machrider

Appreciate this, I was feeling the same way as the original comment. It looks maybe over-sharpened, but I don't see anything as glaring as the text of the article makes it sound! (Of course, I'm not a video codec developer.)

It does remind me of how stereo & speaker manufacturers sometimes boost treble a little bit (rather than being perfectly "transparent" to the original signal) because it gives the impression of clarity. But ideally each step in the processing chain "colors" the signal as little as possible, because those little differences can add up.

One thing I've worried about with self-hosting small (or smol) services is that I'm responsible for securing them against attackers. Even if my circle is 15 people using a particular service, potentially thousands of malicious actors will be poking at it over the months and years I'm running it.

I'm a big fan of self-hosting, especially things that I can run inside my home with no internet-facing ports. But anything that will be outward facing has to be sandboxed from everything else, kept up to date, and monitored for intrusions. It can be daunting unless you definitely have time to stay on top of it. I'm curious if any self-hosters have thoughts about this.

This is exactly like that time on TNG they used random phaser settings to get a single shot on a Borg drone before they blocked it

I guess the thing about dragons was true; it's not mentioned in this list.

I'm liking vimwiki, for what it's worth. It feels like a pretty small set of changes to vim that make the wiki stuff "just work", and otherwise it's my regular ass plaintext world that I love.

I'm running Jellyfin on a recent Intel-based Synology (they also have cheaper ARM CPU models), and it can transcode H.265->H.264 on the fly using about 50% CPU. It also runs in a Docker container so it's pretty easy to manage. I'm a big fan!

I just tried the camera app with a QR code (on a Pixel 5) and nothing happened.

It's funny how the end user isn't even in the list.

I was really amused by this. Also if you try to visit over HTTPS, it serves up an expired certificate.

The Higgs boson was expected though, while this claimed boson is not predicted by the model at all?

Do you think he would notice if the test machine downloaded a ~100MB file from the web?

The cost of living is about to skyrocket in Seattle, if I had to guess.