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From what I understand, women are deluged with mobs of low-effort fuck boys and men are mostly ignored, which creates a feedback loop where men swipe on anything just for the hope of a match, which only makes things worse. It’s really fascinating from a systems perspective. But it used to be better before enshittification, in my limited experience. The reality is that quickly finding a new partner you are ideally matched with is the very last thing these companies want you to do.

Video file sizes: what do I need to know? I’m getting back into digital collecting after pretty much exhausting the local thriftstores of any movies I wanted to watch / own. I was thinking of burning everything to DVD but then I came to my senses and just installed Jellyfin. Question: What video file sizes do you guys download and why? And what is the correlation between video size and quality? I see some wild variations in file sizes even for the same res. Who are y’alls downloading 20+GB movies? Are you storing all that or are you downmixing? Are you stealing your harddrives out of the recycle bin? Any shortcuts for getting rich blacks for space scenes? Do I just need to suck it up eat the bytes? (I’m thinking of going this route for BSG and can’t remember if they go for video grain in space or true film black). What is the obvious thing I clearly don’t understand by asking these questions? So for me, it seems for file size, about 700MB / 90 minutes is about as low as I can go, and arguably it’s too low because I’m sometimes distracted by the low quality. I’m a little confused by what’s going on because I’ll often watch a DVD that’s being upscaled by the player and have no complaints, and I think that’s base 480 or lower, but a labelled 720p can have some distractingly low res. For my high end, 2GB at 1080p is about as high as I care to go unless it’s some crazy high quality cinematographic shit like Lawrence or Dune.

Ironically, kids might still get around the new restriction by using a virtual private network (VPN) connection, which virtually positions the computer in another country, at the time of signing up. This is just going to be one long pointless game of whackamole and as effective as Prohibition was in the US.

They’ll have to add ketamine to the bionutrient slurry.

It can’t go with out commenting that the current US Administration is actively and irrationally hostile to any alternative forms of energy.

What the hell man. Who is still funding this bubble?

Oh, men are definitely the customers. There was a website with a pornstar backer… Madison something or other. It was billed as a place to meet horny married women looking to have an affair–just sex, no attachment. It got hacked and, surprise surprise, it was entirely men talking to bots. Edit: Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, analyzed the leaked data.[46] They initially found that only roughly 12,000 (0.22%) of the 5.5 million registered female accounts were used regularly.[47][48] The vast majority of accounts had been used only once — the day they were registered. Newitz also found that many women’s accounts were created from the same IP address, suggesting there were many fake accounts. They found that women checked email messages very infrequently: every one time a woman checked her email, 13,585 men checked theirs. Only 9,700 of the 5.5 million female accounts had ever replied to a message, compared to the 5.9 million men who would do the same. They concluded, “The women’s accounts show so little activity that they might as well not be there.”[47] In a subsequent article the following week Newitz acknowledged that they had “misunderstood the evidence” in their previous article and that their conclusion that there were few females active on the site had been based on data recording “bot” activities in contacting members. Newitz confirmed that Ashley Madison had created more than 70,000 female bots to send millions of fake messages to male users. Still, they note that “we have absolutely no data recording human activity at all in the Ashley Madison database dump from Impact Team. All we can see is when fake humans contacted real ones.” They noted that the site seemed to keep track of human-to-human contact but that the Impact Team had not released this data.[49] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach

My problem withestreaming services is that shows you are actively watching can disappear at any time. Watching a show on Netflix? Oops, it’s on Disney+ now. Watching a show on Disney+? Oops, it’s on another service owned by Disney, but sign up now for a discounted bundle! Watching a show on HBO that was produced by HBO and owned by HBO? Oops, HBO got bought by an MBA that thinks they can make more money selling the streaming rights to Netflix, or worse, just save a few pennies on royalties but not making the show available at all. I’d say, “ok, i have one or two streaming services at a time and i’ll just limit myself to what’s available; I want to support the system” and the system would find a way to fuck me over every single time.

Ditalini From Above

I notice the medium easiest to pirate–music–has the best streaming support. I’ d like to be cynical and say there’ s a connection, but I think it’ s just more that 3-5 minutes of media just commands less market value so it’ s easier for people to bid based on needing to control the entire catalog Personally, I’m back to local music, even though streaming music is a relatively good experience. I left initially for getting fed AI music, also left because I’m poor, but also left because discoverability was weak; that is to say, there were a few limited number of genres and songs I’ d get pulled into, and often I felt like the songs I were listening to were newer and being promoted, not older and classics… and on top of that, payouts to musicians are mostly garbage, and most of the people I listen to are dead or nearly so… so… I didn’t really think I was " supporting" anything worthwhile. If you like to watch old men shaking their fists at clouds, Rick Beato’ on YouTube is a musician and music producer who has a lot to say about streaming and the state of music… He’s got some interesting points about how streaming as a medium is changing how music is produced and consumed. I haven’t seen Yellowstone, but it sounds like the short-sightedness profit maximization that is endemic everywhere now. The idea that you need to build a relationship of trust with your customers is completely gone, the idea that your customers can just walk away not only from you, but the entire ecosystem, is also gone… some encouraging/discouraging news from a lot of different places Gaming, for instance, is in a crisis because every game is trying to appeal to everyone and so appeals nobody.

The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience. but for powerful developer hardware with 64GB of RAM and gobs of memory bandwidth. ???

Aw, come on, don’t leave us guessing! There’s a controversy I don’t know about it! How am I supposed to establish my moral superiority?

“Also, the chasing has to happen on my island.”

Looks like the srychnine was intended as a performance enhancing drug, but Hicks was carried over the finish line by his team, so he should have by rights been disqualified. Some pretty crazy shit, all in all. en.wikipedia.org/…/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_O…

I wonder what’s the snow looks like on Kevin’s yard.

People are clever; we invent things. LLMs are just a tool. Tools can be used by people; the problem is when people are used by tools, which is what is happening in this case. See Corey Doctorow’s latest tour of YouTube promoting his idea of reverse centaurs (which, for the life of me, I can´t figure out why he didn´t call minotaurs).

“It’s about competition, not conspiracy. Innovation, ⁠not theft. Ordinary business dealings, not criminal conduct,” Brian Heberlig, one of a team of lawyers representing Huawei, said in his opening. eep Three it’s-not-x-it’s-ys in a row. I don’t need to know a watermarking algorithm to know the author isn´t Brian Heberling.

Damn, never though I’d say this, but I think China is gonna save capitalism from itself.

“We’ve reached AGI for real this time, so you better give me money. Sorry, give me money. I mean, give me money.”

I guess in this fantasy scenario of yours, the United States is the one that doesn’t subsidize the auto industry? lol

Good instinct, though I suspect this ridiculous story of squirrels is just covering up a laundry fire inside the substation. /s

You mean you download a massive file and shrink it down yourself? Do you have an recommended encorders for B&W film? Seems like an easy place to pick up some space savings while retaining or improving over a general full color codec.

I’ve thought a lot about it, and I think it’s a combination of what your sensitivity is and what you’re used to seeing. There’s a natural point where your brain stops caring (or even noticing) quality improvements, much to the dismay of TV panel manufacturers. But there’s also that you will notice a degradation of quality until you re-adapt (if its above your natural threshhold). Also, most TV shows aren’t so much about the cinematography/visuals (with some notable exceptions); 1080 is higher than I’d want for most TV shows, especially given the sheer amount of hours. (I think most Star Trek’s crunch down to 20+gigs at 720). I’ll try to keep an eye on encodings I like and see if I can’t build a fan list of encoders.

“Tech news and articles”. Since this is purely a news article, it’s of little value a year later, when a more up-to-date article about verification would have more current information. If it was about how some part of the tech stack worked (“article”) and things hadn’t changed that much, an older article would probably fare better.

That’s a good detailed analysis. I was actually comparing two versions of a 2000s show I love, and I only had the second one because the first one was distractingly bad. I remember thinking on the old one, “Is this the Universal logo from the 1970’s??” It wasn’t, just really horrible compressed…

More cats in my dwarf fortress are never wasted. Honestly, DF was the last time i thought about single core performance.

We must disagree on what a bubble is or whether AI is a bubble, because what you’re saying seem nonsensical to me. Demand for AI will slowly grow, but the insane prices for components will come down because what is driving those prices is speculation about future growth, not actual current, near- or even medium-term demmand. Another thing to consider is that AI infrastructure is barely infrastructure at all–you have to buy new GPUs every 5-or-so years, at a tremendous cost. If you build a data center, they, in a sane world, those GPUS need to pay for themselves before the next batch of GPUs comes in. There really is no reason to go nuts building temporary infrastructure when the price is at its peak. Please, I’m begging you, start making sense.

I didn’t say you loved it, I asked if you didn’t think it was subsidized.

Maxing out most consumer TV’s days would probably fill your hard drive very quickly… I think my tv is technically 4K, but it really doesn’t need to be–my bluray doesn’t even play 4k. I’m at 55" about 8 ft away. It’s not too big, not too small… Jellyfin’s been rock solid, no problems, but I haven’t dived into a 50gb Solaris yet or anything.

What profits? They are not even breaking even yet, and it seems people don’t want to pay for what this shit actually costs.

Circular financing from NVIDIA is selling more cards than can be installed. The business press is absolutely supine on this, but it’s likely there are qute a few purchased GPUs sitting in warehouses. …substack.com/…/gpu-bought-cant-build-data-center…

Do you know the legend of stone soup? A traveler goes to a village that has fallen on hard times. Nobody will give him food. He stops at a farmer’s house and says, “I have a magic stone. It will dissolve into a rich broth full of flavor and nutrients that will make enough delicious soup for the entire village.” So the news goes around town that there will be a soup feast, and everyone brings something to contribute: some vegetables, some meats, some spices, and they all enjoy a delicious soup, never realizing that the traveler had scooped a plain and simple stone out of the cauldron before the guests had arrived. I feel like AI is kind of the traveller here and the 180,000 lines of shitty code is the stone, and all the work people are going to do in making that code performant are the real ingredients.

And even if they didn’t AI is rapidly becoming a generic commodity. Just build a datacenter and plug in an off-the-shelf LLM. There’s nothing to really catch up on other than infrastructure, which will be radically cheaper when the bubble pops. There is no crucial or indispensible IP for countries or even companies to own. Given the current inflated costs (and the energy crisis), the best thing to do is wait until this shakes out and build in the future with a clearer understanding of the destination.

Yes, size doesn’t necessarily mean quality, but I see people using it for shorthand calculations, and maybe poorly encoded files get moved down the list. I’m watching a lot of older movies, though, so I probably need to pay more attention.

Profiles, as in you’re remixing HQ files down yourself, or you just know what you’re looking for?

Just to understand the full cultural context, I assumed he was interested in the price because he was buying the bag. In the world of hoary gender stereotypes, it’s expected for men to buy women’s fashion objects (in fact, there was a study about how women’s bags are expensive loyalty signals to other women), and it is men who are expected to buy their OWN toys and, in fact, HIDE their purchases from women (good, lord, all those AVSIM forums posts about their wives being gone for a week and what should they order). Edit: Hoary means old.

I think you’re misunderstanding what happened. I replied to a comment that had already been deleted. It’s not a limitation. I think that’s what happened. A month ago may as well have been 20 years ago.

Part of me thinks is this just performative nonsense that will always have enormous holes in it, like Prohibition. Scanning “your” face to prove your age is really just scanning a face. But I also worry about successive noose tightening.

My electric toothbrush has bluetooth. Someone bought it before it got to you. There is likely a version without bluetooth that was not purchased. If people keep spending more money for it, they will keep making it.

What it means for me is I find a Youtuber I like and cling to them for dear life. It also means if I really do want to learn something, I’ll find a better source than youtube–like a podcast specializing in that subject area, or even, dare I say, a book.

Ah, the *arrs are the first thing on my list if I ever get broadband again…

Thanks for the wikipedia link. I guess it makes sense that that’s where the information would be. The good news for me is that I download everything on my mobile phone and it kills my battery, so I’m limited to how quickly I can fill up my hard drive. I can probably pull about 5-20G/night. I really wish we still had long-term storage options like Zip drives or cassettes.

I don’t get exercised about em-dashes, but this is two overlapping AI ticks and it feels unnatural, forced. That’s three strikes. Maybe you just don’t have a very good eye for writing and so can’t imagine others might.

Where do you source your harddrives from? And I guess you have some redundancies if you’re using used drives. Your standards are undoubtedly higher than mine. HDR might be overkill (?), but I just find it very jarring when a scene that should be uniformly dark or black turns into bunches of little squares dancing around the screen. Do I need HDR to avoid that? I mean, yes, I do love the theater blacks enough that when Rogue One went from video outer space to film outerspace it melted my brain a little, so maybe I should look into that. But, overall, I think regular BluRay is the highest I’d want to target. The system has really fucked itself with all the controls it has, especially for high quality streaming which they absolutely cannot guarantee AND they put a lot of restrictions on it as well. I will speak up for having a physical library. It’s nice for guests to have something to pick up and hold. Of course, most of my guests these days are future and imaginary.

What are you getting for that 3-5 extra gigs at 720P? 720 files seem to go from between 700MB and 2 gigs usually.

The United States greatly prefers that corporations be in charge of the government to governments being in charge of corporations.

US: Let’s sanction everyone everywhere all at once! Also US: Why don’t people want to be dependent on US systems? 😭

Reminder here that the culprit is capitalism, not LLMs. Voxium said he wouldn’t mind the situation if workers were given more time to check the code. “Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude,” he added. “There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore.” Some people might look at this and wonder what the problem is – who wouldn’t want to be paid to do very little? But most people struggle when their work has no meaning. Voxium told Business Insider that if engineers lose the opportunity to understand the code and solve difficult problems, “there is nothing left … Not even our soul. There will be no purpose.” He added that the real problem is corporate leaders’ obsession with pushing out more features. He said management often judges success by sprint cycles, pull requests, and the sheer number of features shipped, even when those additions do little to improve the product for users.

I haven’t dug into upscaling; I know my bluray does it, not sure if my TV or Jellyfin do. Audio isn’t an issue for me; don’t have the money or space for a proper set up, so, heresy: I’m rocking my TV speakers, which sound way better than they should.