Ever wondered by many professional YouTubers shoot video at 24 frames per second? You have probably heard it explained away as "the most cinematic" frame rate. You probably also heard that people can't see frame rates beyond about 30 fps. Well, that's wrong (ask a gamer if they notice the difference between 60 and 144 fps).
The real reason why 24 fps is so common is purely historical: It is basically the minimum frame rate that allows a moving image without annoying flickering. Video used to be shot on physical film, so keeping the frame rate as low as possible saved on costs. Apparently it also helped with sound synchronisation.
Neither of these are valid constraints in the modern era. Sticking to 24 fps just makes panning shots look terrible due to judder, especially on a big screen. You are better off going for 50 or 60 fps depending on your region, which will deliver a far more fluid image, so long as you keep your shutter speed at one over double the frame rate.
The default upload file size limit in NGINX is 1 MB, so if you are using it as a reverse proxy for your Tuskfish CMS site, you may need to increase it. You can do this globally for the server itself, or you can do it on a site-by-site basis.
Recommended. I just installed the new Arctic Liquid Freezer III 280 on my AMD 5950x. It is a beast of a cooler. In an OCCT stability test with all 16 cores engaged at 100% workload my CPU sustains 4.5 GHz with a maximum temperature of 63°C, and that's in a warm room (the aircon is broken). There are some reviews showing that it is less effective on Intel CPUs (no idea why) but for AM4/5 it's top tier.
But you are going to hate the AM4/5 installation process. Here's how to make it less painful.
TLDR I have been playing around with Rode Connect software, which came with the Streamer X, trying to EQ my voice. The software gives you choice of a basic or advanced processing modes. The problem with using the basic mode is that it activates all of the advanced controls in the background. You can't selectively turn options off or adjust them and you're stuck with the default values. This means, for example, that the noise gate is turned on in basic mode, which is something that I personally don't like because it is jarring when you do have a bit of environmental noise. So, if you need to turn anything off, use advanced mode.
My Ryzen 5950x became unstable and started throwing random reboots. No errors are reported, and Windows logs just shows a kernel power loss event. The distinguishing feature is that the reboots usually happen when the CPU is lightly loaded or idle, or a few seconds after leaving a heavy workload. The machine passes stress tests without an issue. The consensus seems to be that the CPU is undervolting a bit too far under light/idle workloads. So people are experimenting with many different BIOS settings to try and fix it.
TLDR: After trying every BIOS adjustment under the sun, installing a different OS, and rotating every component bar the motherboard with old spare parts, I was left with only one option: It had to be the motherboard. So I bought a new one, and yes, everything just works great now.
I was going to write a guide to security-related HTTP headers, but it turns out that someone has already done it. So here you go, it's worth a read. I have locked down the out-of-the box Tuskfish headers a bit tighter. The content security policy header can break a lot of stuff (read 'any inline script or style sheet') and requires manual tweaking, depending on what you're doing.
Tuskfish 2.0.7 is a minor update to fix small bugs and add htmx support. Back end toggling of content on/offline now uses a htmx call to avoid reloading the whole page. This makes management easier when you have a large amount of content. The htmx library is now available in /vendor, but it is only used in the back end administrative theme.
Tuskfish 2.0.6 introduces automatic content expiry and sitemap update functionality, via a daily cron job script, updates third party libraries (jQuery 3.7.0, FontAwesome 6.4.0 and TinyMCE 6.4.2). A few bugs were fixed including custom RSS feed error if ID was empty, and indexing of soft 404 and enclosure links has been allowed.
Not recommended. Overally, the tripod is very solid, relatively light (1.3 kg) and feels like it would be good for smiting The Enemies of Journalists. It has a few useful features, including a 3/8 inch mounting thread that retracts to expose a 1/4 inch thread, and three built in 1/4 inch mounting threads at the top of the legs. The tripod legs extend out into three locked positions, including one near-horizontal, allowing the camera to be placed at ground level even without a center column.
I found a couple of minor flaws: Two of three (unneccessary) screws for securing the head worked loose and dropped out on the first day of use, and the spirit level on the supplied head was hopelessly misaligned, ie. useless. Despite that, it's otherwise well-built and fairly decent value for money, but the lack of quality control is disappointing and basically meh. It's ok.
In the late 90's, Macs let you set the colour of any folder from the context menu. Using colours to distinguish folders is fast and easier on the eye than forcing people to browse through long lists of names.
Somehow, coloured folders were replaced with 'tags', represented by tiny coloured and overlapping dots. You can apply multiple tags to a folder, but you have to squint and concentrate to make sense of the little dots, which defeats the purpose. Happily, it is still possible to turn the whole folder any colour you want. Here's how to do it!
