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yukichigai

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Modder, programmer, and all around tinkerer. Yes, I’m that New Vegas and Deus Ex guy.

You can also find me over at lemmy.sdf.org under the same username.

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Beehaw: You should join our instance.

Also Beehaw: We're defederating from two of the largest instances.

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The Firefox devs played The Silent Age and really liked the aesthetic.

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Noooooooooope, don't fall for it. I've seen the finale of Dinosaurs, I know how this ends.

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Now I want cupcakes. Dammit.

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What a horrible day to have genitals.

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[CBT intensifies]

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My work forgot to remove game mode and a bunch of the built-in advertisement stuff from the workstation images they were using a while back, and I work for state government.

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I can't imagine that still won't violate both store policies.

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Embedded as the level music for a custom Duke Nukem 3D map.

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The last good turn-based game I played was... oh wait, D:OS2. Huh.

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Some builds can get really tetchy about laptop hardware, but that's almost always older hardware.

Though I will say it took entirely too long for most builds to have a "change what closing the lid" does menu option rather than making you modify a .conf file.

And don't get me started on resolution switching when hot swapping display inputs.

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Imagine becoming a fed because you want to uphold the law and chase down bad guys, figuring you're going to be tracking down drug dealers and human traffickers and mafia goons, and instead you get tasked with running down Karen and Cletus who decided to firebomb a house based on something they read on RealTruthPatriotNewsDaily-dot-net.

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I have half a mind to start releasing cracks just so there’s 1 cracker who isn’t a fucking bigot.

I have had this exact thought, but that would undoubtedly eat up what little free time I have these days. I don't have as much of it as I used to.

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Right now the biggest barrier for me is the interface. Too many instances favor this very spread out, low information density, optimized for mobile (but not really) look, and group information in ways that are irksome. A certain amount can be fixed by user styles, but some functionality can't, like on kbin when I click on reply notifications and am not actually taken to the context of my reply because the comments have split across multiple pages even though I've set my preferences to infinite scroll. If I'm on another instance, clicking context gives me... well, not the context of my comments, just the damn comment and a series of "load parent comment" links to click. It's, well, irksome.

Most of my gripes aren't insurmountable, but that doesn't change the fact that right now every instance is a little janky to use.

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I trust Oracle... to find a way to charge me an arm and a leg and a spleen for basic functionality.

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I think there was a brief time with algorithmic feeds were actually good, and I remember getting quite a few recommendations from news aggregators and the like which actually were of interest to me, but those days are long gone. These days... no.

Odd example here, but bear with me: I have a separate Twitter account just for following ahem adult content. Even before Elno bought them out the "For You" section was completely nonsensical. I followed nothing but adult artists and performers showing T&A, and every 8th entry in my "For You" feed was Sports or Politics or rage-bait in general. It wasn't what I wanted, it was what Twitter wanted me to want.

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Combs can carry a show so hard. Imagine if they'd actually gotten to that 5th season of Enterprise with Shran as a main cast member. The show might still be on the air.

What are some things that can be done with blank dvds, nowadays?

So my family has a few containers of unused blank dvds that are just lying around collecting dust. i know dvds are almost useless because of streaming, but can they still be used. Theses dvds can only be written to once and they only have like 3 gb of storage on them, can they still be used?, do they have a use?

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If you have a BluRay player most will read BluRay content burned to a DVD (a.k.a. BD5), and others will do AVCHD (a related but more simple format). You'll be much more limited in terms of space obviously, but you can still put video on there at far better than DVD quality.

Also if you're like me and have a rotating set of games you install and uninstall, you can copy installation backups to a series of DVDs. Steam even has a built-in option to break installation backup files into 4.3 gig files specifically for burning to DVD.

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Yeah, there were even efforts to make factory-pressed "BD9" BluRay-on-DVD discs a mass produced cheaper alternative when BluRay was being launched, though it never actually went anywhere. They kept the format though just because it made sense to give people a way to make home media without having to spend an arm and a leg on blank discs.

That said, the "requirement" for players to support BD5/BD9 has been dropped as of a few years ago, not that all of them did in the first place. Most players still support it, but you can't count on it.

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Funnily enough the format war is why I know about it, since I decided to do a good long look into the pros and cons of each format, especially in terms of backwards compatibility and format support. HD DVD actually had an advantage in that regard: Blu-Ray only supports 480p and up, whereas HD DVD mandated support for damn near every resolution used by an existing disc-based format (VCD, SVCD) from 240p up. HD DVD players were also supposed to support content burned to CDs as well, meaning you could fit a fair chunk of lower resolution highly compressed HD DVD content on a CD and have it play in any HD DVD player, with subtitles and the like even.

Not really that relevant now obviously, but at the time I was kinda bummed that HD DVD didn't win the format war.

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HD DVD was 15/30 gig versus Blu-Ray being 25/50 gig storage, yeah. For mainstream use that was far more important, so that played a large part in why it won, though a lot of it was also Sony making the PS3 Blu-Ray-based and giving adoption rates a huge boost as a result. In terms of actual video codec support though the two were identical: H.262 MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, and VC-1.

As for how much content you could store on a CD, there were a lot of video resolutions supported in between 240p and HD, and H.264 can compress video quite a bit while still looking decent. For the die-hard video enthusiast, not much of a draw. For someone wanting to distribute stuff on the cheap, especially in poorer areas and "emerging markets" where SVCD players were (at the time) still commonly sold? Huge draw.

EDIT: Also of minor note was that the video (but not audio) formats from previous CD-based formats were completely compatible with the HD DVD standard, meaning in a pinch someone could just take the existing video from an SVCD/CVD release and drop it into a HD DVD. Of course why one would do that is a valid question, but nonetheless the standard was set up to allow it. For whatever reason.

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Go to Peru and meet the cartels.

I think I'll pass, thanks.

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They'd just need to check for him at the base of any gradual incline without a handrail.

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"It's just a prank, bro!": legal argument edition.

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Don't lie, you'll eat that spackle and enjoy every minute of it.

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My cheese hound brother @KickMeElmo probably has something to say to this

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one and done ~

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@ChrisPirillo 2 for me.

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I think lemmy.world is about to be rudely made aware of how many pirates were on their site.

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The lemmy.world admins blocked a bunch of piracy communities from federating with their instance seemingly out of nowhere: no legal threats, no DMCA notices, no apparent consequences if they don't.

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Wow. Well here I was wondering if I should stick with kbin or switch back to lemmy.world. Guess this makes the decision for me.

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Chrome: We're going to make adblocking on mobile even harder.

Firefox: We're gonna make adblocking on mobile as easy as its ever been.

Gee, wonder which one I'm gonna be using after this.

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I feel like that might trigger an anti-trust lawsuit somewhere.

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Just clean enough to make it impossible to find where it is, not clean enough to stop the smell.

yukichigai ,
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"Problematic usage". IT WAS USED FOR SNORTING COKE. DRUGS. DRUG USE. This isn't Facebook, you don't have to come up with cutesy euphamisms and self-censor yourself.

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Drugs are neat, and you can buy them relatively cheap. And when you do 'em people think that you're cool.

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Perfect for scooping a small amount out of a baggie, and the shape of the spoon made it easier to place it against a nostril and sniff.

yukichigai ,
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A surprising number of corporate decisions of that era were made with the "Cocaine and Dartboards" decision making philosophy.

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Well yeah, at least it had the chance of being fun.

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Damn, yet another cool thing kbin has that I didn't even know about.

I really hope more instances adopt this feature.

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Not OP, but from what I can tell it's a Communist/Leftist instance heavy on the shitposting. Hard to tell what there is ironic and what isn't, but I guess if you really hate Tankies it wouldn't be your favorite instance.

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Not to be that guy, but once you get past the first 35 levels of story in FFXIV (which is a lot faster than 50 hours) it really picks up quick. Like a lot.

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Ironically what got me into Diablo was my then-girlfriend now-spouse insisting that I go back to Diablo 1 with her and experience it for the story, and damn if that didn't hook me quick. Endgame D2 and D3 are great and all, but what makes something great even greater is having any sort of emotional connection to the story the game takes place in.

Also hot damn the ambiance of D1 is just something else.

yukichigai ,
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Seriously. Someone post the King of the Hill clip. You know the one.

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use (www.theverge.com)

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the former billionaire remanded after prosecutors pushed to have his bail revoked, citing violations that included Bankman-Fried’s admitted usage of VPN software that he said was to watch an NFL game and the judge’s view that he had attempted to tamper with witnesses “at least twice.”

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To quote a great poet, a haiku:

ha ha ha ha ha

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

ha ha ha fuck you

yukichigai ,
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I must obligingly credit the great MiddleAgeRiot, who should really get over to the fediverse already: https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1666969837988356096

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I only have vague memories of most of it from watching it as a kid, but recently my spouse and I decided to give it a watch one night and made it through the first 7-ish episodes. About half of the stories were "meh" but the other half were actually pretty good by TOS standards.

Mind you that's just the stories. The animation itself is definitely a limiting factor, and a lot of what happens is either very sparsely animated or they literally have characters explaining what's happening rather than fully animating the events. A weird upside of that is that most episodes are practically radio plays, and you can just listen to the audio and understand what's going on.

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Or even just a code review to see what kind of weird shit devs used to do.

Agreed, some really amazing stuff could be lurking there. Let us not forget the glory that is the Fast Inverse Square Root.

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State of Nevada in my case, but I've worked with a lot of other state and federal agencies. Pretty much all of them are like that. At best their legislatures will get a wild hair and spend a bunch of money on some off-the-shelf "latest and greatest" product (not really, it's usually something like Salesforce) and they'll be top of the line for a few years, but when it comes to actually keeping it upgraded and cutting edge that never happens.

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