Is there any app for Linux to display video input that has more video settings than Guvcview? Specifically, black point control.

Apparently it's not possible to carry bags larger than cabin luggage in Lisbon metro area buses. So I suppose if you're travelling to the airport or a train station, fuck you. The criminal incompetence of every single person who manages Lisbon transit, and the politicians responsible for it, is […]

View from the train… and from the station.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

@lorentey You might be the right person to ask this: am I missing something, or does lazySequence.flatMap { try somethingThatTries($0) } break the lazyness of the sequence? Meaning, if the body of the flatMap throws, the entire sequence is generated right there at declaration time, and not only […]

Is there a macOS app, free or paid, for editing audio somewhat like Audacity, but with an UI that doesn't make me want to throw away my laptop and run to the woods? I don't need a Logic Pro level app, as this is not for music.

Wow… the Contacts app on macOS Tahoe is showing random phone numbers and addresses on my own contact card. When I enter the edit mode, the information is correct, but the regular view just adds random stuff from other contacts to mine. I hope it doesn't do that on other cards (I pulled a few […]

There's a really weird #tahoe bug where a Safari window out of nowhere gets really narrow (~380pt) and its width cannot be changed no matter what I do. I've seen this happening twice so far. Resizing only changes height. Maximize button doesn't change width. The only way to make it wider is […]

Are they betting Affinity future as a financially sustainable product on enough people wanting the AI part?

Tonight’s read.

Ahh Mondays. Was about to prepare my morning hot cocoa, when I realized I’m out of cocoa.

The place where I usually have lunch has a patio. There are two sparrows that routinely ask for food in fun and persistent ways, but never aggressively. Sometimes they fly straight up and down next to the table chirping! People give them little pieces of their lunch. They love it and I think […]

I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives. I think it's just not good for the spirit.

This is the time of the year I miss Vancouver the most. The contrast between the green moss, the tree logs, the yellow, red and brown leaves 🍂 is beautiful. https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115420090035506357

As above, so below. #photography #autumn

I thought maybe we'd missed it, but the trees are brilliant right now. #Autumn #Fall #Vancouver #UBC

Can anyone use Tahoe's Remote Desktop to connect via VNC to a Raspberry Pi running the built in VNC server (vncserver-x11, I think)? tcpdump shows both machines talking to each other, but the Mac wont connect saying the machine is either not available of the firewall is blocking it (obviously […]

Seems legit. Thank you for letting me know, dear.

Tonight’s game.

Purple sky behind the hill.

After a terrible week I needed a totally stress free activity so… disassembling the Pismo to replace the corroded parts! This is as far as I have disassembled it, and still quite a few parts to go.

Sigh. I am usually quite careful handling stuff. Never broke a phone screen, laptop, anything like that. Except trackpads. Tonight I broke my second Magic Trackpad. ☹️ First one, dropped it on the floor a few years ago while cleaning my desk. Today, I was searching for the lamp switch in the […]

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OMG! It works! Still a bit unstable overall. Looks like it wasn’t a timing problem, just lack of power on the audio cable. Used the inverse stereo trick and played at 125% and it finally loaded! But for some reason the border animation is OK now so I think I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Anyone who has a working #zxspectrum 48K, PAL colour system, not a clone, not emulated, but the real thing, can you run: 10 BORDER 1 20 BORDER 2 30 GO TO 10 Film the TV screen and post it? Do you get around 5 or 6 stable colours bars moving slowly up or down? Or is it a big blinking mess? […]

Please keep the benchmark for fature purchases.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

I get you, weird pillow case pattern.

[Lisbon pol] O debate de ontem na RTP mostra sem margem para dúvidas porque é que é inútil dar tempo de antena a partidos sem representação parlamentar ou local. Menção honrosa para a Ossanda, que parece os bêbados na tasca. À medida que a noite avança vai ficando cada vez mais reacionária […]

Imagine telling the French they are not allowed to leave the tent. The reaction (or lack thereof) from Americans to what’s going on is mind blowing but I guess entirely predictable due to decades of a culture based on exceptionalism and individualism. Yes, you are allowed to leave the tent and […]

Hey look at that, someone threw away a perfectly good display! Grabbed this from the rubbish pile on Saturday and I was wondering if it worked. Looked ok inside and it works! Panel is in perfect condition, just a bit dirty. Pity it’s VGA only but it’s fine! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The more technological capabilities we have, the less empathy software displays towards users. Look how we needed dithering at the time to display these beautiful graphics. Now we can show more colours simultaneously than the human eye can see and we waste all this in flat, cold, distant UIs […]

I know at YouTube scale this generates an absurdly huge amount of data, but I really wish it saved the the time code where I interrupt playback so I can resume later. Like every other video streaming service does.

Is there a way to force Preview.app (macOS) to “OCR" a document, so I can select text and search on it? Most of the times this just works, but not on these 100+ page service manuals for whatever reason.

Today, something different: a purely mechanical repair of this bad boy. This was peak Sony, an amazing VCR I used during many, many years! One defect though, it was purchased just before the decision on what norm would be used for Stereo broadcasts in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"The change to mail delivery is expected to increase the time it takes Canada Post to deliver letter mail from an average of three to four days to an average of three to seven days.” Because when you're trying to make Canada Post profitable, the best thing to do to compete with super fast […]

Don't let your biases impact how you look at data. Road fatalities per population is meaningless regarding its causes. Do people drive worse? Are roads worse? Are more people driving every day, and/or more km per trip? By blaming drivers, you are doing exactly what the auto industry and […]

I had no idea Hot Tub existed. Now, I do. Huh… thank you, Apple PR department? Streisand effect is strong on this one.

Ok, the #zx81 is now loading games and the joystick port works! This is what games that fit 1KB of RAM look like! Yes, 1KB of RAM. For real. I’m supposed to be escaping imprisonment during WWII of something.

Well… it's a keyboard! Tried to load a few programs, but the thing seems to crash after loading. Have to look into why. But, progress! #zx81 #zx81clone

Just attended a concert from a band where each member lives in a different country. Yet they compose and play live music on stage. One of the members was new and they just met him in person yesterday at the Lisbon airport. Meanwhile so-smart tech CEOs can’t handle people writing software from […]

So while everybody was ordering new iPhones, I may have been sourcing all this stuff and… building a ZX81 clone? And even better, it actually works, with a bit of a hack! 😁 Now I just need a keyboard and a case! Fun detail, I grabbed a wire to simulate the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@CARROT Hey 🥕, missions seem broken on iOS 18.7. The ad blocks the view on the bottom and the buttons are touching the top bar. Can’t upgrade the OS because you’re stuck in my iPhone Xs. Love the songs, though!

macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH! Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Also, new toy. The old 30W iron was not helping. Considered a Pinecil but the idea of having complex electronics inside a thing that heats up to +400ºC is not very appealing, plus having to wait a week for shipping. This one was available close to home, and I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Another successful repair! 😁 This time my Sony display. The panel is amazing, but the control buttons were not working properly due to oxidation or something growing inside them, who knows. One of them had +2MΩ between the terminals when pressed! 🙈 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

As Canadian, this infuriates me. More than a million Canadians were sent to Europe during the world wars, when the Canadian population was just over 10M. They were sent *to kill fascists and nazis*. And that is celebrated every damn year during the Remembrance Day. Anyone who was part of this […]

Celebrating #breakawayday with The Last Sunset, an episode I love from the first season. 😁 🌅 #space1999

Another street devastated after being closed to cars.