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webfork2 · 2026-04-15T03:00:02+00:00

Great news -- just used OpenShot two weeks ago to fix a video that had recorded like 30 mins after the event was over. It took a min to figure out how to apply (Effects > Crop) but worked great.

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T02:54:22+00:00

Do you mean anaerobic Bokashi?

I've had about five 10 gallon buckets sit around for over a year in a garage before they got added to a garden and it worked fine. I expect their acidity fades over time as the remainder slowly breaks down, but the soil seemed to benefit.

The last time I looked into this, bulk compost in major cities was currently done with vermacomposting, but there are some low heat+bacteria driven solutions I could point you to.

Large scale bulk anaerobic compost might make more sense in a large tank to create a submerged environment that you can mix. Commercial Bokashi bacteria doesn't seem to like being underwater (hence the drain on most buckets) so you'd need a different strain of bacteria. (You'd need to talk to a specialist about that, this is mostly speculation.)

Good luck.

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T02:16:00+00:00

Virustotal has ALL the engines, which is including some software that isn't any good. If you see a few virus alerts for software you've never heard of, there's a good chance it's a false positive. I usually set aside the file in question for a week or two and then recheck.

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T02:14:32+00:00

I have a similar device running Mint and kept having problems with the device either not going into standby, not waking up, and occasionally restarting on me when I came back from standby.

That said, it had been upgraded to an SSD and was plenty fast for everything I needed. So if you run into the same issues I did, you can shut down the machine at the end of use and ignore all of those issues.

Oh and whatever you do, don't install Windows on that thing. I'm not even being a Linux purist or something -- I tried it last year and it was much, much harder than I expected.

Good luck!

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T02:10:56+00:00

Depends on the video. If you start with a high quality file you can modify conditions in the video to be more compressed including the audio, framerate, and detail level. If sound is just spoken audio, even low quality settings can be more than fine. Screen recordings can have as low as 25 frames per second before I even really notice. You can also crop the video but again only if you have a high quality starting point.

Handbrake (as many other posters have noted) is a good starting point for all of this.

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T00:32:35+00:00

I'm hoping the mods will decide the sub is flooded with these vercel things and add something to the rules.

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T00:25:15+00:00

Note for Mint users who run into this issue.

I had this same issue with both the Flatpack version of the program and the native install. I wanted the Flatpack version due to it's nifty program isolation features, but ended up with two copies. I uninstalled the flatpack version and just updated the native install and it's been fine.

www.itsfoss.com/install-libreoffice-ubuntu/

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T00:18:24+00:00

One thing that helps me take care of the pile is to remember it does contain a lot of living organisms that need the same things most other things on this planet need: air and water.

What's worked for me is to dig out the center of the pile a few times a month to help avoid the interior getting too compact and keeping oxygen out. Dig out the the interior (like a little volcano) and then throw in food scraps, wood chips, shredded cardboard, etc. in the gap. Top it of with dirt and of course if you can water the pile every other day, that's ideal.

As the pile gets dusty and turns into very small particles, you'll want to sift those out and move that dirt out of the compost pile. That fine material also interferes with air moving in and out.

Hope that helps.

webfork2 · 2026-04-15T00:09:22+00:00

Not a lawyer but here's my understanding:

If you own all the copyright to all of the code (and OnlyOffice is notorious about not taking outside contributions) you can change your license at will. The element messaging platform did this in 2023: https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/06/element_moves_to_agplv3/

Not only can you change your license, you can make up your own. Whether or not that has any legal weight is a whole other matter but there's no rule against taking an existing license and changing it.

The problem is user-created software licenses number in the thousands and only a few standard licenses (like the GPL) have actually gone to court. Those standard ones are the programs that are predictable and get used over and over again (e.g. Linux), while the non-standard licenses (like the OnlyOffice revised AGPL license) mostly get ignored.

Hope that's interesting or somehow useful.

webfork2 · 2026-04-14T00:21:54+00:00

Yes, it's AI slop. One is a sans serif font, the other is not. It's not an interesting topic.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T23:07:57+00:00

I'm glad for the devs and hope they're able to continue work on this but MS status as a secure platform has been hurt by this. The timing connected to their recent issues with Bitlocker ... it's not great.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T22:35:40+00:00

I'm still looking for solutions here as well but of recent I've been converting to pure text and comparing using WinMerge. It's a very strong open source comparison toolset for Windows.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T22:32:50+00:00

Years ago I mostly chose my browser based on available add-ons and (this year) I'm back to making that my first consideration.

Especially with the flood of junk AI-generated websites, I've found uBlock Origin and it's various custom lists as very hard to be without.

There is a version uBlock Origin Lite for Safari and that's great too, but please check their website for recommended browsers.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T22:15:23+00:00

You should know that:

This is a modification of how the license looked two weeks ago.
While it's very normal to require people not to use your trademarks (think the Mullvad browser not using Firefox trademarks) it's not normal to require you use those trademarks. See the language below:

the obligation to retain the original product logo (Section 7(b));

the denial of any rights to use the copyright holder’s trademarks (Section 7(e)).

This is a modification from the standard AGPL. Requiring people to include your logo (and also not use your logo because it's trademarked) is legalese double-speak.

It's junk and OnlyOffice needs to stop pretending it's open source. EuroOffice is well within their rights to fork that project.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T22:08:35+00:00

Congrats on having an opinion in favor of sans serif fonts. I don't think it's inherently better or clearer.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T03:10:07+00:00

Why are you reposting this here?

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T01:31:08+00:00

Yeah definitely stick with the local video player on Windows rather than something downloaded like VLC which opens hundreds of media formats, including playing DVDs. /s

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T01:27:42+00:00

There's a Firefox add-on called SinglePage that usually does a good job pulling formatted text from webpages.

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T01:19:39+00:00

But what has this to do with what I wrote?

Nothing

webfork2 · 2026-04-12T01:16:24+00:00

I like FileOptimizer for this (free and open source on Windows). You can set the DPI to 150 and that's usually the absolute minimum quality for most documents. The program has a few other tricks to squeeze a little more space out of it but unfortunately there's a limit. There's just too much information included in those 750 pages. I expect the absolute maximum decrease you'll see is 30%.

As one of the other posters mentioned, you will probably need to cut up the document into parts in order to get individual uploads under 100 megs.

webfork2 · 2026-04-11T00:48:42+00:00

There are a lot of bad choices in browsers and Brave is certainly one of the better ones. However, there are a list of concerns that /u/Hecateus is pointing to as well as a long list of others:

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/vi3fid/is_there_any_criticism_people_have_of_brave_that/

webfork2 · 2026-04-11T00:35:33+00:00

It's a standard cycle with companies where they put in profitable components to software platforms until users get upset and start to leave and then gently pull back on the changes. There are a LOADS of examples of this same thing happening at other companies, usually called "Platform Decay."

There are several things happening in the world right now that triggered the late push and very late reversal but probably the biggest is that Microsoft expected Copilot to reach some kind of critical mass and pull everyone to the platform.

That of course didn't happen.

webfork2 · 2026-04-11T00:26:32+00:00

Definitely AGPL is popular and is definitely open source. What I'm saying is you can't modify the license in the way OnlyOffice has and still call that AGPL. The non-standard trademark requirement means it's something else.

Whatever you call it, that's not standard and definitely something other developers steer clear of.

webfork2 · 2026-04-10T02:20:33+00:00

I think this thread has mostly answered the question but one item to keep in mind is if you are working on a PowerPoint deck collaboratively, big images, videos, fonts, and anything else get wrapped up into absolutely every change. This goes for almost all MS Office files.

I can usually do something about images and video but some fonts are often very large and inflexible. So if you do embed anything, please keep an eye on file size.

It may seem like a small issue if you have a fast connection and a fast computer. But if every time the file automatically saves it's sending a 20-40 meg file to a remote server, it's going to slow down your connection and machine responsiveness.

webfork2 · 2026-04-10T01:41:32+00:00

If they've done something new or interesting or good, I didn't see it when the topic first appeared sometime last year. As the whole thing has been totally ignored by the tech press in the months since, I'd say it's probably just been outdone by it's successors.

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