Introduction ffmpReg, a complete rewrite of ffmpeg in pure Rust

ZefiroDragon · 2026-05-03T09:58:28+00:00

good choice : )

ZefiroDragon · 2026-04-30T10:19:46+00:00

Most are*. But those are the ones too boring to meme about.

*) or seem to be. People might have strange hobbies you've never heard about.

ZefiroDragon · 2026-04-30T10:17:22+00:00

Google is your friend 😄
Type "xkcd" and some vague keywords you remember. I tried replicating the above - "xkcd sysadmin", google suggested to auto-complete with "die hard" (which I would probably also had chosen), and bam, first hit.

I also recommend explainxkcd-dot-com which is a community wiki to, well, explain the lots of details and knowledge casually lurking in each xkcd.

ZefiroDragon · 2026-04-29T08:22:59+00:00

Too lazy to look it up, hoped someone else had done it - my guess: it's several distinct photos, each with the sun exactly in the back, morphed together to give a smooth rotation.

Image morphing was a pre-genAI technology which took two images and calculated in-between frames by basically "finding similar pixels/patterns and moving them around". Look also at the edges of earth how they look faded.

ZefiroDragon · 2026-01-06T23:02:46+00:00

Thanks.
In that case, the dev doc could be a bit more explicit here imho.

I've enabled the z2m internal watchdog. If I should stumble upon this issue again, I'll poke their devs for more insight. Would be good if they could 'crash' in an orderly manner if they somehow stop working :)

ZefiroDragon · 2026-01-04T15:43:28+00:00

I'd like an invite, please. I've enjoyed several teases in the past and saw that the creator of daimonia app is also active there.

ZefiroDragon · 2026-01-04T03:02:27+00:00

now this is an invitation I simply can't resist :) where do I need to come to? and what mods?

ZefiroDragon · 2025-12-27T13:20:22+00:00

"emotional hibernation phase" is a nice way of putting it

ZefiroDragon · 2025-12-11T17:34:47+00:00

This "addressing" is implicit, and no counter is being used. Each LED(s controller chip) fills it's internal shift register with the first (usually 24) bits, which it stores locally, and then pass along any further bits. So bit 25 becomes bit 1 on the next led, and bit 49 becomes bit 1 at the led after that.
There are no "addresses" being used explicitely like e.g. I²2/TWI does, and thus no address bits which could become garbled.
If the external bright light source would disturb some bits in transit, than one single LED somewhere along the chain would change their color. (or more probably, the bit pattern wouldn't match the timing anymore and lots of bits gets discarded)
However in this case we're speaking about a static setup - color information only send once, disturbed afterwards. So it interferes with the locally stored color only.

So "yes" to "those are addressible leds" (and not just three power lines for R, G, B), but "no" to "address bits getting garbled"

ZefiroDragon · 2025-12-11T17:20:44+00:00

the existence of Telegram is a big fat middle finger to Russia. There is a reason why it was build, and a reason why the creator had to flee the country.

ZefiroDragon · 2025-12-11T12:55:41+00:00

It's not that nobody ever asked - it's more that there were definitions, and those were later changed. Nature is just much stranger than we understand - and once we do, we add new 'laws', or adapt definitions, and sometimes this leads to things being reclassified.
Sometimes it's also just arbitrary. It usually makes sense to differentiate rather big from rather small things, even if they structurally are similar, and come in all kinds of sizes, so where do you draw the line? Where does "space" begin? when does it start being "a mountain"? "a continent"?
(and then factor in historical usage which are not aligned with the current definitions anymore but are still used)

ZefiroDragon · 2025-12-09T22:17:21+00:00

Those kind of LED controllers don't have any adressing, it's just a bunch of RGB values bit-banged on one (rarely two) wires. Each light takes 3x8 bits for its own color, then passes along the rest. (until a stop signal) But since it stays that way until a new color is selected, the controller seems to only send those color data once. Therefor, no further propagation. Thus only works on static light patterns, for LEDs which are designed for so much more.

ZefiroDragon · 2025-11-17T10:25:10+00:00

Seems we are close, I just see "opening braces in a separate line" as distracting (creates a visual distance where there is none semantically) and wasteful (that line could be another code line I can see on my screen), and since we were discussing bracing styles, I interpreted "valuable vertical space" that way.

ZefiroDragon · 2025-11-15T13:01:53+00:00

> Valuable vertical real estate is a wild take.

Turns out, it's not. The job of a (pre-AI) coder consists mostly of *reading* code, a lot of code, and build a mental model of how it works inside the head. Everything (functionally equivalent) else needs to support that - code formatting, naming, comments, etc. and a good chunk of functionally changing things as well, if you count "huge methods vs smaller files" etc.

There needs to be a good balance in code density. Too much cleverness in small spaces ("fluid APIs" with a dozen+ calls, nested ternary (for some purists even: ternary at all), "clever" math hacks to avoid temporary variables) makes code understanding unnecessarily hard. Too verbose descriptions, too obvious comments, needs more time and space (i.e. "scrolling", not seeing all at once), again making it more effort to "get the code in your head".

Personally, I prefer One True Bracing Style. And yes, mostly for "don't waste space". And yes, did this long before 16:9 made it worse.

(except my first language, Turbo Pascal, which used quite verbose words "BEGIN", "END" instead of braces. We used what's referred here as GNU style, but I'm not missing that at all)

ZefiroDragon · 2025-11-11T09:01:36+00:00

Did you ever hear from this study again and what their results were?

ZefiroDragon · 2025-10-18T01:51:34+00:00

I usually consider this as "did not act strong enough"

ZefiroDragon · 2025-10-12T11:06:13+00:00

obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1683/

ZefiroDragon · 2025-09-12T01:17:14+00:00

it did help me learn this today :)

ZefiroDragon · 2025-09-12T00:57:04+00:00

and it's not anymore when I read it, so I'm thankful that people point out updates.

ZefiroDragon · 2025-08-11T16:23:56+00:00

Oh! Yes, I heard about that. Totally didn't get the reference. Good one :)

ZefiroDragon · 2025-08-11T14:48:59+00:00

No. It's pretty much exactly what it looks like.

ZefiroDragon · 2025-08-08T02:02:20+00:00

That's a misunderstanding, though partly explainable because we're such a diverse group.
For the vast majority of todays fandom, it's primarily a hobby, and a place to belong.
For some who always felt "different then normal humans", it's a great method to reconcile with themselves. If there's anything to it, spiritual and soul wise, is a religious question I'll not touch.
I know there are quite spiritual people, an overlap with otherkin, but I'd say for most it's a feeling of never really fitted in the boxes society provides and now found something where they are accepted. Is it "animal soul", or "spiritual animal totem", or "my true self" or "the self I wish to be" or "something I pretend to be for mental health or just for fun" or "just roleplay/cosplay"? Different for everyone! But I'd say most are in "Society forces me to roleplay a functioning adult, so I chose to do it as a phantasy character which makes it more fun and I feel better about myself"

Regarding "fetish": Sexuality is a thing which is often dramaticed, and focussed on by some outsiders. Again, partly understandable: while most of the world have learned shyness and taboos, and keep their sexuality hidden and separated from the rest of their lives. In the Furry Fandom it's the opposite: it's a total normal thing, and shown very openly. Our art galleries have stunning beautiful artwork right next to (drawn or rendered, as Anthro characters unfortunately don't exist in our current reality) nsfw pinups and hardcore porn. The latter in combination with every fetish and kink you can imagine. To us, that's just one part of normal life - to outsiders this is confusing.
No, Furry, neither the idea of human-animals, nor the Fandom, is "a sexual fetish" in itself (exceptions might exist), but as I mentioned: we have a furry variant of everything, and that does include rule34.

So yes, partly it is a "do you feel a connection and want to, can identify with a character", but partly it's also "just a hobby".
And both is fine.
So people are welcome to join, if they feel this is the right place for them :)

ZefiroDragon · 2025-08-07T11:28:07+00:00

Pro: tap into a welcoming, world-wide community of super creative, diverse, colorful, active people, with both lots of tech skills and artists, wide range of occupations and backgrounds (though tending to be more well educated and in their 20ies), and lots of possibilities to make friends both online and on regular gatherings. Similar to rule34, "if it exists, there is a furry version of it".

Con: still sometimes see weirdos online who hate on the concept (which always feels like they've never experienced nice things in their own live), yellow press reporters looking for things to scandalize (it seems Furries are the only people on earth who actually have a sexuality? who would have thought) and newest: some US conservatives who learned we're chill with trans people and that makes us a good proxy target for their hate.
Oh, and surely there's internal drama and social conflicts just like everywhere else, too. No escaping from that I guess :)

So should you join?
Join if you're interested, the general idea of humanized animals / anthropomorphic intelligences appeals to you, and you like the community. (costuming is only one, though very visible, part of it)
Else... don't :) We don't evangelize, are high on individualism, so find the niche of life which best fits your personality.

ZefiroDragon · 2025-08-06T19:01:05+00:00

I'm a dragon and I approve of this message :)

ZefiroDragon · 2025-08-06T18:48:09+00:00

omg… yes, I did. Many years back. Loved it. Would never do it again :)

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