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rolobio commented on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks

NullPrefix · a year ago

>spend $15M on a team of 20+ highly competent full time developers

Implies that the browser is the mission, not some social cause is the mission

rolobio · a year ago

This is exactly it, millions spent on the product, but no noticeable changes? The money is going elsewhere.

Wikipedia is doing the same.

rolobio commented on Push Notifications for Decentralized Services unifiedpush.org/news/2025... · Posted by u/notmine1337

alberth · a year ago

OT: anyone have experience with pushover.net, if so - how is it?

rolobio · a year ago

I have Pushover. I love it. I have a bash alias that I use to notify me when some command completes. I get a notification on my phone, and a tap on my wrist letting me know some hours long task is complete, and I can do the next step.

I have a Octoprint integration which lets me know when 3d prints have completed.

You can also modify the priority of a message, so I can send "critical" events if I need to, although I use that rarely.

rolobio commented on What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser? lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s... · Posted by u/veqq

mistrial9 · a year ago

reading with Brave now, seeing no adware

rolobio · a year ago

What about the constant Brave Premium ads? I got many notifications every day asking me to pay them, I couldn’t find a way to disable them. They had intrusive ads for premium in every new tab page as well.

Interrupting my work to ask me to send you money is unacceptable, Mozilla has never done that to me.

rolobio commented on YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable frontendmasters.com/blog/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

GuB-42 · 2 years ago

[Ignore this, everything is ok now]

For me the website is slow as to border on unusable. I have one core at 100% on Firefox 115 / Debian 11, I guess there is a busy loop somewhere in the JS.

Works fine on Chrome(ium).

I know it is usually frowned upon to comment on the website itself rather than the content, but considering the nature of the website, I think it is relevant.

Edit: Looked in a bit more detail and it looks CSS-related, not JS-related as removing the main style sheet fixes the problem. It happens even in safe mode (no extensions). Possibly a Firefox bug (version is 115.12.0esr, from the Debian 11 repository), but it doesn't happen anywhere else.

Edit2: Updated my system, rebooted, etc... it fixed the problem. So either I had something messed up with my system, or the author fixed it, anyway, everything is ok now.

rolobio · 2 years ago

The web is slowly becoming chrome only and I hate it. I recently had to switch to Chromium because Firefox simply did not work for the websites at my job.

rolobio commented on Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5 jonatron.github.io/random... · Posted by u/jonatron

fl0ki · 2 years ago

Is there a consensus on the best available cooler for the Pi 5? I looked at this exact unit but wanted more of a "case" design.

I first tried the Flirc passive case. It seems to transport and dissipate heat notably better than active coolers with copper heatsinks and 4000 RPM fans. That's especially impressive given that the entire top and bottom are plastic, leaving the horizontal edge as the only surface for heat dissipation.

My remaining concern there is that it only cools the Broadcom SoC, while creating a nice little insulated oven for the other chips. The inner surface area is much greater than the outer surface area, and with no ventilation by design, so heat from the SoC is being distributed throughout the whole inner volume.

I also tried an active cooler to avoid that, which I'm sure is better for every other chip but I'm surprised to find was substantially worse for the SoC itself. I guess the tiny copper block gets saturated very quickly and its surface area isn't very large for air cooling.

Maybe that's why the monoblock passive coolers do so well, in theory they combine the best of these approaches. I just wish they'd apply the same idea to a refined "case" design like the Flirc.

rolobio · 2 years ago

I have always found coolers with heat pipes provide the best cooling for mine.

rolobio commented on Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg · Posted by u/indiantinker

sergiotapia · 2 years ago

AV1 exceeds at these type of videos. It's why so many anime people use it.

Try encoding the video to AV1 with OPUS audio. You'll get ridiculous gainz!

My command is:

    $ffmpegPath -i $_.FullName -r 23.976 -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libsvtav1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -crf 30 -preset 10 -g 300 -c:a libopus -b:a 96k -ac 2 -c:s copy -map 0 $destPath

rolobio · 2 years ago

Thanks I will give it a try.

rolobio commented on Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg · Posted by u/indiantinker

rolobio · 2 years ago

I looked into using ffmpeg to “compress” video podcasts by lowering the framerate a lot, but it didn’t seem to do as much as I thought (about 50% size reduction). The theory was that a video podcast is mostly talking heads with an occasional chart on the screen, so you really only need a frame every second, or five seconds.

rolobio commented on Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments techdirt.com/2024/05/15/u... · Posted by u/WarOnPrivacy

theyeenzbeanz · 2 years ago

Comcast lobbied so hard to get our local mileage for fiber expansion voted down. When it passed, they suddenly decided they’re going to spend 6 figures worth of money to expand their own fiber backdown (they’re not even to the house). Its amazing when corporations will spend more money fighting something than actually implementing said thing.

rolobio · 2 years ago

I’ve had fiber at my house from day one provided by a local ISP. Comcast came in and buried their own fiber lines (years later) for all the houses in my neighborhood. Soon after, my ISP bumped my speed and lowered my monthly bill.

We desperately need more competition. It’s the only thing that actually lowers prices.

Also, I will happily pay higher prices to never pay for Comcast again. So they won’t see a penny from me.

rolobio commented on It's time to stop using SMS (2021) lucky225.medium.com/its-t... · Posted by u/fanf2

Loughla · 2 years ago

Microsoft does this. eBay also. And steam. Once you install the app, any time there is a sign in, you get a pop up on your phone. Yes/no button. Very convenient.

Why don't more apps do that?

rolobio · 2 years ago

I disabled my eBay app login pop up because it would never come. My login would sit pending forever. Would much prefer TOTP, even if a little slower.