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As jammmety said; for AAC encoding yes, but don't worry - you can have ffmpeg use that encoder to get the best of both.

> You couldn't even rewatch the program unless you got lucky and recorded it.

And even then, the "pause" function on the majority of domestic VCRs would invariably obscure the interesting parts of the frame with "noise bars".

Correct - that's a feature. You can learn the pattern of key presses through a series of individual functions to execute more elaborate tasks quite quickly.

> Physical buttons make this impossible.

For many years now we've had various interfaces that use physical buttons whose function can change at different times during operation, the current function being indicated by the screen: Old fashioned ATMs with 4 buttons on each side of the screen, many business-class feature-phones had "soft-keys", even old DOS programs that used Function Keys are conceptually similar.

There are differing degrees of compromise vs utility.

> For ~20$ I think I can buy a PDF of the standard from ISO.

You might find most standards for ~20 USD, but ISO8601 direct from iso.org will set you back 173 CHF (~200 USD) for part 1¹, 194 CHF (~220 USD) for part 2². For $20 you get only the latest amendments from them.

Meanwhile the Estonians will gladly sell you their version of part 1 for just under 30 USD.³

¹: https://www.iso.org/standard/70907.html

²: https://www.iso.org/standard/70908.html

³: https://www.evs.ee/en/evs-iso-8601-1-2019

You can download the Opus directly with -f 249 / 250 / 251 (~48kbps / ~80kbps / ~128 kbps respectively, but youtube don't always make them all available, where are -f 140 for the ~128kbps AAC (.m4a) is always available, and often the format code 139 (~48kbps) - the lower bitrates being adequate for most speech based content.

OT (amusing parody): https://youtu.be/Zh3Yz3PiXZw [00:09:06]

To the untrained eye: "Coding is to a software engineer, as cutting is to a heart surgeon."

Very nice! Please count this as one more request for it.

Still, one could say that no one wants a portaloo (mobile toilet) in their living room.

... plus a 5MM EUR fine, and whatever other threats may have been made.

Maybe these blog posts¹² from Red Hat will help. I haven't tried yet, just found these earlier.

¹: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/rootless-podman-nfs

²: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/nfs-rootless-podman

Spectrograms are not always a reliable way to judge audio quality of lossy-encoded files.

Lossy codecs use psycho-acoustic models with are designed to save space by discarding data that's unlikely to be missed by humans. - Often frequencies that would be masked by other sounds.

This process often results in what looks like 'holes' in the spectrogram, if compared to a lossless 'smooth' version.

Most people then (wrongly) assume that he file then sounds bad, when actually the bits saved there may well have been used to better encode part of the spectrum that human ears would notice.

It's quite possible to generate a great looking spectrogram that yields a poor sounding file and vice-versa.

Lossy encodes *always* cause some further degradation of audio-quality with each encode so it's best to leave lossy files as is, and always choose the least processed version. (e.g the 128kbps AAC (.m4a) from youtube will always be better than any MP3 version of the same source).

Audacity, SoX , & FFmpeg are also capable of producing more accurate spectrograms than Spek (with a steeper learning curve of course).

Much more informations on this and related topics at Hydrogen Audio[0]

[0] https://hydrogenaud.io

Using Hexadecimal instead gives over 6.5 times as many possibilities in the same 4 characters - should be more than adequate.

I know airline systems have a lot of legacy code so it might be difficult, but at least logistically (having adequate space to print / display them), and for humans to deal with it's not too difficult.

Fair point, thanks.

As I recall they said similar things about their encrypted email service, giving the impression that there was nothing to share with Authorities. Then they gave up enough personal information to lead to the arrest of a French activist.

That was a great listen, thanks.

Also KeePassXC -- if you don't like the idea of 2FA codes being in the same db as passwords, it's straightforward to use a separate db for 2FA only.

Manage your own sync between devices with syncthing, dropbox or whatever you prefer.

Some text files, email, and an old ircII script from August 1997, some PGP encrypted data from '98, and an nmap-2.03.tgz from early '99. Happy days.

And you don't then use that knuckle to pick up food, and eat with.

Much cleaner.

I like the wormhole-william[0] Go implementation of "Magic Wormhole" protocol on the CLI. There's a couple of compatible Android apps[1][2] in the F-Droid store and Rydmport[3] for your GUI loving friends.

[0](https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william)

[1](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.pavelsof.wormhole/)

[2](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.leastauthority.destiny/)

[3](https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport)

Setting a lower resolution format via "ytdl-format=..." in the mpv.conf file may resolve that. Personally I also use "pause=yes" and find that the few extra seconds it has to cache also helps.

Apply tape to the door and frame length-ways at the top and all the way down the opening edge. Layer it up with some overlap to re-enforce both whats on the door, and the door frame.

Do likewise at the bottom edge, adding a seal to the floor / carpet. Don't be frugal (these are drunk roadies in full prank mode)... use your imagination ;)

But with a roll of 3M Gaffa Tape, you can secure an hotel room door such that those inside inside the room can't open it without help from outside.

* other brands of very sticky strong tape are available.

Especially as any finished product may end up being compressed again. Lossy to lossy audio transcodes ALWAYS cause additional audio data to be lost.

Or 4 when it turns out you're trying the HDMI port instead.

They likely would if only they had money to spend. Someone would at least try.

HN readers might like this version too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYWGCEm2Dc

… and set "Both Shift Keys" to toggle caps lock.

Precisely. I suggest a healthy dose of "What other people think of me is none of my business", 2 or 3 times a day until symptoms diminish.