I've edited well over a thousand hours of video on my (Debian) DaVinci Resolve workstation. It's a rock-solid video editor that I can spend a day in without having to worry about a crash.
But I desperately wish Blackmagic would bring support for VST3 plugins and JACK to Linux. Or, at the very least, allow me to use my MIDI control surface in Fairlight on Linux.
As it stands, I have to do all of my audio production in Reaper, and that's a bit cumbersome.
> It's a rock-solid video editor that I can spend a day in without having to worry about a crash.
Is that praise? I would hope the bar is higher.
I bought a used computer four years ago to edit 4K video, tens of thousands of raw files off my big Sony cameras, write, light code and research. Many thousands of hours of hard use.
In five years I’ve never had a single program crash and certainly not the whole system go down. Uptime is many months.
I've already encountered two instances of something I was interested in learning about being linked using Nitter / XCancel, and those links are now quite deceased.
Please link to primary sources. If I need an alternative method of accessing the site, I'll figure it out.
A key design decision was you only need to replace the domain in the URL. So you need only replace it back. It's not like archive.is where I need to also save the original.
I won't be the first on HN to mention how having a niche tech blog is becoming unmaintainable, and this reads like a greenlight to scrape away. The Creepy Crawlies post[1] from a few days back was basically a checklist of nonsense I have to deal with, albeit on a smaller scale. Even so, it's getting outside my budget.
I'd much prefer a world where everything is not locked behind a login with bonus 2FA, but that sure seems like where we're headed.
The question is if your neighbors are ready for that.
I think a lot of survivalist planning seems to forget that few of us live somewhere so far out that we don't need to account for our neighbors actions.
Some parts of the country are going to be more resilient than others.
I grew up 45 minutes away from Boston and all of the neighbors had standby generators. Even more have wood stoves. Water is abundant. Actually a lot of the old houses were built pre electrification or shortly after so there’s no limit to how long you could survive without the grid.
I'm blocking the Amazon search crawler, anything coming from Googleusercontent, and limiting AI crawlers to search rather than allowing AI assistants. The residential proxy waves are something to behold, but Cloudflare does an okay job catching those in the AI labyrinth. Still, it's all a bit silly, and I can't imagine what large sites deal with when I'm tangoing with this much nonsense on a small tech blog.
My Raspberry Pi 4 has been used to run both a Jitsi and Trackmania server over the years. I never considered using the SD card since it can boot and run from a USB 3 flash drive. Later on, I picked up an Argon One case to add a SATA SSD.
Thankfully, modern Rockchip SBCs tend to come with NVMe slots.
Played around with it a bit this morning. It ships as an AppImage and the launcher opened a browser that allowed me to create an account and bounced me back to the launcher to log into RuneScape.
Anyone in their late 30s or early 40s should be grateful. We got to be stupid teenagers on the internet without any of it going on our permanent record.
That was the golden age of the internet. What followed was the total enshitification. Now, I barely use the internet. As a kid I could get lost on it for hours, there was so much discovery. This was before every link tried to sell you something or steal your information from you.
Being a nerd growing up in a rural area with access to the internet was a godsend to my teenaged years over the 1990s. So much discovery and fun. Video games weren't uber-competitive, yet. The early 1990s was amazing as most of the pre-commercial web was geeks with special interests, college kids, and nerds (including JWZ's proto-blog). My god, there were people like me out there! And they were grown up and living good lives!
There was bad/terrible stuff on the internet, too. For several years in the mid-to-late 1990s, the top IRC channels listed in alphabetical order were CSAM listings prefaced with special characters (eg 11111111!!!!!terriblechannelname). You'd eventually stumble onto some racist pages and, tame by modern standards, pornography. But it wasn't part of any organized corporate or nation-state agenda. Nowadays the internet feels like a tourist-trap where everybody is trying to take advantage of or sucker you.
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