[X] My Assistant

Yeah, firefox.

I don't need more toys right now, and still haven't finished the power supply for my last one, but eying a Kenwood land mobile dual band getup- 110W on VHF and 100W on UHF.

On the power supply, had a 3U rackmount chassis, mounted 3 smaller linears I got cheap in it, and attached cables to each. Just need to land all the power cables on a terminal block, and connect that to another one for jumpers... Or do something silly with longer screws and spacers, can't get all 3 line voltage sets under one screw. Each supply has 5 taps on the primary to set input voltage. Or I could stop being autistic and just wire it as 120v, and move wires instead of little jumpers around if I ever want to change that for some reason.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Oct 13 2020, 13:48

Why have I never heard of an electric truck?

Why have I never heard of an electric truck?

IDK, because tesla designed one that got memed on for a month or so.

Looks like Linksys finally stopped selling the WRT54GL sometime in the last six months or so. Maybe Broadcom stopped making the chips (or maybe demand finally dried up for new ones).
Last time I looked, they were still charging something like $50-60 for it (pretty sure it was constantly "on sale" in typical US fashion).
(IMG:[www.smbc-comics.com] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1484755454-20170118.png)

It was sometime between April and August of this year, according to [web.archive.org] wayback machine.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 14 2020, 10:23

Don't give laptop full emails and sex tapes to computer repair stores.



Hunter Biden: I am going to do it, and I would do it again.

harfbuzz + pango 1.44 broke Tahoma rendering on my system, too. It used to look pretty nice without antialiasing, but now kerning is completely fucked.

I don't like having to get lots of stuff on my computer, but the virtualdub I had could not just remove an audio track and a subtitle track from a mkv, so had to get back mkvtoolnix.
Well I guess saving 1.8 GB this time, and who know how much other days, is probably worth it.

I don't like having to get lots of stuff on my computer, but the virtualdub I had could not just remove an audio track and a subtitle track from a mkv, so had to get back mkvtoolnix.
Well I guess saving 1.8 GB this time, and who know how much other days, is probably worth it.

CODE

ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -an -sn -vcodec copy stripped.mkv

You're welcome.
If you wanted to keep one audio track and one subtitle track (and drop any additional tracks), something like

CODE

ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 -vcodec copy -acodec copy stripped.mkv

… where streams 0 1 and 2 are what you want to keep. You can see what the streams are with ffprobe or by running 'ffmpeg -i filename.mkv' with no other options.

My fonts.conf workaround for butt-ugly Tahoma rendering in new Pango (not the complete file, just the relevant matches; also note that I turned off antialiasing or MS Sans Serif itself too)

CODE

<!-- substitute another font for MS Sans Serif bold (since it doesn't exist and Harfbuzz/Pango 1.44 broke Tahoma rendering) -->
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family">
      <string>Microsoft Sans Serif</string>
    </test>
    <test name="weight" compare="more">
      <const>medium</const>
    </test>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>DejaVu Sans</string>
      <!-- <string>Tahoma</string> -->
      <!-- <string>Trebuchet MS</string> -->
      <!-- <string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string> -->
    </edit>
    <edit name="weight" mode="assign">
      <const>bold</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <!-- replace 'italic' ms sans serif -->
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family">
      <string>Microsoft Sans Serif</string>
    </test>
    <test name="slant" compare="more"> <!-- only replace if higher slant than roman -->
      <const>roman</const>
    </test>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
      <string>DejaVu Sans</string>
      <!-- <string>Trebuchet MS</string> -->
      <!-- <string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string> -->
    </edit>
  </match>

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 16 2020, 05:33

We have taught AI how to shit post; Humanity has no purpose now.

We have taught AI how to shit post; Humanity has no purpose now.

Just wait until both expert systems and AI uses IoT to get into our lives even more. It's a Brave New World coming right at you with Alexa listening in to see if you speak any "mean racist words" or subversive statements. Interactive gaming slid closer to the cliff edge this October 16th, when Sony said that it would allow Playstation 5 voicechats to be recorded so that players can snitch on people using "mean words". The recordings can be submitted to Sony for moderation review. If statements violate the law, then law enforcement can be contacted. Will XBox do the same or will it allow free speech?

Sony Playstation moved HQ to California:
[www.wsj.com] https://www.wsj.com/video/sony-moves-playst...39C488D1BE.html

Did Sony Playstation get Calified because suddenly we get SJW in our Playstation 5 games:
[summit.news] https://summit.news/2020/10/16/playstation-...for-mean-words/

Alexa

At least when I confronted my mother (in early 60's) about the echo in their house today she seemed uncomfortable, so maybe I got through to her.

I don't know if my dad would go along with getting rid of it though (he's also an apple loyalist so I don't think he cares much as long has he can consume conspicuously).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 17 2020, 23:48

Github has been breaking for the last week or so on Seamonkey (and Pale Moon apparently).

This addon (hosted on github, lol) appears to patch it up:
[github.com] https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfi...eases/tag/1.0.3

To use it in seamonkey, you just have to add its ID to the install.rdf file, but this can be automated as well:
[addonconverter.fotokraina.com] https://addonconverter.fotokraina.com/

Also, fuck webcomponents, as well as anyone who uses them.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 18 2020, 05:42

Github has been breaking for the last week or so on Seamonkey (and Pale Moon apparently).

Damn Microsoft is doing it again? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I remember when they broke GitHub so it doesn't work with Windows XP (to hell with that, Internet content should never meet issues based on an OS, it's stupid)

Yeah, again.

On another note, I wrote a bunch of (ugly, terrible) wrapper scripts for ddcutil today (a tool for controlling monitors via I²C/DDC/CI). Still have a couple more things to implement, like turning off the monitor over DDC/CI so I can do it via SSH from a few feet away when watching movies or whatever on it, but most stuff is done. It's all hardcoded for my monitor, though, and I don't know how universal command ID's are for DDC/CI.
[pastebin.com] The main script
My monitor is a Dell U2412M so I called the script 'u2412m'.

I also made some additional scripts that use that:
Brightness:

CODE

#! /bin/sh
# yo dawg, I heard you like wrappers, so we made a wrapper for your wrapper
# so you can easily set monitor brightness with ddcutil in a hurry from a
# command line.
# usage:
# brightness [+|-] value
# if +|- is given, add or reduce the brightness by increment value.
# Otherwise, just set brightness to 'value'.
if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
  u2412m get Brightness
else
  u2412m set Brightness "$@"
fi

Contrast:

CODE

#! /bin/sh
# usage:
# contrast [+|-] value
# if +|- is given, add or reduce the contrast by increment value.
# Otherwise, just set contrast to 'value'.

if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
  u2412m get Contrast
else
  u2412m set Contrast "$@"
fi

Color temperature (ugly):

CODE

#! /bin/sh
# Adjust color temperature to n degrees kelvin whitepoint using redshift.
if [ "$#" -gt 1 ]; then
  1>&2 echo "Error: I want only one argument: the white point in degrees kelvin."
elif [ "$#" -eq 1 ]; then
  case "$1" in
    '5000'|'6500'|'7500'|'9300'|'10000')
      redshift -x -P # reset redshift, use monitor's settings instead.
      echo 'attempting to use monitor DDC/CI.'
      xgamma -gamma 1.0
      # xgamma -gamma 0.96
      u2412m setcolortemp "$1"' K'
     ;;
    *)
      u2412m setcolortemp '6500K' # reset monitor settings over DDC/CI
      redshift -x -P -O "$1"
      xgamma -gamma 1.0
      # xgamma -gamma 0.96
     ;;
  esac
else
  1>&2 echo "No args given, resetting color temperature."
  redshift -x -P
  u2412m setcolortemp '6500K' # reset monitor settings over DDC/CI
  xgamma -gamma 1.0
  # xgamma -gamma 0.96
fi

Have this brief musing on the nature of sympathetic magic and computers.

Scientific investigation has produced no support for the idea that sympathetic magic applies to the natural world. Nevertheless, the tendency to believe in sympathetic magic has been used to good effect in artificial environments. The Graphical User Interface (GUI), in which a user manipulates a symbolic representation of an underlying structure, resulting in changes to that structure, can be considered a form of artificial sympathetic magic. Few people understand computer software, and even fewer also understand computer hardware, so the workings of a computer might as well be considered magical. Under Clarke's Third Law, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Even seasoned professionals use the term "fancy magic" to describe mysterious aspects of a system, although another word with the same first letter is usually substituted for "fancy". As most ancient and isolated peoples have expressed, the forces of magic can be capricious, arbitrary, mendacious, and cruel. People who use modern software also find this true.
-RationalWiki editors et alia.

Some sites, rather than having their own account system, ask people to use an account from dirty social networks or whatever they are.
Kirai kirai kirai (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Have this brief musing on the nature of sympathetic magic and computers.

I liked it.

"Deep magic" is an old computer jargon term, too, for particularly arcane means of doing things.

Am I the only one here who writes his user styles as userscripts?

I tend to use them to inject CSS just because I don't trust stylish and it's the only old-style XUL styling addon I know of for mozilla, and because it lets me do things more easily for cases where there's no easy CSS selector to find exactly what I want.
Example:

CODE

var t = document.createElement("style");
t.type="text/css";
/* simulate netscape blink, in cyan */
t.innerText = `
h1 {
  animation: blink-animation 1s steps(5, start) infinite;
  -webkit-animation: blink-animation 1s steps(5, start) infinite;
  color: #00ffff;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
@keyframes blink-animation {
  to {
    visibility: hidden;
  }
}
@-webkit-keyframes blink-animation {
  to {
    visibility: hidden;
  }
}
`;
document.head.appendChild(t);

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 23 2020, 06:18

Looking at an old picture of my desk, I've realized it'd be pretty cool to have a PC in a PSX case. It'd have to be too weak to be really useful for me, though, unless I crammed in a 12" laptop board or something.

I'll probably never do it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 26 2020, 03:30

Does anyone else have problems in SDL2 programs where random non-joystick input devices get enumerated as joysticks?

For instance, my power button and keyboard both get enumerated as SDL joysticks, possibly because they are /dev/input/ devices. This means that SDL sees both keyboard inputs and joystick button presses whenever I hit a key. This happens on all my machines.

I just reimaged and checked the logs to make sure it was pulling all the files from the repository. I had to manually go through and find what was missing.

It was some kind of driver / file clash for me. That was on a raspberry pi.