(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

Firefox vs Brave: Brave is based on Chrome , and has some powerful hype right now. But what else ?

@trinsec Nice recommendation on HandBrake!

Yes, I believe that RecordMyDesktop compression (or is it ogv?) does factor in identical portions of frames and generalize them, like any good text compression algorithm does.

I've also been told that OBS might have some perks for me here, so when I finish this batch I'll give OBS and HandBrake a try

A great idea, and a nicely done April 1st
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RT @BrendanEich
A friend’s startup did a privacy-preserving voice assistant w/ on-device ML including CV. Partner built nice prototype I saw at CES before startup exited to a Big (partner didn’t go to market).

We get asked“when is Brave doing Alexa or Echo private alternative?” It could happen. https://twitter.com/brave/status/1509879510639947782
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1509964193839026176

@trinsec Now I'm getting nervous. I haven't started yet. However, I think the fact that for chunks of the movie two of the monitors don't change is reflected in the compression rate there. The actual files, once it's done encoding, are about a ninth the size.

@trinsec To keep it in one video, yes. In post-processing in kdenlive I will focus on one or two as necessary, but the work I'm demonstrating does shift between all three

In our #Clojure meeting today we demonstrated and discussed nil/null as the dirty boolean value, especially baked in to SQL. If your boolean allows null, it is actually a trilean. But we have a stakeholder who wants "null" to indicate "you haven't filled this in yet; look here!" It's when the dirty booleans sneak up on you that you really need to watch out. And yes, we did discuss the optional third arg of #Clojure getter functions, for when your business logic needs to know whether its NOT THERE vs when its just FALSEY.

It wasn't THAT long of a recording, but with RecondMyDesktop and three monitors, that's almost 300gb. No wonder it takes AGES to encode these things.

Oh yeah. April 1st, remember?

A call for an app-less world. This should me comfortable for #mastodon users: open source, shared protocols. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaudUum06E

Our governing super-organization (University) has recently grown a liking to changing tech on which we've relied for over a decade: email filters, VPNs, DNS routing systems... resulting in feature loss and breakage with no alternatives provided, and apparently no user testing.

days where the LOC written is negative are good days
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RT @lisperati
It's amazing how much you can simplify some computer programs by just looking at every line and asking: "If I took this line out of the program, would the program still work? What would it take to alter the program somehow so that I COULD remove this line and still have it work?"
https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1508953596964089859

Why does this trick work? I don't fully know. But I use it to recover from lost screens every day (5+ times just today, in fact). https://orys.us/ul #exwm #xwindow

Nice #humor
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RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R
the linux world is in tatters now https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/tqtuys
https://twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0R/status/1508730709489471489