Lately, I've been tightening my own personal feedback loops. And working out. I've also been thinking about how sometimes it can be positive to forget things. For example, I've been almost entirely abstinent from alcohol so long now that I can't remember exactly when I first stopped drinking. Maybe it was three or four years ago? I've also spent a lot of time thinking about the quality of habits. A few weeks ago, my mind handed me a big thought—that how we do one thing tends to become how we do everything. I'd like to close out the year by continuing to stay in shape, working on more software, and publishing some new security research about operating systems and browsers.
One annoying thing about YouTube is that, by default, some videos are now served in .webm format or use VP9 encoding. However, I prefer storing media in more widely supported codecs and formats, like .mp4, which has broader support and runs on more devices than .webm files. And sometimes I prefer AVC1 MP4 encoding because it just works out of the box on OSX with QuickTime, as QuickTime doesn't natively support VP9/VPO9. AVC1-encoded MP4s are still the most portable video format. AVC1 ... is by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content, used by 91% of video industry developers as of September 2019. [ 1 ] yt-dlp , the command-line audio/video downloader for YouTube videos, is a great project. But between YouTube supporting various codecs and compatibility issues with various video players, this can make getting what you want out of yt-dlp a bit more challenging: $ yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best...
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