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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Pleasant shaves to you all.
The little Spike is an oddly pleasant razor. Smooth, silent, nimble, and the design is the Лада of straight razors.
Stank ++;
Side note: Uploading pictures is so much faster since the migration. It's almost like having pictures didn't have to be a PITA 🤔
Side note: Uploading pictures is so much faster since the migration. It’s almost like having pictures didn’t have to be a PITA 🤔
Heh, welllll.... I just tried to upload one. I get an HTTP 400 from the post to the /pictrs/image endpoint and the response body is Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out. I thought maybe because I was pasting a largish image so I tried a 350kb or so JPG and clicked the upload button ...nope, same deal. Oh, and the UI tries to parse the body of the error response as JSON so it pops up a red box with SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data.
I'll take a look later at why this might be. There are some limits in place to prevent huge files but I'm sure that wasn't it.
Edit: it was pict-rs crashing on account of me uploading a new icon for the instance. Seriously, what the heck.
I got the same error message. I restarted everything and now I can upload no problem.
Why did this happen? I don't know. Will it continue to happen in the future? I sure hope not!
Thanks for your efforts and yay, that works here too! I can paste them even. Nice. Interestingly, I copied a JPG by right clicking in Firefox and it wound up as a PNG when I pasted that. But maybe that's the browser? Still, it'd be neat if the site converts to something more efficient like WebP and maybe caps the res at 4k ...though maybe storage is cheap enough at this point that we could each put a full res SotD from our phones for the next decade without really being a burden? ...and now I wonder if the transcoding can be done client side via wasm or something. Yawn, I should sleep, rambling.
Oh! One thing though: earlier I tried pasting my SotD to another Lemmy instance to see if that works and it did fine. I didn't post it and cancelled the preview. However the image stuck around. Wondered if and how those get mopped up, maybe a cron job? It seems to be there still some hours later, might check tomorrow just out of curiosity.
(heh I think you restarted while I was trying to post this so will also be interesting if the image persists, though presumably shouldn't be orphaned now that it's referenced in a comment?)
Yes, I restarted haha. I took a backup now that everything is working. It turns out the problem was caused by ME earlier today, changing the icon. I changed the banner, too (it's Tabac now), but that didn't hurt anything. Anyway, I had to modify the frickin' database to get things working again. Ridiculous. Now I'm going to be nervous any time I want to change the banner/icon.
Your points regarding pict-rs (the software that handles pictures for lemmy) -- to my knowledge nothing gets deleted. It's a big of a problem long term, but like you said storage is cheap. One day we can even move all of that data and host is somewhere else if storage becomes a problem. Pict-rs is mostly clogged up by thousands/millions of thumbnails. It keeps thumbnails from every federated post in addition to the uploads from our users. Our pict-rs folder is currently sitting at 8-9GB.
Just poked around because I was curious, it does look like the config for pict-rs lets you specify a format to convert things to and a max size/quality: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml#L237
I'd suggest WebP with a quality of 85 and max dimensions of 3840x3840 (because 4k is 3840x2160).
That takes djundjila's photo for today (a 4236x2677 jpeg) from 1.9Mb down to 360Kb for a 3840x2427 WebP.
You might also consider AVIF as that's widely supported as well and looking like it'll probably become the new standard but for now is a bit CPU intensive until CPUs start adding SIMD for it. Too bad JPEGXL lost momentum, it was kinda better (and less CPU intensive). But if the server doesn't mind chewing on it ...that same SotD as a quality 66 AVIF is just 160Kb, eg. less than a tenth the size.
For more info about quality settings: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/avif-webp-quality-settings/
Nice, I'll look into this stuff. Pretty cool.
The weird part is I downloaded a photo that had been uploaded here, and re-uploaded it as the icon/banner (it doesn't let you use a URL for the icon/banner). So that picture exists multiple times in our storage. It also crashed pict-rs, which in turn doesn't let Lemmy boot. Initially my browser downloaded a .webp, but I changed the URL in order to download it in .jpg. I don't have a good program that can edit .webp. So, maybe the problem was that I saved it as a .jpg, when it fact it was a .webp? The banner worked just fine, so I'm not sure. I only cropped the banner image, whereas I resized the icon.
Sorry, I just peeked at the config options and have never run any of this so no idea about the interaction with Lemmy or how to troubleshoot that. What I'd do though is spin up a toy instance on another subdomain/locally in a container and try to reproduce it there. Maybe with a copy of the data from production if that's easy enough to pull off.
But ya only in retrospect - I wouldn't have expected changing the banner or icon to be a risky operation.
Oct 24, 2023 - Tusk Tuesday: Almond Leather
The Aylsworth handled three days of growth like it was nothing and left me BBS.
I needed a scent that is clean, unobtrusive, and refreshing this morning, and Almond Leather did the job beautifully.
Rating: 4.5/5
Almond Leather++
clean, unobtrusive, and refreshing
Good description
Oct. 24, 2023
Good shave. Couple nicks on my neck honestly not sure how.
October 24, 2023
I really like this knot. Overall this was a great shave. I'm starting to pick up a little bit of "Executive Man" in "Piacenza", but I think it's just the citrus in it that might be similar. I definitely like Piacenza better overall. To keep the citrus going, I went with Florida Water as an aftershave. Florida Water is an EdC, so using it as an aftershave requires me to add water, unless I want my face to turn red with alcohol burn. I do this by getting my face good and wet before applying it.
Piacenza++;
I have not tried Acqua Di Parma Colonia but Piacenza always makes me want to.
October 24, 2023
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
This was a closer shave with the WR4 than yesterday's was with the Vector. Same blade. Same shaver. Yesterday's shave was excellent for a 2-pass shave. Today's is excellent for a 3-pass shave, and it occurs to me that I have not done a 3-pass shave with this razor yet. Why? I think it comes down to design differences. I'm very impressed with the cleverness of the Vector, and it provides, good feedback from the edge. It's really a great razor. I think, perhaps, that the WR4 gives me more edge angle latitude control and that suits my style of shaving. Back to straights tomorrow.
Stank++;
Which gap do you have for the WR4?
I have 0.70mm. The standard choices were 0.70 and 0.80, but you can custom order.
The prototype I used was 0.77mm.
October 24, 2023
I don't remember when I last shaved with a GEM razor, but it must have been before July. It was a very smooth shave, and an effortless BBS.
Have a good night!
Been messing around with some honing experiments on troublesome razors and wanted to give my face a break so last shave I used my Fili as that's usually a nice vacation. It was almost but I'm not sure if it was the state of my face, not having used that blade in a while or maybe I really do have a bit of a reaction to Darkfall so I figured let's eliminate some variables and find out about the soap, I'd been meaning to get to know this new Kismet blade a bit better and compare to AC so I'm going to stick to unscentedish soaps and one pass shavette shaves with quality blades for a bit. That's almost a theme thingy, One'n'done'tober 11vember ...something. But I'm not quite that organised and will start messing with it soon enough by seeing how Darkfall goes once I do a few of these then maybe digging out some paste edges to compare to the shavettes.
I like Kai AC blades. This was nice, been a while. Feels a bit sharper than the Kismet yet less stressful as this setup seems less pointy (even though the corners are muted on the Kismet) plus the extra weight lends stability. I guess AC is the wedge shavette and Weck the hollow.
Oh, and this inspired me to order the Canada Shaving Soap I'd been vaguely interested in for a while (as it's rumoured to be comparable to MdC). So far I'd resisted as why would I use that much unscented? But it does have a place and maybe it's SV-ish too, was really enjoying SV lately so here's hoping. Looks promising anyhow: https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/canada-shaving-soap-review.614669/
