Daiz

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by Daiz 13y ago
Having recently looked into speed reading a bit, this seems to do a quite good job at filling the role of a pacer without actually requiring any manual interaction by the reader. Nice work! Easily beats trying to pace yourself with the mous
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by Daiz 13y ago
Dithering can help a lot when it comes to displaying large smooth gradients in lower bit depths. Obviously it has its downsides, though - for one, you need to actually implement it where smooth gradients are used, and at when it comes to vi
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Movie Piracy Hurts Health Research and Patient Care, UCSF Claims(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by Daiz 13y ago|1 comments
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by Daiz 13y ago
So they "go HD" by switching to a format with worse compression quality. Sounds like a recipe for victory! (I can certainly understand switching to a royalty-free format, but I still found this funny nevertheless.) On another note
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by Daiz 13y ago
>It'd be nice if HN allowed us to collapse entire conversations. There's a whole bunch of extensions/plugins/userscripts for HN out there, including ones that implement thread hiding. I personally use Hacker News Enha
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by Daiz 13y ago
As far as we know, said project only exists in latitude's mind, and the only public information about it is that he may or may not still have plans for a "secure chat" program. I'd be hard-pressed to call that an "e
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by Daiz 13y ago
You don't actually seem to be using the logo anywhere, though. On your site you write that "I had (have) plans to write an Instant Messenger client with proper support for privacy. This was the logo concept for the project"[1
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by Daiz 13y ago
Honestly, I don't see the concept being so unique and original that someone else couldn't have come up with it independently, and frankly the Tox logo has a much nicer balance (in the Tox logo, the person/keyhole works much b
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by Daiz 13y ago
I wonder if these warnings will also pop up for search terms into fictional art that depicts children in sexual situations, even though no children were obviously harmed in the production of such material... After all, "but think of th
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X265 (H.265/HEVC video encoder) Mission Statement(bitbucket.org)
2 points by Daiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by Daiz 13y ago
I wish I could go fully digital but sadly the only way to get high quality "DRM-free" (in the sense that at least it's easy to strip the DRM) video today is by getting BDs. It saddens me that the actually good digital options
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by Daiz 13y ago
The headline of this article reminds me of this one article I saw a good while back that basically said "SOME DUDE WHO WORKED ON FUKUSHIMA HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER!" Then at the end of the (short) article it was mentioned th
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by Daiz 13y ago
For ads (and DRM).
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by Daiz 13y ago
EME should most certainly NOT become standardized, as the future it will bring is even bleaker than the one we have with Flash and Silverlight as far DRM and compatibility goes. Instead of a few NPAPI-compatible solutions, we'll likely
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by Daiz 13y ago
>Now I get to uninstall the last MS product on my machine! ...Except you'd have to install Windows 8.1 and use IE11 in order to use the "wonderful" HTML5 Netflix with their proprietary DRM blob that has even less compatibi
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by Daiz 13y ago
No, it won't. As far as compatibility goes, EME is even worse than something like Silverlight. This should be evident just from the fact that in order to use HTML5 Netflix, you either need a) IE11 on Windows 8.1 or b) an official Googl
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by Daiz 13y ago
The Flash player is playing the exact same H.264 video that you could get with the HTML5 player.
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by Daiz 13y ago
>I wonder if Netflix is having to convert video on the backend for this as well. They won't. They're using H.264 video, which all major browsers can play in HTML5 <video> tags now. Not so sure how they'd handle stuff
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by Daiz 13y ago
I think we should just all start calling these extensions either something like "Digital Restriction Extensions" (DRE for short) or just plain and simply "DRM Extensions". If misleading garbage like "Premium Media E
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Mobile roaming charges to end in Europe next year(afterdawn.com)
1 points by Daiz 13y ago|0 comments
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Scale Fail(youtube.com)
1 points by Daiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by Daiz 13y ago
Straight from the article: >Then they showed the Apple software we'd all have to use to send them each album. It required us to put the audio CD into a Mac CD-Rom drive, type in all of the album info, song titles and bio, then click
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by Daiz 13y ago
We leave things as they are. If content distributors refuse to play without DRM, let them stick to inconvenient existing plugins. The DRM-insisting gatekeepers will ultimately need the web more than the web needs them, so they'll have to co
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by Daiz 13y ago
Because if you don't have a permission to do so, you're basically 'circumventing' DRM which is illegal under copyright laws in many countries around the world.
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by Daiz 13y ago
>the Finnish language does not have an equivalent for the word "please" My first thought was "Don't be silly, of course it does!" but then I realized that it's actually true - we don't have a direct equivalent to "please". Funny how t
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by Daiz 13y ago
At any given time I usually have somewhere between 80-120 tabs open across 3-5 windows. Back when I used Firefox the problem used to be even worse - with the scrolling tab bar, I could easily end up with 200-300 tabs open. That's why I actu
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Show HN: Weekend Project - Live Markdown Preview for GitHub(daiz.io)
2 points by Daiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by Daiz 13y ago
"Calm and professional" while dodging basically all and every argument presented to him.
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Aegisub - Free, Cross-platform Open Source Subtitle Editor(aegisub.org)
1 points by Daiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by Daiz 13y ago
There's a whole bunch of Tetris TASes (tool-assisted speedruns) available on TASvideos[1], including console-verified plays of the NES version. No infinite plays, though, but luck manipulation is already used in the existing runs. [1] http

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