It’s particularly irritating when security people who have a limited grasp of security set password rules in your domain that force you to change your password way too frequently. It’s even worse when it remembers a history of passwords that you cannot reuse. I am not condoning never changing your password, but a very complex/long … Read more
I recently discovered the Blink SSH client for iOS, and am loving it. It finally makes the iPad actually useful as a mobile ssh workstation in an understated elegant way. However, I really don’t care for most of the popular fonts that are used by newer terminal applications. I am proudly old school, and decided … Read more
When I am converting videos from one format to another, I often need to convert the susbtitles as well. I wrote a script to extract (and convert PGS to VobSub). This is a bash script that I am running on my Mac. If you want to run it on linux, just update the PATHs to … Read more
Subtitles come in a myriad of formats, and not all of them work in every container format, and not all containers are as easy to work with. Converting Matroska (mkv) files to MP4s cause issues when the mkv has PGS (Blu-Ray) subtitles. PGS subtitles can be embedded in Matroska video files, but not MP4s. But … Read more
A while back, I found a nice TrueType font that mimicked the old DEC terminals. It was made by taking the ROMs of a DEC VT220, and creating the TTF font based on that data. It occurred to me that it would also make a really great replacement for the linux console font, where it … Read more
There are a lot of tutorials out in the netland, but almost all of them are out of date, or didn’t address my use case. I run my own domain (can you guess what it is?), and I wanted to allow a couple of users I have that don’t have static IP addresses to be … Read more
In playing with values for ffmpeg to try to get a similar output to my “standard” settings in HandBrake, this is what I came up with: ffmpeg -i “$1” -c:v hevc_nvenc -preset slow -profile:v main10 -rc-lookahead:v 32 -spatial_aq 1 -cq 29 -tag:v hvc1 -c:a libfdk_aac -profile:a aac_he -b:a 80k “$( basename “$1″ .avi ).mp4” This … Read more
Since WordPress is stupid about limiting what kinds of files you can upload with no method of changing it other than installing yet-another-plugin™, there is a quick way to disable the checks entirely if you’re running your own server and are the only one allowed to upload. This fix is global to WordPress, so be … Read more
WordPress is turning out to be really annoying in the amount you cannot do without installing yet-another-plugin™. I understand why they pick some of the defaults they do, but to not give any ready way to adjust them is … irritating. So, to increase the maximum file size of an upload, and also the maximum … Read more
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