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by graypegg 3y ago
I think a lot of streaming services offer some sort of 4K upgrade pricing. [0] Doesn't seem like the requirements for netflix are even that demanding, minimum 15mbps is at least a common internet speed where I'm from. [0] https:&
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by graypegg 3y ago
Maybe not with just a single regular disc, since those require hardware owned by a shrinking group of people who might impulse buy a DVD. But I wonder if it would be worth it if they were "collector sets" or something, maybe with
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by graypegg 3y ago
Mortallywounded was a good username choice. I too am a causality of the 00s internet heh
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by graypegg 3y ago
Totally commendable!! You’re collecting as little as possible which is great! Nice job with the product, I’ll be using it a ton :)
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by graypegg 3y ago
There's this odd fixation lately on IP Addresses being a very private, very scary thing to see logged, and I'm not sure why. It's obviously information somewhat linked to you and a geographic location, so de-anonymising possi
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by graypegg 3y ago
According to the response headers at least, nginx is reverse-proxying to an express app. (at least it seems that way from: https://github.com/badlogic/skyview/blob/main/server.ts#L46 , but maybe nginx is
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by graypegg 3y ago
There is a pretty active community on Bluesky itself, I think they caught a much smaller, but maybe sustainable boat? I'm liking at least, but the invite-only bullshit is wearing thin. But would I be alright with it at it's curren
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by graypegg 3y ago
It really is this group of maybe max 10000 people all boasting to each other, interspersed with “I got laid off, available to hire!”. It’s a pretty depressing place. I wonder what the strategic plan Microsoft had in mind originally was? Was
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by graypegg 3y ago
It does make me wish that HN somehow “spoke to” mastodon/other activity pub servers or something. I wouldnt mind the posts that float up to the front page here coming up in other places. Thankfully the people that post here do tend to
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by graypegg 3y ago
+1 for “what that even means”. I keep seeing people say “AGI” but no one will define it for me. It’s always “you know it when you see it” or “when software can do anything”. I’m alright with “things will continue to advance” but people assu
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by graypegg 3y ago
Sometime on in this whole cycle and I still find LLM-prompts-as-the-interface extremely annoying. I have to pause and carefully think out the entirety of a task I want to do, I can’t just rely on a button being disabled or a confirmation di
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by graypegg 3y ago
I guess it comes down to this black box list of hashes that no one would want to audit for pretty obvious reasons. The authority is only as good as the person paid to automate the hashing process feels that day. It’s not inconceivable that
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by graypegg 3y ago
100%. Also an ADHD case here. Forgetting things actively gets in the way of me living life. I wouldn’t vouch for over-planning since that’s going to topple over the second you slip up, but having a list of “things you probably don’t want to
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by graypegg 3y ago
It’s a bit boring but I really like GTD. I’ve never read the book or gone too hard into the “rules” of GTD, but just using Omnifocus for a decade has basically got me into the habit of: - do things that take less than 5 minutes when you hea
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by graypegg 3y ago
It’s a bit pedantic to mention, but there is #method(:method_symbol), and obviously &:method_symbol for some cases. Both of which give you a proc you could call later with arguments provided to it. It’s not “the function” since, it’s re
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by graypegg 3y ago
Webfont pricing is always so weird to me. No one sees a massive spike of traffic on their site and thinks "Oh no! My font license only allows 100K visits a month! Shut it down!". However, as an art form, typographic design gets th
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by graypegg 3y ago
That actually gives me some appreciation for some seemingly pointless vertical posts my city put into a bridge near me.
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by graypegg 3y ago
I don't work a ton in SQL, but my experience with SQLite tends to carry me thru anything that requires some SQL without having to commit to fully learning another dialect. I just pick up what I need when they differ. Some sort of IDE w
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by graypegg 3y ago
Hmm. I wonder what the whole-sale price is? A TV with wifi is partly subsidized by the ads you see when you turn it on. This 2500$ display seems like it’s for small run signage, so they know it’s being sold for government/business use.
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by graypegg 3y ago
That has to be litigated to find out. Cases like Napster [0] and Grokster [1] set precedence for this sort of thing. They also used the DMCA in their defence, and they were still found culpable. These were decisions that were scoped by the
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by graypegg 3y ago
The opaque algorithms and trigger-happy strikes are to appease copyright holders, which leads into... The reason they don't litigate individuals is low ROI on litigating a small YouTube channel. That is true. However, Youtube without t
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by graypegg 3y ago
Laws obviously vary a lot, but most places that follow a similar definition of intellectual property rights to EU/NA do not forbid merely being in the presence of a work. Knowing of the details of an intellectual property isn't in
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by graypegg 3y ago
Youtube policy is actually pretty lenient compared to most IP rights law. "Fair Use"/"Fair Dealing" actually has a pretty well-litigated definition in most jurisdictions. YouTubers just dislike the definition. If Yo
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by graypegg 3y ago
Trick question, no one actually infringed anything! You're welcome to draw the bat symbol all day if you want. You can even download the official emblem, scribble out the TM symbol and (c) Warner Brothers text, put your own name and ch
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by graypegg 3y ago
I wonder if you could do this with DS_Store files (not the emulating MacOS, but just the game of life thing), so initially you make some new folders in a pattern, right click, align. (So it's all on a grid) Then run the script, it read
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by graypegg 3y ago
I guess the other side of the coin is asking if they even need TikTok to do that. Yes, TikTok incentivizes self-surveillance but if we weren’t using TikTok, there would be another competitor to fill that niche. Just because the data isn’t h
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by graypegg 3y ago
Ehhh incomplete wordmarks in a vacuum do look very same-y because they’re all coming to the same conclusion that single colour sans-serif type is very readable, flexible, as well as separately very useful as a “worst case scenario” brand m
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by graypegg 3y ago
I love the confetti and easy tech (just PHP and MySQL) for self hosting! But browsing the marketing site, you have a lot of AI tools for prioritizing lists. This is 100% the place where I don’t want things to move without me knowing. My big
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by graypegg 3y ago
Ahhh yep! I had to deal with that while looking for another job a few months ago. I had it in mind that remote work meant I could work anywhere. Not here! You really are locked into Québec once Revenu Québec is handling your taxes, got drop
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by graypegg 3y ago
I was living in downtown Toronto (one street south of Bloor St, corner with Church St) for 4 years, in that time my rent went from 1800, to 1900, to my landlord threatening to move her son into the unit just to evict me unless I accepted 25

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