SnailMagnitude

joined 2 years ago
[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the whole farming industry is based upon non-comsensual interfering and eugenics type stuff.

Thr line with rice and potatoes seems more blurry, are they farming us?

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago

I'm glad they trademarked history to be honest.

Of course artifacts need a vacation from time to time but they always come back home.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have a few Ubuntu boxen as it makes life easy, but suspect my gentoo box won't be infected anytime soon...the real pita with be if they end up forcing us to build web browsers from source to avoid the cluterfuck.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 45 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world's landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo's.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool, I just tend to run one liners or little shell scripts but nice to see more of this stuff appearing.

Worth considering the backend too imo, as I imagine I'm not the only one here trying to leverage the most out of potatoes with not a lot of storage.

On my little n100 boxen for example having a building ffmpeg for the cpu/igpu to use hardware decoding gives ~5x the encode speed for a slightly larger filesize for hevc.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Afaiu it was them that passed it to humans just prior to the deluge.

Thankfully Noah invented wine to balance things out.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Personally I've found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.

 

Appreciating the marketing of a new food place that's popped up a few blocks from McDonald's.

 

Just started playing with this, not a practical solution for the moment as more concept stuff but it's pretty cool.

I put a 38mb flac in and a 309K stereo tsac file popped out that sounds pretty good for a 5 min song, that's like 100,000 songs on a 32gb stick.

But beyond the impressive level of squishing this seems like the sort of black magic that will be well beyond EQ and easy effects stuff....hey google clean up Portishead and then chop and screw it please.

On the off chance ffmpeg and qemu was not just him getting lucky, this kinda tech worth keeping an eye methinks

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn't give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don't go to masses anymore.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

I don't think that's mediation.

I can get into 'the zone' swimming and cycling, but that's great fun. Meditation is exhausting, hard work and often leaves me more pissed off than when I started.