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- Comment on Does anyone else find HiFi Rush highly overrated? 1 day ago:
Microsoft did, that’s why they canned the studio. I think game has a niche cult following but overall it sold poorly.
- Comment on The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market 1 week ago:
They’re about to turn AI into a scapegoat for why kids are stupid and blame everything on it, as if before AI our education system was perfect.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 2 weeks ago:
If you’re forced to live in Israel you won’t be publicly voicing your opinions if they’re against the norm. One of the worst insults is “deserter” for those that did not wish to serve and “leftist” if you go against the murder of innocent people. Sadly being one or the other means problems for you down the road when trying to find a job and generally living a life here. It’s a small country, word gets around quickly and you still have to live here if you don’t have any other citizenship.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 2 weeks ago:
If I was a news agency with an agenda I wouldn’t be broadcasting the interviews that are negative either. Those you will find on foreign TV channels, 10-20 years from now after those who are currently serving finish their mandatory service and immigrate elsewhere. Every once in a while some event happens which becomes difficult to cover up. Like the Pilot Letters from 2003 and 2023, but it is the exception rather then the norm.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but you can’t be tracked via css so it’s okay in my book. Have fun with your whacky css sites.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 3 weeks ago:
I can get behind no JS club, I can’t get behind no CSS club.
CSS is 🆒
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 3 weeks ago:
This 240TB JBOD full of books? Oh heavens forbid, we didn’t pirate it. It uhh… fell of a truck, yes, fell off a truck.
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 3 weeks ago:
I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 3 weeks ago:
Some TVs will sneakily connect to open APs to try and phone home. It is nasty but it does happen. You can only be worry free if you yank out the radio module. Some TVs make it easier than others (My LG TV made it as easy as opening the back of the TV and disconnecting, YMMV)
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 weeks ago:
Big knives are up to something
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
You’re preaching to the choir. That’s why we spend time making remuxes and encodes. But for release groups to make those we need the format to survive, because Hollywood won’t make the physical media if there’s no copy protection.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
It’s not really dead, but they’ve definitely scaled down their operations. With streaming services increasing their prices YoY I believe the return to physical media will be cheaper in some cases.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
Highly doubt you can monetize it. Most groups do it as a hobby because they care about preservation. Internal groups don’t lack the time or storage space. What we do lack is dedicated BluRay rippers from distant regions.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
Yeah, really makes you wonder if it’s by design as some sort of evil anti piracy measure.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
You would be surprised but in the US DVDs are still king. They sell far better than regular BluRays and even better than 4K UHD BRs. So saying it’s dead is difficult.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
As a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.
Support your fav trackers (and their internals!)
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 1 month ago:
Haha, the excuse they like to use in situations like this is “DEI hires caused this”. Musk, have you been DEI hiring?
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 1 month ago:
S21, S22 and a Pixel 5 or 6. The latter was the one to break the camel’s break.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 1 month ago:
It was one S21, S22 and a Pixel 5 or 6. I didn’t overpay for the mux delux version, just the basic one.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 1 month ago:
Eh, not really. I buy Apple because I’ve had 3 Android phones crap out on me literally days after their warranty died. I got tired of that shit, I paid a bit more and got myself an iPhone 13. It still works as good as it did on the first day. While I do know that Apple devices have a set death day (when they stop getting security updates), I believe I generate far less e-waste by buying 1 iPhone every 7 or 8 years instead of buying a brand new Android every year.
As far as Fortnite goes, I don’t care for the game itself, but I am happy that they fought Apple in court and gave developers the freedom to implement third party IAP, albeit I have no use for it as I only use my phone for phone calls and messaging and the occasional web browsing.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
They’re not gonna do anything about it for the same reason any other litigious company hasn’t done anything thus far. They’re looking to benefit from AI by cutting costs. If the tech wasn’t beneficiary to these big tech conglomerates they would’ve already sued their asses to oblivion, but since they do care they’ll let AI train on their copyrighted material.
- Comment on OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation 2 months ago:
Ah great, horrors beyond my imagination.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 2 months ago:
Don’t think they’re doing this out of the goodness of the hearts, they’re just trying to avoid the “shit in, shit out” affect of their data sample.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Yes, I’m fully aware we want to abolish IP law for different reasons but still, I’m onboard.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 3 months ago:
What they’re actually gonna do is release Plex 2 or something and then just invalidate all the old lifetime licenses, as they were for Plex and not Plex 2
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 3 months ago:
Love to see metrics im apart of. I only play TF2, Minecraft and emulate PS2 games nowadays.
- Comment on Unpatched Edimax IP camera flaw actively exploited in botnet attacks 4 months ago:
This is yet another reminder that your IoT devices should be firewalled off the web.
- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 4 months ago:
The comments (and maybe the article too, I didn’t read to the bottom) are misinformation. This guy isn’t enabling Russian hacker groups. What happened is he ripped the BluRay and posted it online. Since it got a lot of hype Russian hackers decided to use that opportunity and ship a similar file ending in .exe instead of the usual Matroska format (.mkv) you see usually with ripped BluRays. If you were around torrent communities back then you know this to be false. These are your tax dollars at work, potentially jailing someone up to 15 years for ripping a BluRay.
- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 4 months ago:
I’ve never ripped BluRays but from what I’ve been told by someone who is apart of a P2P release group the jist is there’s an exploit in Intel SGX that made BluRay protection obsolete and the tools to crack BRs are practically publicly available if you search around for a bit. The funny thing is newer CPUs/monos don’t support Intel SGX, which is one way to stop it.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 months ago:
I kinda agree with the article, I genuinely think humanity peaked with the computer of the PS2 era. Or maybe it had something to do with the patriot act. Just feels like after that things had gotten worse substantially
