AeroLemming

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AeroLemming,

Division gives people something to talk about. Not everyone can think of something constructive and interesting to say at a given time, but when presented with an opinion, it is trivial for most people to formulate a comment either agreeing or disagreeing with it.

AeroLemming, (edited )

The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website providing like 1/3 of all memes on Lemmy:

AeroLemming,

“If you can’t install Arch yourself, I don’t want you on my machines.”

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

AeroLemming,

Yeah, I see video monetization as running on a similar model to that of free to play games. The majority of people either don’t make you any money or only very little money, but they boost your engagement and popularity metrics so that you get more ‘whales’ that do things like donating on Patreon, choosing to watch sponsors and use affiliate codes, and buying merch.

Ads are only the worth the actual amount of business they generate. I know that a lot of people don’t realize that even if they never intentionally buy something from an ad, the familiarity of seeing things in an ad makes them more likely to pick it over something else down the line. However, this still only works if you have any disposable income and don’t immediately hit mute, close your eyes, and count to 30 when an ad comes on. A lot of people using ad blockers would just devalue the ads themselves if they were forced to watch them. The people with the money just pay for Premium.

AeroLemming,

Instead of not watching them, you can just use SponsorBlock!

AeroLemming,

It’s legitimately a good use for ChatGPT. You just have to put what you want into words and then it gives you the command.

AeroLemming,

How does converting to a lossless format cause loss?

AeroLemming,

Only if the output format is lossy.

AeroLemming,

You’re conflating ownership of the means of production with ownership of the fruits of one’s labor. The land itself can’t be owned, but things you have produced can be.

AeroLemming,

Oh no! Anyway…

AeroLemming,

Just charge people for it. You could say $100 per teleport and then give your friends a “discounted” rate of $50. That’s still like $300 to move half a dozen people and all you have to do is show up and spend a couple of minutes going back and forth.

AeroLemming,

I only want teleportation if it makes me sound like an Enderman!

AeroLemming,

You could do that just as well with teleportation, possibly even better depending on what security measures you need to bypass. Teleport in, plant a bug, dig through their computer for anything incriminating, teleport out.

Of course, obtaining evidence in this way makes it illegal to use in court, but that doesn’t really matter because the people you’re after will never be taken down in court anyway.

AeroLemming, (edited )

I feel like opening a portal to the sun would result in lots of highly pressurized, super-heated plasma shooting through and fucking annihilating everything in a massive area around the portal. I guess you could do it if you wanted to blow up, like, an entire building with a tiny and short-lived portal. Same thing in reverse when opening a portal into space.

AeroLemming,

If a rights holder claims injury, I should be allowed to make it true by stealing their car.

I'm currently downloading a show that is on a service to which I subscribe

I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don’t know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is...

AeroLemming,

Yeah, and no ads unless they’re inserted by either the podcast creator or distributor. I do wish we had some sort of sponsorblock equivalent, but I know that AntennaPod doesn’t have any sort of backend, so implementing those features would be a pretty big undertaking.

AeroLemming,

Can’t help with music on the phone, but try AntennaPod for podcasts if you’re on Android. It’s FOSS.

AeroLemming, (edited )

That makes sense. They just sound lazy and upset that you aren’t doing their jobs anymore. The fact that management sided with you says a lot.

AeroLemming,

Just sharing my opinion: I’m not a fan of these kinds of posts. You’re obviously not the asshole and it feels like you just posted this for validation. There is no ambiguity here and the post definitely gives off reddit-esque, “AITA for leaving my boyfriend of 2 months after he cheated on me with 9 people and stole a family heirloom worth $200,000 to fund his heroin addiction?” vibes.

AeroLemming, (edited )

If you used transporters to remove feces from yourself for years and years, would you eventually lose the ability to poop normally? Imagine the transporter functions and they have to replicate a bunch of industrial-grade laxatives for the crew.

AeroLemming, (edited )

To my knowledge, it’s kind of hard to quantify exactly how much information is lost with a normal blurring algorithm (gaussian, box, etc), but it’s usually less than you think. There are certain edge cases where no information is lost at all and the original image can be perfectly reconstructed if it’s simple enough. Even if it’s a normal photo of something complex, a deconvolution algorithm can work seemingly impossible magic on a blurry image without the need for an AI that will hallucinate details.

On the other hand, pixelating part of an image provably removes a large amount of information from that section of the image and no algorithm will be able to de-pixelate something without hallucinating details. Using a big box is the absolute best because it just deletes all information from that part of the image.

ETA: the problem is a lot worse in videos because you can use multiple frames with different offsets to reconstruct a higher quality image even if it’s pixelated.

AeroLemming,

Well, I use ad blockers online. The only good ad blocker for a billboard is a can of spray paint and I’m a wimp.

AeroLemming,

Ban billboards

AeroLemming,

Is it even possible to block Tor? You could block specific exit nodes, but not all of them unless you had a way to detect when someone was using Tor.

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