The OpenAI logo clenches shut…

I go rummaging through Bandcamp occasionally and might pitch in with some posts once in a while if you start/find one.

Digital Renal Management

…simultaneously rolled out with Digital Rectal Management, of course.

I wonder if anyone has ever passed messages between spacecraft as a peculiar form of delay line memory – or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…

Distilled white vinegar

Been a while since I’ve made deviled eggs, but here’s the ingredients I usually use:

• 6 eggs
• Vinegar, 2 teaspoons
• Dry Mustard, 1/2 teaspoon
• Salt, 1/2 teaspoon
• Worcestershire Sauce, 1 teaspoon
• Mayonnaise, 4 Tablespoons
• Shake on paprika when done

Are you running different versions of the software? (e.g. different versions of ffmpeg, maybe?)

I don’t like Anubis because it requires me to enable JS – making me less secure. reddthat started using go-away recently as an alternative that doesn’t require JS when we were getting hammered by scrapers.

netstat -tp – that’ll show you TCP connections and the associated program, doing a DNS lookup for the IPs they’re connected to. You may need elevated permissions to see what some processes are.

There are a bunch of other options (e.g. -n to get numeric output instead of looking up names, -l to get programs listening for incoming connections, etc); check the man pages for more details.

I just right click on the terminal to change the profile to whatever I feel like it should be in the moment (usually red). I do it by reflex, basically. I never felt the need to try to set up automation for different servers, but I expect there’s probably a way to do that if you really wanted to.

“You love the robot more than me!” 💔️

I (manually) set the background color of my terminals depending on the machine I connect to. I currently have profiles for red, green, blue, and black backgrounds with black as my default. I usually use red for ones I want to be especially careful of.

I’ve been trying to figure out a related sort of video streaming setup for work (without Owncast, but with a similar sort of 24/7 goal plus other considerations) and have been looking into using ffmpeg’s capabilities to output either HLS or DASH segments + manifests. (FFMPEG can do both but I don’t know which would be better for my needs yet.) The sources I’m working with are RTSP/RTP instead of RTMP and I only need streaming to browser clients currently – although it working with VLC naturally by pointing it to the manifest is nice.

HLS and DASH work by having videos split into small chunks that can be downloaded over HTTP, so just replacing the manifest allows for continuous streaming (the client pulls it repeatedly) without the server needing to maintain a continuous connection to the client.(Fan out to CDNs works naturally since the video chunks are just files that can be served by any web server.)

It should be possible to do some creative things by either creating / modifying the manifests myself with scripting or by piping chunks into another instance of ffmpeg from a script. (I’ve done something similar using -f image2pipe in the past, but that was for cases where I need to do things like create a video from an image gallery dynamically.) That’s as far as I’ve gotten with it myself though.

I don’t know what the right answer is either, but I’m also interested in finding out and hopeful you get additional responses.

Heliocentric orbit like this:

More info:

• Wikipedia article
• Media page on Wikipedia

There’s some notable differences with numbering – e.g. lakh, crore, and where to put commas when writing large numbers.