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@tartley@fosstodon.org The Total Addressable Market of solar panels is anywhere that can have a reasonable ROI on a solar panel given local electricity demand. As panels get cheaper they become economical in cloudier places.

@datum@zeroes.ca I'm personally fine with reusing 'disposable' masks but I wasn't sure where you and the rest of the covid community stands on it.

@cinimodev@masto.ctms.me is it maybe compatible with a SuziQ dev cable? Or too old for that. The unlock process is getting worse and worse over time. Fucking Google. IIRC the original chromebook was an external WP screw.

I'm not in #publichealth, but I don't see why person-to-person transmission of disease can't be eliminated. Seems we just lack the willpower. Airborne disease would be easiest, via ventilation, filtration, masks, isolation, and vaccination. We were on track to eradicate polio, but thanks to the work of Elon Musk and RFK, we have likely set back the cause decades. Ending HIV transmission seems possible via education, PrEP, and early detection, but I can't find much online. https://www.cdc.gov/ehe/php/about/goals.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases

@detondev@social.linux.pizza we forgive you, king

Been thinking about echoes of culture that outlive the source. For example, things your parents heard from their grandparents that they never told you about. Today, we see not a fresh and new 2026, but layers of culture added over the old. Obviously, the cultures and practices of the 1950s are still present today, because people who lived through those times are still alive. More interestingly, there are still traces of the 1900s, because people who were alive then influenced people who are still here. This is unfortunately true with politicians. Most things new and old are forgotten quickly, but some things persist, sometimes far beyond expectations (cave paintings). https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1262:_Unquote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

One of the rarest #PSP UMD films is, oddly, Scarface. The only recent listing was marked at $2000 but sold for under that.

Wachowskis TRON would be a masterpiece

@gperson@social.linux.pizza there is a non-public doc and set of scripts that Brad uses for podcast tagging. If you ask nicely he might share it. Maybe it's already shared IDK. In his eyes, podcast mp3 tagging is extremely finnicky and many libraries get it wrong. https://techpod.content.town/

@detondev@social.linux.pizza we have art from over 10,000 years ago that has survived.

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org how many GB is your install?

I used to really admire creative commons. before AI, licensing works under creative commons was a win-win. I wish Wikipedia didn't allow commercial reuse, but otherwise, the CC suite of licenses are good. But it seems they've shown their true colors as a copyright minimalist group. And here again, AI has recalibrated my thinking. I see every AI firm ripping the internet limb from limb. bots have made the internet worse for every human user. the benefit to us, if one exists, are the table scraps we get in LLMs like chatgpt, and media generators that can make pictures, video, and so on. It's not a trade most people would make willingly. the most profound benefit I've ever had from generative AI saved me a couple hours of work at best. Its best use case is in coding, which has nothing to do with CC licensed works (most code is under GPL or MIT). So Creative Commons is deliberately not coming out with new licenses that specifically prohibit AI training but allow pro-social reuse. And their stance is that training AI on copyrighted works is legal (fair use). I have art that I want to share with human beings because being part of a society means even if I am not specifically compensated for sharing my art, my art's presence in the world is a benefit to society. It's my way to grow the commons and recognize the value I get from other people's CC art. Contributing art under the iron fist of AI provides that same tiny benefit, but a load of harms. Along with the societal negativity of fraudulent media being posted as real, the profits these companies intend to make are not flowing downward. These companies are run by the most anti-social people in the most anti-social city in the world. Giving my art to them is like loading the gun myself. https://old.reddit.com/r/creativecommons/comments/10c2iw2/is_there_a_creative_commons_license_that/

@realestninja@social.linux.pizza That is cool. And 180+ MBps is near max speed for a HDD. The vendor secure erase command is often more secure. Partly because it's supposed to wipe areas not exposed to the user. Ideally I would use a random pattern because it makes recovery even more difficult. Good news, I have a pending blog post that asserts that such recovery is de facto impossible. https://tinyapps.org/docs/wipe_drives_hdparm.html

this is the stuff you learn very early in sunday school but as an adult you never really re-engage with what that means or its theological power. this is hitting me 100x harder than as a kid

2024 writeup on machine learning in Opus: https://opus-codec.org/demo/opus-1.5/

@oaklandprivacy@mastodon.social Facial recognition is evil technology. Its benefits are rare and its harms were obvious from the outset.

Hey friends its pink floyd. were thinking of starting this album out silent. what do you think

the Worse Business Bureau giving bad ratings to any business that has good customer service

I'm really enjoying this free Nextlander deep dive on 80s cartoon themes. https://www.patreon.com/posts/patrons-choice-149540195

When Bicycle Thieves was released in Italy, it was viewed with hostility and as portraying Italians in a negative way.

can you not just let a cool ass criminal dressed in all red steal the eiffel tower in peace? Is that too much to ask?

The Denver the Last Dinosaur theme rips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFB6PmPOYY

A friend tells me these are diseases with only human reservoirs: measles, mumps, polio, syphilis, rubella, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis D, shigellosis, HPV, HIV. Worldwide, smallpox elimination would cost $300M for annual savings of over $1B a year.

Give Alice Averlong a genius grant

the most mysterious people are people who mask indoors but with a surgical mask and not an N95. Best case, they aren't comfortable in an N95 or they can't afford them. Worst case, they are wildly misinformed.

@detondev@social.linux.pizza Yeezus is the BEST

"When you're a kid, you assume so much will stay the same. And as you grow up you see how much is just totally different. You don't realize the products in a grocery store are totally ephemeral." Paraphrased quote from 12 hour day with JD and Connor

apparently there are 3 porn or porn-adjacent PSP UMDs. these are presumably officially licensed by sony and a bit rare. https://old.reddit.com/r/PSP/comments/185116k/if_you_knowyou_know/

(presumed) h264 on 2012ish YouTube vs (presumed) AV1 on modern YouTube. The over-algorithming causes his chin to melt away. The video is great - a torture test for any compressor. I wonder if it's available in high bitrate anywhere. https://web.archive.org/web/20120127233910/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY

If Strong Bad Email #135 (2005) came out today, Strong Bad's kitschy, 25-year-old technology would be a DVD or HitClip. In the original, the Cheat spun a LaserDisc, singing "whatever happened to the LaserDisc?". https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/135-ladying http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/lady...ing

The leader of Mexico's most powerful cartel was killed by the Mexican government. The cartel is retaliating. So far, confirmed reports (AP) of fires and property damage. https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/leader-of-powerful-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-killed-by-mexican-army

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@detondev@social.linux.pizza do you know the plot of Upstream Color?

Quigley's Village, a cursed Evangelical Christian direct-to-video show. The theme song kinda rules if you like sickly kids music Episode 1 falls off a cliff immediately after the theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_z1kzd5mLY&list=PLiB0ADs5zqa-ztsJRQLkhEhmL7tTv__NP&index=1

@kzodasnowman@spore.social @meanmeggin@lgbtqia.space @ianjames@journa.hosthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_retreat

If Strong Bad Email #135 (2005) came out today, Strong Bad's kitschy, 25-year-old technology would be a DVD or HitClip. In the original, they spun a LaserDisc, singing "whatever happened to the LaserDisc?". https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/135-ladying http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/lady...ing

AOM is also working on OAC, the successor to the #Opus audio codec. I'm surprised for a few reasons:

1. Didn't feel like there was any room to grow. AAC is transparent at 192k if not lower. Opus is great at 96k and hopefully transparent at some point (128k?).
2. Opus has been around over a decade yet still feels like it hasn't had its moment. It's used in the background a lot (even at Netflix and Spotify?) but I always hesitate to share Opus because it never seems to fucking work on e.g. Discord and iOS.
3. MP3 was tinkered with for decades and grew into LAME with VBR so a 20 year old codec was still fantastic.
4. Opus is the greatest name for an audio codec of all time.

But I suppose AI or traditional codecs will continue to improve, especially below 96k.

https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/oac https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings

95% serious: Give Alice Averlong a genius grant

@datum@zeroes.ca do you know anyone with advice on where to buy #covid masks/respirators? mostly looking at semi-"disposable" masks for a group.

blu-ray videophile sickos only: debunking HDR https://old.reddit.com/r/boutiquebluray/comments/1kdvgns/cinematographer_steve_yedlin_with_the_god_roger/

Although the chart has issues, it may be true that 2020 killed the small phone. Chip shortages could have led to culling of less-popular phones.