Like yeah good but still odd we decided it’s weird to eat those intelligent, social, domesticated cuties but totally normal to systemically abuse torture and butcher similar, more intelligent, social, domesticated cuties.
Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.
It’s odd to me that there are places that would consider that piracy
In my country (the Netherlands), to my knowledge, you have the right to do whatever you like with your copy of a movie as long as you don’t distribute it.
That includes ripping it, and putting the mkv on your personal server. That is precisely what the home-copy tax is for afterall…
Apple TV has that single place, but Netflix doesn’t want to use it
Also, Netflix has the worst UI/UX on AppleTV boxes. The experience is vastly different and better on a Sony or Microsoft device in the Netflix software. It’s pretty odd imho.
It’s odd to me that there are places that would consider that piracy
There doesn’t seem to be a common consensus on whether it is in the US. Some people say it’s fine as long as you paid for the disc. Others say the act of breaking DRM and producing a copy is a crime in itself.
Has anyone come across journals asking for similarity checks for your manuscripts as you submit them? e.g. a report from Turnitin? I haven't come across this before but would be interested to know if you have... @academicchatter #AcademicWriting#AcademicPublishing
The submission system I work with runs similarity checks automatically on every new paper, so it seems odd that a journal would ask you to carry out your own check. Maybe they do this to concentrate the minds of authors?
@onisillos@academicchatter I also found it odd but some staff have mentioned this experience…unless they want to do a pre-check due to such a system being used?
No, in general the code quality in large open source projects is just as good as in proprietary programs - for large projects, the majority of contributions come from professional software developers being paid to work on the project either by their employer or via grant funding, and those that aren’t still get their changes reviewed by professionals, same as everyone else.
Smaller projects tend to be a mixed bag - the internet has a “one guy who has been maintaining this absolutely critical piece of infrastructure unpaid on evenings and weekends for the past decade” problem, but even then open source has one major advantage - transparency.
If the code is open source, it’s relatively easy for anyone to look at the code and spot bugs - even if the first person to find a bug is a bad guy who keeps the bug secret, the odds are pretty good that someone else will also find the bug and tell the developers about it so they can fix it, and tell the programs’ uses about it so they know that they need to take action to protect themselves.
For proprietary programs, there is a much stronger incentive to keep bugs secret, both for bad guys (it’s harder to find bugs if you can’t look at the code, so the odds of your useful bug being publicized is lower) and for the developers (bugs are bad for business and cost us money, so we’ll sue you if you publish). Some larger players have “bug bounties” - if you find a bug and report it to us under embargo so we can fix it before you publish, we’ll pay you - because being perceived as having a secure, trustworthy product is worth the cost, but these are often more marketing tools than actual security features
I remind been in work (very geeky environment) with people patting themselves on the back about the boycott. There’s an odd silence that comes when a very vocal anti Rowling person bangs the drum but its the usual very loud minority.
The odd silence is a vocal minority desperately trying to not be ignored by people who would want them dead. And Rowling is the one exception to put your money where your mouth is not mattering. She quite literally said people buying her shit proves she's right.
So thanks for making her point. We get you don't care about trans people, makes it easy for us to see who to not turn to.
Anyway how many awards did this game win? Congrats on selling your dignity on another open world game that you won't be playing anytime soon now that the hype is down.
Billionaire CEOs were quick to sing the praises of working from home at the start of the pandemic, calling it the way of the future — but over the last three years, they’ve slowly changed their tune....
I think it’s a bundle of factors why so much of management has turned their backs on WFH the last few years, but ego is certainly one of them.
My personal theory is that work-driven extroverts are typically those in management and executive positions. It’s not shocking that they’d be miserable having empty offices. This is especially so for those where the majority of their professional careers have revolved around networking and climbing the ladder by knowing the right people.
Regardless, it’s all been extremely frustrating to witness. I’m extroverted at work, but I loathe going into the office more than one or two days a week. I try to keep my social life completely separate from work, but I’ve known countless people whose primary socializing revolved around their job. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, some job fields just naturally tend to foster more camaraderie than others due to the nature of their work (e.g. odd work hours, extremely demanding work environment, etc). I just despise it when those who desire it and are in a position to force it on other workers do so.
I watched Nvidia pitch, and this will be aworrying trend for “offline” gamers, as to use this in-game feature, when the player speaks with the NPC, the game has to connect to nvidia servers for speech processing, and sent back to the game npc, so it’s done on nvidia cloud! I fail to see how you can play such game offline.
It’s very odd given that they are shilling their latest AI capable GPUs that somehow cannot handle speech processing, instead your voice will be synthized by Nvidia cloud if you want to play an AAA game.
I trust the provider, and it’s a small amount I’m willing to risk. Just don’t want to throw it away, be frustrated, or get involved with shady people....
You do realize that you've skipped about 70 steps, right? OP needs to figure out what currency the recipient wants, pick a wallet app (most of the ones people recommend are god-awful), install it, create a wallet, figure out how to store keys for the wallet safely (which is really not possible), figure out how to add funds to the wallet in the right currency, pay attention to the transaction to make sure the right amount of funds are being transacted... and each of those steps has a dozen substeps, and requires research in an industry that is constantly lying to people.
... plus, OP did not say that there was a QR code involved at all, that's a very odd assumption on your part.
I figured out that there’s a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don’t get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?
Yeah, I saw it the other day. I would bet a lot of money that the information was already stored. In fact, if their data group didn’t already store that information (link clicks to external websites) they should all be fired. This is just a way that you can find something that you’d previously looked at on facebook (which, oddly, may be the only site on the planet with a worse search function than reddit).
I think this is closer to reality than many people realize.
I mean, the entire red half of the country doesn’t like her for being one or more of: female, black, Democrat. So that’s half.
Then even among the blue half, she’s got a reputation as a fairly moderate dem whose “tough on crime” shtick falls flat with most progressives who are, to one degree or another, ambivalent at best toward police if not outright hostile. For most who watched the primary debates, I think she came across as tone deaf and incredibly fake and forced.
On paper, she may have seemed like an ideal VP pick for Biden, being black and female, presumably helping him with those two demographics. While I have no data to back it up, to me, on the campaign trail, she didn’t seem to connect with either of those demographics, and usually just faded into the background, her job seemingly going no deeper than, “Stand there and make Biden look more progressive” even though the two of them were probably the least progressive faces in the primaries.
That said, I think she still has better than even odds of being his running mate again next year.
There’s a couple of Modern Rogue (RIP) episodes that explain this pretty well.
First thing you need to know about a proper game of blackjack: the players at the table aren’t in competition with each other, they’re all playing their own games of blackjack against the dealer. It’s possible for everyone to win, everyone to lose, or some combination thereof. Second thing you need to know: the dealer is not allowed to make any decisions or judgement calls; the dealer must follow a set algorithm for how the house’s hand is played.
So because the dealer’s behavior is algorithmic, there is also an algorithm for players to follow that will cause players to lose least often. Not necessarily win most often, because the rules are tilted in the house’s favor, the house will win eventually, but…if you show up with $10 in your pocket, sticking to the ideal play algorithm will allow you to lose it as slow as possible.
What counting cards does is maybe inform you about when it’s better to deviate from ideal play, but also when to bet minimum and when to bet higher. If you happen to know there are more low-value cards in the deck because several of them have already been played, you know the dealer is more likely to bust, so the odds are in your favor. You don’t have to keep like a running tally of each individual card in your head, you can simplify it by keeping track of one integer number, called the “count.”
When the dealer shuffles the deck, start the count at zero. When you see a card in your own hand, in another player’s hand, or the dealer’s hand that is:
a 2 through 6: add one to your count.
a 7, 8 or 9, add nothing to your count.
A 10, Jack, Queen, King or Ace: subtract one from your count.
When the count is positive, the dealer is more likely to hit until he busts, meaning the player is more likely to win his hand. So possibly don’t hit at all, don’t risk it and let the dealer step on that landmine, or even if you do, bet more than the minimum bet.
If the count is zero or positive, the dealer will likely win the hand, so stick to ideal play and bet minimum.
If they suspect you’re doing this, because you’re winning too much, they may ask you to leave the table or leave the casino. To prevent this, the dealer may burn a card each hand to deny the players some info, and not deal to the end of the deck, as counting cards gives you more information toward the end of the deck. Higher stakes tables probably use multiple decks of cards at once to render card counting useless.
So using find was obviously a simplistic example. I know ctrl F is near-universal for a regular find operation, but let’s imagine some other specialised feature of, say, a CAD application. “Find vertex in selected model” perhaps?
Oddly enough, I just discarded MacOS for a similar reason: yes, ctrl f is for “find” but, unlike on any other platform where ctrl shift f is “find in all files in project”, on MacOS that is cmd shift f. WTAF, there goes my muscle memory out the window. In fact, the “when is it ctrl and when is it cmd” threw me for such a loop that it impacted my performance. Now that I’m back on Linux, the tool disappears and I can just do my job. Ahh.
South Korea passes ban on dog meat consumption (m-en.yna.co.kr)
Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing (www.bbc.com)
Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.
"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
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Hogwarts Legacy sales top 22 million (www.gematsu.com)
Men on vegan diets perceived as less masculine, highlighting gender stereotypes in diet choices. (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
The data is in: RTO policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care (www.businessinsider.com)
Billionaire CEOs were quick to sing the praises of working from home at the start of the pandemic, calling it the way of the future — but over the last three years, they’ve slowly changed their tune....
Ubisoft, Tencent will begin using Nvidia's AI NPC tools (www.digitaltrends.com)
Nvidia Ace, a tool capable of creating AI-generated NPCs, is expanding -- and major companies like Ubisoft and Tencent are signed on as partners.
Nord Stream Probe Hampered by Resistance From Poland (www.wsj.com)
Archived link:...
What's the best way to pay an online merchant using Crypto for someone who has never bought/used it before?
I trust the provider, and it’s a small amount I’m willing to risk. Just don’t want to throw it away, be frustrated, or get involved with shady people....
Missing Ohio teen located in Florida after logging in to World of Warcraft account (www.seattletimes.com)
Authorities say a missing Ohio teen was recovered in Florida after she logged in to an online video game at the home of the man who took her.
Can someone explain this PBF comic to me? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I figured out that there’s a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don’t get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?
Linux in the corporate space
I made this post because I am really curious if Linux is used in offices and educational centres like schools....
Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History (www.malwarebytes.com)
I need a lot to pictures like this (lemme.discus.sh)
I am gonna print them on some quality paper or just stick them into my desktop, do your best to show some technoanarchism!...
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. (lemmy.world)
Obama urged Biden to beef up campaign amid worries about Trump strength in polls: report (www.usatoday.com)
Anon plays poker (sh.itjust.works)
What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can?