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At some point, I had some issues converting some files with ffmpeg, most particularly videos on my Fedora install.

Turns out fixing this is really easy with the help of RPMFusion.

If you haven’t enabled it at the system installation, you can do that really easily via a single command which will install the free and nonfree variants of the repository:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpmCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

Now, you can just swap ffmpeg for the RPMFusion one like so:

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

This will install a bunch of codecs and replace the regular build of ffmpeg by a more permissive one (in terms of what you can do, not licensing).

Keep in mind that if you want to keep your system free (as in freedom), you might not want to do this.

It’s something I had enabled back on Mataroa, but that I didn’t really bother enabling again: comments.

As a bonus, if you don’t want to type your email and name in the field below, you can also reply via any ActivityPub-enabled software (Mastodon, Misskey, etc). Just paste the link to a blog post in there and reply to the post.

It goes without saying: please remain civil in there.

As the second bonus, pingbacks should also be enabled now, though not sure how they work.

I recently started playing Starbound again after a hiatus of a few years.

For the context, I have a pretty big history with the game, buying one of the old supporter tiers (Pixel Tier, in March 2014) and playing though all the first betas up until the final release and subsequent (rare) updates. I also ended up contributing quite a lot to the mod adding French translations to the game which was fairly fun to me at the time.

This time, I’m not using the official game client, but rather another one called OpenStarbound which corrects some bugs and adds some features taken from other patch sets.

It’s honestly good to see that the community still has its passion for the game, and still maintaining that sort of stuff.

Here are some pics of my colony, made on the first planet I spawned on:

I finished the main quest in about 5 hours of gameplay, without rushing for anything and right now progressing through the endgame steadily.

I still need to get all the unique boss drops to upgrade them to on the weapons upgrade anvil at some point. The bounty hunter side also needs some work.

And yes, this is basically without any content mods, the vanilla game is fun enough to me.

I’ve recently discovered that the EU has their own vulnerability database: EUVD.

As noted by the message on top of the page:

This website is currently in its beta phase. We appreciate your collaboration in reporting any inaccurate or incomplete information via the link below “Provide feedback”.

The site is still in a really early stage, but hopefully it gains a bit more traction as the future of other vulnerability databases is uncertain (for instance, with CVE almost dying abruptly due to a contract ending).

As of now, there also are no feeds (RSS more particularly) to watch this database, so hopefully this will be added soon.

Enabling DNSSEC on systemd-resolved is quite easy.

First, let’s go in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/main.conf and add/modify the file like so:

[Resolve]
DNSSEC=true
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

For good measure, you can also enable DoT (DNS Over TLS) in there, which you can use with something like DNS0.

Restart systemd-resolved using systemctl restart systemd-resolved and voilà.

Now, if you type something like resolvectl query j4.lc, you should get an answer like so:

j4.lc: 95.217.179.88                           -- link: enp6s0
       2a12:4946:9900:f00::f00                 -- link: enp6s0

-- Information acquired via protocol DNS in 141.7ms.
-- Data is authenticated: yes; Data was acquired via local or encrypted transport: yes
-- Data from: network
Code language: CSS (css)

On the contrary, if you try to query a domain which has an invalid signature, for instance with resolvectl query badsig.go.dnscheck.tools, you will get:

badsig.go.dnscheck.tools: resolve call failed: All attempts to contact name servers or networks failed
Code language: CSS (css)

Do note some domains might stop resolving because of this, in which case, contact their admin so they can correct the issue.

Also, on my side, resolution hangs rather than displaying a proper error, which seems to be something like this bug (or maybe another, haven’t looked too much into this yet) on the systemd issue tracker.

On April 13th 2025, I managed to receive some odd signals on 14.090.00 which sounded just like packets of information being sent.

What’s weird is that I only heard this one this particular frequency twice, on the 13th and a day prior.

Here is a recording of those:

Currently, I’m using a Kenwood TS-430S with a homemade wire listening antenna.

I should receive a better antenna very soon, so maybe this frequency is allocated for something I am not aware of yet.

Here in Finland, it’s the Good Friday, meaning we get this Friday and next Monday off work.

That’s plenty of time for me to re-play some of my favourite games, and on the menu this time: Yakuza Kiwami 2.

I’ve finished this one months ago, but remains the one with the best music in my opinion.

If you’re interested, you can grab it DRM-free on GOG, or just grab the (almost) whole series DRM-free.

I wish the more recent games such as Gaiden, Ishin, Infinite Wealth and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii would be released on there, but hopefully this will happen soon enough.

If I manage to do what I wanted, I’ll go ahead and re-play Yakuza 6 as well, but we’ll see.

I’ll write a larger review of the series at some point in the future. In fact, it’s been in the works for a while, but I haven’t finished it due to the sheer amount of content in those games.

If you live in Finland, you have without a doubt interacted with Posti. Recently, they announced large changes in their user data processing policies, taking into effect on May 20th 2025.

Bottom of the line is:

• New targeted advertising (directly sending your data to Facebook, Google, Adform and many others)
• Profiling of your data

To avoid getting caught in this, visit the account settings page (on my.account.posti.fi), then on the left, select “settings”.

In there you will need to uncheck two options:

• “Use of customer data for targeted advertising (effective from 20 May)”
• “Profiling (effective from 20 May)”

Also feel free to clean up any options you might have forgotten to disable before.

As a friendly reminder: do not forget to press “save changes” on the bottom of the page when done with the unchecking part.

With this, you should be pretty safe to proceed, tho just in case, I’d still watch this page just in case Posti has a magical bug that would re-enable everything for everyone.

Personally, I find this whole thing kinda scummy given Posti is an essential public service. Forcing that kind of analytics on people can only go badly on the long term.

A few weeks ago, I finally did the final switched and completely nuked my Windows 11 install from my workstation.

The last thing that was keeping me on Windows, VR, is now pretty much painless on Linux. All of this thanks to the guides provided by Linux VR Adventures, and most particularly, the software Envision which allows you to set up and start everything is a very painless way.

As I mentioned multiple times in the past, my distro of choice is Fedora, given it’s really easy to install, use and maintain.

This week we also had some great news, a new Fedora version, 42 which brought on a bunch of cool stuff.

As expected the upgrade was painless, and now my workstation is shinier than ever (just ignore my awful PC building skills and the fact that some USB ports might be fried by now).

I also switched RSS readers and now using NewsFlash in combination with MiniFlux.

So far the setup has worked quite well, and I can access all my feeds on all my devices without having to copy config files around which is a big win by my books.

Hey everybody!

Small update about this blog in particular.
As you may have noticed, the style has changed quite a lot and there are now categories on the right side of the page.

I’ve decided to make it easier for me to maintain this blog and write more in general, which was why I originally moved to Mataroa (but then left because of the lack of IPv6 support).

Since switching back to Hugo, writing stuff has been a bit offputting because it requires me to run stuff locally, managing drafts can be a bit of a hassle, especially when talking about really quick ideas.

So, now that my blog edition is more streamlined, expect more posts in the future!
Fear not, no links were broken in the migration, I made sure to add redirects everywhere.

Don’t forget to update the RSS URL in your favourite reader to https://b.j4.lc/feed/ instead.
The previous one should still work, and redirect, but it’s better to have the correct one.

Adding this afterwards, sorry if I accidentally spammed your RSS reader, I totally forgot to make sure posts wouldn’t be duplicated D: