Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....
I mean, its kinda nice to have in the formal record, but really, what does this change? We all knew it to be true. Even if you ask your most conservative climate change denying uncle “do you think Shell lied about impacts of using gas” he’d have to acknowledged they aren’t the good guys.
Big Oil is the one-sided 80s super villain. No one is coming out of those hearings saying “no way, they knew this whole time?!”
I have a collection of about ~110 4K Blu-Ray movies that I’ve ripped and I want to take the time to compress and store them for use on a future Jellyfin server....
You’re about to embark on a massive journey and I wish you the best of luck :D
Compressing 110 4K movies is going to be a long encode time, but it will be so nice to digitize that collection.
First question: if you already have them ripped and stored, do you even need to re-encode them? If you have a powerful enough Jellyfin server for transcoding, that may be enough.
That said, if you’re looking to optimize for space and quality, there’s some questions to ask:
proprietary (but ubiquitous) HEVC or the emerging open standard AV1? It’s going to be a lot easier finding tips/guides for HEVC.
Constant Rate Factor (CRF), or Average Bit Rate (ABR). CRF tends to be more straightforward if you have a varied collection of content because it let’s the encoder choose settings to deliver consistent quality. 2-pass average bit rate is good if you have a target size or compatibility in mind - great for squeezing out the absolute optimal quality if you’re trying to fit on a Blu-Ray disc or meet certain streaming criteria, but 2x the encode time (hence “2-pass”) can be a tough sell.
Stick with software encoding, steer clear of hardware solutions like NVENC. They’re crazy fast, but inconsistent quality.
There’s some guides out there on converting DV to HDR 10+ etc, but I don’t have a lot of experience with that process.
Look, I definitely get it, but just a note, encoding 100+ 4k HEVC movies is going to take months of time at full PC loads. It’s a subtle cost, but depending on your electricity rate, running a 200W PC 24/7 for 3 months straight may hurt your bottom line more than it helps.
If you already have the storage, the cheapest option may be just to keep it. If you’re looking to increase the size of your collection it may be about even to save 6 TB via encode and to buy an extra 6TB disc, depending on your setup
This is (very likely) it. Made up scenario because I don’t know what’s in their pipeline, but this would be like seeing FF7 Remake not meeting expectations while Palworld thrives, and deciding to can the FF8 reboot they’d already floated millions into and instead redirecting their entire workforce to adding guns to the their Minecraft knockoff Dragon Quest Builders.
I expect a lot of “experts” playing the “ackshually electric appliances powered by coal are worse than gas” card, ignoring the continually declining rate of coal power production globally, but especially in the US.
I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.”...
The article does a good job breaking down the issues with Tesla’s Auto Pilot, including the fact that it’s a misleading title and has some pretty significant flaws giving people a false sense of confidence in its capabilities.
But raw crash statistics are absolutely meaningless to me without context. Is 956 crashes and 29 deaths more or less than you would expect from a similar number of cars with human drivers? What about in comparison to other brands semi-autonomous-driving systems?
Driving is an inherently unsafe process, journalists suck at conveying relative risks, probably because the average reader sucks at understanding statistical risk, but there needs to be a better process for comparing systems than just "29 people died’.
You seem to be pretending that these numbers are an overestimate
My point isn’t that it’s an overestimate or an underestimate. I trust the NHTSA numbers.
The question is how many people would have died driving similar routes/distances. No technology is perfect, and Tesla has plenty of room for improvement, but my question is: is it safer to use systems like Autopilot or just drive manually.
The article headline makes it sound like autonomous driving is dangerous, but driving is dangerous. Articles like this cover the absolute numbers without contextualizing whether or not those numbers are above or below the ‘norm’.
Tesla Autopilot is an automaton. When you put it inside of its failing conditions, it will fail 100% of the time. Like a machine.
Sure, I wasn’t trying to insinuate Tesla’s system was any good at all, let alone some sort of infallible program. Honestly I wouldn’t have even mentioned Tesla, except its the subject of the post, my statements are just about how bad we are about covering comparative risk of alternatives to risky systems.
You realize you’re still proving my point, we as a society suck at differentiating between absolute numbers and statistics.
Again, I have no love for Teslas, but anecdotes of Autopilot failures are not proof that it’s less safe than humans. It’s proof that they need to improve their system, and your comments and the article you shared list a bunch of ways they can do that.
Having more failures than other ADAS is inching towards the right comparative analysis, but how many Teslas are on the road vs other ADAS cars? If there’s 10x as many Teslas as any other manufacturer, then it’s probably not shocking that they have more failures. (Also, citation needed).
Again, for the last time, I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying the data and anecdotes as presented lack the contextualization to show how much worse Tesla’s implementation is than humans or other manufacturers ADAS. I’m not defending Tesla, and I’m sure the data is out there, but it’s not here in your post to back up your case against Tesla.
Are they 10%, 50%, 100% more or less likely to crash per mile driven? Do they have more or fewer fatalities per crash incident when using Autopilot? Yes, autopilot drives off road, crashes into tree is bad. But so is driver falls asleep, drives off road, crashes into tree.
Unfortunately driving is an inherently unsafe system. In 2022, there were over 42,000 fatal car crashes in the US. Is Tesla making this better or worse? Just because they are causing accidents doesn’t mean they’re causing more accidents.
Probably only possible thanks to their 120Hz Gigh refresh rate. Everyone knows pulyarbnnntelpc becomes unstable if you do not sufficiently refresh your Gigh.
I mean, context does matter. If you’re replying to a post or comment about a person or group of people, “guillotine” comes with a pretty clear implication: “they should be sent to the…”
If you were responding to a question like, “What tool did Mel Brooks’ character use to provide circumcisions in Robin Hood Men in Tights?” “Guillotine” may be an acceptable response. Again, context matters.
Saying they can’t ban a word is the same excuse white supremacists use when they coopt shit like the “OK” gesture to symbolize white power.
A very thin veneer of plausible deniability doesn’t somehow make a call for violent executions align with policies against violent rhetoric.
Look, billionaires are bad for society, but normalizing this kind of dehumanizing violent rhetoric is how we get violent extremists.
When someone finally decides to act in this language and mails a bomb or goes to Tesla HQ with a gun, guess who is probably not going to be there
The mailroom worker or the receptionist are going to be in the line of fire while Elon probably isn’t even in the same state.
3.5 million people died during the French Revolution, only a tiny fraction of them were actually part of the ruling class. Acting like this is some ideal to strive for is childish. The “joke” stopped being funny the 27-millionth time it came up in the comments of a “Billionaire Bad” article.
At best, you’re distracting from people discussing real solutions to wealth inequity, at worst you’re promoting violent extremism. If I were moderating a community I’d probably boot you as well to make room for more productive conversations.
Government Response - Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state (petition.parliament.uk)
tl;dr: we will do nothing about it...
All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)
Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....
Senate Hearing Exposes Big Oil's 'Campaign of Deception and Distraction' (www.commondreams.org)
People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you (www.uniladtech.com)
[Request] Any Guides to FFMPEG, Transcoding, Codecs, and Metadata?
I have a collection of about ~110 4K Blu-Ray movies that I’ve ripped and I want to take the time to compress and store them for use on a future Jellyfin server....
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Title Update (www.youtube.com)
Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline (www.ign.com)
Water Heaters Use Lots of Energy. The D.O.E. Wants to Change That. The Biden administration is tightening efficiency rules for water heaters, stoves and other appliances (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post coverage for comparison
Calculus made easy (lemmy.world)
“All the little bits”
Why so many men like to play with a female character?
I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
If it works, kill it. (lemmy.world)
Rule of Google: if it works, kill it....
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.”...
Does Firefox have a memory Leak? Crashes after being open for too long.
To preface, I have had a thread about this previously,...
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
MOONDROP MIAD01 English product page (moondroplab.com)
Damn ngl I really want to import this phone. Like yeah it’s no flagship. But I still think it’s a cool concept
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive (grist.org)
Top 9 sustainability trends in the attractions industry for 2024 (blooloop.com)
The first big-rig hydrogen fuel station in the U.S. opens in California (www.latimes.com)
Guest post: How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions (www.carbonbrief.org)
Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene (newrepublic.com)
The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill....