I just changed the RCD, but the new one is too big, so the cabinet door pushes the test button when I try to close it. #diy #fml

Why did I change it? Because the old one didn't work. I had suspected that it was broken ever since the control board in my washing machine blew up in a rather more spectacular fashion than it would have had the RCD actually worked. Anyway, I was doing some electrical work a few days ago and decided to test it while I was at it.

I believe that Microsoft should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity for the way in which they've implemented replies in Microsoft Outlook.

The lack of indentation makes it impossible to discern who said what. Everyone who uses Outlook seems to have come up with their own way to quote the previous sender and this makes things even worse.

My washing machine broke, so I fixed it. It was a bit of a journey, so I wrote about it: https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html

#diy #righttorepair

It is remarkable how little the internet knows about parallel #deflate #compression The best guide on how to do it can be found in a massive comment in the pigz source code.

It's not really that hard once you realise that you can concatenate streams as long as they're flushed (synced to byte boundaries): https://github.com/any1/neatvnc/blob/master/src/parallel-deflate.c

I didn't set the dictionary for each chunk, but it doesn't seem to make a big difference.

Footgun of the day: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VideoDecoder/isConfigSupported_static

This function named `isConfigSupported` returns a `Promise` that resolves to an object, not a boolean.

Very sneaky. I fell right into it; never saw it coming.

WayVNC 0.9.0 was released today: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/releases/tag/v0.9.0.

We now have H.264 encoding on Raspberry Pi, UTF-8 clipboard and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 support. So far the only compositor that implements it is Jay, but I guess that means that Jay users can now also use wayvnc (albeit without input).