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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • This is interesting. I use OTA antenna tv everyday, almost exclusively. I almost forgot OTA HDTV still uses the mpeg2-ts, similar to the dvd codec. Newer tv hardwares (>2010-ish) all can decode mpeg4, theoretically, since they utilize internet streaming apps and services.
    I smell a new format war a comin’.
    I say, go right for mpeg4 h.265, or higher. Instead of mixing mpeg2 and mpeg4, like the video demonstrated. Because no way am i going to “buy” a DRM-protected thing for every broadcaster… I’m currently pulling-in 20+ stations.

    And that may be the other format war… to pay or not to pay.

















  • The code is JavaScript–an integral part of displaying modern websites. Not since the days before 2001 and very simple browsers like Netscape Navigator 3 and Internet Explorer 3 that didn’t yet have javascript. Today that is what adblock is doing - it stops loading untrustworthy or unwanted bits and pieces of code while still giving the end-user (most of) the javascripts they need. Instead of the default action, “ok, gimme the whole webpage code, as-is”. That last sentence, that’s Chrome. I can explain it some more further. But that’s the jist of it.


  • Let’s see…
    1990 - Teen crush invites me over, plays strip poker.
    1998 - Lycos chatted with Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis).
    2001 - Help build a school.
    2006 - Created a webcomic.
    2007 - Gammar was embarrassing, proceeded to write a unpublished 13 episode screenplay as pure spelling and grammar practice.
    2023 - typed this comment.

    Hmmm, 9/100 🙂


  • Ahh, the beloved VCR! Also while recording, pressing pause to leave out the tv commercials, forgetting to unpause, the station interrupting news breaks, a low-flying airplane messing up the tv reception, someone changing the channel while you went to go to the bathroom. And my all-time favorite… dad placing his big brand new stereo speakers right next to the little videotape shelf!