So, I was hired to make screen visuals for a beauty contest here in my city. I've spent 2 weeks doing the visuals in the computer of the people who hired me for this, with whom I have previously worked in the past, so in that computer I have everything to work with After Effects.

Last night was it, and they told me to come to help with the visuals.

But I got there, they had all of the visuals already, and they were testing the huge multiple screens, and had severe frame drops and worse of all, it was out of sync, and needed to be perfectly synced with the music.

They were using Resolume Arena, I quickly look up about possible solutions, but it seemed like I would need to transcode to DXV, a resolume proprietary codec. But I was running out of them, people would start coming in one hour.

So, I took the visuals where sync was the most important, pull out my superior Thinkpad with GNU/Linux, and open the terminal.

I tried using ffmpeg to decode, but soon discovered that I can't convert to DXV, so instead I recode the visuals at half the resolution.

In a few moments, the conversion is finished, and I give them the lower resolution videos.

They load the files into resolume, and the problem was fixed. Now it was synced.

The show went great, but I had other mini heart attacks during it.

But I can say that ffmpeg, a FOS software, saved the night.

As an additional note, they left me in charge of the music, so at the beginning of the night, before the event actually started, I just played my Kpop collection from Lollypop because I didn't want to play the typical terrible reggaeton.

I don't really plan to use it on legal documents yet (it is a nightmare to legally change my legal name in my country), but it might sound better online and to introduce myself. I would appreciate suggestions uwu.

Original Toot: https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598

I havent been on Reddit in a while. I reduced drastically the amount of Reddit related content I watch, and gotta say, they helped me a lot a while back to recognize unacceptable behavior, and showing it to my bf was important in his development to recognize how abusive his mom was and taking steps to go leave her and go NC.

But when I listen to it now, it of just, obnoxious most of the time. Someone else feels this way?

I was taking a look at the Naomi Wu situation (A Chinese DIY tech youtuber who went missing after being watched by the government) and in one part they mentioned that she was concerned about her privacy, so started using Signal, but had a default chinese keyboard that had a keylogger and the police had looked into what she was talking on there.

I'm not sure if it was a mobile only thing, but it was mentioned that the keyboard app was used in like 70% por chinese smarthphones.

Now, I use AnySoftKey and refuse to use default keyboard apps, but how far can we reach on the keyboard security thing? Is typing on a computer or using a physical keyboard on a mobile device 100% safe? I think the keyboard issue is often overlooked and would like to know what recommendations your have? Or what should be known more?

Ill start:

"Me cago en tus muertos" - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

This is an opinion piece I wrote in spanish on my blog a few days ago, and now I just translated it to english, for english speakers to read.

I write about the "Straight Moderate", in a way akin to how MLK talked about the "White Moderate", because I fell identified with his frustrations, extrapolated to the LGBTQ+ struggles.

Tell me what you think if you read it, thanks.