That so called regime is a travesty. Hope the Iranian people can some day be free.
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These results are just a drop in the bucket in relation to the grim state of German election results and overall societal discourse.
There's not much room for optimism right now. Very dark skies ahead and things may get much worse before they will become better.
In my workplace we worked tirelessly to get rid of all VMware VMs as fast as possible when new pricing became clear. Thousands migrated. What a huge fuckup by broadcom.
If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.
nice bait mate.
How dare people try to mod a game they bought? What a sad state of affairs, Diablo 2 had such awesome mods.
How come people are willing to download and install pirated software though?
You can just remove "priated" from that statement and come to the same conclusions. Considering the amount of bugs, backdoors and 0-day exploits distributed via official software I sometimes wonder why people execute proprietary, closed source programs at all.
An no, "reputable" companies mean nothing, just look at Microsoft clowning around with their signing keys.
Half of a fuck-ton is still a lot. If they scale down their operational costs they can still run a very comfortable business for a long while on these kinds of numbers.
ohh boy, I almost forgot about that. That was super painful. It's a website linus, not a file browser.
These conversion & deconversion stories always go the same way:
"I'm an impressionable fuckwit who immediately gets on the first ride that looks appealing. But soon I realized I wanted to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride, because it looked much cooler than it actually was. Whew what a relief when I got off. Let me tell you about my current ride, which is much better, the most important ride of the world and you should definitely get on it too. Everyone who doesn't get on THIS ride (which is definitely the correct one to be on) is evil and dooming humanity!
I'm a reformed person."
Meh, there's plenty of naturally occurring things, that look 'artificial' to the human eye at first glance.
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Some metallic spheres after entry of a meteoroid into earths atmosphere are not enough unless you explain how they couldn't have formed naturally.
There's an interesting blog post on this subject (likely someone posted it already): https://dkb.blog/p/google-search-is-dying
I find it to be very agreeable. Search is dying and I don't agree that appending "site:reddit.com" is any kind of permanent solution, just a workaround that will also break.
Xiph really won the lossy codec scene with Opus and I transcoded all my junk to that format. Hitting (my personal) transparency on 128k vbr is flat out impressive
Same here. I've left myself a bit of a safety margin at 144k vbr, but having my whole library at transparent quality AND portable size is very convenient.
Though, now that opus 1.4 is out I feel a bit of anxiety whether i should re-encode everything from flac->opus1.4
Right now, AI-generated works aren’t copyrightable. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generator-art-text-us-copyright-policy-1234661683/ This means you can not copyright the works produced by AI.
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So right now, common AI is producing works that are potentially copyright-infringing works and are unable to be copyrighted themselves.
This kind of judgement is pure symbolic politics, because it's completely unenforceable and I'm confused why you didn't mention it. No one can prove if a piece of art is AI made and no one has to admit it. So yes, AI art can be copyrighted, just not officially as AI art, but it certainly will be and likely already is as long as there's a human 'stand in'.
There's a huge gulf of difference between a matter of fact and a matter of law.
Similarly moving on to a decent issue tracker, Jira’s support for Epic’s/stories/tasks/capabilities and its linking ability is a huge simplifier for long term planning.
Modern ticket system or issue tracker? Yes, absolutely. But Jira? Certainly not, considering Atlassian's business practices. A project like Linux deserves a system where they can maintain some control and it probably should be open source.
Yeah email is ancient and certainly terrible from a usability perspective if you're an outsider to the workflows, but at least it can't be shut off or taken away on a whim. Also it's universal and therefore accessible.
Quite frankly, one of the things that has always irked me about a portion of the Linux community is that as far as I know, a strength and selling point of Linux has always been the freedom of choice. And yet, people start wars over your choices
the "war" about systemd was actually a discussion about the (continuing) ability to make choices, not that some people chose systemd over other options. One of the main points of the debate was that systemd was monopolizing the init process and turning gnu/linux into gnu/linux/systemd.
The assertion that people were just upset like little babies that some wanted to choose a different init is highly disingenuous.
Don't delude yourself: This is just a convenient excuse for them to do this.
Having to maintain an active community outside of their control is an inherited burden from purchasing a former indie company.
In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something?
Never pay money for pirated content or ask someone to pay money for pirated content. Donations to keep a site running are borderline and iffy, depending on the implementation and transparency. As soon as you earn any kind of revenue or treat it as your 'job' it crosses into the unethical IMO.
Second point related to money: Pirating stuff you could easily pay for is probably bad, if the creator receives $0 from you. There might still be reasons to do so (not wanting to support DRM for example), but if you got the cash you better find a way to support the actual creators (merch, donations...). The smaller the author the heavier the moral responsibility to bring some money their way. This also weighs in the other direction: It's probably accetpable or even good to not give more money to giant corporations that abuse intellectual property for their own gains and who shit on creators.
or substituted its own SSH host keys,
why would the backdoor do that? It would immediately expose itself because every ssh client on the planet warns about changed host keys when connecting.
When you thought things can't possible get much worse...
Are there any legit organizations that one can support which help women who still want out to escape this shithole country?
While I’m not a fan of nostalgia-mining or the constant remastering and remaking of games
... but in the same sentence has nothing but good things to say about constant tinkering and overhauling:
companies are still keeping some popular older games accessible by relaunching them with better graphics, fine-tuned gameplay, and even added scenes
Dude sounds like he's just speaking out of two sides of his mouth.
By the way, this is also why they are against game preservation. Artificially making the $thing unavailable is a sure fire way to sell it again 'remade'.
There are tools that are being used to attempt to detect if a piece of work is AI-generated. If those tools say something was, it’s then on you to prove that you hand-created it.
They don't work. It's total bunk.
Even some artists are already having issues because things “look” AI-generated.
Exactly. See above. No one can (confidently) tell which is which. There's just educated guessing.
Tbf Afghanistan defeated a much stronger Russia back in the 80s.
Those were pretty much the Taliban though. No one doubts the will to fight of the Taliban.
transcoding is certianly not ideal, but some releases have obscenely high bitrates and if you're more concerned about archival than max fidelity reducing size by a factor of 5-10x (h264->av1) is worth it for me.
Tip: You will save heaps of space by not embedding the cover on each file, just put a cover.jpg in the albums folder, virtually any player will pick it up.
Except when streaming the file or copying a random file to another location. embedded art is pretty convenient, 500x500 is plenty large enough and doesn't take a lot of space (~50KB)
where I’d have to pay around $260/mo for Comcast Premium Plu
That can't be real. Who pays that for a cable plan (or any kind of entertainment package)?!
Do you really think OpenRC or runit or any of the other init systems people are using have any similarity to SysV init?
Yes? OpenRC is certainly much closer to sysvinit than systemd and in many ways just expands upon it.
LC3plus isn't really HiFi. It's designed to be low-complexity & low energy: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,122575.0.html
Is this guy exclusively attributing frontend desktop experience to "enterprise"? There's more to enterprise than Word, Excel and MS Teams my guy.
But that being said I think it may actually be good to merge it. It seems that there is lots of interest and the maintainers will be around to keep improving it.
Yeah I think people shouldn't hold it against bcachefs to have some issues in experimental stages and going mainline is a good way to catch obscure & rare bugs.
Look at BTRFS. It was known for data loss but now seems to be pretty stable with lots of eyes and lots of work.
IMHO it's pretty unfair how people like to give new, complex, filesystems a 'reputation' immediately, when there are some issues. I hope not the same is done with bcachefs and it gets its fair shake. Occasional issues popping up now (like in your blog post), hopefully, will also allow some of its cult followers to touch grass and get a reality check (filesystem = difficult). IMHO Kent really should remove the obnoxious "The COW filesystem for Linux that won’t eat your data."-sentence from his website as it encourages such nonconstructive attitudes. I'm sure he is aware that, at this point, btrfs is less likely to eat your data by many orders of magnitude compared to his draft filesystem (and that's mainly because most of those data eating bugs have been found and fixed in btrfs, not because it's somehow impossible to corrupt by design).
same as @denissimo@feddit.de I use foobar2000 + wine. ffmpeg is alright, but fb2k is very convenient (especially for replaygain tagging). Afterwards I usually give the files a Picard treatment to get proper tags + covers.
the dude wrote a kernel, I very much doubt he needs to brag about his ability to write assembly.
It seems like that design is made with the idea of removing the screen from the controller, which isn’t bad
Yes, but what's the point? What's going to power the screen once it's out? Pixie dust? What's going to drive the display? Whoever made this is unaware that a tablet is more than just a screen?
or maybe western society as a whole got shittier and people are dumber
Uncompressed WAV files, lol I’ll never get over that
It doesn't even make sense. Simple compression algorithms like in use by FLAC or AAC are pretty much free to decompress on CPUs from this century and the cpu cycles you save by not doing wasteful IO of huge files from storage easily makes up for that.
I'm sure game devs can make some argument to not use 'expensive' compression, but not using any is just wasteful.
Since when does Denuvo block mods?
The whole point of Denuvo (and any DRM in games) is to prevent modifying the running code. Unless there's some kind of official modding system, there will be no way to inject DLLs or do anything else invasive to the running game.
What is your take on this particularly in relation to the SAG-AFTRA strike over streaming residuals? Even if you want to pay for a creator’s work, most ways to consume content now mostly does not get to the creators of a work.
On general principal I always support workers rights to strike and applaud them for fighting for a higher wage.
My personal opinion in this particular case: Many writers in this industry very much overvalue their worth, especially considering the low-brow content they create (10 years or more of capeshit), how replaceable they are (barely any original idea in sight), the low general quality of their work (I'm not even watching this shit for free, you'd have to pay me) and the encroaching power of AI. I've never seen such a long-string of garbage writing coming from Hollywood (or maybe I'm just lucky having observed a golden age of TV) and I've not seen a similar decline in quality from other craftsmen (cinematography, acting, sound and music...) in the industry. Maybe writers can make some short-term gains, but unless they hone their craft to bring it above the level of what ChatGPT can create right now, they are going to lose their power struggle in the long run.
I’m not even sure how renting or buying a title through a digital service like amazon or google is distributed to creators vs how much goes to the platform and copyright holder.
Often there are options. Speaking about music: A spotify subscription is most likely useless for supporting smaller artists, but buying their merch or stuff from bandcamp is a no-brainer if you have the money.
We can totally do it. Let’s work togheter and let’s work hard, there’s nothing more beautiful than to think of possible solutions that would make us all live better.
Maybe we can. But climate preservation is clearly not working: Humanity is not disciplined enough, not capable of working together enough and too focused on short term gains.
I think our only hope for optimism lies in climate engineering and full-on terraforming, it's more our style. But of course, it's about just as scary and can go totally wrong.
does it support foobar2000 plugins?
probably not, since those are windows dlls. So here's a short list of what I'd want from a fb2k replacement:
- a UI plugin with the power and flexibility of Facets/Refacets
- browse library by folder structure OR tags (most only do one or the other)
- powerful query language to actually find what I'm looking for
- binaural stereo for headphones plugin
- convolver
- convert to opus and replaygain scanning
- DR Meter
- handle my >100k tracks library without constantly crashing or being incredibly slow
Most alternatives I've tried can't even deliver on half of those.
12/20 is not a good result. There's a 25% chance of getting the same score (or better) by just guessing. The comments section is a good place for all the lucky guessers (one out of 4 test takers) to congregate.
LDAC is great, but simply stating that the encoder is "open source" is quite misleading (while technically correct). The codec is owned by Sony and heavily licensed. It's a savvy business move of Sony to make the encoder free to use though, so everyone else can support their standard while charging manufacturers who want to integrate it into their headphones.
If we want a really free and open high quality codec, we should push for opus support via bluetooth