gourlaysama
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Comment · 3 months ago
No, this only removes parsing CELT inside an ogg container (because CELT itself is going away), not support for ogg itself.
Comment · 6 months ago
> Talk about the war on Christmas!
Not just a war on Christmas, but an actual war too: this led to a whole bunch of Christmas riots throughout England, including Canterbury's famous "Plum pudding Riots", where rioters ended up sacking the mayor's house and taking over control of the city for weeks. The whole of Kent ended up revolting after the rioters' trial, essentially starting the Second English Civil War.
Comment · 7 months ago
And things get even crazier in Part 2 [1].
[1]: https://www.filfre.net/2026/03/the-mystery-of-rennes-le-chat...
Comment · 1 year ago
Putting API contracts aside, the problem is also that people use a package manager as if it was a code snippet manager.
As in, "how do I check if a string starts with a shebang" should result in some code being pasted in your editor, not in a new dependency. There is obviously a complexity threshold where the dependency becomes the better choice, but wherever it is it should be way higher than this.
Comment · 1 year ago
The app in the Google Store is no longer maintained, hence the warning.
It is however available in F-droid [1], and the newer versions don't need the secondary app and do everything internally.
Comment · 4 years ago
There are GUIs based on mpv that provide a user-friendly interface and just use mpv for playback, see Celluloid [0].
Comment · 4 years ago
See the Linux documentation's "How the development process works" [0].
The way a changeset goes from a developer's machine to the root is reasonably similar (it usually gets pulled through a number a intermediate trees, from a development tree to a sub-subsystem tree to a major subsystem tree to Linus's tree), riding the train from the bottom to the top, with an additional time constraint on it (the merge window being open).
The kernel also has a "next" tree that is a snapshot of what the kernel would look like with incoming changes merged right now, surfacing early the exact long-distance coordination issues described in the article. Plus, of course, everything is in the open, so maintainers of different subsystem can then coordinate directly on things that impact both sides, even if the required patches will if possible make their way up separately.
[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/2.Process.htm...
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, it works the same.
Since mpv 0.34 it even looks for yt-dlp first, and fallback to youtube-dl otherwise. Before that you had to set an option, or just symlink youtube-dl to yt-dlp.
Comment · 5 years ago
Unicode has both MICRO SIGN (U+00B5) and GREEK SMALL LETTER MU (U+03BC). The former is the one on (most) people's keyboard, and it shouldn't be used to type actual Greek.
Comment · 5 years ago
> FWIW this is literally the first time I’ve encountered someone claiming that it isn’t science fiction.
Well, there's Science Fantasy [1]: Jedi and the Force are very much Wizards and Magic.
I've heard it called Space Fantasy, too.
[1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceFantasy
Comment · 5 years ago
There is a new mount syscall in Linux 5.12, see "ID remapping in mounts" [1], that should help with all the permission madness, eventually.
It allows different mounts to expose the same content with different ownership, and in general to map permissions IDs between mounts in any way we like.
systemd-homed wll use that to abstract over the uids and gids of portable home directories, for example.
Comment · 5 years ago
On Firefox you can go to `about:processes`.
It lists tabs by process, and includes the PID (on Linux; no idea about other platforms). You can also directly kill tabs and processes from there.
Comment · 5 years ago
To be fair, this is more a Rust Syntax Reference Sheet than any kind of cheat-sheet. It basically has everything.
It's useful to quickly lookup the syntax for something you never use, for example. Or to browse and discover things you didn't know were even possible.
Comment · 6 years ago
That reminds me of the two anti-tanks fortresses disguised as houses as part of the Toblerone line [1]. Those two were the only ones visible from the road by people (i.e. tourists), so they made them a bit less scary.
The Tim Traveller did a wonderful video on those a few months ago [2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toblerone_line
[2][video]: https://youtu.be/tPL9-L2gwzo