The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
Coworkers and I were cracking up over how we hate certain email closings like "Best" and "Warmly," so we tested out some alternatives:
"Moistly"
"Indifferently"
"Relentlessly"
"With gravest concern"
I know there are some brilliant ones out there. Tell me your best ones.
@hazelweakly
"Were trying to prevent human rights violations but let's not forget your whole thing started as a moral crusade about printer drivers."
There are some emerging software licenses with field of use restrictions related to preventing racism and human rights violations and technically it violates the FSF "freedom zero".
Okay, here me out, but I totally think there's a possibility to setup a Fediverse server that you "follow", and then you'd have ads boosted into your timeline, and then revenue from the advertising would be distributed based on number of actors following for ads, a portion would go to your instance, and some would go to the software your instance runs.
This would give consent-based advertising that's native to ActivityPub and opt-in by users.
Sitting up bolt upright in bed, realising that the time between the release of Vice City and now is greater than the time between the setting of Vice City and the release of Vice City
Q: OK fine! There's a lot of racism! But we can't do anything about it! You can't change hearts and minds! I've flipped from denial to helplessness! Talking about racism depressed me and makes me feel bad, because we can't do anything about it! So, can you stop talking about it?
A: No, we won't stop talking about it. Yes, we can do something about it. Let's look at one specific example of a reduction in racism, driven by racists themselves! 🙂🙃
WSJ reports a “surge in aviation-safety incidents recorded in Russia last year,” calling it “an indication of how Western sanctions are hindering the country’s ability to source spare parts and conduct proper maintenance.”
CurryTree: Okay, let's do that stuff we said we'd do yesterday.
(Side note: I am saving all these threads, and will, in due course, put them somewhere. I really enjoy "live-coding on social media" and would do it a lot, but there's no good way to handle sharing code snippets.
the real reason why there's no obvious spacefaring galactic civilizations is that they invent "AI" and then never manage to develop interstellar travel because all calculations are always subtly wrong
@thomasfuchs
Just a sec. Writing a draft of a novel where the one galactic civilization that made it maintains their hegemony by secretly poisoning FTL drive AI models. @lisamelton
After watching Rebel Moon, my respect for George Lucas as a writer and world builder doubled. Maybe tripled.
I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to take that much acting talent and VFX budget, and produce waves hands in exasperation that with it. A crime against my eyeballs. Don't get me wrong, the visuals were pretty, and you could see the actors doing their best to try to make something happen... But no.
Now I need to go rewatch Rogue One and Andor, just to rinse that mess from my mind.
So, I’ve been giving FDM 3D printing a look. As far as I can tell, the point of multi-filament printers to get different colors without having to paint the output. Is that it, or is there more to it I’m missing, possibly due to not being interested in commercial-scale printing?
ETA: Today I learned about water-soluble filaments that can be used to support prints, which sound pretty useful!
Never perform a system upgrade when you don't have the time to deal with the inevitable complications.
Turns out Arch Linux is unable to automatically upgrade a PostgreSQL database when a new major version comes out. Of course there's a migration guide in the wiki, but I was not prepared to get my hands dirty right now. 😅
@fell
Yeah. That's bitten me too. It's pretty well documented to lock the major version in pacman so you'll get a notification that the next version is ready. Did I read that? Yes. Repeatedly. Did I lock the package? No.
I watch dev teams every week wrestling with major downstream consequences of not taking enough care over their work, and then I hear managers warning them "Beware of taking too much care!", and I wonder if they and I are perhaps living in different universes.
@jasongorman
I get flak for my high level of care and strong opinions about it. I also lived through repeated "don't worry about care, we need this out for [potential new business reason]" turn on a dime to "you guys are terrible at this, the system is unstable and unusable."
Agreed, if leadership of an important technology org has revealed itself to be too erratic and extreme to properly steward its development, let’s nationalize it. Would also be appropriate given how much of the basic research was done with public funding. Having it under the auspices of the administration that created a smart & well-executed AI Bill of Rights would be ideal.
OK, a serious and burning question: why do we have sex scenes in so many films to begin with?
Like, I came here to see a sci-fi film about time-traveling murderbots. Why is there 30 seconds of moaning and bad softcore erotica in the middle of my cybernetic murder spree? I'm sitting there awkwardly and thinking to myself: Mr. or Mrs. filmmaker, what exactly do you want me to do?!
I know it's a part of life, but we don't show the protagonist picking their nose or taking a dump. Why not just stick to wholesome murderbots?
