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nyquildotorg

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Mobile-addicted. Web-dependent. Digital Plumber. Nerd. He/him. No-coiner.

Citizen of various fediverses over the years, this one since my first Mastodon account in January 2017. Alt-text enthusiast, lover of having his mind changed.

If you engage to disagree with something I've posted, it probably increases the likelihood of a follow. (But chances are pretty good, anyway.)

Boosts and quote-boosts welcome.

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Hot take: it is not worse that Israel is able to spend money to manipulate people's opinions of them than when any American entity does it, and definitely not worse than when it's the US government doing it.

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Cory Doctorow [in Ireland]: "En-shite-ification!"

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I think I just pinpointed an "over the hill" landmark moment. I'm more upset when white beard hairs fall out than I was when they started to appear. I guess I'm ready to enter my greybeard phase.

nyquildotorg, to random
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"Grandma McFlurry" sounds extremely unappealing. I'll probably just stick with an Oreo McFlurry, or maybe a M&Ms McFlurry.

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I don't know why all these Asian restaurants are so hell-bent to talk shit about Mattlestar Galactica

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I'm a man and I can change. If I have to. I guess.

If your women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Keep your stick on the ice.

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As a teen in America, I used to pray for a PBS pledge drive so I could see a bunch of episodes of Red Green in a row. Kind of curious how well that show held up.

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I've got the OneWheel out today for the first time in a week or so due to a messed up back situation (not OneWheel related.)

I just rode to a nearby park and encountered three teenage skate rats working on their kickflips at a bus stop, who asked questions about the OneWheel. Two of them tried it, then their bus arrived and they had to run and go grab it. One of them said "great to meet you, I hope you have a good day!" and then fist-bumped me before sprinting onto the bus.

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is anyone familiar with a method of extracting a stillframe image from a particular timestamp of a video that considers temporal information from neighbouring frames, in order to produce a still image that looks more like what we perceive during playback? non gen-ML based solutions strongly preferred.

regular frame extraction tends to have blocking artifacts and other quality issues that are harder to perceive in realtime.

I assume something along these lines exists for video forensics.

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@gsuberland mencoder/mplayer and ffmpeg both have somewhat tunable de-interlacing and deblocking as well a reversing a 3:2 pulldown, but I'm not sure that reverse pulldown really counts as "temporal"

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@gsuberland I suspect it's also highly dependent on the framerate history of the content. Like if it's a 24fps video that's been interlaced into 29.97fps fields, it'd be pretty tough to get back to 24fps cleanly. But this could be a fun experiment.

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@gsuberland yeah, pretty sure the deblocking is one frame at a time

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Got another comment about my Holo Taco hat. It blows my mind that some girl in Canada can put too much nail polish on her nails ("polish mountain"), go viral, become a successful YouTuber, start a nail polish business and have random strangers all over the world recognize her logo.

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When casting for that first* Fantastic Four film was announced, my friend went on this angry rant about how stupid it is to take "one of the most beautiful women in the world" (Jessica Alba) and cast her as the fricking Invisible Woman.

*: this was, of course, not the first Fantastic Four film, since Fox hired Roger Corman in 1994 to make a terrible film they had no intention of releasing, just to hold onto the rights so that someday they could release a good one if they felt like it. Three reboots later, I guess they're still holding out for a good one, lol

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good for business: training data
bad for business: training bra data

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I've been listening a lot to this band called Driveways, thanks to YouTube Music putting them on my radar. Most of their songs seem to be kind of personal, referencing local parties and whatnot, but one of them keeps getting stuck in my head, with part of a lyric being "the combine knows."

Every time I hear it, I catch the thing about "The Combine" and wonder if it's a reference to Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but now that I've realized the song is called "Fog Machines" and listened more clearly to the lyrics, I'm 100% sure it's a Kesey reference and am really impressed.

It's been probably 25-30 years since I read everything Kesey had ever written, but I've been finding myself thinking a lot about one particular section of Cuckoos Nest and wanting to re-read it. I guess this seals it.

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This Tetris + Red Cross collab is baffling to me.

"I gave blood to meet Alexey Pajitnov, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

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Any tips for getting Windows 11 to shut down Bluetooth when my Surface Laptop sleeps? My headphones keep remaining connected to the device, and often get "stolen" from my phone. I'll be listening to something on my phone and all of a sudden, it'll switch to the (sleeping) PC and output the nothing that the PC is outputting instead of the actual music my phone is playing.

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Seems like the consensus for how to do this is "fuck off because that's how it works now. Feel free to switch to 'hibernate' instead of sleep."

So I switched to hibernate and it took a full minute to un-hibernate on wake. The first 45 seconds of which was just a black screen with no indication that anything at all is happening. I was laughing out loud at the prospect of Windows having the same "fails to wake up" problem that Linux laptops often do. Was gonna say WSL2 has gotten really good.

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I love this lyric from Halsey's new depressing song:

And I told him I'm not bitter
Because I finally found a lover
Who was better for my liver
And I could finally recover

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It's funny to see all the Agile people come out of the woodwork to clarify that these failed Agile projects weren't really Agile projects.

RE: geeknews.chat/users/theregister/statuses/112563321944952194

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One person joked (I assume they were joking anyway) about how it's impossible for an Agile project to fail, so since these projects failed, they can't have been Agile projects.

This whole thing does suggest to me that this is also a hotdog/Pluto/airborne issue: "fail" is not adequately defined in this context.

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"On 118 posts in which the fake accounts shared pro-Israel articles, the same sentence appeared: “I gotta reevaluate my opinions due to this new information.”

At least try to make your propaganda bots sound like a human, geez.

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Radish hardly ever makes noise when he meows. But he'll look right at me and mouth the word meow when he wants something. Only when he thinks I'm not getting the message will he actually make noise.

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Looking forward to altering the history of Copilot Recall by looking at sqlite queries in my text editor.

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Kevin Beaumont suggested that Recall history can be "edited" with Photoshop via the stored jpegs, but it doesn't seem to me like that would result in the contents of the database changing. I think sqlite queries would be needed to truly edit history...

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Microsoft: takes screenshots of the screen, OCRs them and places the data in an unprotected sqlite file for later recall.

Apple: creates new NPU architecture designed to save PDFs of the screen and OCR them, storing the data in CoreData for later recall by authenticated users.

Ubuntu: every time the computer sleeps, it wakes up slightly slower than the last time, until you reboot it.

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To clarify here, when I said "wakes up slightly slower," I mean "it runs slower and slower after each sleep," not "it takes longer and longer to wake up."

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