New releases: pww3 and MEKA
It seems that I’m way too busy these days to push out releases of those little side projects that I’m involved in. Well, today I managed to get two of those out that have been overdue for a while thanks…
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Blast from the past: vfsjfilechooser2
I haven’t been maintaining my fork of the vfsjfilechooser2 project for quite a number of years now. Hence my surprise that somebody opened an issue regarding a ReDS (Regular expression Denial of Service) in the VFSURIValidator class. Thankfully, Yeting Li…
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requests4j – rewrite using OkHttp
The Java client that I have developed for our User-friendly Deep Learning project makes use of my requests4j library. Currently, I have a team of students developing an Android app for managing image classification datasets for the UFDL project. But…
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Internet Radio
When working from home, due to COVID-19, you do have the luxury of listening to music of your own choice. And it doesn’t have to be via paid services like last.fm or Spotify. No, you can use good old fashioned…
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rsync4j maintenance release
With openssh 8.3 out, I decided to see whether cygwin had updated their repositories as well. And not only that, they also had a newer version of rsync in their repos (3.1.3+20020429). With these two important updates out there, I…
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Vimeo and youtube-dl
Yesterday, I tried using youtube-dl for downloading a video from Vimeo. At first, it looked like it was working, but then the merging of the video and audio streams failed. Bummer…After playing around with ffmpeg for a while, I got…
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Minor release of python-weka-wrapper3
Today, I incorporated some enhancements that I had collected over the last few months for my python-weka-wrapper3 library: It is now possible to specify the class attribute via its index when loading a dataset (Loader.load_file or load_any_file), rather than having…
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PulseAudio profiles
Well, the lockdown hasn’t left me with much spare time, to be honest. But last weekend, I finally had enough with my dock always resetting my default audio inputs and outputs in pulseaudio, whenever my laptop was coming back from…
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Bootstrapp extended
Today, I continued working on my little bootstrapp library for bootstrapping Java applications using Maven dependencies. The main to changes were: Downloading Maven rather than bundling it, decreasing the artifact (and spring-boot-jar) size significantly. Adding experimental support for .deb/.rpm package…
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gvim: buffers to tabs
Sometimes, it is nice to just display multiple files in gvim as tabs rather than tabs. Finally came across a post listing the command for that: :tab ball