Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 16 hours ago:
I liked my story better, but alas reality is often mundane.
Thanks for making it.
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 1 day ago:
That looks like Android 5 Lollipop, so the base screenshot is likely from around 2015
Someone found this meme in their shoebox in the attic, and I’m glad they did.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 3 days ago:
Thanks for sharing. I should push back on your statement a little.
The investigation relates to how MediaLab’s Imgur social media platform uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance.
And in the Children’s code strategy progress update mentioned.
One platform has committed to introduce age assurance methods, to help ensure that children have an age-appropriate online experience.
To comply with child data protection rules, you necessarily have to either:
- Know that they are a child by checking their age
- Not collect information on anyone
It does look like the focus is mostly on data collection, not content moderation, so I will concede on that point. I should have read a bit more into this before commenting.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 3 days ago:
The title is a little bit misleading, it’s mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK’s infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.
Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about image embeds so I doubt they could even make.this work.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
The perfect way to kill a platform
- Comment on Pretty much every episode of ghost adventures 1 week ago:
Zac Baggins
Damn, I really should have read the Silmarillion.
- Comment on Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump's UK state banquet 2 weeks ago:
They should stay the fuck out of my country. Bloody parasites.
- Comment on Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder 2 weeks ago:
I recently ran a session and wrote an internal blog post about why useEffect was a dangerous crutch that should be avoided wherever possible. This was due to complicated logic and unexpected interaction bugs.
This is a little different but I still feel vindicated.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
To be fair I wouldn’t put it past some right-wing weirdos posting this completely seriously as evidence. It would sit well next to some of their actual conspiracy theories.
They do not understand satire and have brain worms.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is what the rightoids will have you believe is happening in schools when a school cautiously and quietly says “trans and non-straight people exist”
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 4 weeks ago:
It’s real. It’s also marked on Google Maps as a “Place of Worship” which I think is hilarious.
- Comment on Usernames are very personal 4 weeks ago:
You do understand that someone born in 2006 would now be 19 years old, right?
- Comment on Sperm whale 5 weeks ago:
Fun facts:
- If a man produces a teaspoon and we assume that this equates to 5 grams
- A sperm whale weighs typically 45 metric tonnes
9 million men nutting at once would be enough to produce one sperm whale.
- Comment on Bet this guy is a great tutor for your kids 5 weeks ago:
The more beans you give me, the better I toot!
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
Don’t forget transphobia. They seem to have suddenly decided that’s a good idea in the last 3 years.
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 1 month ago:
I didn’t ask for this 😭
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 1 month ago:
Nah don’t worry I’ve got a decent VPN and that’s fine with me.
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 1 month ago:
I’ve been cucked.
- Comment on Unionized Workers At Arkane, A Microsoft-Owned Studio, Demand That Microsoft Divest From Israel’s ‘Sinister Project For Gaza’ - Aftermath 1 month ago:
Well, I know what studio they are closing next.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 1 month ago:
I’m paying £20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer… That’s how they get you 😭. Now I’d have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around £17 when I started a few years back.
I do not recommend getting a family plan.
- Comment on Lead 1 month ago:
…and microplastics in mine
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 1 month ago:
That’s more or less what I’m saying yes, I do like the original film grain look of movies, and often attempts to remove it removed detail, making things look smudgy.
As for if no codec is designed for this, Blu-Rays preserve film grain, often very well, and they use x265. Granted they do this partially by brute force by having a bit rate of 30mbps+, but I’ve found that you can quite easily reduce that but rate to 12mbps and still preserve most film grain reasonably well. Especially if you use h265, the CPU version (NVENC is nowhere near as good with grain).
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 1 month ago:
I tried AV1, but it seems to work really poorly for compressing film grain which is my main usecase (movies).
I realise you can add fake film grain, but that’s not really my thing.
For now, I’ll likely stick with x265.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 2 months ago:
The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That’s why I’ve not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.
They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 2 months ago:
Not if they end up banning VPNs, which is already something being discussed. If that happens, I might genuinely leave the country.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 months ago:
Dude. I just bought a used 6A last week.
- Comment on back in those days... 2 months ago:
We lost one 😭
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- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 2 months ago:
No idea why they were collecting identification then.
Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn’t need to do.
