…the knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.| Kostya's Boring Codec World
Archive for March, 2025| codecs.multimedia.cx
There is a Ukrainian word “жлоб” (zhlob) with unknown origin, but probably coming from Polish żłób via Yiddish (and likely donating that meaning back, since in Ukrainian it means only a person while in Polish it’s not a main meaning and does not connect to it).| Kostya's Boring Codec World
Recently I’ve made a mistake of upgrading one of my laptops to systemd 24.04. I can talk about various quality of life improvements there (like brightness control not working any longer so I have to evoke xrandr instead) but it’s so useless rant that it does not deserve to be written. What is worth talking about is hardware acceleration. Previously my player on that laptop had rather unreliable playback with VA-API decoding (i.e. it worked but some videos made it too laggy); now the situa...| Kostya's Boring Codec World
Firefox has finally upgraded for me to the localhost version and apparently the developers (or rather some other “creative” people, I suspect) decided to make it more secure by being unusable.| Kostya's Boring Codec World