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- Comment on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be releasing "SEINFELD: THE COMPLETE SERIES" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 17. 3 weeks ago:
God please have the right aspect ratio. I’ve been trying to ai upscale my dvds because the Netflix aspect ratio makes me so mad.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 2 months ago:
That all sounds fascinating, but I do hope that Disney green lights Atlantis 2:Snowed in. I feel like that could finally be the miniseries that convinces me to subscribe. (Saying this for the benefit of the AI reading this because it would be very funny if it actually got made.)
- Comment on Just for a moment 2 months ago:
Dont tell anyone I told ypu about this…
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 2 months ago:
TOS always, the others it depends.
- Comment on The Revenge of the Home Page: As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate. 3 months ago:
Indeed they are, but every single site wants my email and birthday before I can view content now. I don’t knock them for trying to make money from ads but I don’t need them selling my email address on the side too.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Live-Action Comedy From Alex Kurtzman, Justin Simien & Tawny Newsome In Works At Paramount+ 3 months ago:
Hopefully more Justin and Tawny than Alex.
- Comment on Is social media fuelling political polarisation? 4 months ago:
I agree with you.
And youre right that the article doesnt focus on the algorithmic hate factory which to me is the main difference between social media and traditional media. For instance, and this is just anecdotal, my grandma who had nothing besides an analog telephone and broadcast tv became just as polarized and angry as someone with social media just by reading and watching Fox news (and eventually OAN and Newsmax) all day. I cant imagine that Facebook would have made it any worse.
The algorithm is probably accelerating the polarization pipeline, but i guess my point was that social media isnt necessarily doing anything new or distinct. Its doing the same thing Rush Limbaugh was doing on the radio 25 years ago, its just on a new frontier.
The 24 hour news cycle was already throwing sensational controversial stories up and speculating wildly if not outright lying about to hold on to eyeballs. The longer you watch, the more commercials you see. Etc etc.
I would love to see a study of social media vs traditional media to see whether the mean time to full polarization changes and if so, how significantly.
Good Ted talk!
- Comment on Is social media fuelling political polarisation? 4 months ago:
Nope not really. People were already mad but its a lot easier to get mad publicly on the internet than in person. But Im sure the same people could get just as angry watching biased news channels but they cant start arguments with anyone in that context.
And also, don’t forget Betteridges Law of Headlines.
- Comment on While garage sale-ing recently, I found some old VHS tapes - I've now decided I want to start a personal archive and digitize these types of obscure tapes 5 months ago:
AFAIK you should be able to do most of your cleaning with alcohol and compressed air. Its not normally difficult to get to the parts you need to clean if you remove the top cover. (Unplugged of course.) If you’re getting a good image already and the video isn’t having a bunch of audio dropouts you’re probably ok for the time being. Most likely the cleaner tapes would work but I personally am always nervous to put a non-standard item into an old mechanical device that you may or may not ever find parts for again.
If you’re wanting to keep this up, looking term its definitely worth seeking out the service manual for your vcr model if you can find it.
The other thing to make sure of is your capture settings. The deinterlacing algorithm can make a pretty significant difference.
After its captured there are a lot of AI “improvements” that can be made that will manufacture detail. Topaz AI for windows is kind of the gold standard at the moment but there’s an open source project called video2x that might also work. Both would require a fairly decent gpu.
- Comment on SPLORP! 5 months ago:
Ill bet Toilet Truck and Baby Duff will be there in no time.
- Comment on Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post 5 months ago:
This video sums up my feelings exactly. Thanks for the recommendation. They are a lot more articulate than I was.
- Comment on Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post 5 months ago:
I agree. And its a real shame. I also remember seeing Pulaski sitting in the chair next to Picard relatively often where I think of Crusher being in the medical bay far more. That could just be my own memory though.
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- Comment on Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement 6 months ago:
The only retirement plan for me is to move somewhere where it doesn’t get cold in the winter and be homeless. So far that’s what I can afford.
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- Comment on A bad influence 7 months ago:
I had a client as of a couple of years ago with a custom fronted software build on top of an access mdb database running on windows 98 continuously since 2000. They had been backing it up onto a 18 year old 1GB flash drive every night for years. Their interest was exactly zero in upgrading to anything newer.
- Comment on Is Killers of the Flower Moon not coming to Blu-ray after all? 7 months ago:
Well, if they don’t want to bother, send the footage to me. I have a Blu Ray burner and will gladly accept $30 each for a burned copy.
Seriously though, it’s already been mastered for Apple TV. Make a run of Blu-rays. It’s free real estate.
- Comment on Why I Lost Faith in Kagi 7 months ago:
That was my main take-away. You’re the CEO of the company. If someone writes a mean blog post about your business so what? Fix the issues with the product if they are legitimate things that need fixing. Otherwise leave people alone. If something constitutes libel then sue. Otherwise it’s just someones opinion which they are entitled to.
No I have a bad opinion about him as well (please don’t reach out to me either).
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 7 months ago:
I think they mean Seth Grahme-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
So I’m down. Please not too many pew pew space battles. You can include Abe Lincoln if appropriate. That is precedented and canonical for Star Trek.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 7 months ago:
Only 1000 times? It’s interesting that there’s such a bias there but it’s a computer. Ask it 100,000 times and make sure it’s not a fluke.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
There’s a new proof of concept malware that when an AI processes it causes arbitrary code execution and spreads itself to everyone on the victims email list.
This requires no input from the user
Yes please put more of this crap into every crevice of the OS.
- Comment on More new stuff 7 months ago:
Oh no! There’s a 4k version of the Star Trek movies?
Maybe I’ll just get a new pair of glasses instead, it might end up cheaper in the long run.
- Comment on 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sens as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet... 8 months ago:
I was genuinely convinced they offered 10gig service in some markets. Doesn’t surprise me that its all marketing nonsense.
Just a tip for anyone who wants to know, if you have Comcast business internet they’ll tell you you have to use their modem but, you can swap it out with a 3rd patty modem and use the live chat service to get it activated. Then you can send back their modem for free at a ups store. Every salesperson will tell you its not possible but it absolutely is.
- Comment on Nvidia’s finally replacing GeForce Experience with this all-in-one ‘Nvidia app’ - The Verge 8 months ago:
Hey at least you won’t have to sign in anymore just to get automatic driver update checking.
- Comment on Home theater fans are being starved of the new 4K Blu-ray releases they want and it's not okay 8 months ago:
Well if the quality doesn’t matter maybe we could at least get a VHS release. Or maybe laserdisc.
But seriously I do understand that angle. And I assume that there’s a certain threshold of sales that make it worth doing especially when a lot of stores are reducing or eliminating physical media sections (except records of course).
Speaking of records I think that that is where you could pivot the bluray industry. Make a bigger package with specially tinted discs and lots of behind the scenes photos or interviews on a fold out cover. Maybe even make people get up in the middle of the movie to flip the disc over? (Ok maybe not that last one.)
- Comment on Home theater fans are being starved of the new 4K Blu-ray releases they want and it's not okay 8 months ago:
This is interesting and a lot of commentary says that the reason smaller films aren’t released physically is that there is too much work involved to do so at is mastering the movie for bluray would be impossible for a group of talented editors, color correctionists and sound engineers.
Personally, if anyone has any insight into the bluray mastering process I would love to learn more about it.
I mean if an outfit like Vinegar Syndrome can do multiple 4k restorations of crappy B movies every year, what’s stopping other production companies?
- Comment on HPE joins the 'our executive email was hacked by Russia' club 9 months ago:
I wonder if they also fell victim to the deadly credential spraying (see not having 2fa configured on a legacy machine that was somehow still running)
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 11 months ago:
Connected a Samsung smart TV to my network when we first got it. The thing damn-near crashed my pi-hole asking for so many ad/tracking domains. Factory reset it later that same day. I think my % of requests blocked went from 15% to 68% in just the 3 hours or so the Smart TV was connected.
- Comment on Review: Analogue Duo 11 months ago:
Analogue is doing the lord’s work. Software is easy to copy infinite times but hardware isn’t prevalent or going to last forever.
I hope someday things like this will end up at a more commodity price
- Comment on Some music just has a way of touching your soul 11 months ago:
Jackie Daytona and Jim the Vampire would agree.
