which then transcodes them and dumps them into a folder that gets synced back to the phone, so the originals live on my server and I still have effectively perceptually equivalent videos on my devices. The biggest sticking point has been this washing out of colors.

As long as removing the HDR gives me something that's in the right ballpark, I think I'll be happy.

@lynne@pars.ee Likely. I have the "HDR10+ video" option on in my camera.

Any one familiar with #ffmpeg want to take a crack at this question?

https://superuser.com/q/1613217/205461

Given how long it's gone without any bites, I'm guessing the answer is going to be "it's complicated/impossible" or something, but it *seems* like it really should be possible.

Maybe @lynne@pars.ee knows?

@2ck Debian / Ubuntu's packaging strategy is a major source of reputational damage to Python and the PyPA, unfortunately: https://gist.github.com/tiran/2dec9e03c6f901814f6d1e8dad09528e

They do all kinds of non-standard and unsupported things, then people complain upstream and get the impression that Python is more unstable / fragile than it is 🙁

There is a new upstream tzdata release (2020f), but it makes no changes to the data, and the only thing likely to be affected by updating the PyPI package is the version number, so don't panic if we skip this one!

@freemo What is propaganda about this?

Seems like a slightly less accurate framing here, but still good enough for a crayon sketch.

FWIW, prior to this latest pandemic, I've almost exclusively heard of "herd immunity" in the context of vaccination. When it happens naturally, I think people generally talk about "self-limiting epidemics" or something of that nature.

@shironeko This doesn't quite work for me. It breaks the flow of the image and generally it can't capture what's actually happening on my son's face.

The look on my son's face in the original of this photo: https://qoto.org/@pganssle/105362195576735145

Is priceless, and isn't well-captured by emoji ☹

I ask because I'd like to post photos of my family on various platforms but I am not yet comfortable with the idea of posting my son's face in public or semi-public settings.

I'd love to keep the essence of the photos without necessarily posting his face, though...

Does anyone know if there exists a program that I can run locally on a Linux computer that will take a photo and replace a specified face with another face with the same expression?

Seems like it should be possible with deepfakes / animoji type stuff.

BTW, some relevant context for those outside of Hyderabad who are going to watch this talk, this is what Google Image Search says Hyderabadi haleem looks like:

The video from my PyConf Hyderabad 2020 keynote, "The Stable Interface Paradox" is now available!

https://youtu.be/aRqulQUgiIA

I had a lot of fun with this, I think it's the first time I've actually felt compelled to take a selfie to commemorate a talk:

And also, if you know any Russian legislators, my perennial recommendation here is to show them this: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/

It would be shocking if changing the time zone with less than a week's notice did not result in a bunch of easily avoidable problems.

New release of the tzdata PyPI package today (2020e). The most pressing issue in this one is a change to the time zone in Volvograd reflecting a time zone change taking place on December 27th (<48 hours from now!).

Also make sure to update your system packages!

10 minutes into assembling a toy for the boy, almost done with step 4! ...of 33... 😅

I have broadly similar concerns about the media to
@bryan_caplan
's: https://econlib.org/the-sense-in-which-i-dont-trust-the-media/

Does anyone have any suggestions for sources of news that actively attempt to be anti-sensational, for those who just want a general idea of what everyone is talking about?

I'll note that I personally try to avoid "the news", but enough leaks through my filters that I end up seeming somewhat well-informed about the discourse of the day.

I know other people who won't absorb the "current events" zeitgeist peripherally who would benefit from some simple sites that gives you a broad overview of the stuff people are talking about.

@ryanprior Awesome, will look into it and get back to you.

I'm hoping that PEP 643 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0643/) will somewhat help make it easier to generate cross-platform lock files.

Big snowstorm coming. If I don't make it, just know that I died doing what I loved: drinking grain alcohol on a stolen snowmobile.