This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember “forever”
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This is a fair point. If people demanded their money back when a film has bad audio, I wonder if that might incentivise the industry to care more about this.
This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.
If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they’re shouting, that’s not adding realism, they’re doing bad acting.
If the sound engineers can’t get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that’s not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they’re bad at mixing.
If the director can’t keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that’s not artistic choice, they’ve made a bad film.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English22·1 month agoI’m surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it’s pretty good. I’m also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AIEnglish10·2 months agoFor a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as ‘Palantir says it has given up on AI’. Then I read the article and was left dejected.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"English7·2 months agoAbsolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphonesEnglish14·2 months agoUsers need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Daystrom Institute@startrek.website•Interesting Observation of Ferengi Gender Roles in Nagus Rom EraEnglish1·3 months agoI’m not sure if centre-right is a characterisation you can make of ferengi politics in this way.
I usually associate the left/right distinction as an indicator of mainly economic policy. We know that things like unions, worker rights, etc (leftist economic ideals) have never been big on fereginar. I don’t think there’s been that big a shift even with union man Rom at the helm.
I think that attitudes towards social issues like women’s rights are completely orthogonal to economic ones. It’s easy looking at current human political tribalism to group everyone on a left/right binary, but consider that during DS9 Rom, the economic leftist, did not at all like his mother wearing clothes and being open. If anything, the economically right leaning quark was less bothered by it.
If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don’t trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.
In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)English3·7 months ago“The two models, the 30TB … and the 32TB …, each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk”. Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma2·7 months agolooking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems
i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and MastodonEnglish21·2 years agoAt this point the web is about as complex as an operating system in terms of complexity. That needs really strong specific standards in order for it to work, and in turn projects like web browsers are huge and complex.
If someone wanted to build a web browser that only followed the simpler parts of the specifications, it wouldn’t work for many websites* and people would not use that browser.
*Whether or not sites need to be so complex is another question entirely, but the reality right now is that they are
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Memes@lemmy.ml•...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails.801·2 years agoAnswer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x09 "The Inner Fight"English17·2 years agoKnife Rain? Wasn’t expecting an adventure time reference on star trek, but I’ll take it!
There’s a lot of references linking back to nova squadron here, but I’ve got no idea how it all fits together. Looking forward to the finale.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Daystrom Institute@startrek.website•Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x07 "A Few Badgeys More"English4·2 years agoMore ascension stuff this episode. I wonder if that’s ever going to be explored, or if it will only ever be left as a gag. It seems like the kind of thing that would be difficult to dig into in a satisfying way.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox usersEnglish8·2 years agoIt was a froidian slip
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Finds New Home At Netflix After Paramount+ CancellationEnglish5·2 years agoThis is a good change. I think we could be in a much better place if companies that owned both production and streaming were more open about licensing.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x07 "A Few Badgeys More"English1·2 years agodeleted by creator
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x07 "A Few Badgeys More"English1·2 years agodeleted by creator
Netflix’s short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.
In theory (big caveat) with enough time, effort, and determination you could reverse engineer your way around even the worst Denuvo has to throw. For simple streamed content like images and sound you can always analog-hole your way around preserving content.
But for anything where the key thing you want to preserve, like logic, that depends entirely on a server somewhere existing, that’s a problem.