Hello everyone. I recently noticed that sometimes on youtube, I would be unable to change the playback speed from normal (x1) to anything else. It would just say "custom" or "normal", with no way of clicking out of normal, or adjusting it to e.g. 1.5 or 1.75 times the speed.

Hi there,

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisely. 
Have you heard of Pegasus? 

This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners.  It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. 
It works well on Android, iOS, and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I'm getting at.

[FIXED]: Drupal 9 Error: Call to a member function transformDimensions() on null in template_preprocess_image_style() (line 263 of core/modules/image/ image.module)

In many domains, critical information is deliberately written down twice in two different places. While this might appear redundant, the practice is a safeguard against errors, loss, and failure. The underlying principle is simple: no single point of failure should be able to compromise the system.

...of course this took longer than anticipated, but I have achieved this milestone, writing and executing a complete functional test in Drupal. It was not an easy, trivial test - and the path I took in implementing it highlights the gotchas and difficulty of writing such tests. As well, my process is likely not be unique, and the challenges I faced appear common. It there appears valuable for me to put down a quick writeup on quirks and tricks I saw along the way. In this article, I assume the reader is an intermediate Drupal developer.

Lost my laptop, possibly due to a virus, and now I have to rebuild it. Yeah, losing a laptop is hard. On the one hand, I have to be ready for such unfortunate events. And I actually am ready - I have a recent backup. I have non-recent backups, as well. Most important things are also duplicated in the cloud. Some heavy files like videos aren't backed up, but I'm actually not losing much there. And I managed to back up text files and important small files of the most recent days, via a tether. So I'm good, overall. 

For testing ansible roles, I need a docker container that runs systemd or init - a container in which services can be enabled. I also need this container to be accessible via ssh. This way, I don't have to spin up cloud resources (which are not free) in order to test doing something on a remote.

Molecule is a testing framework designed for Ansible roles, collections, and playbooks. In the Ansible ecosystem, it provides a structured workflow to develop and verify infrastructure as code. 

In order to improve my writing skills, I should write on a regular basis. The amount of writing is measured in either the number of words written, or the hours spent writing. Of course, there is an inherent conflict of interest, an inherent corruption when measuring work in such a way. See The Inherent Corruption of the Employee.

How will I promote and market my material? And for what purpose? What am I selling? What is the path (karate-do) that I'm pursuing, what is in my DNA? These and other questions are answered succinctly in The Core.

To create an image for a Raspberry Pi, you generally have two main scenarios:

1. Starting fresh with a new OS (e.g., Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, Home Assistant OS).
2. Cloning or backing up your existing Pi setup into a custom image.

Here, I'll explain the first method. The steps are:

Here’s a clear, step-by-step tutorial on using WireGuard to route all your internet traffic through a VPN.
We’ll go through installation, configuration, and making sure all traffic (not just some) goes through the tunnel.

WireGuard: Full-Tunnel VPN Setup