GreatAlbatross, greatalbatross@feddit.uk

Heard from where, exactly?
ffmpeg is an open project, accepts donations, and is heavily used by big tech.
This is an example of them applying for the Sovereign Tech Fund, and what they planned to do with the relatively modest budget.
To my knowledge, it’s not linked to the Motion Pictures Experts Group. Or MPEG LA.
And ffmpeg does warn that using ffmepg for commercial products may put you in the firing line of MPEG LA.

I hit this stumbling block.
And I don’t quite want to go the whole hog/headache of HA.
My solution was to run warm-spare: Once a week the VM can be synced to the second box, but never powered on.
And HA backups are pretty good anyway, it doesn’t take long to bring it back.

I have the ecowitt wh51, directly with rtl_433.
It’s the 866 version.
I had to set rtl_433 to also monitor 866, but other than that, it’s been very solid for…Blimey, years now.

I go to a half-way house: Smart bulbs, dumb switches, but a zigbee button next to the switch.
1 click toggles on/off in the last state.
Press+Hold for warm-white evening.
Double-click for daytime.
And now, a sticker on the 230v switch that says “don’t switch off!”

I can second the Hue bulbs.
They’re good quality, and connect directly to a zigbee dongle without the Signiant app/Hub.

You got a loicense for that pornography mate?

I like to dump the whole VM every so often.
Overkill? Maybe. But I like knowing that no matter how hard I cock it up, I can spin an old version up.

I’m feeling a lot less crazy having my strict rule on AV equipment:
It should work out the box without connecting to the internet, and it shouldn’t be connected without a damned good reason.
To the point that I insisted on setting up the PS5 and playing a game on it before connecting, just to be sure.

I’m reminded of this classic: Velocipedia/

People were asked to draw a bicycle, and a lot of them were not functional.
Often in a fun way.

All 5 reform MPs are standing by to take credit.

Cornwall has been an absolute swamp this January.

It’s crazy.
I’m doing laundry, and I don’t even have to hang it up in the bathroom to dry!

Yep, through misunderstanding I left rtl_433 auto addition switched on for over a year.
I think I ended up with over 9000 unique tpms entries.
Clearing them out from MQTT was a pain in the backside, too!

Blaupunkt went bust in 2016.
Unless I’m very mistaken, their ICE is just a brand licensed to random companies now.
They might be doing something interesting with their retro lines.

I feel like this is going to be a deciding factor in how comfortable countries are in the third quarter of the 21st century.
“Did they start to get their renewable shit in order by 2025?”

Maybe I’m just a datahoarder, but for me the really obscure stuff is the most worth keeping originals of.

The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just homer-simpson’d into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.

“Bots? No, no, those are active users. They also don’t use adblockers, so they’ve better than regular users!”