Software

Recently I was made aware that a new video codec was released: AV2 And it genuinely annoyed me. I ended up having a discussion/rant about it, and this blog post is basically a summary of that. For reference, I’ve been messing around with/learning about codecs and file formats for nearly 20 years, so my annoyance comes with reasons. It’s Happening yet Again For people not knowing exactly what AV2 is, I’ll try to explain it simply: AV2 is a video codec, a codec is basically a “format” / set of standards in which you store media. ...

This blog post exists to announce that I have a new project. The Project Trakt (the movies/shows tracker) has recently gone the enshitification route: Their new UI is awful: It’s missing specific views (like season view for TV shows), the list of your comments/reviews is gone, ratings are now out of 5… for reasons… seeing your watch history is now done 1 week at a time, you can’t rate seasons anymore… and so much more. People are complaining about it, but the staff isn’t listening (and actually banned a lot of people from their forums… and often from the actual website too)… It also removed features and became hostile to free users (then again, paid users also lost features, like automatic data export - and some of the banned people were paid users). This is probably the (second) worst UI redesign I ever saw. It feels (and surely is) vibe coded… So I fixed the UI by only using them for scrobble and making my own UI from their data export, in pure markdown: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/trakt-export-to-markdown ...

This blog post exists to announce that I have written a new article on my Wiki, because having that specific article on my Wiki makes more sense than having it as a blog post. If you want to read it, it’s available on https://wiki.thefrenchghosty.me/macos/delete-dsstore-files-automatically/

After almost 2 years working as an IT technician (doing basically the job of a Sysadmin… for a lower salary), I was “invited to leave” by HR and accepted, I am now officially unemployed. What does this mean for PussTheCat.org In short, PussTheCat.org will remain as is… partially (see what’s next below). I started to fix longstanding “issues” of it recently (moving Rimgo to another server, updating/enhancing the homepage…) and it will continue (I also plan to deploy at least one more privacy frontend). ...

Context Over the year I used 5 different registrars, I started with Namesilo (because of the cheap price), with OVH (because of the cheaper price on some TLD), then moved to Gandi (from Namesilo and OVH). I also used Namecheap (an awful registrar), Porkbun and Regery (because of the cheap price on one of the TLD I wanted on a domain I don’t use for now). Gandi has been my main registrar for years for multiples reasons: great UI, great ethic, France-based company. The prices weren’t good, but what mattered to me was the rest (as long as my domain don’t cost me more than 20€/year each), the service was great and it was a good company. ...