jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 2 days ago:
I watched the Third Man next which was fascinating. Lots of similar shadow use.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 3 days ago:
Dear Microsoft - Stop trying to make Copilot happen!
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 3 days ago:
Some day, kids using social media will be child abuse…
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 days ago:
“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 days ago:
In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 days ago:
I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.
“No! This serious horror movie!”
(snort)
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 days ago:
If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 days ago:
As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
🤯
Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 4 days ago:
Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.
Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.
I can’t imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.
Here’s a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” in Spanish (“La sombra del viento”):
“En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.”
The English translation:
“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Google translate:
“I once heard a regular customer at my father’s bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we’ve left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 5 days ago:
Can’t tell if 4/1 gag or not! Brilliant!
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 6 days ago:
Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.
Not sure how that would work, you’d either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer… Sounds like a nightmare either way.
- Comment on When is easter even? Saw some slop already in a group 6 days ago:
Man, I don’t even know…
Google says… 4/20.
- Comment on If you haven't done and agree, vote! 1 week ago:
There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.
- Comment on What metrics did people evaluate arcade games by when they were popular? 1 week ago:
There wasn’t much thought behind it other than “is it fun” or “is it new”.
There was huge word of mouth whenever a new machine dropped and kids would ride their bikes from store to store to see the new ones.
This was before arcades started collecting them. Arcade machines were just at the local bars, Pizza shops, 7-11s, and grocery stores.
Bars would set them up in non-age restricted areas so kids could play.
- Comment on If you haven't done and agree, vote! 1 week ago:
Not in Europe, so I can’t help you there.
But I’d like to add, it’s not JUST about disabling games.
Bungie released Destiny 2 in 2017, in 2020 they started “vaulting” content, locking it away from people who had paid for it.
This included ALL of the story missions, essentially rendering the game plot-less.
Half of the original planet locations in the base $60 game, and the entirety of the first two paid expansions.
It’s literally impossible to play the game as launched even though, technically, it was never disabled and is still online.
The content has never been restored and cannot be accessed, even for a court case, Bungie had to rely on YouTube recordings of the removed content:
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
I find it the other way around. I can’t play Vampire Survivors because of Robotron/Smash TV/Geometry Wars.
- Comment on How to delete your 23andMe data 1 week ago:
Of note:
“One of the notable issues is that this process also won’t delete all of your data — according to 23andMe’s privacy disclosure, your genetic information, date of birth, and sex will be retained for an undisclosed amount of time to comply with the company’s legal obligations, alongside “limited information related to your account,” such as your email address and communications around your data deletion request.
23andMe did not answer our questions regarding what specific data actually is retained or deleted when a user removes their account. Some posts have appeared online that encourage 23andMe users to scramble their data before deletion by replacing things like name, date of birth, ethnicity, sex marker, and height with false equivalents. This will supposedly render any information that is retained useless, but will likely be ineffective if 23andMe only stores the data that was used to create your account — something that the company also did not clarify to The Verge.”
It also has no impact on research studies you’re already part of, all it does is prevent your DNA from being added to new studies.
- Comment on **EVERY POST IS AN RPG** - Each Post is a Quick, Improv RPG. First RPG is up: Stuperheroes! A parody of the superhero genre inspired by comics like The Tick and Megaton Man. 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of a little known Scott McCloud book… you might know his award winning run on Zot! and Understanding Comics, or even the contract work he did for Google Chrome:
www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
But he also did this massive 11" x 15" book:
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 2 weeks ago:
The Nav system on my Audi Q7 BLOWS compared to Android Auto. It can’t seem to understand a damn thing I say.
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 2 weeks ago:
I ran into this with my 2013 Kia Sorento ICE (which was subsequently totalled. :( )
When you replace the on-board infotainment system, there’s an interoperability package that has to be installed to make sure the existing functions of the vehicle continue to work.
Think of it like a translation layer, everything on the dashboard that went through the old system, has to be hooked up to the new system. Also complicated by steering wheel controls.
When it was all said and done, I had the full array of cameras that I wanted (turn signal cameras are amazing!) and everything worked…
Except the one little button that changed the interior lighting. It was forever stuck on red.
Now, for an EV, it’s essential everything work properly. I can totally see GM shutting that down.
This is kind of like the complaint about EVs not having AM radios… yeah, there’s a reason for that!
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 2 weeks ago:
Plus $95 for a “physical edition” with no disc. :(
I was willing to buy the game… for $60. But not a digital code. I get that they want to push people to Gamepass, but $60 is 3 months and at the end I actually own nothing?
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 2 weeks ago:
The writing was kind of on the wall for Avowed when they announced they were dumping it after the holidays.
I was like “Oh, like Forspoken? Good luck!”
- Comment on The SUPERSEGA Scandal / Retro Gaming's most bizarre failure 2 weeks ago:
2 hour video, is there a tl;dw?
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Yup!
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 2 weeks ago:
See my “set 2” links above. (at the time) $3,200 8K television, “If you want the brightest image possible, use the default Dynamic Mode settings with Local Dimming set to ‘High’, as we were able to get 1666 nits in the 10% peak window test.”
HDR still trash.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 2 weeks ago:
Yup, yup. Highly rated when I bought them, but in actual usage? Not so much.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 2 weeks ago:
I WISH it was the default settings. I went through every calibration and firmware update I could find. Even the model specific calibrations on rtings.com. Nothing made a difference.
It appears to just be a flaw in Samsung’s implementation. After going through all the Samsung forum information, the only suggestion that’s guaranteed to work is “turn it off”.
Set #1:
www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000
Calibration:
www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/…/settings
Set #2:
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been told HDR is not for bright rooms, you have to make everything dark…
Yeah…
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Getting a million people to Washington D.C. is a tall order when places like CA, OR, WA are 3,000 miles away, plus people have to, you know, work and stuff.
