@amoroso I am working to fix that this very moment.

Okay, I think I have negotiated a defensible truce with Kdenlive.

I am manually editing the documentid property in the files, to give them unique numbers:

777 = prefix for Lunatics, so I know it's one of mine
01 = "series 1"
01 = "episode 1"
0n = scene sequence number (TR=01 ... SF=07)
(00 for top level, 11 for end credits, main credits get a library #)
nn = role-based: 01 main, 02 sync, 11 desc audio, 2x for BTS extras

And THEN I am deleting the "storagefolder" property, because it isn't necessary. I don't see any way to do this in the GUI (the obvious thing, to set the radio button to "default" does not do it), so I'm just doing it in the file. Apparently, if you never changed the cache folder, this property is never added, and it seems to work fine to delete it.

That seems like the best option for portability, because it won't hard-code my own directory structure.

It does seem to be hard-coded, though -- it doesn't use the default location I set in the Kdenlive settings, but always $HOME/.cache/kdenlive.

But it'll do. #Kdenlive #Cachefiles

@CCC
Die GeBeDI-Initiative kann ich nur begrüßen und unterstützen. Nach meinem persönlichen ePA-Test habe ich widersprochen und die Akte löschen lassen. Sie beinhaltete Monate verspätet tatsächlich nur Datenmüll, mit dem kein Arzt etwas anfangen kann. Die aufgeführten Abrechnungen der Kasse waren falsch und die behandelnden Ärzte hatten keinerlei Befunde eingestellt. Abgesehen von der Datensicherheit ist auch die Bedienung eine Katastrophe.

@hacks4pancakes Since canceling a sub give you an opportunity to tell them why I’d suggest anyone looking, especially if you have some time before it expires, don’t be shy in telling them why.

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A new website for Catodon, and more updates
#catodon

In which the glimpse is a gift, the best holiday approaches, and I wish us all candy plus luck.

A Last-Minute Fuel-Valve Change Nobody Told the Software Team About Made Apollo 5's Guidance Computer Shut Down Its Own Moon-Lander Engine

https://lockergnome.com/last-minute-fuel-valve-delay-made-apollo-5-computer-shut-down-a-working-moon-lander-engine/

#apollo #nasa #software #retro

@jonah Like self-hosted @ente, @stalwartlabs etc under a coop? I'm definitely interested seeing that :)

PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing.

New in V0.5.0

New & Improved

• Shareable Blocklists: Users can create, maintain, and share block lists of users, communities, instances, or domains. Users can be hidden completely or muffled.
• Roles: Permissions have been changed into ‘Roles’, these offer expanded functionality. Admins can create multiple roles choosing what permissions they can be given, if any. As well as setting upload and storage limits, ability to post video, etc. Posts can be restricted to certain roles for matters of voting and commenting.
• Temporary Bans: Now users can be banned from an instance for a limited range of time. This also fixes the nasty bug that leads to temp bans from Lemmy never expiring on PieFed instances.
• Instance Chooser: Discovers new instances from Fediseer, as well as polling other instances. This removes any singular point of authority in seeding new instances and helps disperse discovery. Instances in the chooser also show Fediseer endorsements, and Fediseer tags can be searched for to help find instances based on content.
• New User Experience: New users are better presented topics when joining to help discover content, and a user with no subscriptions is shown a list of popular communities and feeds they may want to join.

Bug-Fixes & Misc

• Inline Comment Editing: Edit your comments without leaving your position on the conversation.
• Visual Changes: Small changes to create a more unified modern look.
• Bento Tiles: Masonry Tiles are revamped into Bento boxes, masonry-wide has been removed. Removed security issue in tiles.
• Instance Vote Settings: Admins can select if up/downvotes are accepted from an instance.
• Instance Overview: When browsing instances additional information about them is displayed.
• New Fonts: Ubuntu and Open Dyslexic have been added. Ubuntu is now the default font for new instances.
• New Post: Starting a new post no longer changes targetted community when switching post type, non-allowed post types are hidden if that community does not accept them.
• Themes: PhpBB and Trans theme are currently removed awaiting some much needed fixing, they will return in the future.

Google’s latest Nest Learning Thermostat is $60 off just in time for sweater weather https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1022819/google-nest-learning-thermostat-4th-gen-casio-ws-b1000-watch-deal-sale

Giveaway time!!

Get in your donations in for the Loading Ready Run Shopping Spree (you will get a $200 giftcard to the store)

$5.13/multiples thereof for the next 55 minutes

https://desertbus.org/2026/prize/1cjJnLAHy2d3MuBY648Z7

@woozle @rpmik @crowdotblack Accurate and reflects what I am experiencing in a government agency in terms of hammer use. Unqualified people are using llms to write emergency plans that are... hot garbage to say the least. It is too easy for many folks to skip the time learning the basics and reach for the hammer. Yet is immediately telling when incompetent people create slop and pass it off as handiwork.

The answer of whether to use a tool or not becomes not 'can you', but 'should you'. Either people have their own use cases, the "I use AI for..." Or they avoid it altogether. I ask my team and colleagues: Is the cognitive debt worth it? Could you have created a meaningful connection to solve that problem collaboratively?

I'm looking forward to when more advanced models can run locally on hardware and independent of the megacorps. It's just too bad that these corps are burning up our limited resources to make the SuperHammer. Not to mention driving up our bulk electric rates for my state by double-digit percentages for the last two years running...

/also opinion and 🧂

@cwebber reflections on trusting trust when your reproducible build was made possible using code generated by an org whose development tools are compromised by a supply chain attack

where we actually are now.

Really hope we will be able to review places directly in the app one day. Im not a big fan of MapCompletes UX. This is a really cool feature and I already made some reviews.

now's the time to write that unhinged fanfic, instead of reading one

Does anyone have any good recipes, please?

@bengillam ❤️