Treczoks
@Treczoks@lemmy.world
- Comment on Too many posers 15 hours ago:
I would also prefer not to listen to him. Regardless of the daytime.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 22 hours ago:
Lure them in, pull the rug, harvest profits.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 days ago:
Not that I would have bought it - not my type of game - but this game gets on my blacklist.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 days ago:
You’re right, cost of content creation comes on top of the running costs, too.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 days ago:
With Taler I wait for it to work the kinks out. And, of course, for it to be available somewhere reasonable.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 days ago:
But even running an indexer on a YT-like scale would need serious money, even if you spread the hosting and streaming load around. And for most users, this would not be attractive, as you probably would have to torrent the data first and view it later.
Then there is the issue with responsibility. If someone throws e.g. CSAM into the system, who could be held responsible? Who would have to deal with DMCA notices? Who would deal with issues like “Dictator X demands all videos showing him in a bad light to be removed immediately!”
And: Opening a payment system is a serious can of worms, especially if you need it to work internationally.
Honestly, I’m not against a YT alternative, but I don’t want it to die after three weeks because the person behind is was too optimistic to consider to potential problems.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 days ago:
The core problem is that hosting and streaming videos costs money, and that money must come from somewhere. Unless there is someone with really deep pockets just paying for everything, such a platform must use subscriptions or ads to make some money. Netflix & others use subscriptions, YouTube uses ads, and both even offer combo models.
How would a free variant of YouTube work on the long run? Setting up a small model on a server in your home office, maybe with donations to cover initial hardware costs is not the issue at first, but once you need a computer center and employees you’ll need some serious, regular money coming in.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 3 days ago:
I knew I have read it before somewhere.
Well, like every craft, skills develop over time. What was a blacksmith hundreds of years ago is now a CNC operator. Likewise, writing styles have evolved over time.
Yes, he has been a great storyteller, and his stories and characters stood the test of time, but his writing style did not.
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone 3 days ago:
Simply abandon the US and move the forum to civilization.
- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 4 days ago:
Yep. They are mostly looking for qualified workers, but they want to pay and provide job benefits and security like for a burger flipper at McD.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 4 days ago:
That’s why you always buy oversized and mill it down to size and squareness.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 days ago:
They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.
- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 4 days ago:
recruiting and retaining workers was their No. 1 business challenge.
Have they tried things like attractive working conditions and a salary that is actually competitive?
- Comment on Srsly 6 days ago:
OSHA loves those people.
- Comment on The fastest 1 week ago:
As always, Microsoft is a few years behind.
- Comment on Pope Joan 1 week ago:
Oh, just like they did in Nazi Germany back then, measuring skulls to find inferior people. They called it “Rassenhygiene” back then. It is amazing to see how many Nazi Germany ideas they unearth and recycle in the US nowadays.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
I have seen someone grating cold butter and put it into a bowl with whiskey. Leave that in the fridge for a few days. The whiskey is supposed to taste better, and the butter was used for a whiskey buttercream cake.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
Unlikely. It is spelled “Colour” on the box, implying this would be for the UK market.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
Start with googling “pong chip”. There is a Wikipedia article about it, and then look for the chips “name” AY-3-8500, under which you will find lots of information about this chip.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
You’re welcome!
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
It basically tells you that you can basically tone the “colourness” (i.e. the brightness of the colours) up and down, which was a normal control (like brightness and contrast) back then. This is not about being able to make a red playing field green by some setting on the TV. You just had some potentiometers to play with the pre-amplification of the luminance and colour signals.
What could be in the instructions would an explanation of the games telling you that e.g. the playing field is green and the ball is red or somesuch, then they actually did a (rare) “colour implementation” of the circuit.
If you are interested, there is a number of interesting documentations on this pong chip on the net.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
I wonder about the “Colour”. Did they actually use the different video outputs of the AY-3-8500 chip for controlling different colour signals instead just joining them as a luminance signal?
For those too young to know: The AY-3-8500 (or AY-3-8500-1 fo NTSC) chip is at the heart of almost all of those pong-type consoles. It has a number of different (but synchronized) video outputs for left player, right player, ball, numbers, and playing field, and most consoles just or’ed them together into luminance (Y) to make a simple B&W image. You could route some signals to the R-Y and/or the B-Y signal to give them some basic color, e.g. if you sent the “ball” signal both to the luminance and the red (R-Y) channel, you would get a red ball. All this needs are a handful of simple logic gates.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 week ago:
Just a friendly gesture among right-wing autocrats.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 week ago:
Found the American.
- Comment on And irritate eyes to drink tears 1 week ago:
In a fantasy world I designed, a butterfly is one of the worst killers. Its touch is toxic, landing on any exposed skin is deadly, but in a horrible way. The victim is just paralyzed, not killed, and the butterfly returns to the victim to lay its eggs, and the larvae eat their way into the still living body…
- Comment on Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says 1 week ago:
Just like I said years ago (and got banned on Reddit for it): They are aiming for the Endlösung of the Palestinian Question.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
The good thing is that most of those “arcane magic things” in the terminal can simply be copied and pasted into said terminal. Whereas finding an obscure option on a windows program setting three requestors and five buttons deep is a nightmare, especially if your UI is not set to English.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
For them, adding the AI is probably cheaper then fixing the UI.
- Comment on What American small talk sounds like to European 🇪🇺 1 week ago:
Yes, yes, accurately observed.
- Comment on How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer 1 week ago:
FTFY:
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