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I think it's interesting how we went from 4:3 to 16:9, and are now back to something very close to 4:3 again. And both changes were sold as "you can now see even more of the movie".

I'm not from the US, so please correct me if i'm wrong. My understanding is that the Social Security in the US is more comparable to our "AOW". And our AOW is not changing. Our pensions are more comparable to the 401K in the us.

Aesthetically, great. But i can't help but find it harder to read this font. Probably cool for things such as a poster or album art, but not something i'd enjoy using in my code editor.

Zen was a bit rough around the edges when it first launched, but it's a solid replacement to Arc now. Honestly don't miss Arc anymore.

I don't see it happening. What's in it for the average user to self-host? Why would they put in the effort (even if it's a very small effort) if their cloud option just works for them?

Haha, i was also somehow expecting this article to be about the fact that he used a Nokia that could conveniently only store 20 text messages, turning his message history into unobtanium.

> The bass heavy tendency of western consumer grade headphones/speakers is tuned for western pop music and does not sound very good with much else.

As a basshead myself, this reminds me of these Drum & Bass artists that found the speakers in the venues they played at were not tuned for the music they were producing, so they built their own soundsystem to bring with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-kq6g0-QY

By that standard we would have "lifetime" warranty on everything sold in The Nederlands, since by law we require warranty as long as you can reasonably expect a product to last.

There's also this LoRa for Flux that generates "1999 Digital Camera Style" images. Those are also very realistic in my opinion. It's probably due to the imperfections and how mundane the photo's are, that make them believable. https://civitai.com/models/724495?modelVersionId=810420

> and macOS users

I'm not sure if this changed with Sonoma, but i'm using the lcd-rainbow-d.jxl as my wallpaper right now. It still weirdly cannot be opened with Preview, but it can definitely be set as a wallpaper!

I don't think anyone from Europe would be against fining EU companies operating in the US that are violating US laws.

>If anyone wants to reply that "I've just dodged a bullet thanks to EU blocking unethical websites" then all I can say is I know how to dodge bullets by myself, thanks.

These websites did not get blocked by the EU. These websites chose to block themselves because they did not want to put in the effort to be GDPR compliant.

Isn't Steam itself also DRM?

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation. The variation being the difference between where the missile is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information that the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it know where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa. And by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

I'm not from the US, so i'm honestly curious, does sales tax really change that often?

The reason i'm asking this, is because here in The Netherlands there was some news a couple of years ago about changing tax on fruit and vegetables. Our tax authorities basically said: Nope can't do, we need a year to adjust our software for this. This should give you an indication of how often our tax rates change here.

> I don't wanna work to give almost 50% to King Charles, I prefer living in a beautiful condo in Panama and cash everything.

I think that's fair. I wouldn't fault you for that. My counter argument would be that this 50% of your income won't go to Charles, but it will go to all of the social services we have in our country. Those aren't cheap. If you don't want that, sure. But i think it would be wrong if we would then let you live + work here and give you a tax break.

I have mixed feelings about this. The Netherlands is an expensive country to live in, and this is paid for using taxes. If you decide to live and work in The Netherlands, i would expect you to pay the same amount of taxes as others.

Then again, i can understand the argument that indirectly the company is paying tons of taxes because it is a big company. Losing that company + its employees might be a bigger negative in tax income than having those employees pay less taxes.

> Some of these are to curb immigration, including moves to end tax breaks for highly skilled foreign employees that are being implemented by the current administration.

I haven't read more about this besides this article, but why should highly skilled foreign employees receive tax breaks?

> I hope that they continue fivem community modding stuff and don't lock it down like many modern games do.

Part of me is hopeful their recent acquisition of FiveM means they will have the FiveM be part of GTA VI for PC before the launch. Ideally they'd be able to port over all their native functions to the GTA VI engine. That way we could have an active RP community on GTA VI nearly from the start.

Another part of me is fearful of them shutting down FiveM with the launch of GTA VI. I'm sure they don't like the idea of people obtaining in-game money without purchasing any Shark cards. They could bring it as some sort of "We worked hard with the FiveM team to make FiveM part of GTA VI from launch, with GTA VI having all features to support a roleplaying community", and then shutting down the mod and disabling all external scripting.

Indeed he was; https://tweakers.net/geek/215866/ex-technisch-directeur-van-...

I'm a bit confused / underwhelmed. The author casually mentions he already created the logo, color palette and some reference assets. I'm not a designer but i feel like by that point he already created the entire brand entity himself.

What midjourney did was create some new assets based on his already established identity. Certainly a use case, but did it really design a brand identity?

> It's often of poor quality and not in 4k.

This really depends on how good of a pirate you are. If you put in some effort, you'll be watching 4k blu-ray movies in a higher bitrate than streaming services offer.

Couldn't the same be said about allowing others to use your Netflex account? I think Netflix is licensing you access to their library, and not that friend who uses your account.

This would be a fun idea. Especially if this was combined with your watchlist. The website could decide you have most stuff on your wishlist for service X, automatically cancel/subscribe, and send you an e-mail with a summary of what you can watch in the upcoming month.

This almost sounds too good to be true. What are the odds of this being watered down, or being delayed into eternity?

This is really interesting. I saw this post on hckrnews and instantly had a flashback to that moment my account was banned from reddit.

I had actually created the SFWdeepfakes subreddit, because i thought those edits of Nicolas Cage on everything were absolutely hilarious.

Guess what? Suspended for "posting involuntary pornography". Tried to get my account back, but reddit was "experiencing higher than usual support volume" and never got back to me. Oh well.

Same here. Firefox 99.0.1 on Windows 10.

> I ended up just lamenting that we never got the Sony MiniDisc revolution that we all deserved.

I recently got "into" MiniDisc myself. I completely skipped that format back in the day, but noticed some artists i liked were releasing albums on MD (through Bandcamp). I had also watched some YT videos on the format, and thought "why not". So I bought a portable player and a deck for at home. It's a really cool format. I can buy releases from artists i like, or use NetMD to "burn" them myself. I have a small collection of MD's now, and i do enjoy playing that more than just pressing play on some Spotify playlist.

Also read your blogpost. MD does tick most of the "ideal format" boxes, except for "easy to reproduce". If you use an existing MD as a source to create a new MD, the lossy compression will not allow a 1:1 copy.

There's a small but fairly active community around minidisc.wiki, and some developers reverse engineering the netMD protocol and the firmware on the players. They already have some modern NetMD clients right now, making it a breeze to use the format.

Hmm, that's interesting. Does each NTF has a hash of the file linked, to confirm the mirrored asset is the same as the original?

Hah, I have similar memories about installing Gentoo for the first time. I remember printing out the installation handbook on a ton of pages because at the time the computer i was installing it on was my only access to the internet.