Wander
19. 3. 2026A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759
https://susam.net/wander
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A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759
https://susam.net/wander
click ‘Wander’ to reload a new page.
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:
Those render per frame, not per field.
endChatGPT
They still look weird if video is exported as progressive.
Missing ‘man’ command in wsl2?
apt install man-db
Should not be neccesary, but to rebuild the db
sudo mandb -c
Some crazy lines
https://youtu.be/98Iqo5ZSy5c
Paul Morphy’s crazy games
https://youtu.be/CzJbPzRAniY

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
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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).
curl https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10/pg10.txt > bible.txt
cat bible.txt | grep -o -i -w GOD | wc -l
4472