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Never beating the "never seen a woman before" allegations.
  • I dunno man. Would someone do that? Just go out and steal another dude's username?

  • Relationship advice?
  • This Eliezer Yudkowsky. He wrote a bunch of nerd fanfiction, and is apparently mostly famous for his takes on AI. He is a public figure.

  • Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
  • Innovative ideas are rarely smart ideas.

  • Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
  • You completely missed the point there, damn. He's saying those things are very likely to be bad investments.

  • Signal changelog
  • and if it doesn't also have the HDR label there's a good chance your video is going to have the wrong colors in it.

  • Ninja Terminator (1985)
  • I love the baseball pose while holding the katana.

  • Signal changelog
  • For those not in the know, it's dolby's proprietary hdr format, in a similiar vein to their atmos product, which is high definition audio. You see it labeled in linux isos as "DV", and if it doesn't also have the HDR label there's a good chance your video is going to have the wrong colors in it.

  • Clark is a man of focus.
  • "You're weird for not being interested in me" is the same thing, yes.

  • Clark is a man of focus.
  • Telling someone they're an alien for not being interested in you is very definitely rude. Sure, you put effort into your appearance, you have pride in your looks. There's nothing wrong with that. It's when you take that rejection out on someone else that it becomes a problem. Here, it's a mild issue, almost certainly intended to be a fourth wall wink at the readers more than anything else, but at the end of the day, she called clark an alien because he turned her advances down.

  • Clark is a man of focus.
  • It's very much a metaphorical comment for her; normal men, according to her worldview, obviously check out womans titties every chance they get. She's being incredibly rude and arrogant. "If he's not checking me out, he very obviously has serious mental health problems, or is just straight up not human." The arrogant half is the expectation that even if a normal man had the capability to ignore some other woman's titties, no normal man would ever be able to ignore hers.

    She would likely consider gay men to be an aberration too.

  • Midwest goodbye
  • Right up until they do, and spend 10 minutes checking to make sure you weren't hurt or otherwise injured at their party. This is fine for big public things, but is very much a dick move for smaller groups.

  • Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard?
  • If you're really worried about power use, you could switch to an itx motherboard with an soc laptop chip in it.

  • Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for likely more than $500M
  • He probably killed himself because

    Using someones suicide to preach about your own personal cause is a dick move.

  • "Kite Flying" by Twonks Comic
  • I have no doubt about that. The virginity part was what dated this specific iteration of it.

  • "Kite Flying" by Twonks Comic
  • Now there's a throwback to '90s/early internet humor.

  • Entering a vehicle or sometimes just walking past it exposes that person to that auto manufacturer's privacy policy.
  • Yeah, it goes through the emergency call system, but just connecting the wires and leaving the dcm box alone is supposed to fix it. I have the forum post saved if you wanna look; https://www.toyotanation.com/threads/how-do-i-locate-the-dcm-telematics-unit-on-a-2020-corolla.1693507/#post-14400614

  • Entering a vehicle or sometimes just walking past it exposes that person to that auto manufacturer's privacy policy.
  • The car mic and one of the right side speakers stopped working. The ota updates also stopped arriving, and toyota stopped sending me emails about where my car had been / how long it was driven. The emergency button which calls the toyota help line is also broken now.

    There were no warnings from my car at all after i pulled the fuse.

    There's some forum posts about rewiring the speaker back into the system - apparently you only need an extra plug, a little bit of wiring skills, and access through the glove box to get it working again. I havent personally done it yet, but ill get around to it at some point.

  • Entering a vehicle or sometimes just walking past it exposes that person to that auto manufacturer's privacy policy.
  • There is. On my toyota it was called the DCM telematics module. Had its own fuse so it was super easy to disable.

  • 1995 San Diego tank chase
  • Yeah, to secure a military vehicle in a lot, they use a regular padlock. Guarantee a key is lost every quarter, and the unit in charge has to go out and cut it to get access to their own vehicle. This guy came in with bolt cutters, and then used the combat lock on the door he entered in. The only possible way a policeman without heavy ordnance got in with boltcutter, and the thief used a combat lock, was if there was another door that was padlocked closed, but not combat locked.

    Tldr; yeah, you can still steal a military vehicle if you can sneak into an army base with a pair of boltcutters. It sure as shit won't be loaded, and if you pick the wrong one it might not even start up because they all breakdown regularly, and aren't clearly marked as such.

  • Comparing compression in AV1, x264, and x265

    I recently got it into my head to compare the various popular video codecs in an effort to better understand how av1 works and looks compared to x264 and x265. I also had ideas of using a intel video card to compress a home video security setup, and what levels of compression I would need to get good results.

    The Setup I used the 4k 6.3gb blender project, tears of steel as a source. I downscaled the video to 1080p using all three codecs, and then attempted to compare the results using various crf levels.

    To compare results I used imgsli, FFMetrics, and my own picture viewer to try and see what the differences are.

    The Results

    |crf| av1 KB | x265 KB | x264 KB | |---|-------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------| |18 | 419,261 | 632,079 |685,217 – x246 visually lossless| |21 | 352,337 |390,358 – x265 visually lossless| 411,439 | |24 |301,517 – av1 VAMF visually lossless| 250,426 | 263,524 – x264 good enough | |27 | 245,685 | 165,079 – x265 good enough | 176,919 | |30 | 205,008 | 110,062 | 122,458 | |33 | 168,192 | 73,528 | 86,899 | |36 | 139,379 – av1 My visually lossless | 48,516 | 63,214 | |39 | 116,096 | 31,670 | 47,161 | |42 | 97,365 – av1 my good enough | 20,636 | 35,801 | |45 | 81,805 | 13,598 | 27,484 | |48 | 69,044 | 9,726 | 20,823 | |51 | 58,316 | 8,586 – worst possible | 16,120 – worst possible | |54 | 48,681 | \- | \- | |57 | 39,113 | \- | \- | |60 | 29,062 | \- | \- | |63 | 16,533 – worst possible | \- | \- |

    Here is av1 rcf 36 vs crf 24.

    I go into more detail with the hows and whys of my choices, in my journal-style blog post, as well as how i came to these conclusions, But in essence, if you want to lose practically no visual information, crf24 through 36 for av1, crf 21 for x265, and crf 18 for x264 will do the job.

    If you are low on space, using my 'good enough' choices will get you practically the same visual results while using less space, depending on the codec.

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    Dynamic DNS domain registrar

    Hey y'all, I've been using my.freenom as my domain registrar for the past six years without too many issues. I've kept it mainly because it has been cheap as balls. However, I am now looking for a registrar that supports dynamic dns and would love to hear your suggestions. The first results that pop up are google and godaddy which are not what I'm looking for. (I actually had issues with godaddy stealing domain names all the way back in 2010, but that's another story) A local community reference is worth a lot more to me than a top search result.

    The plan is to set up my domain to point to my local IP for stuff like valheim servers so i don't have to share an IP every time we want to play. My friendlywrt router supports dynamic dns out of the box, so that's what I'm looking to use for my domain.

    Also, it needs to support subdomains going to different places. Complete access to the dns records is enough, but I would love a more user friendly interface for adding things like a separate email host, a webhost address, plus a subdomain for the valheim server.

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    Little bit of family joy to share

    My sibling is transitioning mtf and just started hormone therapy. She has also always been a huge fan of IPAs and has been super into sharing her love of them with us (to little success). So anyways, our discord movie night comes up and she says she has some bad news. Apparently the hormones have made things taste different, and now she hates how they taste, which is a really big loss for her.

    My brother asks if he can tell a bad joke, and she says yes. So my brother says that "when you stop lying to yourself about one thing you start to notice other lies you've been telling yourself, like 'IPAs are good', for example." Anyways, it had all of us laughing together, which I figured I'd share with y'all.

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    DaGeek247 DaGeek247 @kbin.social

    DaGeek247 of https://dageek247.com/ moved to fedia.io. good luck ernest.

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