A statement from Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson shows “Mr Rohrabacher going to see Mr Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr Assange … said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC [Democratic National Committee] leaks”, Fitzgerald told Westminster magistrates court.
Category: Things I Read
Half a Million Mussels Appear to Have Cooked Alive on a New Zealand Beach
It’s happening. Brace yourself.
https://www.sciencealert.com/half-a-million-new-zealand-mussels-have-been-cooked-alive-at-a-beach
The shape of water: What water molecules look like on the surface of materials
The SELF DELUSION – Social and Applied Ecology
#climatecatastrophy #RupertMurdoch – the worst actor in the game of betrayal
Reality update: Rupert Murdoch: Der gefährlichste Mann der Welt – Kolumne – DER SPIEGEL … :
“Die westlichen Demokratien scheinen unfähig, die Klimakrise zu lösen. Das liegt auch daran, dass Wähler vielerorts seit Jahrzehnten von Medien belogen werden. Schuld daran ist vor allem ein sehr reicher Greis.“
A wearable gas sensor for health and environmental monitoring
Dark Patterns – Irreführende Designs mit Methode
″Reporter ohne Grenzen″ contra BND
Wählt die Partei #DIEPARTEI – sie ist sehr gut. #Eichhofener.
Mein #PARTEI-Chef von der Partei #DIEPARTEI im Gespräch mit Gregor Gysi
90 Minuten aus dem tRÄNENpALAST – sehenswerte Unterhaltung.
Oiginal hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3mu63yxII
Opinion | Why Is America So Depressed? – The New York Times
Special sunglasses, license-plate dresses, Juggalo face paint: How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance | The Seattle Times
Welcome to Apple A one-party state
Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why
Weird. Look at the map… That sure is something.
In the meantime, scientists are working to understand why the magnetic field is changing so dramatically. Geomagnetic pulses, like the one that happened in 2016, might be traced back to ‘hydromagnetic’ waves arising from deep in the core1. And the fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada2.
Youtube-Download Scripting (youtube-dl)
I just realized a wonderful feature in Youtube-dl: ytsearch:$SEARCHTERM. If you lack the context, scroll down.
I am using Nextcloud Notes and youtube-dl for automated downloads of Youtube-Videos that I want to watch later or for Music that I autoconvert to MP3s and put them in playlists (yeah I am old-fashioned, I still have tons of Vinyl). So if you enter youtube-dl ytsearch:Feilner, this gem will download the first video found – which is my presentation about Mythbusting documentation:
mfeilner@fibonacci:~> youtube-dl ytsearch:Feilner
[youtube:search] query “Feilner”: Downloading page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: Feilner
[youtube:search] playlist Feilner: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[youtube] Cpug8Iqw3f8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Cpug8Iqw3f8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Cpug8Iqw3f8: Downloading MPD manifest
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 376
[download] Destination: Mythbusting Documentation – Markus Feilner-Cpug8Iqw3f8.f137.mp4
[download] 10.6% of ~323.89MiB at 2.59MiB/s ETA 02:07
After a few minutes, you’ll find the mp4 in your working directory. Guess I have to experiment with that more thoroughly… Update: I just found the beautiful option to tell ytsearch: how many files it should retrieve from the search: youtube-dl ytsearch10:Feilner will download the top ten video files from the search result, ytsearch20 twenty.
But what I also do is: I am using Nextcloud Notes to add music, video, and other stuff that I want downloaded on a local machine. I can add links and stuff to this .txt file from my smartphone or all my machines and laptops. Have a look at Notes, it’s awesome. Only one caveat: First line is always the name of the file. Markup is supported, but I don’t need that. Here’s my download-script that omits the first line and does some path magic – you can see I am not a coder, but it works like a charm.
#!/bin/bash
# download Youtube videos from a list in a txt file and call scripts to convert them
IFS=”¬”
if [ -z $1 ]
then
INPUT=/home/mfeilner/Nextcloud/Notes/Youtube.txt
else
INPUT=$1
fi
echo $INPUT
INFILE=/tmp/infile
awk ‘NR>1’ $INPUT > $INFILE
TEMPDIR=~/Temp/ytd/`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M`
mkdir -p $TEMPDIR
cd $TEMPDIR
while IFS= read -r line
do
youtube-dl “”$line””
done < “$INFILE”
/home/mfeilner/Nextcloud/config/bin/mp42mp3
mkdir MP3; mv *.mp3 MP3/; cd MP3
/home/mfeilner/Nextcloud/config/bin/mkplaylist $TEMPDIR
mp42mp3 converts lots of video formats (it will be improved, yes), and mkplaylist creates m3u files. I also have a mp3tidy script that cleans up filenames by normalizing them and does some basic id3tagging.
#!/bin/bash
# convert media formats
IFS=”¬”
for file in *mp4
do ffmpeg -i “$file” `basename -s mp4 $file`mp3;
done
for file in *webm
do ffmpeg -i “$file” `basename -s webm $file`mp3;
done
for file in *mkv
do ffmpeg -i “$file” `basename -s mkv $file`mp3;
done
for file in *m4a
do ffmpeg -i “$file” `basename -s m4a $file`mp3;
done
I have some more scripts running that tidy up filenames and tags and stuff, but they are too embarassing to publish (yet).
For those that lack the context: Youtube-dl is a wonderful Video downloader for youtube. It also supports direct encoding to mp3, but I prefer to have hands on myself if I need it, that’s why ffmeg comes in handy. And because of the nasty first line in Youtube.txt, I decided to not use Youtube-dls read-from-file mechanism.
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpug8Iqw3f8
downloads the Feilner video from the example above. Ffmpeg could encode it to mp3 so that there’s only the audio, creating a podcast e.g. for the car. Rename would help stripping unwanted stuff from the filename and there’s some tools out there to change the tags properly.
To get rid of the Youtube-ID in the filename and for basic id3tagging I do this:
#!/bin/bash
# normalize Youtube-Downloaded MP3 files after conversion from Mkv or similar,
# ID3-Tag them by adding filename to Artist, Title and Album fields.
IFS=”¬”
INFILE=/tmp/infile
OUTFILE=/tmp/outfile
TEMPDIR=~/Temp/ytd/date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M
FILENAME=/tmp/filename
CHARCOUNT=17
ls *mp3 -1 > $INFILE
mkdir -p $TEMPDIR
while IFS=”²” read -r line
do
echo “”$line”” | rev |cut -c $CHARCOUNT- | rev > $FILENAME
mv “”$line”” $TEMPDIR/`cat $FILENAME`.mp3
id3tag -a=`cat $FILENAME` -A=`cat $FILENAME` -s=`cat $FILENAME`
done <$INFILE
mv $TEMPDIR ~/Downloads/New
rm $OUTFILE $INFILE $FILENAME
What if #Trump’s #waroniran only is meant to …
… divert our attention from Australia and the #climatecatastrophy? People waking up to the horror is the worst thing that could possibly happen to most of his sponsors… unless they really want to start the apocalypse now, full-featured and thus they are glad their president is attacking their Satan.
Big oil, evangelists and arms manufacturers. Well who of them would not benefit from war and climate horror?
This is the recent video that made me think about this from a different angle. It’s after the Iran attack from Jan 3, 2020 :
#heimat #oberpfalz Madonnenstatue gesprengt: Verdächtiger festgenommen
“Sieht aus wie Magie”: Mysteriöse GPS-Attacken in China lassen Experten rätseln | heise online
#Australiaburning – the biggest human caused fire ever – compare the size
And again it’s the Guardian that has made a great tool to show how bad it really is. Boys, girls, this is gonna come to your place, too. Sooner or later, one way or the other. This is crazy. Happy new decade, to all of you. It could be so easy: No flights, no beef, less kids. Everyone can help. Here’s the current size of the fires compared to Regensburg, Southern Germany: