I am not sure if anyone's experiencing this. I'm using Handbrake from a flatpak. I am recoding a whole TV show's season. So, episodes from S01E01 to E15. In the Handbrake app and queue, it really picked the 15 of them. However, when I start to process the queue...It starts by encoding ep 15? At least S01E15 the file it starts...
A tip that might help: For audio and subtitles, try using Track Selection settings instead of Track List settings, and once you have all your choices selected, save them as a preset. Then when queuing episodes, choose that preset.
Also, consider doing a test run on part of a single episode before queuing up a batch. (Choose a time range of just a minute, for example.) That way you can check the result quickly, and adjust if necessary, before committing to the whole job.
Finally, I recommend using Add To Queue for each episode, then Start once they're all queued.
I’m just pointing out some specifics of the prerequisites,
Yes, that's fair.
which the article did a pretty bad job of highlighting imo, and how this is not the miraculous solution it’s somewhat touted to be.
It would also be fair to acknowledge that hackaday is not touting miracles, but simply knows their audience. One would have to be very new to hardware hacks like this to be unaware that preconditions almost always exist. Older firmware is one of the most common preconditions.
I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...
In general, if something is possible to exploit, some companies will exploit it.
Figuring out which ones do can be difficult-to-impossible, since that information is not usually available to the public, or in many cases even to most employees. Unless a whistleblower steps forward, the best we can do is guess, and take whatever precautions we feel are worthwhile.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able...
Are you talking about selecting multiple unconnected sections of text, so that they are highlighted at the same time? I think that's a Firefox feature.
Or are you talking about selecting something and then something else, so that only the last thing is highlighted, and finding both selections listed as separate items in KDE's clipboard manager?
Sure, but that’s unlikely, given the wording. “Owner of the software” is fairly clear
The article's text said, "Winamp will remain the owner of the software". That does not, in fact, preclude giving it a FOSS license, nor does retaining a related trademark. GP was correct. They can make it FOSS and keep the trademark and copyright. I don't see any reason to think it unlikely.
The creator doesn’t “surrender” their copyright, but someone can fork it and then have ownership of their version
Forking someone's copyrighted work does not change ownership of the rights in any jurisdiction that I know of. If you meant "ownership" in a difference sense, like maybe control over a derivative project's direction, then I think choosing a different word would have made your meaning more clear.
I’ve been thinking of OSS and source available as interchangeable.
Nope; they are distinct terms. Source-available is just a general way of saying that the source code can be (legally) acquired. It doesn't meet the standards of open-source software (OSS) or Free Software, both of which guarantee certain rights and freedoms, such as permission to make and redistribute changes to the source code.
It's understandable that it might be confusing, though, since some people use the terms casually without understanding that they have specific meanings, and since both phrases use English words that could be interpreted to mean something else. (For example, "free software" doesn't mean software whose price is zero, and "open-source software" doesn't mean software whose source code is published in the open.)
Edit to add: Like many English words, the context in which they are used affects their meaning. The field of software is such a context.
But now it kind of seems to me that free software is interchangeable with open source software. Is it just a matter of branding?
The two overlap, but are not exactly the same. The umbrella term FOSS evolved to encompass both, because there is so much overlap between them that having such a term is often useful.
So I've come to the point where I've wanted some to see some features on the software I regularly use and I feel confident enough that I can pull it off. However, once I start getting into it, it all becomes so overwhelming that it's hard to get anything done....
Most of what comes to mind has already been said by others, but I want to add one thing...
the overall code seems so convoluted to me that I don’t even know where to start to analyze a solution, even though if it’d probably take ten lines to implement.
One of the most important things to understand about software development is that (outside of small hobby projects) the vast majority of the work is not writing code. Most of the hours will be spent on a combination of other tasks, including:
Understanding the desired behavior
Understanding what has been tried before
Understanding what has and hasn't worked well in past attempts
Considering unexpected ways in which the software might legitimately be used
Imagining needs that might emerge in the future
Imagining problems/circumstances that might emerge in the future
Devising a solution that you think will work well
Predicting limitations of your design
Communicating the reasons and goals behind your design choices
Listening to feedback from others, and understanding it
Collaborating with others to find common ground
Conducting research to prove your assumptions or answer open questions
Learning the ins and outs of surrounding code that is only tangentially related to yours
Learning unfamiliar tools
Learning unfamiliar languages
Learning unfamiliar algorithms and data structures
Revising your design
Coming up with succinct and clear names for things
Testing your implementation (making sure it works now)
Devising and writing automated tests for your implementation (making sure it will keep working when someone else changes something)
Composing comments to explain why non-obvious things are done a certain way
Reformatting your code to fit the style of the project
Writing documentation, and rewriting it
Answering questions
Waiting for others to get back to you
The time and effort required for all of this multiplies when modifying an existing codebase, and multiplies again when most of that code was written by other people. Shepherding a contribution from idea to final merge often requires not only technical skill, but also study, diplomacy, empathy, and immense patience.
But I have no reference for how long a feature should take to implement in someone else’s code for the average Joe who does this for a living.
It varies quite a lot. I have had dozen-line changes take months, and thousand-line changes take a day or two. Just know that if it's taking much longer than you expected, that is completely normal. :)
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
The right way to do this is to self-host your analytics.
I don't know which tools are popular for this nowadays, but something like Matomo On-Premise might be worth a look. I expect you can find more with a web search. Keywords: open-source self-hosted web analytics.
Also, it might be worth looking for analytics software that can get its data from web server log files. I have done that with Apache and Nginx in the past. These days, I wouldn't be surprised if such software can ingest the log files created by Amazon's S3 free tier. You wouldn't have to manage a VPS with that approach.
Of course, if you're letting a major data collector like Github (Microsoft), Amazon, or Cloudflare serve your site, it's not particularly good for privacy to begin with.
GOG has the benefit of being completely DRM-free and not requiring their application to download, install, or run games. (They have a storefront app, but you can also buy games and download stand-alone installers with a web browser.)
Steam has the benefit of contributing a lot to gaming on Linux, to the point where ditching Windows is now very much viable in most cases. (Games with certain specific anti-cheat systems are the main exception.)
I'm happy to spend money with either of them, for different reasons.
People wearing a mask during protests in North Carolina could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation that critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public as a way to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons....
Whatever the real motivations might be, this is deeply irresponsible. I hope it turns out to violate the state constitution or some similarly strong law, and gets rejected.
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...
To know what features people are using, how fast it’s running, know what hardware and where it’s being used, and to try to investigate crashing issues?
None of those things are what's being discussed here, or what GP asked about. As stated in the article, this is about categorizing people's searches.
In general, people are wise to use ciphers and protocols that have been examined by the global cryptography community and have held up to that scrutiny.
No, they are not. They might fit a certain niche (or could once they mature) but neither is a good general-purpose messenger, because their goals and designs inherently limit usability.
No messaging platform fits every use case, but Matrix is great for general-purpose private messaging that anyone, anywhere can easily use, without Google services, without a phone number, and without being vulnerable to shutdown if a single country's laws turn unfavorable. It has other advantages as well. It's not flawless, but is constantly improving, and is already very useful to many people.
If you have a specific criticism that you can actually support with facts, you could bring it up for discussion. Slinging vague attacks that look a lot like something one might see in a poorly-informed reddit post doesn't help anyone.
Which ones, exactly? The largest public server was laggy about two or three years ago, but hasn't been recently in my experience, and in any case, you can pick a different server or run your own. I have never seen a laggy client.
federation is shit etc .
Again, that doesn't match my experience, and what you've written is too vague to have any useful meaning.
I wonder if Conduwuit would be worth a try. I don't know anything about the maintainer or what led to the fork, but I see it already has active contributors.
Signal is fully open source! You can run it on-premises, if you know your business!
Why are we not talking about it?
Unless something has drastically changed recently, the official Signal service won't interoperate with anyone else's instance. That makes its source code practically useless for general-purpose messaging, which might explain why few are talking about it.
on your own premises, for your own users/community in case you are not trusting Signal’s infrastructure.
Yes, that's an example of data (and infrastructure) sovereignty. It's good for self-contained groups, but is not general-purpose messaging, since it doesn't allow communication with anyone outside your group.
If you know any other similar alternative with strong encryption open source protocols please let me know! I love learning new things everyday!
Matrix can do this. It also has support for communicating across different server instances worldwide (both public and private), and actively supports interoperability with other messaging networks, both in the short term through bridges and in the long term through the IETF's More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) working group.
XMPP can do on-premise encrypted messaging, too. Technically, it can also support global encrypted messaging with fairly modern features, with the help of carefully selected extensions and server software and clients, although this quickly becomes impractical for general-purpose messaging, mainly because of availability and usability: Managed free servers with the right components are in short supply and often don't last for long, and the general public doesn't have the tech skills to do it themselves. (Availability was not a problem when Google and Facebook supported it, but that support ended years ago.) It's still useful for relatively small groups, though, if you have a skilled admin to maintain the servers and help the users.
Is there a good reason for people who have played the sequel to then play the original? I've only played RDR for a dozen or so hours. I liked that the NPCs weren't hyper-aggro like many are in RDR2, and the UI was less annoying, but the world and gameplay felt kind of lackluster and repetitive. Maybe getting the earlier part of the story makes it worthwhile?
They might be used as excuses by a complacent industry, but they are not just excuses. They are also valid reasons for concern, and would still be so even if not used as talking points for Detroit lobbyists.
US auto industry is enjoying significant protectionism right now
Regardless of that, China's government has spent more than a few years subsidizing products and services in order to make their exports dirt cheap abroad, eventually making other nations dependent on them. (See also: the Belt and Road Initiative.) This fits the same pattern, and would still be a problem even if US auto industry protectionism didn't exist.
US auto industry and especially EVs are horrible with surveillance right now.
Agreed, but once again, that doesn't invalidate the problem that I mentioned. A foreign adversary having deep, real-time access to the nation's infrastructure, traffic patterns, sensitive information revealed through conversations and cameras, etc. is a larger problem than the personal privacy issues that already exist domestically.
Chinese surveillance devices aren’t doing anything different from anyone else: they’re all violating our privacy and we have no protection.
The difference lies in where the collected information goes. That might not matter to some people on a personal level, but on a national scale, handing all that info to an adversary nation is cause for concern.
everyone’s suffering so much from inflation that they’ll go ahead
That, along with a bloated auto industry and terribly underdeveloped public transit. Here's hoping this turn of events will lead to real progress in fixing these problems.
Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks
I just started it and am having a similar experience, right down to getting hit by cars. At least, I assume they were all cars. Last time I was suddenly knocked off my feet was on the sidewalk, and when I finally regained control of my character, there was no vehicle driving away from me. It could have been a goat fitted with optical camo for all I know.
That's overly complicated to my eyes, and not really relevant. The point I was trying to make is just that a join table is unnecessary in the situation you originally described.
Handbrake queue picks wrong file?
I am not sure if anyone's experiencing this. I'm using Handbrake from a flatpak. I am recoding a whole TV show's season. So, episodes from S01E01 to E15. In the Handbrake app and queue, it really picked the 15 of them. However, when I start to process the queue...It starts by encoding ep 15? At least S01E15 the file it starts...
You Can Now Jailbreak A PS4 With An LG TV ( hackaday.com )
Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?
I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...
Maybe I'm just new, but I just realized you can Ctrl-select or Ctrl-dblclick individual, separate pieces of text and copy them to the clipboard in one operation.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able...
Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter ( www.eurogamer.net )
Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter....
Biden driving China, Russia into 'shocking' partnership, expert warns: 'Blunder of the highest order' ( www.foxnews.com )
M.U.L.E. Online ( puzzud.itch.io )
For those who loved the classic Ozark Softscape game.
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts ( www.theverge.com )
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina ( arstechnica.com )
Winamp is going open source ( feddit.uk )
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software....
Dow hits 40,000 for the first time as bull market accelerates ( www.cbsnews.com )
TIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks" ( en.wikipedia.org )
Author: /u/Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir...
How do you contribute to OSS?
So I've come to the point where I've wanted some to see some features on the software I regularly use and I feel confident enough that I can pull it off. However, once I start getting into it, it all becomes so overwhelming that it's hard to get anything done....
What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
Which PC game distribution service is better?
I’m curious about trying Fallout (1997) but I saw that it exists for Steam and GOG Galaxy:...
Hi-Fi Rush Gets Final Patch To Fix Minor Issues, Reconfirms Limited Physical Edition ( www.gameinformer.com )
North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too ( apnews.com )
People wearing a mask during protests in North Carolina could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation that critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public as a way to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons....
fooyin: A foobar2000 clone written with Qt6 ( github.com )
Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More ( www.mozilla.org )
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government ( www.theregister.com )
Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles ( www.theguardian.com )
White House levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to inflame trade tensions...
“ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS” ( sh.itjust.works )
Red Dead Redemption could finally be coming to PC, datamine suggests ( www.videogameschronicle.com )
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry ( apnews.com )
A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling....
Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious
Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks
Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam ( www.eurogamer.net )
Benefits of a join table vs. array to express relations? (outside of SQL)
I am building an application that is using JSON / XML files to persist data. This is why I indicated "outside of SQL" in the title....