Michal @michal@kottman.xyz

Trying to learn machine by reading from TensorFlow code examples on the internet is like trying to learn databases from various office worker's Excel spreadsheets.

It's finally cold enough to enjoy this... 🔥

Some more research and https://github.com/igrigorik/node-spdyproxy looked promising, but it also only uses CONNECT and it's "tunneling SSL over SSL"... The search continues. I've downloaded Firefox source and looking at the "netwerk" library.

BTW I know about https://mitmproxy.org/ but I do not really care about "interactive". I just need something I can integrate with mod_pagespeed. Solution for Nginx would be desired, but searching Google for "Nginx proxy tls" is all about reverse proxy setup, not what I need...

Many years ago I used mod_pagespeed together with Apache as a "foward proxy" to significantly improve my mobile "web experience". I wanted to try it out this week but faced an issue - nowadays a big part of web is behind HTTPS. This is perfect, but completely breaks my use-case. I need the proxy to modify the traffic. I trust my own proxy, so how do I tell Firefox not to "CONNECT" to remote https servers and trust the proxy to do the TLS validation instead?

Commands for two-pass 480p x265+opus encode at ~1MB per minute (100k video + 32k audio + mux overhead):

$ ffmpeg -i source.avi \
-vf "scale=w=854:h=480:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease" \
-c:v libx265 -b:v 100k -preset slow -x265-params pass=1 \
-an -f matroska -y /dev/null

$ ffmpeg -i source.avi \
-vf "scale=w=854:h=480:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease" \
-c:v libx265 -b:v 100k -preset slow -x265-params pass=2 \
-ac 1 -c:a libopus -b:a 32k -y target.mkv

Remember 128kbit #mp3 songs? What if I told you that within the same bitrate you can comfortably store 480p low-motion videos, e.g. for watching on mobile? #x265 and #opus codecs make this possible. Looking forward to reasonable #av1 encoder to try it out too - I don't want to spend half a lifetime waiting for an encode right now..

I will need to try setting up my own mail server.

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

"Every Linux user is a sysadmin eventually" -- deadcatdidntbounce, 2019

Best site to answer all the questions you never had: https://what-if.xkcd.com/

My two favorite Android apps together

@ChrisWere Almost a year later, after some #steam update, maybe #proton, the "Social Club" works, I can get past loading screen and I am able to run Max Payne 3 on #linux at max quality and I am happy 🙂

I missed uint16max by 1000.1 km...

Often you don't have to travel to another country to enjoy beautiful vacation

@Gargron what is the state of #webp support on Mastodon? I see https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9879 merged but when I try to upload a webp image, I get: "500 Error processing thumbnail for uploaded media"

I just installed and tested Facebook and WhatsApp bridges for #Matrix. Finally my family won't complain about not being able to reach me *and* I don't have to install any extra apps on my phone.

@Gargron are you the "Myspace Tom" of Mastodon?