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by edgineer 21d ago
It takes twice the file size to double the framerate without reducing visual quality of the original frames, whenever I try, with HEVC, AV1, etc. I can take a lower framerate video, run some software of constant size to interpolate the fram
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by edgineer 5mo ago
It's not all-or-nothing; sometimes some people at Google push for some things to improve privacy. Rarely happens when revenue is at stake. Android used to ask you "do you want to alllow internet access?" as an app permission.
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by edgineer 6mo ago
Polsia (AI slop backwards)
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by edgineer 6mo ago
I can see the logic of talking to the people who believe they will live forever, once you start wondering "what if people could actually live forever?"
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by edgineer 6mo ago
>The car was making a turn. Something felt off—the steering wheel jerked one way, then the other, and the car decelerated in a way I didn’t expect. I turned the wheel to take over. I don’t know exactly what the system was doing, or why.
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by edgineer 7mo ago
The only case of public urination -> sex offender which people can point to is Juan Matamoros. He claims this, but the actual case is too old to verify it, and we should not take his word for it. Arrested in Massachusetts in 1986, charge
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by edgineer 7mo ago
Things are changing quickly. Some users are being allowed only 3rd party age verification. https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/12/discord-uk-age-verificatio...
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by edgineer 8mo ago
There are sites for searching for your (or anyone else's) publicly revealed information, but the one free one I knew of was forced offline. Downloading the datasets--there are so many with so few options to obtain them. The mega-compil
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by edgineer 8mo ago
Benedict became notable because of her death; Biographies of Living Persons has a privacy section that gives reasoning. These reasons, e.g. identity theft, complaint from the person, harassment, can not apply to a deceased person. News ar
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by edgineer 8mo ago
The page is protected, the general public can't edit it. There was already discussion on the talk page, "Should Nex's given name be included?" with consensus of "no." That discussion was archived, but you can s
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by edgineer 8mo ago
There were no passengers on the accident aircraft.
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by edgineer 8mo ago
The Guinness book of world records listed Kevin as the world's most notorious hacker, not the first. They did retract they record for its lack of objectivity.
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by edgineer 8mo ago
That's opinion/stereotype, and unsupported. From Rob Cockerham's experiment (2002): "I guessed that 98% of all truck beds are empty" "In 25 minutes I had counted 150 trucks, and 99 of them had been empty. This
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by edgineer 8mo ago
Using couriers, and not phones, was largely how bin Laden escaped capture for so long. Took months to track a courier back to him.
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by edgineer 8mo ago
And people do do this and have been making crazy and creepy pictures online since its inception. It's never been that much of an issue until now.
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by edgineer 8mo ago
This could get opinionated. I do want to praise increased video quality, added ways for creators to get paid, community posts, thumbnail preview and popularity graph when seeking through a track, chapters, live chatting, caption translation
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by edgineer 8mo ago
https://freespeechunion.org
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by edgineer 8mo ago
There are arguments about how companies will use collected data in undesirable ways. But I wish that the stress of living in a panopticon would be argument enough.
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by edgineer 8mo ago
Apple did not invent the -book suffix for model names of notebook computers.
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by edgineer 9mo ago
I see Google's AI and top results all give this answer, but "MIGA" most certainly does not refer to India in this or most contexts, but to Israel. It is a criticism of Trump's pro-Israel actions, and presumably Google re
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4chan and Kiwi Farms Tell Ofcom It Can't Censor and Run from Lawsuits(reclaimthenet.org)
19 points by edgineer 9mo ago|1 comments
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by edgineer 9mo ago
A more modern mind-boggler is the geostationary satellite. You always tilt your head up, it always appears motionless. From either one of your perspectives, you both appear to be still.
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by edgineer 9mo ago
Yeah! I liked seeing the "miles per gallon" meter that some cars have for that purpose. IIRC driving habits account for at least 10% of fuel efficiency losses, and by my napkin math, you could drop carbon emissions in the US by 5%
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by edgineer 9mo ago
Boston's reaction to the mooninite signs, especially in comparison to how all the other cities reacted to them, was ridiculous, and rightfully ridiculed. The alarm clock wasn't an arduino project, the student took an alarm clock a
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by edgineer 9mo ago
>There's no legitimate purpose in bringing any of those to a high-profile political event. I've carried a flipper zero with me to use as a copy of my key when I misplaced my original.
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by edgineer 9mo ago
Counter-anecdote, I did the same, got Burt's Bees with novamin when they still sold it (discontinued), then switched back to Crest. I prefer the Crest. No cavities either way, but tooth sensitivity and clean feeling differences. A toot
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by edgineer 9mo ago
I think this type of concept is worth exploring. Side channel feedback to the operator of a machine is getting less noticeable. Hard drives don't whirr and click like they used to. Cars don't have transmissions that shift. When yo
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by edgineer 9mo ago
Heavy screen time before age two?! Maybe little kids' games should come with instructions for good parenting. Only half joking.
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by edgineer 9mo ago
These things happened, are notable, and even (or especially) embarrassing things should be remembered for history. A compromise would be to have screenshotted and crossed out names.
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by edgineer 9mo ago
What car exceeds a Tesla in all these categories that I can get used for the same price as a used Tesla? I'm asking this as a challenge; in a Tesla the biggest complaint I have actually is the half-baked music software. You can'

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