jcynix

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by jcynix 1y ago
> When I program, my application may sometimes allocate a lot of memory due to some silly bug. In such case the whole system practically stops working [...] You can limit resource usage per process thus your buggy application could be ki
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by jcynix 1y ago
You mean something like print -rl -- *(om[1].) in zsh?
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by jcynix 1y ago
Sure, generating the "correct" format would be a good decision. When you change pixel orientation, you'll need to either update or clear the EXIF orientation info to reflect the new pixel data. Rotation metadata might be help
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by jcynix 1y ago
Both PNG and Webp exist in lossless formats which can be easily rotated without loss of quality. Jpeg is different, because its internal structure consists of 8x8 blocks (which, BTW, can be rotated lossless if both sides of the image are
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by jcynix 1y ago
You can transfer EXIF information, including the rotation info, with either exiftool or ImageMagick into a thumbnail, to let other software know how to display it correctly. If you want to rotate a jpeg yourself (which is easily done with &
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by jcynix 1y ago
There's also the Glitch Lab app on Android and the author has a number of tutorial videos available: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnfdj-gV14N5JTGybk4kkVpyL...
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by jcynix 1y ago
> Not sure where to look now. Maybe take a look at https://posteo.de/en
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by jcynix 1y ago
> Once you have it on disk, how do you get it away from your phone? On Android? Easy, Termux app and then rsync to my Desktop/Laptop. Or via Solid Explorer. Or E-Mail via Blitzmail. Non incremental is a suboptimal design decision,
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by jcynix 1y ago
To combat link rot I use an applet which looks up a link at archive.org and when I visit an interesting site (of supposedly longer lasting value) I check if it's archived already. If not I ask the way back machine to store it.
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by jcynix 1y ago
>Imagine getting hit by thousands+ of different IP addresses with different user agents, etc. If I open the gates, I can see oodles of connections from China or Singapore in my server logs, all from different IP addresses but all alleged
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by jcynix 1y ago
Lightweight? I don't mind a bit of weight if its versatile. But when I want to do things fast, I use Shotcut (free, open source) which is much easier to use than e.g. ffmpeg. There exist a number of good tutorials showing how to accomp
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by jcynix 1y ago
The C2 machine is fine, I use it regularly in a nearby studio besides other training and it's perfect for training. If the studio wouldn't be easily available I would buy a C2. And, by the way, my wife too started to be an avid ro
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by jcynix 1y ago
>Like someone already said: what if you get an injury going to hard at it? There's no need to go hard, even steady walking for 20 minutes a day is healthy. And recent studies show that you don't need to jog or run, walking is a
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by jcynix 1y ago
The algorithms are way to primitive / stupid. When I watch just one video which explains rowing to show it to a visiting friend, my stream gets flooded with rowing videos afterwards. When I watch a video describing a new lens for a Can
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by jcynix 1y ago
Metz in France has a tram like bus which travels through the city, partially on roads closed for normal traffic. The deal was, that the operator had to plan the routes to reach various. important points, like hospitals, schools, universitie
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by jcynix 1y ago
Hmm, did they check whether their shoes where clean? Mine always have dirt underneath when I return from outside ;-0
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by jcynix 1y ago
No reason to hate you, just because you didn't pay attention ;-) Maybe take a look at the search results from https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl%20conference%202025 and you'll learn that there are ongoing events relat
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by jcynix 1y ago
I can't remember a time where "keys %hash" returned the keys in a defined order. And I've been using Perl for over 30 years now. I've just consulted my first issue of "Programming Perl" (printed in 1990l a
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by jcynix 1y ago
Orgmode is more than just a note keeping tool, it is a complete and complex toolbox. I can use tables like a spreadsheet, include source code snippets, etc. Joplin is fine, especially for shared note keeping. We store its notes on a private
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by jcynix 1y ago
Markdown is a markup tool, i.e. you decorate your text. Orgmode on the other hand is a complete toolbox where you can add tags to notes, filter on these tags, manage calendars, etc. You can enter tables both for formatting and spreadsheet l
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by jcynix 1y ago
Here's an example to start with: ImageMagick's -threshold or -adaptive-threshold (depending on the image's lighting) are what you want to look at, e.g. try something like magick input.jpg \ -colorspace Gray \
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by jcynix 1y ago
> What has thus far remained a mystery to me is going from a bag of noisy pixels [...] to array of booleans. Ah, OK. You can use software like ImageMagick to partition images into levels of gray or just black and white. I have some examp
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by jcynix 1y ago
Using https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qrcode%20decode%20by%20hand gives me a number of results like http://blog.qartis.com/decoding-small-qr-codes-by-hand/ https://beck-thompson.github.io/QRc
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by jcynix 1y ago
Why would I want to have this? No idea, but if I did I probably would use a modern dashcam (these can easily do 4K HDR with 60 fps nowadays) and later analyze the recording with OpenVC. Some viofo dashcams even allow the connection of two s
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by jcynix 1y ago
>We report a previously unrecognized metabolism of glucose to erythritol, and given the association between erythritol and weight gain, research is needed to understand whether and how this pathway contributes to weight gain risk. Erythr
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by jcynix 1y ago
Good example. Add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons which acquired various popular apps (Evernote, Filmic, …), fired most developers, and now exploits these apps to death.
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by jcynix 1y ago
archive.org has saved the images: https://web.archive.org/web/20210615000000*/https://makecade...
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by jcynix 1y ago
”Erythritol occurs naturally in some fruit and fermented foods." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol The German Wikipedia article says it appears naturally in cheese, funghi, plums, strawberries and pistachio
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by jcynix 1y ago
Maybe take a look at GraphicConverter for the Mac. While it isn't a file Management tool, it's really useful for tweaking various details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphicConverter
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by jcynix 1y ago
Just tried to use "-d" and learned that it's a GNUism which isn't available under MacOS, so it's not a portable solution. And neither was it available under BSD 4.3 when I learned about xargs the first time.

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