Jonathan Harden

The special live episode of ER (Abmush s04e01) on Amazon Prime Video has a totally messed up aspect ratio. Spent a total of about 30 minutes discussing with Amazon and they can't do anything, it's up to the content owner apparently.

Pretty frustrating a video service can't fix bad encoding.

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A black and tan cockerpoo sat down and holding a soft aeroplane toy in her mouth, the toy has a smiley mouth, where the smiley mouth is positioned makes it look like the dog has a big grin

Squiggle looks especially happy today...

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

...which worked perfectly the first couple of times, and now stops recording the video at frame 57 (so not even a single second given the source is 60fps)

I don't really want to tinker with ffmpeg, so maybe I'll just use OBS for now

Once more unto the breach....the ffmpeg breach that is...

...the video capture device arrived, it works perfectly in Ubuntu, and OBS can record from it no problem, of course I don't want to use OBS really, so I scripted getting it recording with ffmpeg...

...Both defeat and success, but I've got a new BIOS ready for the neo geo.

The USB capture device (which may or may not work under Linux) arrives tomorrow, so I can capture some before footage hopefully and spend the weekend doing some mods

Spent ages writing an ansible role to get the TL866IIplus eprom programmer installed (which requires 32 bit wine), ended up dead in the water. Installed it in windows instead (supposed to be a gaming only computer) and programmed the EPROM in about 5 minutes...

I need a USB (a or c) HDMI video capture device for a Linux laptop. I'm capturing output in the unusual (well, unusual these days) resolution of 1280x1024 at 50/60hz, apparently not all capture devices will support this res, so I'm stumped on what to buy to avoid just throwing money down the drain.

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There's some great stuff below the surface on crunchyroll :)

I absolutely adore after school dice club, a slice of life anime about friendships and boardgames! ❤️

I like the all aluminium versions of the tuxedo books www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Har...

Not a fan of the part alu ones (but that's not about tuxedo computers, it's about all laptops!

A brand-new series of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown starts tonight at 9pm on C4. With Bob Mortimer!

A brand-new series of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown starts tonight, starring Bob Mortimer (which is probably all you need to know). Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

9pm on C4.

A bright green book entitled Earthlings by Sayaka Murata.

Just finished the exceedingly strange (and excellent) Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. I previously read Life Ceremonies and Convenience Store Woman, and this one was a step up the scale, also hits much harder than the others.

Of course I've also ordered the newest book by Murata, Vanishing World.

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The garden was delighted, even if I was not

Lately, any time I'm reading a book and someone makes tea, especially if they are making it for someone else, I get an overwhelming urge to have a tea

...There's so much grief from that time just lurking waiting to consume me, and this book, this wonderful and painful book brought it all to the fore.

I'm going to be fine, at least in the morning.

I've just finished reading a book (More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop) which really spoke to me at a deep level.

Somehow it managed to bring the grief of losing my mum back in absolute full force, in a way I haven't felt since the night she died. I felt like grief was back to consume me...

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It's Monday again and today I'm back to reading Cursed in the Lost City by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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2 books, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa and, The Chieko Poems by Takamura Kōtarō

Reading More Days and the Morisaki Bookshop, the sequel to one of the most cosy books, and inspired by one of the characters descriptions of it also The Chieko Poems

What's with the terrible gaudy colour schemes on many of the ai products. I've had MS copilot enabled on me this week, and Google pushed Gemini out to my phone replacing the old assistant, it's all so horrendously gaudy, how about tone the colours down a bit, or are you trying to hypnotoad us

Some credit though, they managed to publish the Roku app to be available in the UK this year, and it's significantly better then the Android TV and Sky Q apps for it

Sigh, time to pay for the awful DAZN service again means seeing their false advertising that you can watch 2 streams in 1 location. No DAZN, not 1 location if you use IPv6, since they actually mean from a single IP address. Other providers have sane limits for ipv6 (like from a /64 block).

The world is richer for it too. Happy ideaaversary! And thanks for a consistently amazing podcast

Had a regularly scheduled eye test today. Good news, they are still eyes. Bad news, I'm starting to go long sighted as well as short sighted. Good news, the optometrist said as long as I've got enough arm to hold the books far enough away I don't need varifocals 🤣

Love my local opticians! ❤️

Thanks man, and go bills!

...This is a role change of opportunity rather than need, a chance to work with a good sized Kubernetes installation (a first for me) in an amazing team and on something for the public good. I'm really excited, but I would go back to, and recommend Pay in a heartbeat

My final day in my role as Senior SRE and infrastructure tech lead was on Friday, it's an amazing team and I was genuinely emotional leaving. I still remain at GDS, but moving to Senior SRE on the GOV.UK Platform Engineering team...