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Rentlar OP ,

What prompted this question is some Japanese TV service ended this past weekend for a relative and the word to describe the static noise was “sand storm”.

Thought it might be interesting to hear what it’s called elsewhere.

Rentlar OP ,

That’s cool. Something like “flickering”, I would guess?

Rentlar OP ,

Yeah that’s a common one, I wonder if it would seen as more or less commonly like that depending on how cold the local climate is.

Rentlar OP ,

Ah, I can see that! A stormcloud full of fleas would be extra scary.

Rentlar OP ,

Analog went offline in Japan around 2010/2011 if my memory serves me correctly, but some still have digital receivers that works with the RF jack. Now more or less it’s out of style and the static is just proverbial.

Rentlar OP ,

That’s neat! What’s your country/region?

Rentlar ,

I can’t remember a specific time if I’ve touched coal. I know I’ve done a geology course at one point, and visited various museums with large rock collections.

I’ve definitely seen coal in person protruding from the top of passing railcars… here’s a picture of one I took in South Surrey earlier this month:

picture of coal trainhttps://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/eafd7004-acdc-459a-860e-4667dde4bd7a.jpeg

Rentlar ,

Don’t let !ich_iel mods see this.

Rentlar ,

Stupid stunt notwithstanding, the Counter Strike game is about terrorists vs. counter-terrorists so it’s at least thematically on point?

Rentlar OP ,

As soon as I saw the percentage of 1/e, I was like yep, I have no clue why, but natural processes are somehow going to pick that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuA2EAgAegE

You can click on James Grime’s face to learn more about Euler’s number.

Rentlar OP ,

That’s how you do it!

Rentlar ,

I’m not racist, but alas

Rentlar ,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/712ef99f-5f69-4d79-b648-874d54e978c8.jpeg

Maybe for a better Lemmy Shitpost analog…

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ac8f82c7-8178-4a64-9620-6b3d30b8551f.jpeg

Rentlar ,

My worry and the main reason I’ve not jumped for one, is that with the requirement of a Meta account and stuff, Meta could decide to just have all their headsets of a certain generation stop working after some date even if you only use desktop streaming.

Are there any known workarounds/safeguards against Meta remote control of the device?

Rentlar ,

Thanks for the research. It seems like their discontinuation of Oculus accounts made some of the steps harder or less effective, and I’d worry about messing something up.

Rentlar ,

If it’s a question I know how to answer but believe it really it would take 30 seconds of searching for a regular person to find…

I’d give the answer but be a bit snarky about it.

‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)

The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....

Rentlar ,

In this specific case I am okay with and happy with AI being used this way since the subject being impersonated themself wished to be voiced by the AI. I can totally see why, it’s like technological magic that “gives your voice back” and you can sound like yourself from any point in your recorded lifetime you like!

For deceased people I don’t think AI should be used to put words into people’s mouths for commercial purposes without their permission. When AI gets good enough, why hire new actors for a movie when you can just reanimate Michael Jackson forever? Hee!

Rentlar ,

Yep. Boeing and other big companies that place money over everything need to start facing material consequences for their failures. The courts need to stop babying the rich and powerful. The fact that these issues are cropping up is being over decades Boeing has rejected quality over doing the bare minimum, this is the result and people are going to start feeling very unsafe in planes if they don’t start relearning their old ways.

Rentlar ,

!mathmemes is leaking…

Rentlar , (edited )

Oh wow, I already figured that government agents had free access to Facebook DMs but the lawsuit alleging Netflix and other companies getting access to what users say to each other? That’s a new one, we’ll see how those claims play out. It wouldn’t be surprising to me.

Rentlar ,

I think that’s in there but also this report was linked in the article:

arstechnica.com/…/report-facebook-let-companies-g…

Rentlar ,

Make sure to make the specific term “Computer Ounce”, or co. oz.

Rentlar ,

Hire Dirt Nap Brian to drop some bars for your funeral service today.

Rentlar ,

If there were non-company people contributing to it, hopefully an open source version can be maintained.

Rentlar , (edited )

My memories of Mariokart 64:

Welcome to Mariocarrr

Wrecking my thumbs drifting some Es (still better than on Mariokart versions with the dpads though)

AAAAwawawawawawa

Rentlar ,

I don’t like Meta at all, trying to cut out Meta as much as possible myself.

Meta’s going to do what Meta’s going to do. They don’t have the good intentions for the Fediverse at heart. They will use it and the concept of federation to seek their ends, and when it’s no longer useful to them they will cut it off.

I’ll leave it up to server operators and users to decide. While I think it’s nice that Meta gives the Fediverse attention, I also the Fediverse is better off generally not hooking into Meta’s feed. If your server is part of Fedipact then it’s fair game to report disinformation biased towards Meta.

Rentlar ,

For whatever reason it was Puppy Linux, it was kinda cool and small and ran off a 700MB CD.

Rentlar ,

It’s a French dish, raffinerie brûlée.

Rentlar ,

So many fossil fuel interests are pushing for LNG in BC it’s frankly annoying. Glad to see advocacy work to try to put a cap on it.

Rentlar , (edited )

On wikipedia there’s some suggestion that methods that involve intensity of toner/ink across a document could be used to uniquely identify a machine but no such methods are currently publicly known (at least as far as the Wikipedia article has been updated)

Rentlar ,

These doors are not lean.

Rentlar OP , (edited )

When someone says piracy or “using an unauthorized copy of someone’s work” it can be for many different reasons.

On the moral and ethical side (as I’m leaving out the legality aspect from the discussion) some of these situations may sit well with some people, some may not. The list of situations themselves are adapted from Louis’s free-market viewpoint. He has articulated in the past that people that bring something of value should be awarded in kind, and spreading the word to drive sales justifies using work without paying to him is like paying a professional photographer in “exposure”.

I can understand if you disagree with the premise of the chart because of the above, it’s just the basis from which I formed it.

Rentlar OP ,

Do it loudly and do it proudly! Well, not so loudly that the feds hear about it.

Rentlar OP ,

Yeah, so it seems like some of the situations in the table would be acceptable to you but not all.

  1. You always have the right to do with your copy of media, whatever you want. Remix, trade, critique, promote, copy, etc

Not if the way they give you the media restricts you from exercising those rights.

Warner Brothers is a perfect example about an art industry giant that doesn’t give a flying fuck about art and artists. They’ll throw years of artists’ work in the trash if it makes them more money than not doing that.

Rentlar OP ,

In a sense, not being able to afford it is itself a region lock on it.

Rentlar OP ,

I totally understand that. But the colouring is for the category column and not in the context of the situation row, and since the column is about putting money forward or not, Yes is positive and No is negative.

Rentlar OP ,

I don’t agree with everything he says but he does stick to his principles well.

Rentlar OP ,

see my other comment

Rentlar OP ,

Thanks for engaging with the scenarios listed. The point of the exercise is to see where people land personally, there’s no one size fits all ethical principles but a lot of overlap. The RIAA, MPA, Irdeto (the group that makes Denuvo) etc. could argue that all of these cases are piracy and unjustifiable. Others see everything as justifiable, just because they’re used to it, it’s simply not financially accessible to them, they don’t care or they just want to subvert the entire concept of capitalist ownership, as evidenced in replies downthread.

Rentlar OP ,

It’s important to be cognizant of various worldwide perspectives, considering the part of your comment on political discourse.

Some countries don’t care that everyone pirates everything and anything.

Others, like Japan for example, have copyright ingrained both in the laws and in the culture. Some think “right clicking and saving an image on a public website” is theft. It’s part of the reason Sony and Nintendo are so anal about copyright and how there are no Manga sharing sites located in Japan.

So not only the laws different everywhere what is legitimate discourse changes too.

Rentlar OP ,

Louis’ list comes from the perspective of moral in the sense that “were the people that provided you entertainment value provided appropriate compensation” which is why the list is ordered this way.

Looking at it in the lens of preserving items for the common good, this could take form of #1 or #3, where you bought a copy but you don’t want it to degrade or fade into obscurity, but it could also be where you just don’t want to lose it and it doesn’t matter to you whether the creator should have benefited.

Rentlar OP ,

Yes the LibDems there are right wing neo-liberals but it’s not just corporations driving it. Insofar as I’ve talked to actual people in Japan whom I know personally and consumed Japanese media this is the basis of how I know what the overall politic is like. A lot of apathy, care about tax cuts above all else, and nationalism.

Rentlar OP ,

Don’t be ashamed! This is a post on !piracy after all.

Rentlar OP ,

Warner Bros. is an example of a movie company that gives zero fucks to any of the artists producing their movies, not sure what good supporting them will do.

Rentlar OP ,

I get ya, American anti-communism indoctrination is involved. Thanks for the treatise. Back to the topic at hand.

One big difference in Japan vs. North America/Europe is that second hand music, videos and video games are waaaaaaay easier to find at reasonable non-scalper prices.

Rentlar OP ,

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