Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 12

Internet rando to other internet rando: "You're the result of baby-proofing and guard rails. You're the reason everything has safety labels. You're the reason we no longer have Ferris wheels."

Uh. My dude. We still have Ferris wheels.

I was up most of last night simply because I was too tired to execute going to bed.

Hopefully tonight I'll be so disastrously tired that I'll just crash.

"[Millennials don't know what video stores were like]"

Hey Gen X internet person, even elder Gen Z know what video stores were like. There are millennials that have grandchildren, do you think video stores ended when the Cold War did? Oh wait, elder millennials remember the Cold War too!

My first German class used a book with West and East Germany in it, and it was only 2 years out of date.

"Heeeere's Johnny!" was a reference to a Johnny Carson show catchphrase!

TIL.

TAWNY NEWSOME TREK LIVE ACTION COMEDY WAAAAT

No official sources yet, but if this is true then ending LD at S5 is fully forgiven.

#StarTrek #LowerDecks #StarTrekLowerDecks

"I can't find pants", he says, "help me."

So I stand there and just look at him and he starts to dig through the basket of clean clothes. And then I look at him pull out a drawer, examine the contents and take out a pair of pants.

"You're welcome", I say.

"I want your powers", he replies.

In one episode, Blaine (David Anders) was singing right after the intro, and I was convinced that he must be the one singing the intro too, because they sounded so similar.

Nope, the intro is an edit of the album version of "Stop, I'm Already Dead" by Deadboy & the Elephantmen, and the singer is their lead Dax.

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=IKClSYpgKt…

Finished iZombie S3 and it was a great season.

Wikipedia says S4 will be great too, S5 will be pretty good, and the final season finale will be "one of the worst TV viewing experiences I've ever had".

Maybe you can just do like with Star Trek Enterprise and pretend that the final episode doesn't exist?

#iZombie #iZombieS3

@🇺🇦 haxadecimal Oh wow.

Thank you for making the effort for those less blessed. 😊

@Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I probably notice it more than I should. 😅

I think though for most non-native speakers, my accent is easier to understand than many native accents, so I keep that in mind when criticizing myself.

In terms of accent privilege and social status and how that affects your career, I work in a company full of French English, Cantonese English and Indian English, and in that context my accent puts me close to full colonizer status.

Shotcut took 8.5 min to export 24 min ("mp4" ... looking at the file it says it's AAC + h.264), whereas VLC took something like 100 min to convert 37 min (WebM, Vorbis + VP8).

Does the computer have h.264 encoding acceleration, perhaps?

The files are about the same size. The mp4 has fewer encoding artifacts.

Apart from my hangups with my own accent, and honestly I'm mostly fine with it, I'm happy with how I'm sounding in this video. I sound like I know what I'm doing, I sound composed, and I sound like I'm paying attention to the others on the call. 😊

I'm the one demonstrating something, so it's perfectly reasonable that it's me talking 75% of the time. 😅

@necrophcodr Yeah, I cut 10 minutes of silence from a 37 minute video, just by scrolling along the waveform, making cuts within big gaps and removing them.

It's not trying to save the original data back out, it's re-encoding it, as the output file is much smaller. I don't seem to have a choice of format.

@Luci for dyeing

I have found #shotcut in the intranet catalog. It doesn't have an automatic filter, but I got the impression that it can visualize the sound and allow me to manually cut out big silent chunks.

shotcut.org/

@Luci for dyeing

The recording is only my microphone and screen. Half of the recording is silence and nothing happening on the screen, because someone else on the call is talking and I'm listening.

I'm using VLC to convert the video. Is there a way within VLC to skip silent parts when converting? I cannot download arbitrary software on this machine, VLC is what I have.