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by kiicia 1y ago
JPEG XL is alive despite google trying their best to kill it and is used to treat cancer
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by kiicia 1y ago
it's exactly the same as JPEG images being lossy, while you can see image as a whole (and it is enough for 99% of people), you are obviously missing some details and the more you rely on those details (professional photography, scienti
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by kiicia 1y ago
Absolute least they did is to rescan original film with newer type of scanning process/device into higher resolution and bit depth „digital negative”. You cannot replicate that from low quality jpeg image.
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by kiicia 1y ago
And how camera is supposed to prevent shooter from firing bullets? You think like shooter cares if they are filmed or not? If anything it will encourage them to shoot because there will be more permanent record of their actions…
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by kiicia 1y ago
Because nazis were peak of totalitarianism disguised as democracy and stemmed directly from seemingly (that is while looking at smaller parts of it) democratic process
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by kiicia 1y ago
So what you say is that you accept one side of extremum but not other side? Democracy as in having common goal is bad but democracy as in tribalism is good?
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by kiicia 1y ago
It’s because those were made to be bad solution by very advertising companies wanting people to be denied their rights and making it look like law is bad instead of implementation being bad
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by kiicia 1y ago
Law was created as response to advertisers invading privacy, are you arguing that unchecked invasion of your privacy is worth it? If anything unchecked invasion of privacy wasted all of those hours plus hours of work of lawmakers plus hours
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by kiicia 1y ago
So you know who “bad guys” are and you still make strawman argument?
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by kiicia 1y ago
It mostly did that until they changed it few versions ago, now it sometimes does, sometimes does not and sometimes falls flat on face depending on exact context of your action…
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by kiicia 1y ago
having bookmark you don't use is one thing, but linkrot of that one bookmark you actually do need is much worse
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by kiicia 1y ago
Code signing by pseudonymous key is different that requirement to cede personal data to central registry
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by kiicia 1y ago
Was supposed to be a joke, I’m just bad at telling jokes
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by kiicia 1y ago
Kitchen appliances generally use powerline ethernet, ethernet over power is just simple inversion of power over ethernet already used in certain network appliances.
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by kiicia 1y ago
There are specialized heavy duty sd cards like Kingston industrial, Samsung pro endurance, gigastone mlc, that have MLC memory and are designed for long term storage in extended environment parameters There are also other brands but are le
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by kiicia 1y ago
Wasn’t there already like instrumentation api that was run via premain?
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by kiicia 1y ago
No, code is smaller and more readable, also shortener means additional tracking layer
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by kiicia 1y ago
GDPR is about accountability for handling identifiers like full name of actual person. Using parts of names, where each part does not identify any particular person, in generalized list like described here does not fall under GDPR.
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by kiicia 1y ago
If you can get crypto currency, maybe yes in some cases. Currently available currencies are not anonymous, but pseudonymous. You can track who transacts with whom. To help with that new laws were passed. If you want to buy crypto for fiat c
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by kiicia 1y ago
This is basically rss
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by kiicia 1y ago
This reminded me of „Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centers”[1] > Ultrasonic pilot tones, commonly used in PA systems to monitor speaker connections, are often modulated by background noise or movement. These tones can be used for
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by kiicia 1y ago
> Mathematicians Weinan Lin, Guozhen Wang, and Zhouli Xu have proven that 126-dimensional space can contain exotic, twisted shapes known as manifolds with a Kervaire invariant of 1—solving a 65-year-old problem in topology. These manifol
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by kiicia 1y ago
For eink reader is more than enough, for digital typewriter eink is not good choice for display, there are high contrast lcd displays with in-pixel memory that can be used
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by kiicia 1y ago
it does not matter in practice, let's say you do a full refresh once a second, it would take more than 11 days to do 1 million refreshes, if you do full refresh once a minute, it would take 2 years
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by kiicia 2y ago
Ad business stopped to be necessary and started to be almost exclusively evil years ago. If you pay sociologists and psychologists to design „most effective ad” for you, something is clearly wrong. 100 years ago ads were indeed ways of disc
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by kiicia 2y ago
There are two ways of trying to achieving goal. One is to start from big picture, think if we even want to do something, then plan how to go there. Second is to start from technicalities and probably immediately go nowhere. You are starting
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by kiicia 2y ago
so just late stage capitalism's pure greed imported to eu
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by kiicia 2y ago
clearly he was planning this move ahead of time with one goal in mind, that is to get specialized help for his kid thanks to amounts of money he has of course he would be happy with this move even if "normal" people would burn aro
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by kiicia 2y ago
I never said that idea of using single number is bad in itself, what is bad is forcing this single number and it's calculation on everyone else like it is some biblical revelation instead of calculating it ad-hoc (and modifying calcula
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by kiicia 2y ago
it's hard to argue that "occasional accent rendering issue" is better than "occasional zero-click issue", but rewriting code of any actual complexity is hard in practice... and we are talking about only one library

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