Recent content by Mercutio

The great Satan has sold every drive it was going to make this year.

I am really impressed with how far I've been able to push Wazuh as a fully cross platform SIEM. Built in Compliance reporting and everything. Goddamn.

"This page does not exist." I can't wait until that applies to the rest of Twitter as well.

Svideo output is a substantial improvement on Composite even on VHS-C sources. VHS-C is still going to look like ass to us, spoiled as we are by 1080p videos, but someone who maybe only watched their old home movies on the same crappy 2 head VCR everyone else had will be surprised that it can be...

I did it with TDARR, where you can specify templates that give the encoder something to do. My rules basically look at the source video to decide if it's progressive scan (i.e. analog source) or not and then upscale based on that. TDARR is interesting in and of itself because it just sends out...

This is EXTREMELY out of left field, but it's fascinating to me, a long form interview with minimalist composer Steve Reich, about his well known (for people who like late 20th century classical music, anyway) piece Different Trains. It's from a podcast called Song Exploder, which most often...

She likes to climb and she's made herself a little nest on top of my fridge. RIP my Flour Jar. She's also claimed my ENTIRE couch. The other three cats are holding the line at keeping her out of my bedroom though. She doesn't sit still very much, so I've had a hell of a time getting a decent...

An additional kitty has entered my life. I found her out by the dumpster at my office, snuggling a bigger, lifeless cat. She squeaked, but didn't even try to move. She was covered in blood and at first I was afraid she was also mortally injured, but I think she just didn't know what else to do...

This link has some commentary on DOJ Attorney Julia Le's testimony before Judge Jerry Blackwell on the ongoing debacle in Minneapolis. Everyone above Le and in the employ of ICE is in the process of resigning their posts, so this VERY junior attorney who was only given credentials to see...

The Sxy+ models generally make sense as premium devices. They typically have the RAM and storage options the Ultra models do, but lack the stylus, better cameras and slightly larger batteries. I'm looking forward to the S26+ so I can go back to a smaller phone. I'm sincerely hoping that...

uBlock Origin on Firefox and Firefox-derived Browsers, uBlock Lite on Chromium-derived Browsers (Edge, Vivaldi, Chrome, Opera et al). I also install SponsorBlock on every browser. If I go above and beyond that, it's probably because I'm dealing with someone is proof that nature can build a...

Another tip for stupid selfhosting tricks: TDARR is a tool for intelligently batch re-encoding video data, but it's mostly just a wrapper for ffmpeg. If you have a bunch of old-ass camcorder or DV video for whatever reason, it's fairly trivial to set up a JSON template to use neural upscaling...

Steam Headless is a Docker Image preconfigured to support nVidia (or not-nVidia, but nVidia is the one people struggle with) GPUs and Moonlight for game streaming. The idea is that it will interact with locally installed games under /mnt/games, a path it will share with the host system and...

Linux from the end user side isn't genuinely too different from Windows or MacOS. There are a couple small exceptions, one being that there really aren't official clients for cloud storage and another being locked out of full-fat desktop MS Office. A variety of third party clients for storage...