threelonmusketeers

I love the convenience of it. Digital money, books, and communication channels are way easier to use than their paper equivalents.

However, for media like movies and games (and I guess books, to an extent), I do have some reservations regarding ownership and long-term archival. In many cases, “purchasing” a digital copy turns out to be “purchasing the right access to view/use the content for an indefinite (but not infinite) period of time”. That doesn’t really seem like “ownership” to me. For some media, I’ve opted to purchase a physical copy to support the creator, but then obtain a digital copy from, uh, “elsewhere”, or convert it to a digital copy myself.

There was another case where a show I wanted to watch was released only on streaming services, but later removed and never released on physical media. There is currently no legal way to watch the show. I would have happily paid for a physical copy had it been available, but I had no choice but to obtain a copy from “elsewhere” :)

calibrate

Celebrate?

“Look before you leap”

“Those who hesitate are lost”

No. I miss some aspects of the pre-2022 internet, but I’m always wary of thinking that things were “better in the good old days”.

I’m also wary of pinning technological shifts on individual people. If Sam Altman didn’t exist, would large language models and diffusion models not exist? I don’t think so.

before Sony ends Blu-ray disc production in 2028

Wait, what? This is the first I’m hearing of this. Is this just games, or movies too?

SpaceX booster is about as sensible as transporting your newborn baby in a cybertruck

Is it? The Falcon family of rockets is probably the most reliable operational launch vehicle at the moment.

To start off, !ontario@lemmy.ca would probably be better than !main@sh.itjust.works…

I’m getting a 502: Bad gateway error.

it’s only secure if you START OFF WITH A SHARED SECRET to authenticate the key pad and first round

Wait, really? There’s no way to establish a secure connection over an insecure channel via quantum encryption?

booster

It’s actually the upper stage which will hit the moon, not the booster. The booster landed back on earth.

I wonder what they’ll name this one?

Relevant xkcd

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POV: You are Patnou’s ChatGPT

The only thing I use Facebook for is Messenger and WhatsApp. I recently got all my immediate family members on Signal. Outside of family, there’s still a bunch of group chats with people who haven’t switched over. For anyone I know who uses both, I’ll always message them on Signal whenever possible. Slowly trying to convert my friends, one by one.

we are technically occupying somebodies spot

Well, we’re a third of the way into the event, and it doesn’t seem like they’ve made any effort to complete their template, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯… it’s free real estate?

Update: Seems like we might be doing something in the top left corner?

Possibly relevant post: sh.itjust.works/post/18680803

Final comment in the chain: sh.itjust.works/post/18680803/12480662

I came across these discussion threads in the Lemmy and Pict-rs source code:

• Allow resize to be set in config to reduce max image size, pictrs does support this #2416
• Support pre-processing uploaded media #3
• support resizing to a maximum area #6

It seems like automatic image compression might be something which could be configured in the pict-rs settings. Would one of the admins be able to chime in on the feasibility of this?

Yeah, I feel like most users don’t know about the Matrix instance.

it’s difficult to post on a server that’s down

True, although recently there have been issues affecting only the default frontend, with alternate frontends like tesh.itjust.works and mobile apps being unaffected.

TheDude appears to be aware of the situation:

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or that the idea of turning them off is simply inconceivable (why would I turn mine off and let others make money)

If that’s the issue, it seems like time-of-use rates or smart metering could be an easy solution. If the price of electricity were negative during periods of oversupply, I bet people would figure out how to disconnect their solar panels pretty quickly. This would simultaneously incentivize energy storage projects.

This seems like a good problem to have, no? Just need some batteries or some interuptable industrial processes to absorb the excess.