Would not matter anyway. From what I learned, guns actually require the barrel to direct the force of the propellant forward, pushing it against the projectile, like a pressure tube. Without it, the projectile would just flop out while most of the force just vanishes as it expands out to the sides.
Not sure what temp this stuff burns at, but it seems highly unlikely it would be hot enough to set off the primer, or that the beetle could produce enough of it to sufficiently coat the rounds to have this effect.
Also, if this somehow did cause the cartridges to fire… pretty sure that would kill the beetle anyway.
I though it was Vientiane for a second. It isn’t : they don’t have tall buildings there.
Little story about Vientiane and cats: there’s a old lady that feeds the street cats twice a day, at 8 am and 5 pm. Like clockwork, about 20 cats show up 15 min before those times and just wait for her. It looks a lot like the picture, only with a lot more cats. Moral of the story: cats can precisely tell the time.
Mine used to take half an hour removed about my lazyness to feed them, but I was on time, not them. Got fed up (pun intended) and bought a couple of automated feeders. Not my problem anymore. Weird fact: instead of removed and yelling to the auto-feeder, they wait silently in front of it for the very same amount of time or more.
Well it makes sense, people like to share cat pix with kids. No swearsies. Of course, cats swear and curse all the time, but kids just think it’s cute maows.
GIF is really terrible as a video format. You can upload actual video with sound on Lemmy (most instances use a 20MB, 900-frame limit, also server-side ffmpeg often times out) or Pixelfed (15MB, unknown frame limit).
Yes, I know you didn’t bother to use an AI or commission an artist to sing the new lyrics but you could mux in an instrumental version (or heck, even just leave the original) for me and others who may remember the melody from the radio but don’t associate it with the music video.
YouTube doesn’t provide GIFs. It provides videos. Conversion to GIF is an unnecessary step. Use yt-dlp, Aegisub and ffmpeg for a FOSS way of downloading a video, trimming it and burning subtitles into it.
The correct way to get someone to move to FOSS is to show them how to do it, not tell them it exists. OP already said they can do the YouTube -> captioned gif in 10min so you need to provide a simple tutorial that identifies the tools to use, how to set them up, and how to create a workflow to achieve the goal of some format with captions in under 10min.
Notice how I explained what was wrong and how to do it? That’s what’s missing from most “you need to use FOSS” posts, including yours.
I thought the average !programminghumor user is already FOSSpilled. Of course you don’t have to use the FOSS tools but they are convenient enough to be able to make this in 10 minutes.
Anyway, the relevant commands are
<span style="color:#323232;">yt-dlp -f </span><span style="color:#183691;">"bv*[height<=480]+ba"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --no-mtime --convert-subs srt --write-sub https://www.youtube.com/watch</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">?</span><span style="color:#323232;">v=9SOryJvTAGs
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># aegisub needs srt; we don't need above 480p
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">aegisub </span><span style="color:#183691;">"The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].en.srt"
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># now go rewrite appropriate lines in gui, apply style and save as "LoveShack.ass"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ffmpeg -i </span><span style="color:#183691;">"The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].mp4"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -filter_complex </span><span style="color:#183691;">"[0:v]subtitles=LoveShack.ass[s];[s]crop=w=640[f]"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -map </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">f</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -map 0:a -ss 49 -t 21 -acodec aac -vcodec libx265 -crf 20 crowdstrike.mp4
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># crf 20 for generously high quality because file size is small anyway
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># or for Lemmy upload (no sound, WebM to prevent encoding...
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># ...and subsequent ffmpeg timeout errors; my instance limits uploads to 10 MiB)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ffmpeg -i </span><span style="color:#183691;">"The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].mp4"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -filter_complex </span><span style="color:#183691;">"[0:v]subtitles=LoveShack.ass[s];[s]crop=w=ih/3*4[f]"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -map </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">f</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -ss 49.5 -t 21 -vcodec vp9 crowdstrike.webm
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># note that Lemmy instances limit videos to 900 frames (usually 30 s) by default
</span>
I didn’t bother recreating your subtitle and cut timing but I did crop the video to 4:3. The frame rate is doubled and so is the apparent resolution, while the file size is 6x smaller; the Lemmy version is also about 6x smaller but I went for low-bitrate 720p:
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