[Some apps] push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.
The Ratio or Ratioed refers to an unofficial Twitter law which states that if the amount of replies to a tweet greatly outnumbers the number of retweets and likes, then the tweet is bad. Additionally, “to ratio” a tweet means to make a quote retweet or reply that manages to get more likes and retweets than the quoted post.
Massive downvote to upvote discrepancy on Lemmy would constitute “a ratio” / “getting ratioed“.
What began as an innocent and unexpected encounter is about to trigger an inferno of violence. For Shearman Waxx is not merely a ferocious literary enemy, but a ruthless sociopath, and now he is intent on destroying Cubby and everything he holds dear: his home, his wife, his young son, and every hope he had in the world.
The terror has only just begun, and it will be relentless…
“I love New Year’s resolutions. This year I’m trying to walk 10,000 steps a day. Woo! When we’re all sharing those out loud and you said give up ketamine, it felt less like a resolution we share with our colleagues and more like something we’ve voiced to close friends and family.
I notice starting on Jan one and then going, it looks like indefinitely, you put two hour blocks every day from 11 to one for protecting your piece. Can you just share a little bit more with me about how these pertain to our work as a consulting firm?
As a friendly etiquette reminder, I know we’ve been out for the holidays for a bit, but addressing the client as BB and email or verbally, not gonna fly.
I know we have that kind of goal setting session and you said, I wanna be that b*****. It’s not a smart goal. Remember we talked about smart goals. So it’s hard for us to measure against.
When you send us all of those like 30 snap chats of the New Year’s party you attended screaming, give me a kiss to like multiple men and women. It felt like a window into your life that we as your colleagues shouldn’t be peering into.
When I pinged you, I was like, where are you? Are you joining? And you were like, it’s 730 a.m. I’m still recovering from the holidays. I got to stop back. I was like, huh? You know, I was like, huh?
We are here to support you and I as your boss, especially I wanna do that. One of your goals, however, it felt like a little more of a personal goal. It was, I need a boyfriend, I’m down bad. I totally, I totally get it. I being alone, especially the holidays, it sucks. That’s not really like a work goal.”
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Hesitated to do this but wanted to investigate available options.
Couldn’t find a service to do an MP4 URL to text but Converter.app handled it via local upload.
Unfortunately it’s not really funny anymore. Well I think it is but I have the creator’s mannerisms and timing in mind while reading. Hopefully you’re getting this notification when you can sound rn.
Is there any reasonable level of IP protection/DRM which may be employed by movie studios?
Should all films have simultaneous worldwide cross-platform releases, never theater only? If not, it seems some kind of defenses on the high-quality digital files for theaters would be a rare case where DRM seems somewhat justifiable… assuming it’s robust (beyond mergers/closures of the provider), and consumers never have to think about it.
Would love to hear arguments both for and against any protection schemes for any film ever.
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No, Richard, it’s ‘Linux’, not ‘GNU/Linux’. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS – more on this later). He named it ‘Linux’ with a little help from his friends. Why doesn’t he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff – including the software I wrote using GCC – and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don’t want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title ‘GNU/Linux’ (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn’t the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you’ve heard this one before. Get used to it. You’ll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn’t more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn’t perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, I’d like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn’t be fighting among ourselves over naming other people’s software. But what the heck, I’m in a bad mood now. I think I’m feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn’t you and everyone refer to GCC as ‘the Linux compiler’? Or at least, ‘Linux GCC’? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux’ huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don’t be a nag.
I am down for hyper on-brand, clearly denoted, clever/humorous sponsored segments. StyroPyro was able to advertise a desk this way. So well integrated, honest, and relevant, I didn’t skip even though I don’t need a chemical-resistant adjustable standing desk.
"Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post) (lemmy.ml)
Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
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I am become fun (lemmy.world)
I can't argue with his point. (lemmy.world)
poor Dean (lemmy.ml)
He also objects to crosswalks. (startrek.website)
Gen Z's down bad (files.catbox.moe)
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Cavity search (sh.itjust.works)
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Source: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/unity-3
Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)
From the article:...
Not the couch! (lemmy.ananace.dev)
Almost got me there Google! (lemmy.zip)
Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)
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Christmas in Gotham [Safely Endangered] (startrek.website)
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