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- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 4 days ago:
No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolutions, they need good transcoded that don’t look like shit.
Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like cookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.
Who the fuck needs an 8K when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, especially legally?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 days ago:
That’s because the answer isn’t higher resolutions, it was legally enforcing h.265 to be open source. Now the solution is AV1, but video codecs shouldn’t be locked down like that.
To act like that was ever in favor of “protecting the sciences” is a fucking joke.
- Comment on So disappointing 5 days ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Pay for hosting with XMR and stop fucking re-using usernames.
Releasing software anonymously/pseudonymously isn’t that difficult…
- Comment on Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too 4 weeks ago:
Once proton gitsgud at vr games, I’ll basically have no reason to have a win 10 ltsc VM anymore.
Pretty hyped XP
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 4 weeks ago:
I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street?
My fault for not being more clear, I blame my countries national main character syndrome for that. Especially since it just hit me OP is technically from a Canadian instance, though I’m not sure the lived experience up there was THAT different.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 4 weeks ago:
Once again Gen X is doing all the heavy cultural lifting.
Okay, I really don’t buy into the generations bullshit, but I think something needs to be said here:
Its apt gen X was the generation to invent the term poser because it applies so well. Say what you will about everything boomers did after they hit 30, they did some important shit when they where young. You don’t get a Kent State without pissing the right people off.
The MTV generation’s symbol of youthful rebellion was a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom with the express purpose of selling music which was pre-packaged by one of three major record labels.
It was a way for boomers to sell them fake rebellion because they remembered how bad for profit the real stuff from their youth was.
I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street? The early 00’s anti-war movement? Arguably attributable to early millenials since those where their college years.
Gen X sat around “working in the shadows, doing their own thing”, which is code for sitting around, letting billionaires do what they want, and doing nothing about it since everything still kinda worked out alright for them up until now.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
I think that last part hits it hardest. Especially when you consider most of the 360’s sales where US.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 5 weeks ago:
I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 5 weeks ago:
I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not shocked major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.
Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Is it really that hard to make one of those recessed handles buy with mechanical linkage instead of an electric one?
Seems like the real issue is the electric door latch itself, not the style of handle.
- Comment on A billion dollars and a Ferrari doesn't matter if all you have are bumpy torn up roads with potholes to drive on 1 month ago:
This depends how far away where they want is. I feel like down the block is impractical for a heli.
- Comment on id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs 1 month ago:
Interesting times (positive) vs interesting times (nightmare)
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 month ago:
They’re still making mobos with SATA. Not everyone uses laptops.
- Comment on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 1 month ago:
I would like to know how well iocaines spanky new redirection module works compared to Anubis.
If nothing else, to see if throwing Anubis in front of iocaine is still a worthwhile idea.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 months ago:
My bad, Neuromancer.
Didn’t know it was getting adapted into a series.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 months ago:
Arguably this isn’t too far off of necromancer either.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 months ago:
Yeah he also had a single testicle, what’s you’re point?
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 months ago:
Lmao what is this comment?
Are you really conflating the idea that people want art made by people with racism and hard-right politics?
- Comment on JP Morgan says Nvidia is gearing up to sell entire AI servers instead of just AI GPUs and components 2 months ago:
Its funny because a sizable chunk of the fediverse has a server/network rack in their home. Myself included.
Granted its not running any modern ‘ai’ like stable diffusion or LLM’s.
- Comment on Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine 2 months ago:
Good it’ll teach companies they don’t get to have “trusted execution” on a custies client device.
My hardware should run the software on it the way I want. If my computer works against me on purpose, that should be considered malware.
If you want me to not do something to your computer you should be increasing your server-side security, not breaking my client-side security.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 months ago:
Valve does, they literally have teams dedicated to the work.
Also, do you guys not have re-occuring donations going out to your favorite open source projects every month?
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 2 months ago:
Every major tech company has a stake in chromium. Google could die tomorrow, and someone would bankroll it for their own selfish use.
You thing Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon wouldn’t jump at basically owning the development of the worlds most popular web browser?
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 3 months ago:
Get a CRT, or buy a new TV and just don’t connect it to the internet.
The difference between a disconnected smart TV and a dumb one is basically zilch.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 months ago:
The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily.
Yeah that’s the design flaw. Thats literally what im saying they shouldn’t do. You can make a mechanical-first door with an internal solenoid thats capable of popping the door.
The main and only handles on the doors should be mechanical, with door popper buttons for all four doors on the driver-side arm rest (where window controls go)
What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
This allows the driver to open doors for passengers, while also making the main way in and out NOT dependent on electronics.
Unnecessary luxury? Sure, but so are cars in a lot of the world. Its cheap to implement and not inherently a danger when done right.
Your issue isn’t electronically controlled door poppers. Its cars being made by silicone valley, y-combinator sucking, tech-bro douchebags.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 months ago:
I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there’s solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.
I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn’t dangerous.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 months ago:
There where just as many cheesy UI’s done without flash back in the day. Its because web development became more of a commodity as more people got into it. Everything’s been done and the cheapest thing to do is to slap together something using the framework of the month.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 months ago:
All of that is possible with modern JS and WebGL?
