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by grumbel 4y ago
Use JPEG XR, that has a lossless mode and better compression than you would get with .png. Though of course that puts you at risk of using yet another unproven format. Though it seems to be on track to become the JPEG successor from what I
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by grumbel 4y ago
> Maybe what will evolve the space is automatic translation from any possible format to any other format using AI. Easier said than done. Facebook, Google, Twitter and Co. like to gatekeep their data and don't allow third party clie
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by grumbel 4y ago
> I don't think you need to incentivise people to host each other's data. Bitcoin is worth a trillion dollar. Meanwhile 20+ years of effort into creating P2P networks has resulted in pretty much nothing. No Linux distributions
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Is it possible to use this without the browser, i.e. as simple plain old command line tool?
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> The reason this idealistic world does not exist, is simply because the distributors do not wish it to. Companies can only do what the laws allows them to do, and as I already linked, laws exists to prevent companies from double-dipping
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by grumbel 4y ago
The laws necessary for that "idealistic world" already exist for physical goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine Sometimes they are even applied to the digital world, but that's rare:
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You pay for the bandwidth, either directly via a subscription fee to the service (Prime, iCloud, etc.) or indirectly by using the service, e.g. Steam lets you import CD-keys for free too, since they value you more as customer than they c
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by grumbel 4y ago
NFTs are transferable and service-independent. Meaning you can trade used digital media and they will continue working even when Sony goes out of business, just like physical media would. Another big advantage is that they are generic, they
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> If the distributor isn't distributing, then there's no legal way to get it. Many countries already require that a copy of every book published has to be send to the national library: * https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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The beauty of NFTs is that that doesn't matter. You just go to another provider that still accepts your NFTs. NFTs are a proof of ownership, not a right for getting free downloads from Sony forever. The only thing you have to be carefu
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Libraries exist. You don't need Sony when you can proof ownership. Getting a hold of a movie has never been the problem, redistributing it legally is and NFTs make that possible, even without Sony's approval.
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> so they are just a token that gives the owner to a claim to a movie via some external system. Yes, but that's exactly what you don't get with a central database. There is no way to use your Sony-database-entry to access the
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by grumbel 4y ago
IPv6 addresses aren't going to be any more static than what we have now. And even if they were, the fundamental problem of self-hosting is reliability, not getting a static IP address (which you can work around with dynamic DNS service
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Those remakes are exactly why it shouldn't last much longer. As those remakes aren't actually about the work itself, but about the brand recognition that work has in the public consciousness. It's just free advertisement that
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While that is not fundamentally impossible, Star Citizen is so far the only crowdfunded thing I know that managed to collect AAA-game levels of money. Pretty much everything else isn't making nearly enough to actually finance the proje
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There are plenty of ways. Limit playback only to official DRM-locked devices and have those devices film the user. The moment a camera makes it into the picture you block their account for life. That's not even new tech, 3D face detect
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by grumbel 4y ago
I can't imagine getting rid of it completely would have good effects, as it would make any large scale production impossible. You might still get a few blog post, but getting books produced will be tricky and something big like a movie
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by grumbel 4y ago
Most frustrating part with find is: $ find -type f . find: paths must precede expression: `.' It's like the tool knows exactly what you want to do, but still refuses to do it just because.
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by grumbel 4y ago
The thing that weirds me out the most with ffmpeg is that they have input and output flipped. Input needs a flag (-i), while output is a flag-less argument. Every other tool I know has either an output flag (-o) or takes the first argument
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by grumbel 4y ago
I'd say both of them missed the target by quite lot. The original idea for the Pi was to be a modern BBC Micro. But the Pi turned out to be just a regular PC. A little cheaper, less powerful and ARM. But it doesn't really do much
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Thimbleweed Park kind of already is that. Well, more a spin-off than a direct sequel, but it's filled with lots and lots of references to Maniac Mansion.
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On top of that, Monkey Island 2 was never a real pixel-art game to begin with, all the backgrounds were hand painted[1] and scanned. Only the character sprites and objects were still pixel-art. [1] https://mixnmojo.com/media
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by grumbel 4y ago
Once you start adding Protocol and TypedDict you are (almost) back where C++ and Java are with virtual classes and interfaces. The point of duck typing was that you don't have to write all that boilerplate and stuff just works as long
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The new type system goes pretty much against the idea of duck typing, I'd consider that a pretty big fundamental change. And it's pretty half baked on top (e.g. `a: int = "foo"` goes through the python interpreter withou
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That's why I switches to running multiple browser profiles, along with multiple Google accounts when necessary. It keeps all those recommendations isolated from each other.
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The "7zip" package is the official one. Linux support has been around before 22.00, but still relatively new. The old one is called "p7zip": https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/p7zip That one hasn&#x2
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7-zip now also has an official Linux version (`7zz`), which can be used to replace the unmaintained p7zip (`7zr`, `7za`, `7z`).
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Historically, not having "non-commercial" was extremely important for Free Software, as it meant people were allowed to distribute tapes, floppies and CD-ROMs for money with the software on it. We would never have had all the Linu
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by grumbel 4y ago
What does CC BY-NC-SA actually mean when applied to the model? Are the .wav files generated by it considered CC BY-NC-SA as well or only software derived from it? Would I be allowed to use the output in say a Youtube video? PS: This still p
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by grumbel 4y ago
> what do I type in my shell to convert some_txt.txt to some_txt.wav Doesn't look like they have any command line tool included, but they have a simple Python example in the README. I used that, added some argparse around it and bui

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