Development notes and stuff
After reading yet another article about an AI agent wiping a home directory, I finally decided to protect myself. A quick search led me to Firejail for VS Code. Since I use Ubuntu, this is a perfect match.
In this article, we look at two ways of adding video fade-in and fade-out transition effects. A fade is a transition that gradually moves to or from an image to or from black. Fades are often used at the beginning/end of videos but it’s possible to use crossfade effects between scenes.
ExoPlayer provides an easy way to play a selected part of a media that also works for live streams. We consider two ways to achieve it.
In Android 12, a new file format was introduced to store system settings. Previously, the Android OS stored the settings in XML format. It was easy to read and edit them using any text editor (of course with the root permission).