Vulonkaaz's microblog

New video page

I now have a video page on the site with most of my good videos

For quite some time I wanted to self-host video, it always seemed like a hard thing to do but I reckoned most of the difficulty was due to inefficient compression, most of the videos I will be uploading here are less than 10 megabytes and with a bitrate around 200k or less (I could probably push it further but i don't want my stuff to be unwatchable)

Everything is encoded in AV1+opus or VP8+opus (VP8 is lower quality but is decoded faster on old CPUs), I didn't want to use h264 because I don't like MPEG's patent trolling, AV1 is a great codec but very complex and the encoder i use is as slow as 3 fps on an Intel N100

I might do some encoding guides sometimes in the future, in the meantime here's an ffmpeg command :
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 60 -preset 2 -svtav1-params "film-grain=0:fast-decode=1" -acodec libopus -b:a 64k output.webm
crf is quality (lower is better, max is 63), preset is speed (goes up to 13 which is the fastest/worse), film-grain is if you have lots of grain/noise in the video (0 is disabled), there is a lof of parameters i don't quite understand

I don't ping the RSS feed often, if you haven't checked the site in a while there might be a lot of new things you haven't seen

As a bonus check that page full of low bitrate anime encodes : https://vsv.fractumseraph.net/index.html

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:24:02 +0200

GTK is an absolute joke

So I have that program called Bottles on my Linux gaming pc, quite a good piece of software to effortlessly manage different wine prefixes as well as all the needed dependencies and everything, only one problem : the default GTK4 style really doesn't go well with my KDE themed like a windows 95.

Yesterday I was in a mood to fix that issue, trying to gather information on how to theme that app ended up on Bottle's github, very first thing I saw was a button leading to a site:

https://stopthemingmy.app

At first I was rather angry, since that website was asking me to do the exact opposite of what I wanted, half the document is about butthurt devs and designers complaining about how custom icons "deny" them of "the possibility to control their brand" (as if they have anything to say about how I use their free software on my own system)

Then I downloaded a few themes, strange thing, when I apply a GTK theme nothing happens in Bottles, I open GIMP (the only other GTK app I have) and everything look ugly as fuck way worse than before, so I reverted to the default theme (whatever, I never complained about how GIMP looked tbh)

Then I looked inside the bottles executable (not fan of Python but one upside we can't deny: everything is in plain text) and they actually have a line to BLOCK GTK themes (by removing the GTK_THEME env variable), I tried to comment out the line and it still won't grab my redmond theme, I tried adding a line to force the redmond theme and it just looked like white adwaita with broken padding, obviously not how a redmond theme should look like

So basically on top of being the most bad looking GUI library out there, GTK4 is made in a way that is basically impossible to customize without breaking something, instead of fixing that, devs feel like they should DISALLOW users from customizing their own system. I can understand that getting the issue tracker flooded by retards with a broken theme can be annoying, but when the lib BY DESIGN makes ricing (one of the most important part of the free software culture) impossible, that's obviously the problem

My advice from now on is to avoid GTK as much as possible, for most tools a Qt alternative exist, I never had any problem ricing Qt or KDE. If you're a dev making programs in GTK4, please stop, that's a request I make, please don't contribute to an ecosystem that is ugly and broken by design.

As of myself I will probably spending the next few days trying to decypher that whole mess and hack bottles into looking remotely decent (that or I might write my own frontend as they have a CLI)

That's the first RSS entry I made in a while, there's a bit of new content on the site if you haven't checked in a while and got nothing better to do today (I don't notify the RSS feed everytime I change one line in a file)

I'm actually kind of active just not on that microblog, go check my vidlii page

Tue, 13 May 2025 05:37:20 +0200

minetest is cool (and failed attempts at compiling firefox)

Minetest is one very based and underrated game, free and open source too so you just have to do pacman -S minetest to start exploring the best virtual worlds that the cyberspace has to offer

The view from the terrace of my food stand near Melinka train station on the LinuxForks server, don't hesitate to visit that server its very beautiful, and come to Melinka that's where i live

Today I tried to install the GNU IceCat web browser, which had to be compiled from source, and I totally failed to do so

I now have more respect for Ladybird I said they were bloated and slow to compile but now I truly understand what they're against, in fact they are extremely lightweight compared to the shitshow that is firefox (and its forks like icecat), let's hope it stays that way

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 21:50:07 +0200

showing dillo the love it deserves

dillo is very based and alternative lightweight browsers are very based

made a few changes on my site to ensure dillo users have a somewhat good experience, my site is already pretty based and minimal so I didn't have to do much but I added a background color (dillo doesn't seem to support background images so it used to display ugly yellow as a background on my site) and replaced the one avif image I had with png (avif is far superior but unfortunately not supported well on alternative browsers, and I realised dithering my images was a far better way of making them lightweight)

There's a new alternative browser that poped up recently the ladybird browser and that one's pretty based in the sense that it aims to be actually usable even on bloated sites and to be a viable alternative to the three mainstream engines while not being tied to any corpo or any political ideology. Unfortunatly it is already bloated take a huge time to compile slow af but it might be good in the future

oh btw dillo.org doesn't belong to the project anymore some scammers or something are squatting the domain the real dillo site now is https://dillo-browser.github.io/

edit : actually dillo CAN show background images, the option just is disabled by default for some reason

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:51:48 +0200

saw fireflies for the first time today

Saw fireflies for the first time today, idk how it's possible but I actually never saw any before

Lot of things happened today I finally put a website online (paperchan.club), I started dream journaling again (road to lucid dreaming and other kind of paranormal stuff) and now I see fireflies

For some reason today feel important

(No photos cause none of my cameras can capture that kind of beauty very well

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:41:01 +0200

dithered images are cool

I have an obsession over dithered images since a few days they look so cool

Theres' a lot of new content on the site i added the photos and some art that ain't garfield fanart and i optimized some images

I should be trying to fix my life and look for jobs build my CV and portfolio and stuff instead of that i am procrastinating yet again

am not receiving disability money anymore for some reason not sure if i got kicked out of that or if the administration is just incompetent i guess ill have to look into that eventually

Life is good but i feel tired all day long for no reason and the people i care the most about live ~8000km away from me

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:23:10 +0100

Happy winter solstice 2023

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:45:42 +0100

Happy Halloween 2023

Happy Halloween guys

Been long since the last time I made one of those cards

This one a bit different than the previous ones, Garfield ain't here, maybe it is a new era in my artstyle, less silly goofy garfield memes, more of whatever my normal vibe is, maybe more melancholy, cuteness and sadness I guess

The gal you see on my halloween e-cards is called Émilie, halloween is her favorite holliday so just for her I kinda have to make those cards

Halloween is my favorite holliday as well, even tho i rarely have the chance to celebrate it, most of my irl frens don't really give a crap about it, I'll probably spend that evening on fortnite with that one fren of mine like i do on most lonely hollidays, or maybe i'll hop onto vrchat and see how ppl celebrate here. If any of you wanna invite me for something feel free i guess

One last note, my e-card are meant for anyone who want to send them, that's why i sign them, so if you wanna send this to some chooms of yours feel very free to do so

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:54:24 +0100

new bicycle + lost in the woods

Bought a bicycle yesterday and google maps made me go through this kind of place

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:44:09 +0200

trip in Rennes

so I have been staying in the french city of Rennes for 2 days due to having to take an exam, here what happened :

• train station is so absurdly big it took me 20 minutes to find the bathroom
• LOTS of beggars (this point alone make that city go from average tier to hellhole tier)
• I once saw a guy driving with his car's trunk wide open for no apparent reason (there was a few groceries in the trunk)
• I also saw two young people in a car one of them yelling in a traffic cone
• I had to cope with a big headache with no paracetamol at 4am in the morning (VERY painful)
• subway stations look sicc (as in every big city that has a subway)
• subway make a beautiful strong and powerful noise (there is no better melody than the one of electric motors)
• got a 5€ gift card for participating in a study about Volvic bottles (that was kinda fun)
• there is a cellphone somewhere in the hotel that's vibrating so hard it make my entire room tremble it is driving me NUTS (I had to rent a cheap ass hotel cause prices are absurd in france)

I'm rating this adventure 3.5/10, a few fun things happened and some people are nice but that does not compensate the amount of bad vibes i'm getting from that place, I will be out of there at 10am and hope I won't have any reason to come back

my ass will now try the best it can to stay away from huge cities now, especially if the city is french

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:16:19 +0200

Chillin in the backrooms~

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:18:54 +0200

New microblog

Made a new microblog for my high quality shitpost(as opposed to my low quality shitpost on Pleroma, this blog only will get good content)

Consider this a continuation of my old Tumblr account

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:24:57 +0200