Google Pixel 8 Pro 18mm f2.8 1/35s ISO16

BA285

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(Published to the Fediverse as: LHR SFO #photo #plane #lhr #sfo Photo of BA 285, from LHR to SFO )

I know what this review is trying to say but nonetheless I have been chuckling for two days about all the women ruining the view on this 18 mile long beach, especially with the accompanying photos.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Chesil Beach #etc #beach #chesil #dorset Women, ruining the view at Chesil Beach as usual. )

Winter begins at 09:20 UTC on December 21, 2024, unless you're south of the Equator in which case happy summertime to you. Rendered in Catfood Earth.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Winter Solstice 2024 #code #catfood #earth #winter #solstice The exact moment (09:20 UTC, December 21, 2024) of Winter Solstice as rendered in Catfood Earth. )

Google Pixel 8 Pro 18mm f2.8 1/25s ISO26

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I've been Fediverse curious for a while, but even with its decentralized nature I'm not interested in creating content for someone else's platform. This blog has been federated for a little over a year thanks to Bridgy Fed, a nice free service that handles most of the gory implementation for you. I was delighted to learn this week that the project is now part of a non-profit, A New Social. Maybe the decentralized Internet stands a chance of coming back again? I'm cautiously optimistic and will be integrating a bit harder next year.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Bridgy Fed and A New Social #etc #ithcwy #bridgyfed #fediverse A New Social is a non profit that is taking on Bridgy Fed and hopefully opening up the Fediverse. )

Google tried this with Duplex, but for the solved use case of making a restaurant booking. The restaurants didn't like it and we didn't need it.

What I want is - transcribe my voicemail and send me an email. During that step drop any obvious spam. If I choose to reply to the email phone the person back, repeatedly, until you get them on the line and convey the reply and take down any response.

This looks like Twilio for the telephony, Whisper for the transcription and OpenAI realtime for the conversation. Do I want it badly enough to build it? Maybe. I should do this first though.

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I have occasionally been critical of Android, so I'm delighted to have something positive to report. For even fairly long articles I can now read the whole thing!

Over the last few updates my phone has become almost useless for reading. I'm probably an edge case in the TikTok era, but reading is important to me. Android has got progressively more psychotic about preserving battery life with Adaptive Battery and the war on background services and numerous other 'enhancements'. If I take my attention away from what I'm reading for a split second Android kills the process, plows salt into the memory it once occupied, and emails the developer to request an environmental impact statement.

In theory none of this should be a problem because Android has an activity lifecycle that tells the app it's going to be hung, drawn and quartered. The app can then save the current state and restore it when the user comes back to the app. Of course many developers can't be bothered with implementing this properly and Google seems to set a very bad example here. Chrome - back to the top of the article for you! Google news - full reload of a fresh slate of stories so the one you were reading isn't even in the list any more.

Android 15 blissfully fixes this and has done more than exercise, diet or beta blockers for my blood pressure.

I hope it's not a regression...

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A hyperlapse of the ~4hour drive from San Francisco to Shasta Lake in California. Shot on Rivian Drive Cam. Details for getting usable footage from that here. Edited in DaVinci Resolve.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: San Francisco to Shasta Lake #timelapse #video #hyperlapse #sanfrancisco #shasta #rivian Hyperlapse of the drive from San Francisco to Shasta Lake, I80, I505, I5. )

Rivians have a drive cam feature that will continually record footage from four cameras (front, rear, left and right) while you're driving. It's a built in dash cam which immediately got me excited to make hyperlapse style movies of interesting drives.

My first attempt was very, very sad. Rivian dumps out the footage in some fisheye format that looks terrible. It also often skips frames, so when imported to DaVinci Resolve the dread Media Offline error pops up all the time during playback. Insta360 Studio handles the dropped frames and so I created the hyperlapse there and tried to zoom in enough to fix the fisheye but overall I was very disappointed. Hopefully Rivian fixes the footage or provides some sort of tool to make this feature usable at some point.

Today I wrestled with the problem a bit more deeply and got something working. The image at the top of this post is a drive cam frame that is dramatically improved. The trick is using the lenscorrection filter in ffmpeg. The filter requires k1 and k2 coefficients which I solved for by generating hundreds of videos and eyeballing them, like the horrifying experience of visiting an optician and suspecting that they're going to write your prescription based on your opinion of which letter looks better. After much juggling I settled on -0.45 and 0.11. In terms of command line this translates to:

This re-encoding also has the happy side effect of fixing the dropped frames.

I would love to have some official numbers to plug in (hint, hint Rivian). My Rivian is a 2025 Gen 2 R1S - I have no idea how much the camera module varies between different Rivian variants so this might work for you or might need more fine tuning. Having cracked this I'm currently processing some footage of a trip to Shasta Lake and will post that soon (update - it's here).

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Fix Rivian Drive Cam Distortion #code #rivian #ffmpeg Using ffmpeg and the lenscorrection filter to fix the fisheye distortion on Rivian Drive Cam footage. )