Wander

A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759
https://susam.net/wander

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Subtitles rendered progressively?

Premiere 2025

The problem: Subtitles burned into video on export, but the wanted export is progressive. Result: Weird looking subtitles, like some sort of interlaced brokage.

ChatGPT:

  1. Select the caption track.
  2. Graphics and Titles → Upgrade Caption to Graphic
  3. Premiere creates Essential Graphics text layers.

Those render per frame, not per field.

endChatGPT

They still look weird if video is exported as progressive.

man man

Missing ‘man’ command in wsl2?

apt install man-db

Should not be neccesary, but to rebuild the db

sudo mandb -c

King's gambit

Some crazy lines
https://youtu.be/98Iqo5ZSy5c

Paul Morphy’s crazy games
https://youtu.be/CzJbPzRAniY

image of one version of Morphys king gambit

Train
https://lichess.org/opening/Kings_Gambit/e4_e5_f4

Democracy requires intellectual effort

Taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raedl6nj4O8:

Quote:

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Disinformation erodes democracy.
Democracy requires intellectual effort.

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I see democracy as being this sort of metastable
point, if you think of it in some sort of

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a state space, a state space of
different social configurations.

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And the reason it's metastable is
because it takes a lot of effort.

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It requires an engaged population and it requires
an agreed-upon set of facts about what's real

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about the world.
Mark Bailey is a

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faculty member at the National Intelligence
University, where he is the department

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chair for Cyber Intelligence and Data Science,
as well as being the co-director of the Data

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Science Intelligence Center.
This talk was given at MindFest, put on by the

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Center for the Future Mind, which is spearheaded
by Professor of Philosophy, Susan Schneider.

and

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validate the knowledge that you have
about whatever you're asking it about

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and then of course democracy requires
an intellectually engaged population and

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then more critically this agreed-upon
set of facts upon which you can debate

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policy you know and then when this chain
of reasoning is broken that creates

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this this epistemic disintegration so
this has global security implications as

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well this erosion of truth so
the erosion of democracy creates

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opportunities for totalitarian
tendencies to take root so you know as

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the capacity of individuals to ascertain
truth and productively debate policies

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grounded in that true decay or degrades
humans are likely to relinquish their

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capacity for reasoning about policy to
charismatic leaders whose rhetoric may

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align with biases in the population

Winter 2026

image
Winter mountain road, phone snapshot.
Slight vignette added with Gimp.

Yeah, but can I use stuff from ‘motion picture’ frames, like falling snow particles to compose on top of the image?

sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl

Figure out what kind of movie addendum is it

exiftool image.jpg | grep -i motion
# returns
Motion Photo                    : 1
Motion Photo Version            : 1
Motion Photo Presentation Timestamp Us: 558505
Directory Item Semantic         : Primary, GainMap, MotionPhoto
Motion Photo Video              : (Binary data 1935798 bytes, use -b option to extract)

Extract video

exiftool -b -MotionPhotoVideo image.jpg > motion.mp4

ls

6.9M b 21 Feb 19:48  image.jpg
1.9M b 21 Feb 19:53  motion.mp4

video to frames

mkdir frames && mv motion.mp4 frames/ && cd frames
ffmpeg -i motion.mp4 -vsync 0 frame_%04d.png 

The extracted video (and frames) is only 1920x1080px in this case.

Buddha, Coulda, Woulda.

Anyway, show me some diffs between this extracted frames (chatgpt)

for i in $(seq -f "%04g" 1 27); do
next=$(printf "%04d" $((10#$i + 1)))
magick frame_${i}.png frame_${next}.png \
    -compose difference -composite diff_${i}.png
done

Produces bunch of bw diff images, where the snow droplets are clerly visible on some.

Comping some of those diffs in ‘screen & blur’ or ‘lighten only’ modes produces a little bit of kitch magic (diffs are to small for a lot of magic).

How many times is it mentioned?

curl https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10/pg10.txt > bible.txt

cat bible.txt | grep -o -i -w GOD | wc -l 
4472