If you want to play around with different elevator algorithms, there’s Elevator Saga where you can code your own.

The video I saw had a disclaimer at the end saying that no device has been built yet.

Reminds me of this one, that made rounds some years ago and turned out to be fake as well.

I’d probably go retro, use something like Dillo and stick to more classic webpages. Or go full Gopher/Gemini.

Instead of uBlock Origin rather use AdNauseam. It’s basically uBlock Origin, but it “clicks” on the blocked ads so the ad networks still have to pay website owners.

IPoAC

EDIT: Meh, they’ve removed the example picture for “packet loss”.

It’s a mix of --codec copy to not reencode the streams, --map 0:1 to select the audio stream of the input file and for merging back you need multiple -i input files and then --map 0:0 to map the first input file’s video stream and --map 1 to map the second input file (English audio stream). Mappings may vary - use ffprobe to check your files.

You might want to look into Tdarr. Configure it once and let your old computer transcode away automatically.

For audio stream replacement - if you get the exact same video (same intro length, same scene lengths, same total length, etc.), you can easily replace the audio streams and it should work out. ffmpeg is your friend to do it lossless.

database schema improvements, which is a particularly tricky thing to work on

Not, if you know what you’re doing.

I dont like AI, I wish I could go back to the world before it, but I cant.

You do know that you can use LLMs to get inspiration and suggestions but then still implement those things by hand? Which is also a great way to make sure it doesn’t change something else in the background. Also, if you use Claude like you’ve used StackOverflow and Google before, you don’t even have to mention it as a Co-Author.

Pro-tip: Block the user “claude” on GitHub and it’ll show you a warning for every repository where they forgot to remove the Co-Author tags:

v3 Migration Guide

[!NOTE] Upgrading to Paperless-ngx v3 can only be performed from version 2.20.15. If you are running an older version, please upgrade to v2.20.15 before proceeding with the v3 upgrade.

dovecot/dovecot and solr should do the trick. At least they do for me.

EDIT: Two advantages of this setup for me: I can easily drag&drop emails from my other email accounts to this “archive” account in Thunderbird. And once I want to “seal” an archive folder, I can gzip the underlying mbox file and make it read-only (dovecot needs to be configured to store mails in mbox files).

Eh, there’s not really a better/worse between Gitea and ForgeJo. Gitea is targeting business customers, ForgeJo is targeting the open source community.

Yes, I’m using that after a short foray into Pixelfed. And together with @mczachurski@mastodon.social 's Impressia iOS app it’s a really good experience.

You can tune SearXNG results in a similar way. There’s just no easy UI for it.

And yes, it’s often slower than commercially available search engines - but it’s completely free, without trackers, and it’s combining results from various different engines. I can live with that.

Residential IP (runs in a Docker container on a Raspberry Pi 5 here), pretty much vanilla (apart from Marginalia).

Kagi is still $10+tax a month. That’s $120 a year (plus tax).

SearXNG is $0 and a few minutes of my time whenever I tweak the configuration.

No problems with my SearXNG here at all (just have to look into Qwant):

Do you know about the MAILTO= lines in crontabs? That’s exactly what they’re there for. (And your script needs to output error messages on failure, of course.) You’ll need a local mail forwarder like ssmtp or exa, though.

And rejoining the EU would help with that in what way?

Or as Osho Rajneesh put it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwVdAwmeEF4