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adespoton ,

It should be reasonably trivial to programmatically watch the frames; original programming will have mastered audio levels and set video compression; any shift to an ad should stand out like a sore thumb.

So as long as things aren’t locked down to a DRM’d player, it should be possible to fingerprint the audio and video stream content and drop any inserted frames that don’t match.

If YouTube decides to mangle the original content to fight back… then maybe that’s finally the impetus people will need to switch platforms.

adespoton , (edited )

The “Truth in political advertising” bit stood out to me.

Just like there’s a consumer protection agency, there should be a voter protection agency.

Get caught materially misleading voters? No more going on the ballot for you. Get caught pretending to be running ads for a candidate when you’re not part of their official campaign team? Go to jail for fraud. Be blocked from doing official political business in the future.

We have protections around other critical government positions; we should have them around political candidates as well.

adespoton ,

TIL acetaminophen isn’t a worldwide thing :)

The whole Tylenol thing is because they’re the ones who originally patented it. Same for Advil and ibuprofen.

adespoton ,

No, No, and Yes.

adespoton ,

I find that odd actually; eucalyptus contains an oil that quite a few people are allergic to. I’d never heard it was a rare allergy, in fact, elements of its oils are often associated with allergies:

researchgate.net/…/273331261_Eucalyptus_oil_Conta…

adespoton ,

Could be… also, the real allergen tends to show up in the essential oil, which is highly concentrated.

adespoton ,

Well, in the case of Bedouins, it technically isn’t a genocide…. Seems ironic to me that a member of a group that is traditionally migratory refuses to leave. But the reason is obvious: if they leave, they’ll have nowhere to come back to and nowhere to go.

Climate change (local as well as global) has been hard on the Bedouin everywhere.

And it also points out that the Israeli expansionists aren’t just about Palestinian genocide; they don’t want anyone who’s not Jewish on the land. And I’m sure if they ever accomplished that, the goalposts would move to “only practicing Jews allowed” and following that, “only orthodox Jews allowed” — except that the orthodoxy wouldn’t necessarily line up with how we’ve traditionally used that term.

adespoton ,

Once upon a time print shops would only accept files in Quark Xpress format. Eventually, they came to accept InDesign documents too. They have licenses for the software and workflows and toolchains set up to integrate those files into their existing prepress and press systems.

LaTeX is purely for academic markup for postscript printing. VivaDesigner and its kind? Only niche and hobby layout and print.

That said, I only share in PDF now, so I use other software for the layout phases and don’t care that it isn’t portable to other shops.

adespoton ,

Well… yes. That’s what happens when the government effectively owns all the businesses in a country… investing in its stock market makes little sense when the government controls everything. They pick the winners and losers, not the investors.

adespoton ,

Not only that, most of those cars coming available are from Hertz — they’re rental cars. But not just any rental cars… most are from Hertz’s Uber fleet.

So these are EVs with over 100,000 miles on them, worn out back seats and blistered rear armrests that have been driven by employees using a fleet lease vehicle. And migrating the cars’ software ownership to an unlocked non-fleet private owner state has proven to be… difficult.

adespoton ,

I’d add a few more suggestions to the other excellent ones provided:

First, start with a few day trips. Go somewhere you can walk into, have a lunch, and walk out. First time you do it, the only things you need are serviceable shoes, layered clothing, a backpack to carry your lunch (and any layers you take off) and some water, and a survival kit (just in case things don’t go as expected).

What’s in a survival kit?

What I pack in mine is:

  • A pen and paper
  • A candle and a lighter
  • A signal mirror (shiny surface with a hole in the middle)
  • An emergency thermal blanket (comes folded up about the size of your hand, shiny metal/plastic thing
  • A basic first aid kit (the really small ones)
  • A pocket knife with a saw blade
  • iodine tablets (that haven’t expired)
  • a phone

That kit should all fit inside the first aid kit, and the first aid kit should be small enough to clip on your belt or go in a standard backpack.

So after you’ve gone on a few daytrips, you’ll want to get overnight equipment, which adds a few things: a tent, a sleeping mat, a properly rated sleeping bag (err on colder ratings, just in case), a cookstove of some sort and a proper pair of hiking boots.

If you can, test the tent out in-store before you buy it to make sure it’s the right size for you. Next, set it up when you get home a few times, to make sure you understand how it works and there are no surprises. If you’ve got a back yard, set it up there overnight and sleep in it with your sleeping mat and bag. Do this on a dry night, but then do it on a rainy night as well. Figure out how to use the fly and ground sheet so you don’t get water coming in. Also figure out where you’ll put your wet and dirty pack if you have to set up camp in the rain.

Next step is to pack for an overnight with all your existing gear and do the day trip you did above with full kit. This will help you figure out if anything needs to be adjusted, and to sort out the best way to pack everything. Do this once in dodgy weather, and you’ll get another perspective on how your gear works.

Finally, you’re ready for a basic overnight. By this point you should be very familiar with all your equipment, how much weight you’re comfortable carrying, and how to set up and take down camp.

Last word of advice is: always go with someone else, and always leave behind an itinerary so others know where you plan to be. This is of significant help to search and rescue workers should you end up getting lost or injured.

adespoton ,

Ah yes… deranged ultralight hikers :D This reminds me of one thing to add: try to ensure your fully packed backpack doesn’t weigh more than 30Kg; that should be enough for do a 4-day hike with at least one other person. For an overnighter, you’re still going to have to carry a lot of the same stuff except less food and toilet paper. But if planning to do longer hikes, there’s no harm in over packing for a single night a few times to get the feel of what you’re comfortable having vs how much it weighs.

One other thing: I trail run, so I’ll be in and out in four hours on trails where others are planning to stay one or more nights. Sometimes I get looks of disbelief from people with the full 30kg packs on as I run past them on the trail — but no, I’m not crazy enough to have that little on my back AND be planning to stay the night. Conversely, the reason I’ve got all that stuff on my back at all is because accidents happen.

I’ve had more than one time where I’ve been on a run and encountered a group that neglected to bring along a first aid kit, or a group that ran out of water. Always good to pack for slightly more than you’re expecting, just in case you need to help someone else out, or survive an extra night while others come looking for you.

adespoton ,

If you’re doing Scotland, be prepared for the quick changes in weather/temperature and the wind chill. And for the landscape to be bigger than it appears with lots of invisible folds in the landscape. Don’t go solo in unfamiliar areas.

adespoton ,

I remembered something else I take that I’d totally forgotten that a few others mentioned: a compass.

I used to also take a topographical map of the area, but these days I tend to depend on my watch (which can drop waypoints and a breadcrumb map) and my phone. But I keep a compass in my survival pack.

Why? Because worst-case scenario is that the batteries in your electronics die. A compass will always work.

The compass doesn’t have to be for finding your way on a map — when you reach the trailhead, turn around and try to find something you’ll be able to see from a distance. Take a compass reading to see what direction it’s in. Then do the same if you ever leave the trail and when setting up camp. This will help you figure out the relative orientation of the land, so if you end up lost, you can pull out the compass and use it to find your way back, even if you can’t see the landmark, instead of wandering in circles.

Useful to practice with it somewhere familiar before using it in the wild too.

adespoton ,

It’s in the article; newer gen chips will have extra DRM that will prevent the hacks from working.

Oh, you meant when will the anti-hacks stop?

Bless your heart….

adespoton ,

I noticed recently that MS Teams allows you to set a workday that defaults to 9 hours. I found that odd, but if most people in the US have a 9 hour day with a 30 min lunchbreak and two 15 minute other breaks, I guess it makes sense?

adespoton ,

Where I live there’s a mandated 30 minute unpaid lunch break and two paid 15 minute breaks for any workday of 8 hours or more. So that’s an 8.5 hour day unless lunch is longer.

adespoton ,

I thought you couldn’t have foreign ownership in Dubai?

And I don’t get the pie chart… what’s 100% represent?

Or is this foreign ownership in a particular location, like the US?

adespoton ,

Wouldn’t their patch embeddings return different results depending on the visual boundaries? They don’t appear to use overlap redundancy; this means it’s going to be significantly less resource intensive, but the chance of losing significant signals in the image to text translation surely must be inversely high?

adespoton ,

I’ll give them “occupied Palestinian regions”, but “IOF” is a bit much, even if what the IDF is currently involved in could not really be called “defence” unless you consider genocide and land grabbing a defensive manoeuvre.

After all, they’re not just occupying either.

adespoton ,

Makes sense, as actual AI research is based in applied mathematics and data/signal modelling. And the Chinese education system has trained students in those areas ruthlessly over the past 40 years.

So combine large population base with education system focused on the core competencies required for AI studies, and you’re going to get a majority of the talent coming from that system.

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adespoton ,

Dual PIN is a great idea; I’d also love an emergency PIN that invalidates the token silently (so you can enter it under duress).

adespoton ,

We already knew that GPS could be tricked into location drift. I didn’t realize US munitions were depending solely on it for navigation still.

adespoton ,

All this really does is show how flawed the current concept of copyright is. But at some point, a huge corpus of images owned by other people was assembled to create a derivative work (the training corpus).

adespoton ,

Wait… the US is currently indiscriminately bombing civilians who have nowhere to go, while denying them access to basic necessities?

adespoton ,

Jr or Sr?

adespoton ,

Nope. Bill left MS in 2008 and Windows 7 came out in 2009.

Also the joke left out Windows 10x, AKA 11.

And for some reason, it includes NT and Win2k, but leaves out all the other Server versions (2003 through 23H2).

adespoton ,

Isn’t Mrs. Claus technically an elf?

adespoton ,

Based on the reporting, it’s getting to the point where I expect the entire border to collapse because it’s all tunnel.

adespoton ,

I spent multiple years learning a skillset which put me into an employment position. Of those jobs I had as an employee 20 years ago, almost all of them were mostly done by machine learning systems a decade later. But that was OK, because I kept on learning and moving ahead of the trend, leaving the learned,boring stuff to automation while I learned new things to give my company a competitive advantage.

I don’t think I could ever work a career where the job I was hired for was my employment until I left.

adespoton ,

Why only 4K? We have 8K monitors now.

adespoton ,

Must not?

adespoton ,

This isn’t helped by most websites reinventing themselves every couple of years so the old links 404 even though the content still exists.

adespoton ,

Those are likely the people whose names are in the text chat log. The rest were smart enough not to write anything down (although transcription is a thing too).

4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?

Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like “oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great” I was like “Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good…”...

adespoton ,

I was looking during that rush, and did my own inspections. Every single place, I asked questions that resulted in a “NEXT!” from the seller. Never even got to the point where I’d have called in an outside party. Looked at around 30 houses.

Ended up buying a new build instead; still had things the inspectors missed, but nothing huge.

adespoton ,

It’s not miserable, just different. But not too different — I’ve lived in districts with 3k people and cities with 1.6m and found that the big cities are mostly just clusters of little 3k communities squished together, with a few differences like 24/7 activities/clubs and arenas. And cheaper food.

I saved up for 19 years to buy a home, and even then almost missed the opportunity. At this point, I’d buy a 200k home in ruralia in a heartbeat as long as it had reliable affordable Internet and somewhere within an hour’s drive that had stores I could shop at.

But it all depends on what you already know how to live with.

adespoton ,

A train is a collection of rolling railcars propelled by one or more locomotives. These are individual self-powered railcars.

So no, there’s no train here. Just monorail pods that will get congested as density increases.

The whole concept of a train is that all the cars move together and the only congestion is at the switching yards, where it can be optimized.

adespoton ,

How else are they going to win the rail pod challenge?

adespoton ,

Anything faster would be a safety issue.

adespoton ,

They’ll likely have a better chance of pulling it off than America’s push to “delete China”.

adespoton ,

In which case… they’re both screwed.

adespoton ,

First they forbid them from leaving, now they demand they do.

I always thought Itamar son-of-a-giver was named appropriately.

adespoton ,

Smart people put political proxies in power so they can get on with living their life.

There are only two reasons to become a politician and STAY a politician, and Graham is no Sanders.

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adespoton ,

“I am a Zionist,” the New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently wrote, “because I see Israel as an insurance policy for every Jewish family, including mine, which has endured persecution and exile in the past and understands that we may not be safe forever in our host countries.”

Mark that as another person who doesn’t understand what Zionism is.

Israel could make an arrangement with Christmas Island or some other low population nation to convert it to a safe place for ethnic Jews to live.

Zionism is about claiming that specific land (to the borders established under King David) as a Jewish (in faith and ethnic) nation to prepare it for the coming of the New Jerusalem.

adespoton ,

It’s to enforce Chinese law abroad. Google “canada chinese police stations”.

adespoton ,

Unfortunately, with the Belt and Road initiative, large parts of Africa already have well established Chinese police presence too.

adespoton ,

One day soon, AI will be cheap enough and good enough that people will produce YouTube videos and AI will summarize the videos into well written, succinct articles with appropriate images and cited sources.

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adespoton ,

Spoken like a true neglected 13 year old boy.

As you get older, you’ll find that actual relationships are more rewarding than trolling.

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