If earth is round why doesn't water fall? by Kalcifer in c/askouija@lemmy.world
Microsoft just announced Copilot for _______ by Kalcifer in c/askouija@lemmy.world
I guess even Elon has his limit by Kalcifer in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why does it seem that so many of those who claim that they're libertarians are not actually libertarians?

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The Factorio developers are confident that they can keep to their planned release date of October 21st, 2024 for Factorio: Space Age and Factorio 2.0 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/factorio@lemmy.world
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there is no worry about keeping to our release date of October 21st [for Factorio: Space Age and Factorio 2.0] [1].

References

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Do you have any advice for digitizing VHS tapes? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
18 comments fedilink

I have a bunch of old VHS tapes that I want to digitize. I have never digitized VHS tapes before. I picked up a generic HDMI capture card, and a generic composite to HDMI converter. Using both of those, I was planning on hooking a VCR up to a computer running OBS. Overall, I'm rather ignorant of the process. The main questions that I currently have are as follows:

  • What are the best practices for reducing the risk of damaging the tapes?
  • Are there any good steps to take to maximize video quality?
  • Is a TBC required (can it be done in software after digitization)?
  • Should I clean the VCR after every tape?
  • Should I clean every tape before digitization?
  • Should I have a separate VCR for the specific purpose of cleaning tapes?

Please let me know if you have any extra advice or recommendations at all beyond what I have mentioned. Any information at all is a big help.

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[SOLVED] Have you ever experienced stuttering in a game if you receive a message in a desktop messaging app during gameplay? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink

Solution

This is a bug in KDE Plasma [1.1][2]. It appears that it might be fixed in KDE Plasma v6.2 [1.2][3].

Original Post

I have noticed this behavior with Element and Signal while playing Deadlock. The game will have a pretty severe stutter, ie the frame-rate will substantially dip, for half a second or so at the exact moment that a message is received. It seems to happen with every message. Do note that these are only messages that would result in a system notification. All other messages that are silent, ie they have no pop-up notification, do not result in any stutter.

  • OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: v6.6.49-1-lts
  • DE: KDE Plasma v6.1.4
  • WM: Wayland
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Updates

  • I have tried disabling this setting in Deadlock:
  • I have tried windowed-borderless
  • I have noticed that the moment that the stutter occurs, my CPU spikes maybe 20% and my GPU drops to 0%.

References

  1. @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee. "Have you ever experienced stuttering in a game if you receive a message in a desktop messaging app during gameplay?". sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2024-09-09T23:12:24Z. Accessed: 2024-09-10T00:03Z. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13818926. https://lemm.ee/comment/14674507.

    1. it’s a bug in KDE Plasma

    2. [the bug] might be fixed [in KDE Plasma] 6.2

  2. "Bug 487780: Fullscreen game stutter when Plasma receives notifications.". Robert. bugs.kde.org. Published: 2024-05-30T03:58Z. Accessed: 2024-09-10T00:06Z. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487780.
  3. Zamundaaa. "Bug 487780: Fullscreen game stutter when Plasma receives notifications.". bugs.kde.org. Published: 2024-08-19T12:01:08Z. Accessed: 2024-09-10T00:13Z. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487780#c13.

    There are some remaining code paths that can block direct scanout - namely effects that haven't been fixed, or that may need to block direct scanout in some situations. There's a new API in 6.2 that effects can use though, https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/6203, which blocks direct scanout only when really necessary. It's implemented for all built in effects, and external javascript effects automatically make use of this API too.

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Theseus' Axe (youtube.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/philosophy@lemmy.world
0 comments fedilink

References

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"You Sexy Devil – The Story of the Genie du Maal". Theophanes Avery. Adventures in Gender Fuckery. (theophanesavery.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/atheism@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink

References

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"stranger illegally moved in, so i made her life a living hell" (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/wtf@lemmy.wtf
1 comments fedilink

There's currently 2 follow up videos:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t63zjRnJ9iI
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbGFnIhf-6Y

References

Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply) by Kalcifer in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As of 2024-09-03T22:10:25.545Z, Starlink is now complying with Brazil's X ban [1].

References

  1. "Starlink says it will block X in Brazil". Emma Roth. The Verge. Published: 2024-09-03T22:10:25.545Z. Accessed: 2024-09-04T04:17Z. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24235204/starlink-block-x-brazil-comply-elon-musk.

    “We immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the gross illegality of this order and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets,” Starlink says in a post on X. “Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil.”

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PSA: Git exposes timezone metadata (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/git@programming.dev
9 comments fedilink

Git records the local timezone when a commit is made [1]. Knowledge of the timezone in which a commit was made could be used as a bit of identifying information to de-anonymize the committer.

Setting one's timezone to UTC can help mitigate this issue [2][3] (though, ofc, one must still be wary of time-of-day commit patterns being used to deduce a timezone).

References

  1. Git documentation. git-commit. "Date Formats: Git internal format". Accessed: 2024-08-31T07:52Z. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt-Gitinternalformat.

    It is <unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>, where <unix-timestamp> is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. <time-zone-offset> is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is +0100.

  2. jthill. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2014-05-26T16:57:37Z. (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:27Z). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23874208/how-can-i-ignore-committing-timezone-information-in-my-commit#comment36750060_23874208.

    to set the timezone for a specific command, say e.g. TZ=UTC git commit

  3. Oliver. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2022-05-22T08:56:38Z (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:30Z). https://stackoverflow.com/a/72336094/7934600

    each commit Git stores a author date and a commit date. So you have to omit the timezone for both dates.

    I solved this for my self with the help of the following Git alias:

    [alias]
co = "!f() { \
    export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    git commit $@; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Autor: %an <%ae> (%ai)\"; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Committer: %cn <%ce> (%ci)\"; \
}; f"

Cross-posts:

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PSA: Git exposes timezone metadata (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.world
0 comments fedilink

Git records the local timezone when a commit is made [1]. Knowledge of the timezone in which a commit was made could be used as a bit of identifying information to de-anonymize the committer.

Setting one's timezone to UTC can help mitigate this issue [2][3] (though, ofc, one must still be wary of time-of-day commit patterns being used to deduce a timezone).

References

  1. Git documentation. git-commit. "Date Formats: Git internal format". Accessed: 2024-08-31T07:52Z. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt-Gitinternalformat.

    It is <unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>, where <unix-timestamp> is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. <time-zone-offset> is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is +0100.

  2. jthill. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2014-05-26T16:57:37Z. (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:27Z). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23874208/how-can-i-ignore-committing-timezone-information-in-my-commit#comment36750060_23874208.

    to set the timezone for a specific command, say e.g. TZ=UTC git commit

  3. Oliver. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2022-05-22T08:56:38Z (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:30Z). https://stackoverflow.com/a/72336094/7934600

    each commit Git stores a author date and a commit date. So you have to omit the timezone for both dates.

    I solved this for my self with the help of the following Git alias:

    [alias]
co = "!f() { \
    export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    git commit $@; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Autor: %an <%ae> (%ai)\"; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Committer: %cn <%ce> (%ci)\"; \
}; f"

Cross-posts:

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PSA: Git exposes timezone metadata (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
16 comments fedilink

Git records the local timezone when a commit is made [1]. Knowledge of the timezone in which a commit was made could be used as a bit of identifying information to de-anonymize the committer.

Setting one's timezone to UTC can help mitigate this issue [2][3] (though, ofc, one must still be wary of time-of-day commit patterns being used to deduce a timezone).

References

  1. Git documentation. git-commit. "Date Formats: Git internal format". Accessed: 2024-08-31T07:52Z. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt-Gitinternalformat.

    It is <unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>, where <unix-timestamp> is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. <time-zone-offset> is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is +0100.

  2. jthill. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2014-05-26T16:57:37Z. (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:27Z). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23874208/how-can-i-ignore-committing-timezone-information-in-my-commit#comment36750060_23874208.

    to set the timezone for a specific command, say e.g. TZ=UTC git commit

  3. Oliver. "How can I ignore committing timezone information in my commit?". Stack Overflow. Published: 2022-05-22T08:56:38Z (Accessed: 2024-08-31T08:30Z). https://stackoverflow.com/a/72336094/7934600

    each commit Git stores a author date and a commit date. So you have to omit the timezone for both dates.

    I solved this for my self with the help of the following Git alias:

    [alias]
co = "!f() { \
    export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)\"; \
    git commit $@; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Autor: %an <%ae> (%ai)\"; \
    git log -n 1 --pretty=\"Committer: %cn <%ce> (%ci)\"; \
}; f"

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Canada. by Kalcifer in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Despises O'Toole"? Did I just get transported back in time 4 years?

Sometimes it has its own problems, but it doesn't mean that it's not great by Kalcifer in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 month ago

There's never a wrong time to update Arch Linux!

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TIL that you can sort GitHub issues by most "upvoted" (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/github@programming.dev
2 comments fedilink

You can sort GitHub issues by most "upvoted" using this syntax:

is:issue is:open sort:reactions-+1-desc

Thanks to gromenauer for making me aware of it in this GitHub comment.

Full documentation for sorting GitHub issues and pull requests can be found here.

EDIT (2024-08-27T05:20Z): There are also UI options that enable sorting by most "upvoted":

  • On desktop (through a web browser):

  • On mobile (through the app):

Lemmy being used as a source now by Kalcifer in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago

gestures passionately "Download Lemmy!"

I'm feeling warm and fuzzy for some reason.

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If you have installed Linux on a Microsoft Surface Pro, what was your experience? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
24 comments fedilink

I'm looking for a cheap and portable tablet that I can use for writing. Microsoft Surface Pro tablets, at least around the gen 4 models, are rather cheap to buy used, and they seem decently well made. Naturally, were I to buy one, I would have to install Linux onto it.

I've been peripherally aware of the Linux Surface project for some time now. I looked at it recently, after having not for some time, and it seems that they have really made good progress compared to what I remember, and it's making me much more interested in trying to install Linux on a Surface Pro.

Having never owned a Surface Pro, I'm not sure which models are the most reliable and sturdy. I'm not looking for something that's the flashiest; I want something that works well. I want something pragmatic — something akin to the idea of an older era of Thinkpad (eg T460). I want a pen with low input delay and good accuracy, reliable and responsive touch controls, and a decent display. I was thinking the Surface Pro 4 might be a good choice, but it's hard to know as there aren't many videos out there of people installing Linux on them, so I'm wondering what your experience has been with Microsoft Surface Pro's and installing Linux on one.

Cross-posts:

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[META] Current moderator actions occurring in this community are not visible in the modlog (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
9 comments fedilink

In one of my posts, I noticed this removed comment:

I was curious what it was, so I checked the modlog, but it states that the last mod action in this community occurred a month ago:

What's up with this? Are mod actions being scrubbed from the modlog?

What else should I help seed? by Kalcifer in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping

That's a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.

Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way by Kalcifer in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No shout out for my boi, LocalSend?

LOL by Kalcifer in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
I built the first 100% private, on-device "For You" feed on the fediverse by Kalcifer in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 85 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Without it being open source and not providing reproducible builds, the privacy claims are borderline weightless.

Your .dots have arrived by Kalcifer in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 164 points 8 months ago

Firefox has an issue that's been open for 20 years regarding implementing the XDG Base Directory Specification.

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