October 2023

J'ai très hâte à la nouvelle saison 5 qui sort demain.

J'ai mis la petite Bande annonce au bas de la page.

http://www.lapetitevie.net/

A few weeks ago, my CDN (philcdn.net) stopped working.

So, I stopped using it.

A few days ago, it started working again.

So, I just started using it again.

I have a single PHP script that handles all videos on all of my websites. It passes videos through philcdn.net if the domain is in the list of domains I configured.

This PHP script also checks the mp4 file to make sure it is below 512 MB (Cloudflare's limit).

Les 6 nouveaux épisodes viennent de sortir sur ici.tou.tv.

Il est 3h du matin et j'aurai de la difficulté à me rendormir.

Quand je vais me lever vers 6-7h, je vais enregistrer les épisodes pour les mettre sur mon site :

http://www.lapetitevie.net/

Je viens d'enregistrer et de mettre en ligne le premier épisode de la saison 5.

J'ai essayé de l'enregistrer en 1080p.

J'ai échoué.

Je testait ma technique avec de petites vidéos et tout marchait très bien.

Malheureusement, ça ne marchait pas pour les épisodes de 22 minutes.

Le fichier ne voulait pas jouer dans VLC.

Alors, j'ai utilisé le "analog hole" et a utilisé mon convertisseur HDMI vers Composite (la plug jaune) et la carte WinTV qui est dans mon serveur.

C'était beaucoup plus facile.

Je n'ai eu qu'à stretcher la vidéo de 4:3 à 16:9 avec ffmpeg (mon convertisseur écrase la vidéo 16:9 pour entrer dans un signal 4:3).

La qualité vidéo est très acceptable (même si c'est 480p au lieu de 1080p).

http://www.lapetitevie.net/

J'ai réactivé mon compte ici.tou.tv pour voir les nouveaux épisodes.

Mon but est de mettre en ligne les six épisodes de la saison 5.

J'utilise :

Mon iMac.
Un adaptateur USB-C vers HDMI (qui sert de 2e écran au iMac).
Un adaptateur HDMI à Composite (la plug jaune).
Ma carte WinTV qui est dans mon serveur.

Pour enregistrer, j'utilise dd :

dd if=/dev/video0 of=video.mpg

Quand l'épisode termine, je tue le processus dd.

(En fait, je me suis fait une page web me permettant de commencer et d'arrêter l'enregistrement avec un bouton).

Je vais prendre l'après midi pour enregistrer et stretcher les vidéos de 4:3 à 16:9.

J'ai enregistré les épisodes 1, 2 et 3 et je suis en train de stretcher l'épisode 3.

Les six épisodes sont maintenant disponibles :

http://www.lapetitevie.net/

Au cours du premier épisode, on peut entendre des bruits d'ordinateur (dong).

Ces bruits viennent du Terminal.

Je n'aurais pas dû toucher à mon iMac pendant l'enregistrement.

Je pensais peut-être réenregistrer le premier épisode.

Hier, j'ai ré-enregistré l'épisode 1 (de la saison 5) et j'ai vidé le cache de mon CDN.

http://www.lapetitevie.net/

J'ai ré-enregistré l'épisode 3 de la saison 5 car il y avait des problèmes d'audio.

http://www.lapetitevie.net/

Au lieu de purger mon CDN au complet, je n'ai purgé que cet épisode.

J'ai fini de regarder la saison cinq il y a quelques heures.

J'aimerais voir une sixième saison.

That film made me laugh.

Although it would have been originally classified as "horror", I think it would be now classified as comedy.

http://movies.philippe97.ca/Jurassic%20Park%20%281993%29.mp4.video

Hier, mon père a testé mon site (www.lapetitevie.net) sur Edge et la vidéo s'arrêtait à 3 minutes.

J'ai accédé au fichier mp4 directement et il n'y avait pas de problème.

Le problème est donc avec mon CDN.

J'ai donc temporairement désactivé mon CDN lorsque le User-Agent contient 'Chrome/'.

Yesterday, me and my dad replaced a plank in front of our shed.

I just added a <link> element to every item in my blog's RSS feed.

I also changed how <guid> is made.

You can now download version 13 :

http://code.philippe97.ca/blog/

My blog's RSS feed had a small bug.

I was using date('Y-m') instead of date('Y-m', $time).

It seemed to work fine with all articles being in the current month.

You can now download version 14 :

http://code.philippe97.ca/blog/

Looking at my logs, it seems that someone put my website (lapetitevie.net) on Facebook.

Unfortunately, I don't know where it is from as Facebook removes the path from the referrer URL.

I just renamed 'Season 13-14' to 'Season 13-14 2022' since there will be two sets of special episodes between seasons 13 and 14.

I will name the next set of special episodes 'Season 13-14 2023'.

As soon as the episodes become available on The Pirate Bay, I will upload them to my website.

http://www.doctorwho2005.net/

I will also upload french subtitles for my mom when they become available on opensubtitles.org.

https://www.opensubtitles.org/fr/ssearch/sublanguageid-fre/idmovie-20511

I just added a download link to every song.

http://musique.philippe97.ca/MacBook/

Yesterday, we noticed some mold on the drywall in the basement.

My dad opened the wall and found that water leaked on the outside of the big drain pipe when we used water in the new bathroom we built on the second floor (two stories above the basement).

So my dad opened the wall of the first floor bathroom to find where the water is coming from.

The problem was a pipe that broke in the wall.

Before we built the second story bathroom, this was a vent.

It is now a wet vent that is used as the drain for the second story bathroom.

This leak has probably been there for years and we only just found out about it.

Here is a photo of the first floor bathroom wall.

The pipe to the right that is cracked is the vent for the sink.

I uploaded pictures of my server to my website.

http://www.philippe97.ca/server/

My dad finished fixing the leak.

After my dad fixed the first leak, we noticed another small leak.

After opening the wall, we found out that there is a tiny hole in the pipe.

My dad plugged the leak with some bonding putty.

J'ai reçu un courriel de la CBC me disant que je portais atteinte à leur copyright.

J'ai donc mis hors ligne mon site web (lapetitevie.net).

I just saw on Wikipedia that the first new episode will air on November 25.

I can't wait :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_episodes_(2005–present)#Specials_2

Mon domaine (lapetitevie.net) ne pointe plus vers mon adresse IP.

dig donne une erreur NXDOMAIN.

(Je suppose que quelqu'un a supprimé l'enregistrement A)

J'ai donc désactivé le renouvellement automatique du domaine.

(Je vais le laisser tomber)

Ça aura été le fun le temps que ça aura duré.

I don't get the point of trying to differentiate "real" and "not real".

Personally, I don't need the concept of reality.

I don't need to know what is real or not.

The way I see time, things can only happen one way.

To me, there are no parallel universes.

I believe that even when you make choices, you could only have chosen what you chose in the end.

The theory that humans create parallel universes with their mind is completely retarded.

To me, again, what happens in your mind can only happen one way. No choices.

I spend most of my thinking in places where I can't write it down.

Outside, in the shower, in my bed, etc.

The only things I remember are the conclusions I ended up with.

Those conclusions are what I write on this blog.

We often put this invisible mental barrier between out skin and the environment.

I personally prefer to not have this barrier.

We are mixed up with the environment. Our body exchanges molecules with the environment.

Matter goes in, matter goes out.

We might as well not say "in" and "out" anymore.

Also, I find it weird that we also want to mentally separate our internal and external organs from their surroundings.

Like the heart, lungs, legs and hands.

I like to see things as one ginormous blob that encases everything in the universe.

I also find it difficult to understand how scientists separate living organisms by specie.

All living things differ from one to another. Why say that some difference is within the same specie and some other difference is part of another specie.

Like the chicken and egg. Which came first :

This white oval thing that some day, we suddenly recognize as an egg.

This meaty feathered animal that some day, we suddenly recognize as a chicken.

There is a point when the egg becomes an egg and a point when a chicken becomes a chicken.

It starts as not being an egg. You move one molecule and suddenly it becomes an egg.

It starts as not being a chicken. You move one molecule and suddenly it becomes a chicken.

The answer is which is recognized first as an egg or a chicken.

No separation. No bodies. No organs. No species.

I find it annoying that we have to think in "states".

We think one way. Something happens. We think differently.

I see this constant change and I would like to be able to constantly adapt to it.

Instead of being in one state at once, I would like to "go up one level" and "game the system".

But what happens is that I just would get into another state. The state of being ready to new states.

Then we are back to square one. Even that state (of being ready to new states) can be replaced with a new state.

This is my work PC.

It rebooted itself and asked me some questions.

I could either choose "Remind me in 3 days" or "Continue".

Then, Windows wants me to put all of my files on OneDrive.

This is sick and gross.

You can opt out. You just have to select the right button.

Context :

In Doctor Who episode Extremis, a way to know whether you are part of a computer simulation is mentioned :

If two people choose a "random" number at the same time, the numbers will be the same.

Supposedly, this is because when computers generate pseudorandom numbers with the same seed, the sequence of numbers is the same.

I do not agree.


If you are making a computer simulation of the world (say, at atomic level), the simulation of a brain has no use for a PRNG (pseudorandom number generator).

When you are choosing a "random" number, there is nothing random in your brain.

When saying "three", there is no "three" in your brain.

Therefore, there is no need for a PRNG. So there is none.

So, if you are part of a computer simulation and two people choose "random" numbers, they should often be different.


Another thing that annoys me, is that they also say that you can escape the simulation by suicide.

Even if you die, the simulation continues, your body is still there and is still interacting with the environment.

You cannot escape the simulation.


Another thing that annoys me, is that they also say that every person is a separate program in the simulation.

This is ridiculous, to me there is no separation between the body and the environment.

It therefore does not make sense to separate the body and environment by making the bodies programs. To me, the entire simulation should be a single program.

You can read one of my older blog post :

http://log.philippe97.ca/2023-10.html#1698436761

I just added a big border to articles when you link to them.

Example :

http://log.philippe97.ca/2023-10.html#1698596888

You may have to reload the stylesheet :

http://log.philippe97.ca/style/sheet.css

You can now download version 15 :

http://code.philippe97.ca/blog/

I just added a link to every article.

Hover over the article title and a "#" link will appear.

If the links appears without hovering, reload the stylesheet :

http://log.philippe97.ca/style/sheet.css

You can now download version 16 :

http://code.philippe97.ca/blog/

I just finished watching the first 17 seasons of How It's Made.

I started watching season 1 on August 8.

http://tv.philippe97.ca/How%20It%27s%20Made/

I just made some changes to the CSS and HTML of my blog.

I changed <p><table><p> to <table class=menu>

You may now download version 17 :

http://code.philippe97.ca/blog/

A branch fell on the high voltage power lines and we lost power.

It lasted from 9:35 to 12:02.

This is why my website was down for 2 1/2 hours.

I tried to turn on my work PC but the screen stayed black. The little power light was on.

I pressed the power button a second time.

Eventually, I got a CMOS error.

The PC booted normally after pressing Enter.

The battery might be flat.

I went through all of my websites and added this line at the top :

This website is not official. It was made by a fan of the show.

I wanted to clarify that, as my websites could be mistaken as being official.

Unless the sleigh itself can fly, I would think that the sleigh would be hanging vertically from the last pair of reindeer.

In an atomic-level simulation of the world, many many many atoms are required to store information about a single atom.

For example, when storing a single bit on a hard drive, lots of atoms are used.

So the simulator is bound to be much bigger than the simulated world. No matter what it uses as information storage.

Unless you have a black hole or something, where you would take a whole world and compress it.

This also applies to teleporters and cloning machines : The hard drive must be much bigger than the person.

If you are inside an invisibility cloak, how are you going to see if light does not enter the cloak ?

I just made a webpage listing the thoughts I put on my blog.

http://www.philippe97.ca/thoughts/