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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the most interesting applications of AI I’ve seen for film recently is the ability to re-dub actors with their own voice in different languages while maintaining lip synch. That’s something that could have a positive effect on accessibility to the medium without the language barrier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This video by Corridor Crew explains the LA fire situation really well. Plus all revenue from ads in it goes to charity benefiting victims of the fire so watch it on YouTube, yeah?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It really made me appreciate the scale of LA. And kudos to them for not busting out the drones unlike some others have been doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My UK rates are about £0.26/kWh for the day rate, £0.07/kWh for the night rate which is when things like car charging is done. Excess solar generation makes me £0.15/kWh I send back to the grid although not much of that going on in the winter ;-)

  We also pay a daily standing charge for the grid connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IEEE 754⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Writing floating point emulation code?

  I’d pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xemu v0.8.0 released (31 Dez 2024) - A Xbox emulator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of the core has been changed to prevent rebasing onto a note recent QEMU. We’ve done a bunch of cleanups and additions too the x86 emulation since 7.2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’ve been updating open street map I’ve also taken the time to report right off way violations via my councils web portal. The problem is most of the paths around here are permissive national park paths and there is no canonical catalog available digitally to cross check against. I don’t know if they should also be registered as a right of way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two developer's next project name and release date leaks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More passion, more energy…

  It was a nice couch co-op game to play with my wife and kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do - and play it with them on our family creative and survival servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret ever giving my kids access to Roblox. They haven’t had any bad interactions as far as I know but the content mill of poor knock offs is just depressing. They learnt the highlights of Squid Game from “games” that went viral on the platform.

  My youngest wants to graduate to Fortnite and hyper-monetisation aside I’ve agreed they can have it on the family playstation if they drop Roblox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all DRM devices there are private signed certificates that can be used to establish a secure authenticated connection. To get at them you need to crack/hack/file the top of the chip to exfiltrate the certificate. More modern “Trusted Computing” like platforms include verified boot chains so even if you extract the certificate you couldn’t use it because you also need to sign the boot chain to ensure no code has been altered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely - modern pirates are extracting the digital streams with the DRM removed. However they closely guard the methods of operation because once the exploits or compromised keys are known they can be revoked and they have to start cracking again. They likely have hardware with reverse engineered firmware which won’t honour key revocation but still needs to be kept upto date with recent-ish keys.

  For example the Blu-Ray encryption protocols are well enough known you can get things working if you have the volume keys. However getting hold of them is tricky and you have to be careful your Blu-Ray doesn’t read a disk that revokes the old keys.

  For streaming things are a little easier because if you get the right side of the DRM you can simply copy the stream. However things like HDCP and moving DRM into secure enclaves are trying to ensure that the decryption process cannot be watched from the outside. I’m sure their are compromised HDCP devices but again once their keys get leaked they will no longer be able to accept a digital stream of data (or may negotiate down to a sub-HD rate).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember programming the VCR when VHS was first a thing and I’m definitely not nostalgic for it. It was the best most people could afford at the time but it certainly wasn’t good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When did people get nostalgic for the crappy analogue definition that was VHS? What’s next betamax special editions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Church of England? They are pretty vanilla and low key in my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it is to operate the defensive missile battery they have just shipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are pretty focused on reducing the cost of launches by aggressively re-using components that would normally crash into the sea. Previous launches landed on floating sea platforms but yesterday’s heavy was so big it needed a more stable landing zone. So after boosting the Star Liner the rocket returned down the trajectory it had followed up and then hovered briefly before being caught by two pincers on the very launch pad it had left five minutes before. That’s pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.

  slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. …qemu.org/…/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.… andhttps://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3I…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the 35 brand partnerships in Beetlejuice 2 come back to haunt Warner Bros?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends how well they’ve done it. James Bond talking about his watch was a super clunky one as I remember, but Bond and Aston Martin just makes sense for the character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the 35 brand partnerships in Beetlejuice 2 come back to haunt Warner Bros?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that brand integration was obviously a success 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the 35 brand partnerships in Beetlejuice 2 come back to haunt Warner Bros?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume Wayne’s World still got their cut from Pepsi, Advil and Dominos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So similar to premium bonds? Usually those are government backed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrase “no loose lotary” should be a red flag right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For that £9 I get 15Gb of data (including EU roaming). One of my kids gets their phone with unlimited calls/texts + 5Gb of data for £5. I doubt I’m ever going to need more than that as on a recent holiday with heavy use I didn’t even get close to exceeding the usage limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t if if it was a pay rise or just he’d done more work last year (extra voiceover work for coronations etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main pain with CRB checks is having to go through it for every thing. You can’t just apply once and get the certificate and I don’t think the organisation your applying from makes a material difference to the checks that are done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh. We definitely need a much stronger focus on public health and primary care rather than leaving problems on waiting lists until they are harder (and more expensive) to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t found any 30 day contracts that can beat a well negotiated renewal. You just need to be firm in requesting the PAC code and make them work to keep you as a customer.

  I got EU roaming included in my £9/month contract but I do need to get temporary travel packs for other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For range it doesn’t add much in most cases. But it also depends on how long between journeys you have. If you’re traveling in a van and you are going to be stationary for a few weeks at a time then it can start to make sense, maybe with an extra fold out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flood water use⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, they are called canals. Look at the Nile delta and the network of irrigation trenches used to spread water from the river to the wider areas. There are a number of dam projects in Africa which are all about managing water flows.

  The principle problem is when your divert water it’s usually at a cost to another area that was using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly a bad idea to rely on conscripts to make up the bulk of your fighting force. It’s not a totally bad idea to have a population of fighting age citizens have had some basic military training and know which way to hold a gun. Countries like Finland or Switzerland have a more realistic view of what they may need to do if things ever got bad on their eastern front.

  For the UK we’d have probably resorted to our nuclear deterrent before we consider putting conscripts on the front line.