The last few years—maybe even ten—seem to have been a continual erosion of all the things we
held for good. Israel is
perpetrating genocide against a
neighbour. Russia has reneged on
the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which it had committed to refrain from threats or use of force against
Ukraine. The president of the
United States of
America ignores the instructions of the judiciary—and, it seems, hardly anybody
complains.
Why? In this case it's the matter of Donald Trump's deportations of illegal
immigrants who, he claims without proof, were criminals. A federal judge orders an
immediate stop to deportations, to the extent that planes already in the air were to return
to the USA. Trump not only ignored it, he sent at least one further planeload.
That's horrifying. Even more horrifying is the lack of immediate reaction. If that's not a
“high crime and misdemeanor”, I don't know what is. He should be impeached.
But who impeaches him? The US
Congress. And they won't. Given the current international situation, it's less
surprising that no “allied” nation has commented, but not even the US press has much to say
about the matter. Finally Yvonne came up with this article, titled “Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a
Constitutional Democracy”, which includes a description of the steps that led to this crime.
Here a video clip that may or may not include the entire contents:
As they say,
For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a
direct federal court order—and nothing happened. No intervention. No enforcement. No
consequences. A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it.
The really scary thing is that these things keep happening. When will it end? How
will it end?
Trying to get Hugin to stitch a
circular panorama with my 7Artisans 4 mm
f/2.8 fisheye lens has been worse than pulling teeth. I know: I've done both this
week.
Why bother? The only real reason is because it's there. I don't want to stitch
panoramas with images taken with this lens. The combination of fewer images and less usable
area per image makes the result much smaller than with the Olympus M.Zuiko
Digital ED 8 mm f/1.8 Fisheye PRO. The comparative panoramas last month had 17.3 MP for the 7Artisans lens and 81 MP for the M.Zuiko.
So: I think I give up. I'd still like to collect a useful list of all the bugs and
misfeatures that I have run into, but I think the time is past that I would do anything
about fixing them.
Last month I had problems with the ZDF web site, which they soon cleared up. Now I know why: they have restructured
their web site. Previously it seemed good enough to me, certainly far ahead of the
ARD site, but clearly they needed
something different. The new site is different and not obviously worse, though I don't see
any advantage.
A serious disadvantage, though, is that I can no longer download videos!
=== grog@tiwi (/dev/pts/9) /spool/Series/Blutige-Anfaenger/01 176 -> yt https://www.zdf.de/video/serien/blutige-anfaenger-102/wunschkind-124 Downloading https://www.zdf.de/video/serien/blutige-anfaenger-102/wunschkind-124
youtube-dl -c --restrict-filenames -o %(title)s.%(ext)s --all-subs https://www.zdf.de/video/serien/blutige-anfaenger-102/wunschkind-124
[ZDFChannel] Extracting URL: https://www.zdf.de/video/serien/blutige-anfaenger-102/wunschkind-124
[ZDFChannel] wunschkind-124: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [ZDFChannel] wunschkind-124: Unable to extract document id; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
That's a URL that I successfully downloaded yesterday! Yes, update my yt-dlp, with no improvement. OK, enter a bug
report.
Ah, it's already there,
so I suppose it will get fixed soon. But the most important information was simple:
append .html to the
URL. https://www.zdf.de/video/serien/blutige-anfaenger-102/wunschkind-124
becomes https://www.zdf.de/video/serien/blutige-anfaenger-102/wunschkind-124.html,
and all is well. Based on the quick reaction, I'm sure that they'll update yt-dlp to
no longer require this workaround.
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