captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Can you believe it? 6 hours ago:
You want another try?
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 11 hours ago:
What have you got against the IT staff?
- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 14 hours ago:
Method and apparatus for rattling a hoohaa.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 17 hours ago:
Does the phrase “vote with your wallet” mean anything to you?
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 17 hours ago:
I also haven’t bought a game made by EA since 1992. I don’t like their behavior as a company so I have completely stopped buying anything from them. This you label “insane.”
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 1 day ago:
Movie trailers playing before a movie made sense to me. You like movies? Here’s some that are coming up, in case you’re interested.
It was a movie trailer that made me go all-in on adblockers. One of the Mission Impossible movies, I forget which one, I lost count after the third. This trailer had that annoying “Ready or not, here I come” “song” in the background. And it played ahead of every single Youtube video I watched for a week.
I will never watch a Mission Impossible movie ever again, old or new. I will never watch another Tom Cruise movie ever again. Old or new. I might avoid the spy/action/thriller genre entirely for the rest of my life. I won’t go see James Bond ever again because of Mission Impossible’s marketing. There’s a strong and growing possibility I’ll never walk into a movie theater ever again. And I aggressively block ads now.
They went from letting me know what movies were going to be released soon to trying to beat my personality out.
I used to be a movie buff. I grew up in a house with a lot of VHS tapes, movies were important to my social life in my teens and early twenties, I went to work for a couple years basically living at the airport and sleeping at home, and when I came up for air it was all a cancerous mass, a tumor of its former self.
I would rather watch RedLetterMedia make fun of 40 year old movies than go watch a new one.
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 1 day ago:
If all is being done on the up and up, nobody’s got an agenda to push, they’re actually doing science: no. Doing an experiment, publishing results, and then having your peers replicate your experiment and be unable to reproduce your results is not failure. In the words of Adam Savage, “It’s not ‘my experiment failed,’ it’s ‘my experiment yielded data.’” But also, if one scientist gets a result and no one else does, the real thing we learn might be in finding out why.
REPEAT is a part of the scientific process.
- Comment on Do it 1 day ago:
The Longest Johsn - Mutiny
…in my ass.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
My dryer is 40% iron.
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 2 days ago:
No, water.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 3 days ago:
Give Kingdom of Loathing a try.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 days ago:
Tell you what customers absolutely can do: decide to stop doing business with you.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 days ago:
I’ve enjoyed the hell out of Buckshot Roulette. It’s about playing Russian Roulette. With a pump action shotgun. There’s power-ups!
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 5 days ago:
tube worms don’t have digestive systems of their own. it is possible they don’t fart. The bacteria they symbiose with might fart on their behalf though.
- Comment on BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE 6 days ago:
I don’t think anyone has gotten to the bottom of it. It’s a scam that has been sweeping Lemmy, Mbin and Mastodon (possibly others) for awhile now. It features a picture of that girl, we’ve seen several different pictures, it’s the same girl and they’re just about always posed as if it’s a frame from a Skype call or Zoom meeting like that. At first, the picture would show up with the text as plaintext, it has mutated and now the text is baked into the image to get around spam filters. At some point the message started asking for crypto.
It’s pretty obviously a spam/scam/spcam, so it’s become a little bit of an in-joke, receiving one is something of a rite of passage, and referring to the almost certainly fictional character of Nicole as “our” girlfriend.
Exactly what scam it’s pulling isn’t clear. I’ve seen several hypotheses put forward:
- It’s just asking for crypto. Simple “Look at girl. Think with dick. Send bitcoin.” plot
- It’s a pig butchering scam. A long-term confidence trick where the scammer actually befriends you for months at a time, then convinces you to “invest” in legit looking shady shit. Designed to get around defenses that were built up against the Nigerian Prince scam.
- It’s a harassment campaign against the girl in the photos. Which…this is the most diabolical and circuitous way I can think of achieving that. "We have several screenshots of this girl on Zoom calls. We’ll spam Lemmy, not Reddit or Twitter or Instagram, Lemmy, as if she’s inviting people to join a Matrix chat to socialize, and then these nerds will pull a Cicada 3301 job of following the breadcrumbs to finding the actual girl and annoying/attacking her. This is the most G-rated revenge porn campaign I’ve ever seen.
- It’s for de-anonymizing Lemmy accounts. I’m not enough of a nerd to know how the nuts and bolts of this one works but I think they send you a DM that links to a jpeg stored on another server, they send a slightly different jpeg to each account they’re targeting, and which IP address requests which jpeg can pin an IP address to a Lemmy account. A lot of the mainstream web falling to fascism you can see why Big They might want to see who’s who on the platform that still allows subversive ideas like “genocide is bad”.
It’s come from accounts made on several instances, I think at least one instance specifically for the purpose but a few random accounts with no post history started blasting it out on several instances including sh.itjust.works. So whoever’s behind it is pretty persistent.
- Comment on Clothes company cannot "cancel" an order that hasn't shipped, must ship it and do a return. 1 week ago:
Name and shame company.
- Comment on BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE 1 week ago:
Every picture of “Nicole” I’ve seen has that feel to it.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 week ago:
Is that the recent one with Alan Tudyk?
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 week ago:
I’m reminded of a British comedy show called My Hero. (If you want to find it, you’re better off googling “Thermoman”) It is a show about an alien who comes to Earth and is basically a superhero with heat-based powers, but is also a bit of a doof. The show is actually kind of a rom-com as it focuses on his alter ego coming to terms with living among humans.
At one point, his girlfriends’ parents are in a community theater production, and George (Thermoman’s mild mannered alter ego) acts very inappropriately, trying to interact with the play etc. Because he had only been introduced to Christmas Pantomime* and wasn’t aware there were different kinds of theater.
Getting mad at shit is like, my whole comedy persona or whatever, but I struggle to get mad at this. Maybe we should name it as a genre or something the way the British did with “Pantomime” versus other productions you’re supposed to take more seriously. Even more “normal” comedies where you’re allowed to laugh at jokes but are otherwise not supposed to try to contribute.
So…let’s do it. Let’s make audience participation cinema. I’ve read about a Taylor Swift movie where tween girls were singing along and dancing in the aisles. If the kids are enjoying it, who goddamn cares?
*This isn’t really a thing in America, not sure about the rest of the English speaking world. It’s a theater performance often done around Christmastime that has some comedy, some slapstick, some bawdy jokes, some audience participation, and the general idea seems to be “let’s not take it so seriously and just have some fun” kind of theater.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 week ago:
I am reminded of an episode of Friends. I forget what else was happening in the episode, but the guys and the girls are separated. The three girls are in Monica’s apartment with a leg waxing kit they have apparently bought ALL THE WAY into the marketing for, because they keep saying shit like “we gotta do this if we wanna be goddesses.”
Being excessively steeped in messaging is a great way to give yourself idea cancer.
“Winning.” What are you “winning” if you work yourself into fatigue and start making errors and mistakes?
- Comment on LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE 1 week ago:
Someone took a look at that animal, that one in the picture, and said “Wow, look at the size of those fins.”
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 week ago:
The round hole in the middle of the cassette near the tape path is designed to have a light bulb on a stick inserted into it.
Most of the tape is (approximately) opaque due to the magnetic recording media, but the very ends are transparent. If you open the cassette’s lid and look at the uncovered ends of the cassette, you’ll see a hole on each end that has a path through the cartridge to the light bulb hole, only interrupted by the tape itself. Photoreceptors in the VCR sit just outside those holes, and if light is detected it means that the clear leader is starting to unwind from the spool meaning the tape is over, so this is how the VCR knows to stop the tape. This is why so many VCRs and rewinders glow inside.
Later hardware swapped it for an infrared LED and detectors but still did the job optically.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 week ago:
It is lossless.
I’m not sure that’s the right word for uncompressed digital audio, because it’s lossless compared to what? Presumably an analog recording or the original input signal? Because Shannon-Nyquist, with CD audio you can’t get anything higher than what? 16kHz out of it, but within that limitation you can reproduce any arbitrary waveform within a speaker’s ability to produce given the laws of physics regarding inductance and inertia.
MP3 does use a lossy compression, but you can maintain listenable quality while cramming about 10 times as much audio into a given space. You can get just over an hour of Red Book audio on a CD, and about 11 hours of mp3s, give or take. You might get lower audio bandwidth or various kinds of artifacts but it’ll still sound pretty good, it’s way more practical to store and transmit over the internet. We didn’t Napster no .wav files.
FLAC and similar formats use lossless compression, kind of like a .zip file. If you rip a CD to FLAC, and you were to then burn a CD from that FLAC, the data on the new CD would be identical to the old one. So you get as-perfect-as-we-can-do digital audio, but only 5 or 6 hours worth would fit on a CD. Someone somewhere on this earth has filled a compact disc with FLAC files, I’m sure.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 week ago:
Reminds me a little of CD digital audio. The original Red Book audio standard hasn’t really been improved upon because it’s uncompressed audio which covers basically all of the range of human hearing within the capabilities of any speaker we could build. It’s uncompressed because in the early 80’s when the tech hit the market, it was completely unfeasible to include the CPU and RAM needed to decompress audio in real time.
Shrimp has more color receptors because he doesn’t have enough neurons to run trichromacy, so he sees in EGA.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 1 week ago:
Not only on Switch 2. There was at least one Tony Hawk Pro Skater game that did this.
If I remember the episode of Guru Larry, the developer noticed their rights to the IP were set to expire, so they went to shit out one last game as fast as possible. They had to get the game published by a certain date, as in discs on store shelves by this date. The game was not going to be ready in time, so they put the tutorial level on the disc to print and distribute it while they finished the game, which would then be a multi-gigabyte download. Meaning that a physical copy of the game is worthless once the servers shut down.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In moon landing units that’s ~186 miles per hour, which is around three times the speed limit of an average American interstate highway. I would not expect the average passenger car to be able to achieve that speed, but there are sports cars that can. You’re probably looking at an uprange Corvette, some of the higher end Porches, a lot of Ferraris, Lambroghinis etc. Something Jeremy Clarkson would describe in an impressed tone of voice. It is my understanding that a lot of supersport motorcycles are limited to exactly that speed; most liter bikes have no problem powering themselves that fast, the question is maintaining control. If there’s a pothole or some sand or a slight curve, will the rider survive encountering it at 3 miles a minute?
Going that fast in a car, you start to wonder how long the tires are going to hold up. At its top speed, a Bugatti Veyron will actually run out of tires before it runs out of gas.
In New World landing units, it’s ~161 knots. This is very close to the V~NE~ of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The Never Exceed speed, top of the red arc. Go faster than that and the airplane is just going to break. It’s the approximate cruise speed of a Beechcraft Bonanza and the higher end of landing speeds for a Boeing 737.
- Comment on I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers 1 week ago:
I cast ANGRY UPVOTE
- Comment on "LEDVANCE" is just a trademark. This is just a plain old fluorescent tube. 1 week ago:
and really confused with his visit to a therapist.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 week ago:
I remember some guy, anthropologist or something like that, was trying to figure out why it was that people in cities made on average more money than people in small towns or rural areas, until it hit him: That’s why cities exist in the first place.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
Roundup is an herbicide, not a pesticide.