Juozas's Dump

Loforo just broke

It appears that kyselo server had an expired certificate used for it for a while today. Then it got fixed later as the bad certificate were replaced with correct one. This does not happen frequently but when it happens it gets annoying very quickly.

Upgraded ram for my old computer

It was the time to upgrade ram so I looked for compatible ram modules the internet and found some on Ebay. They arrived a bit earlier than expected and not so pricy so it was a good deal. Earlier I tried different ram but that didn't work so I had to look for compatible ram list in my motherboard manual and found some still available to buy. I upgraded ram to max amount possible so the system performs way better now as there're virtually no slowdowns as there''s enough memory to run most things.

Twitter now autolinks browser.search. Great :\

My firefox installation on Ubuntu got updated to 124

Mozilla is ready to release Mozilla Firefox 124, so Mozilla ppa for Ubuntu already has it already built even before the release date even though currently it is in the beta state. Because of that  Firefox version 124 got installed even if officially latest release is only Firefox 123 and no Release notes for 124 is ready yet.

Misspelled words now triggers google captcha...

Loforo down

Can't access loforo from anywhere since this morning. It appears to be down as server is not connecting from any device no matter the location. Will have to wait and see if it comes back up :)

Update: It's back up. It came back online after some time, it appears there was an outage where the site is hosted.

YouTube Has Gone Too Far This Time

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4gXhmzQztE

Found out that disabling network.preload in firefox about:config page breaks many web sites, including a popular lithuanian news site.

loforo down again :\
Edit: it's back up :) hopefully it was a temporary glitch :)

Rage quitting upon trying Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS after trying to compile nvidia driver while using 3.x kernel backported from the later release. More described in post "rm -rf --no-preserve-root /"

My external hard drive is failing. It has been faulty for a while, not worthy for backups. Might get a new drive soon so I'd be able to save any data from it that is worth saving. Had to run fsck on it just in case so bad sectors could be found and marked as needed. I also bought an usb 3 card so those checks would complete sooner.

My internet died today

The primary isp connection I use to connect to the internet just suddently stopped working. It appears it's an issue related to my area (city) and I'm only able to use mobile phone internet that has limited data. Worked for a short while, then - gone.
Edit: It's back. This was a temporary downtime. Fixed on isp side.

Archive of Our Own was recently taken down by a DDoS attack. They partially came back up with a message saying they're mitigating issues. They'll probably come back up later after things calms down :)

(solved) Still can't upload webp, not sure if it is implemented yet, no mention of it anywhere in the source code on github or in bitbucket issues :\

Recently checked newTumbl and found it got wiped of the earth. Gone. Not even a warning in email. Nothing. Didn't even had a chance to backup some stuff. Just suddently went down into abyss with everything gone.

Changed my vpn server ip

Google was detecting my vpn server ip's country as Russia while actual location it was hosted on was Lithuania. So becouse google was doing this frequently I was forced to change my ip so this nonsense would hopely end. Now I'm waiting for dns to propagate until the hostname is reachable again. This server also hosts my minetest server software and it will be unreachable on some points in the world for a while.
Edit: It's now live on my end. Should be reachable everywhere soon.

(solved) Webp not supported. While a majority of other sites supports this format, trying to upload webp image here fails with an error. Exiftool info of example image that failed to upload is listed below.

ExifTool Version Number         : 12.40
File Name                       : insertfilenamehere.webp
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 94 KiB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2023:04:29 18:14:26+03:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2023:04:29 18:14:26+03:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2023:04:29 18:14:26+03:00
File Permissions                : -rw-rw-r--
File Type                       : WEBP
File Type Extension             : webp
MIME Type                       : image/webp
VP8 Version                     : 0 (bicubic reconstruction, normal loop)
Image Width                     : 617
Horizontal Scale                : 0
Image Height                    : 617
Vertical Scale                  : 0
Exif Byte Order                 : Little-endian (Intel, II)
Subfile Type                    : Reduced-resolution image
Bits Per Sample                 : 8 8 8
Compression                     : JPEG (old-style)
Photometric Interpretation      : YCbCr
Samples Per Pixel               : 3
Thumbnail Offset                : 83682
Thumbnail Length                : 12992
Image Size                      : 617x617
Megapixels                      : 0.381
Thumbnail Image                 : (Binary data 12992 bytes, use -b option to extract)

Youtube is buggy as always. It's category bar is dissappearing from the top of the page most of the times and is not getting fixed no matter how many reports I send about it being broken.

Linus Tech Tips and Tech Quickie channels got hacked on youtube. The channel url was replaced with a scam url. I was able to save a screenshot before it was terminated by YouTube.

Google being stupid annoys me more than needed. Searching almost anything from mobile triggers a captcha.

Google captcha triggeted by attempting to search Easter 2023 in lithuanian.

Zero Width Space

A vere useful where text needs to be wrapped and regular spaces cannot be used. The unicode for it is 0x200B, in linux it can be inserted by typing Ctrl+Shift+U with unicode characher code following right after that

This​is​a​test​paragraph​where​unicode​character​that​is​invisible​space​otherwise​called​zero​width​space​is​used.​It​wraps​around​the​edges​of​the​screen​and​/​or​parent​element​and​is​very​useful​in​other​places​.​Text​just​nicely​wraps​around​such​place​even​if​it​looks​weird​otherwise​.​I​used​it​in​my​blog​settings​so​my​social​links​would​wrap​around​nicely​where​needed.​Unicode​is​a​​very​useful​indeed.

Having a nbsp (0x00A0) in tags also returns weird results in when browsing and/or reading posts. It also can't be copy-pasted. It must be typed manually by using keyboard shortcut and hex code right after that.

Found a duplicate post while checking old posts for tags

Recent post which was dupe of an old post has been deleted.

Twitter removed ability to use SMS 2fa codes w/o using Twitter Blue subscription. Great :\

Youtube Full Screen is broken when using Theater Mode

This morning I noticed that screen would turn blank with audio still playing in background as soon as YouTube player were switched to full screen, I thought my pc was broken, almost was ready to reboot it on the spot. Then I found that the theater mode would be the cause. It seems to be a yet another bad youtube updade, will have to wait till they fix it and avoid the theater mode wherever possible.

Update: It appears that this YouTube bug has just recently been fixed, I don't encounter any new issues while using YouTube in fullscreen when the player is in the theater mode.

Loforo down :\