Zedstrian 2 weeks ago • 100%
Not if the admins of an instance want to maintain their echo chamber by shepherding discussions towards extremist viewpoints.
Zedstrian 2 weeks ago • 100%
Same with Garrett County in Western Maryland; lots of multi-million dollar vacation houses that border Maryland's largest lake, despite there being few job opportunities in the county as a whole.
Free and Open Source Software
Know anything about "infomaniak"?
Zedstrian 2 weeks ago • 100%
Wanted to put Proton VPN on my Steam Deck, so it's quite frustrating that even a distribution with millions of users doesn't have a version of the program released for it, given that the alternative methods of using it don't allow for easy server switching.
EconomyZedstrian 3 weeks ago • 100%
Not particularly relevant when home ownership is a pipe dream at this point for the majority of young adults in the US unless a substantial amount of new affordable housing is built to fulfill market demand.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Difference between downloading on public wifi and mobile hotspot?
Zedstrian 3 weeks ago • 100%
Also have to make sure that the public WiFi network one's device is connected to doesn't block VPN connections, as was the case at at least one Walmart I tried using the WiFi at.
EuropeZedstrian 4 weeks ago • 100%
Crazy that so many of them are still operating in Russia...
Zedstrian 4 weeks ago • 100%
And Lidl and IKEA for some variety.
Zedstrian 1 month ago • 90%
And Trump would gladly see far more Gazans killed for the sake of securing Israel's hold on Palestinian territory. Not that Harris couldn't do better by the Gazans, but it's either naive or deceitful to imply that both candidates have similar stances on the issue of Palestine.
Zedstrian 1 month ago • 97%
"We should instead impose a $6,000 annual tax penalty on childless cat ladies!" -J. D. Vance, probably /s
Zedstrian 1 month ago • 100%
There's no point of mentioning it other than undeserved positive PR until such plans are actually implemented and stay implemented, at the very least until a settlement that provides for an equitable, permanent, two-state solution is mutually agreed upon by both Israel and Palestine.
Zedstrian 1 month ago • 100%
Or, if lots of people use your product and you can afford as many lawyers as you need, the theft doesn't seem to matter then either...
World News
The Sinaloa Cartel after ‘El Mayo’ Zambada: Mexico fears outbreak of violence after arrest of drug lord
Zedstrian 1 month ago • 100%
Because the cartel was letting everyone live in peace and harmony before the arrest?
HardwareZedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
Terrible case of clickbait.
Nearing the 2,000 find mark after ten years of caching on and off, the creative caches have definitely stuck with me more than the rest. Sometimes it's a particularly unique container, such as one where a metal tube cache sat at the bottom of a PVC pipe, retrieved by pouring water into the pipe, making the cache float to the top as the water drained slowly from holes in the bottom of the pipe. Sometimes it's a particularly creative puzzle, such as one where I had to use GIMP to see what barely noticeable differences the cache owner had made to a picture, revealing the faint outlines of Roman numerals and a Morse code sequence that gave the cache's final coordinates. What are some of the most creative caches that you guys have found so far?
World News
US VP Harris to meet Netanyahu this week at White House
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
In her place, Trump would be lauding how great he thinks the US-Israeli alliance is and commit twice as many resources to Israel in the process. Acting like Harris is anywhere near as bad as Trump on the issue of Palestine is either being grossly naive or intentionally deceitful, while not voting for her just because she isn't pro-Palestine enough is counter productive when Trump is far less so.
Automotive Industry
Lexus seeks to build wholly-owned plant in China, starting with production of UX hybrid and 1 BEV, report says
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
Did government policy in China change on foreign asset ownership without the need for a local company to serve as an operating partner?
Gaming
Netflix has 80+ games in development and plans to release "about one new title per month"
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
I'd hardly count something like a simple Solitaire clone app that could be otherwise played for free as a full game release... In terms of actual games, I'd much rather support mobile ports that can be bought for a one time price tag than those that are locked behind a subscription in perpetuity.
PC Gaming
Stardew Valley creator swears 'on the honor of my family name' that he'll never charge money for DLC
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 83%
The worst culprits though are the EAs and Paradoxes of the world that sell dozens of DLCs for games that cumulatively cost far more than the base game itself.
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
Unless he were also forced to divest all his shares in the company though, he'd still profit if the company's stock price continued to grow after his departure. Not likely given how much sway his involvement seems to have on its value in the minds of Tesla shareholders, but still a possibility.
Buy it for Life
What are good options for fans (tower, standing, etc.)
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
After narrowing down the "high velocity" tower fan options on Amazon two years ago to two options that seemed to have the best reviews, I ended up going with the "Dreo Pilot Pro", ordering two and for some reason being sent three. Anecdotal experience of course, and their use has been largely limited to the summer, but they seem to work a bit better than the Lasko fans they replaced without being distinctly louder. Specific settings probably depend on the exact model one chooses, but the ones I got have nine speed options.
WikipediaZedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
'kay
No Stupid Questions
Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio)
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
All states except Maine and Nebraska tally votes cast statewide and allocate all electoral votes from that state to the winner. Specific concentrations of voters in those states aren't factored into the allocation.
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
With the electoral college though, it's especially important to get people from states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Georgia to vote for Biden instead of Trump.
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 100%
We really need users like that on Lemmy to replicate the positive aspects of the Reddit community that are worth bringing over. Something original to here, hopefully.
Technology
Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 50%
Legislation like that might happen in places like the EU, but in the US at least, unless lobbying rules are amended, consumers stand next to no chance against the commercial interests of advertisers.
Technology
Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 90%
If you're the one paying for internet access, you should also have the right to determine the content that you're paying to have access to. While something like pi hole could be used to metaphorically take down most of the billboards without impacting the ground below it, even everyday users should be informed about the data advertisers are getting from them, whether it is anonymized or not. Hiding an important setting about data sharing near the bottom of a page in settings doesn't help anyone but the advertisers.
Zedstrian 2 months ago • 80%
The communist leader in Germany before Hitler took over said that failure of the nazi government would help convince people to vote for communism in the next election; he was subsequently killed in a concentration camp.
Linux and Tech News
Apple says no to OS emulation on the iPhone
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
Great, so if a Mac Classic emulator is marketed as a Pippin emulator it'll be accepted?
Linux and Tech News
Steam is getting an official controller, but Valve isn’t making it
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
Until they design something with trackpads that makes use of the controller configurations designed for the original Steam Controller and Steam Deck, it just seems like a cash grab. Hopefully something ergonomically better than the original Steam Controller.
UK Politics
[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
Note that the sources on the list are there due to the frequent publication of misinformation, rather than their bias alone.
As others have noted, the list can essentially be broken down into three categories: state-sponsored media outlets, clickbait-style tabloids, and extremist media outlets.
The categories themselves are just a means of summarizing what's on the list though, as outlets in those categories that maintain editorial standards that disallow misinformation wouldn't qualify for inclusion on the list.
politics
[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
For those worried about blocking certain viewpoints, it's important to note that the sources on the list aren't there for the unpopularity of their opinions, but rather the frequent publication of misinformation. For instance, Fox News, despite its frequent bias, is not one of the publications on the list.
As others have noted, the list can essentially be summarized as state-sponsored, tabloid, and extremist media outlets that, intentionally or not, have editing standards that result in misinformation on a regular basis.
News
[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 84%
For those worried about blocking certain viewpoints, it's important to note that the sources on the list aren't there for the unpopularity of their opinions, but rather the frequent publication of misinformation. For instance, Fox News, despite its frequent bias, is not one of the publications on the list.
As others have noted, the list can essentially be summarized as state-sponsored, tabloid, and extremist media outlets that, intentionally or not, have editing standards that result in misinformation on a regular basis.
United Kingdom
[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 90%
Note that the sources on the list are there due to the frequent publication of misinformation, rather than their bias alone. As others have noted, the list can essentially be broken down into three categories: state-sponsored media outlets, clickbait-style tabloids, and extremist media outlets. The categories themselves are just a means of summarizing what's on the list though, as outlets in those categories that maintain editorial standards that disallow misinformation wouldn't qualify for inclusion on the list.
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
Apologies; fixed it in the main post, so the crossposts should be fixed as well now.
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
For those worried about blocking certain viewpoints, it's important to note that the sources on the list aren't there for the unpopularity of their opinions, but rather the frequent publication of misinformation. For instance, Fox News, despite its frequent bias, is not one of the publications on the list.
News
[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 92%
In that case the issue is that it's user generated content. Just as you'd cite the references listed after a Wikipedia article for the source of that information rather than Wikipedia itself, Wikipedia policy favors references to established publications over those compiled by users in a manner similar to Wikipedia itself.
For the information to be verifiable, its original source has to be both clear and reputable.
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
The reason the list is relatively short, in comparison to how many websites likely fall under its scope, is because adding entries to it requires the consensus of dozens or hundreds of Wikipedia editors, and only if that unreliability is consistent. Notably the list doesn't exclude some questionably reliable sources, such as Fox News, as its purpose isn't to remove sources of bias, rather sources of misinformation.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599 Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information. While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view. To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599 Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information. While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view. To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599 Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information. While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view. To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599 Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information. While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view. To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information. While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a more objective and factual point of view. To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
Science
Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says | Higher incidence of damage to hips, jaws and thumbs reveals their writing efforts may have taken a toll
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
I get the damage to the thumbs, but what in being a scribe would cause more damage to the jaw or hips than anyone else?
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
Admittedly I did need a guide at times for Quern too; I think the best compromise is what Cyan did for Firmament and just include an optional hint system in the game itself. By avoiding the need to consult walkthroughs, not only would excessive spoilers be avoided, but the experience would remain self-contained, something especially important for a VR game.
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 100%
Something they didn't fix for the Myst remake that the Myst-like Quern is much better at is not making puzzles so obscure as to essentially require a guide to complete the game. Was anything done about that problem for the Riven remake?
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Pity, really.
Zedstrian 3 months ago • 77%
It's $3 a month and called RealDebrid + Stremio
In the months since I deleted my Reddit accounts and joined Lemmy, the lack of user base growth has made it clear that we need some users to stay on Reddit as a means of shepherding more users over on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, Reddit simply got what it wanted: less users who make a fuss about how it manages its platform without losing users en-masse. In doing so, however, does Reddit shadowban posts that mention or promote Lemmy? Googling mentions of Lemmy on Reddit mostly brings up posts from around the time of the blackout, suggesting that mentions of it since then have been suppressed. Before I return to Reddit to promote Lemmy, does anyone know for certain one way or the other?
In the past I've chosen I've often kept AC3 audio tracks thinking that their substantially higher bitrates made them better than the AAC tracks I compared them to. As I've since learned that AAC can be comparable to AC3 at a substantially lower bitrate, to have a means of comparing the two codecs, what would the AAC-equivalent bitrates be for 224kbps and 640kbps AC3?
To compile optimal video, audio, and subtitle track combinations of videos for my media library, I've found MPC-HC's millisecond counter and frame skip features useful for finding the exact offset between different video and audio tracks. After using MKVToolNix to combine the video track of an MP4 file with the delay-adjusted audio track of an MKV file, I noticed that the resulting MKV file was 0.143 seconds (about 3.5 frames in this case) shorter than the original MP4 file. As the frames of both videos remained in alignment until the end, it seems that the 0.143 seconds were taken off the end of the video. Is there a difference between the two formats that affects video length?
Nearing the filling of my 14.5TB hard drive and wanting to wait a bit longer before shelling out for a 60TB raid array, I've been trying to replace as many x264 releases in my collection with x265 releases of equivalent quality. While popular movies are usually available in x265, less popular ones and TV shows usually have fewer x265 options available, with low quality MeGusta encodes often being the only x265 option. While x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback, its compatibility is much closer to x264 than the new x266 codec. Is there a reason many release groups still opt for x264 over x265?
Having gradually built up my media collection to near the capacity of my 16TB external HDD, I've reached the point where I'll probably need to build a RAID array to keep the collection in one place. Assuming the RAID array will be at least 32TB, I have a few questions: 1. From what I've read RAID arrays can help mitigate the risk of individual drives failing if extra space is allotted on the hard drives. Assuming a total capacity of 32TB, how much of that space would be reserved by the RAID array for data loss prevention? 2. Is there a certain type of hard drive I would have to use? Aside from my 16TB drive, I also have two 2 8TB drives that I'd ideally like to be able to re-use in the RAID array, but have left them in their enclosures for the time being. 3. If the hard drives in the array have different transfer speeds, does the array as a whole default to the slowest one? 4. Whether the hard drives I already have are compatible or not, what RAID enclosure and hard drives would you recommend?
While my initial motivation to try usenet was to find releases that weren't being seeded on torrent trackers, I've found it to be a helpful alternative to keeping content seeded on my laptop's limited hard drive for extended amounts of time. To increase the chances that I find what I'm looking for, I check several usenet indexers simultaneously, preferring to use ones that have lifetime subscriptions (altHUB, Miatrix, and NZBGeek). Should those three lack what I'm looking for, I also use DrunkenSlug, NZB Finder, and Tabula Rasa, as their free plans can be used indefinitely. Aside from the six aforementioned indexers, are there any good ones that I've missed with free plans that don't expire? From what I remember DogNZB, NinjaCentral, and NZBPlanet either have limited-time free plans or require account activity at least once every two weeks, which is why I chose to forego them in favor of the six I use now.
While many great puzzle games have a fixed number of levels, I'd like to find more with procedurally-generated levels to maximize replay value. Aside from Minesweeper games, so far I've found the following ones: - Hexcells Infinite - InfiniPicross 2.0 - KNIGHTS - Lines Infinite - Linklight - LOOP
While many great puzzle games have a fixed number of levels, I'd like to find more with procedurally-generated levels to maximize replay value. Aside from Minesweeper games, so far I've found the following ones: - Hexcells Infinite - InfiniPicross 2.0 - KNIGHTS - Lines Infinite - Linklight - LOOP
Trying to help my grandparents find a new detective show to watch. For reference, here's what they've already watched: Bosch Bosch: Legacy Beyond Paradise Death in Paradise Elementary Endeavour Father Brown Lewis Lie to Me Longmire Marple Midsomer Murders Murdoch Mysteries NCIS Poirot Shetland The Brokenwood Mysteries The Mentalist While they generally seem to prefer British detective shows, I'm not sure which ones are left to recommend to them.
In navigating Lemmyverse for potential communities to subscribe to, it would be helpful to be able to redirect links to my home instance in a new tab to facilitate sorting through multiple communities at a time. Ideally, the option would be implemented with the ability to enable or disable either of the two context menu items to minimize context menu cluttering.
While TorrentLeech is great, the demise of FileList makes me want to diversify my catalogue of tracker options in case something were to happen to it as well. Popular releases are usually available on public trackers for a while, with some releases findable on usenet as well, but are there any easily-joinable private trackers as worthwhile as TorrentLeech?
While many popular English language TV shows seem to be dubbed into other widely-spoken languages (looking for French, personally), the releases that include those audio tracks unfortunately often either have lower bitrates than their English-only counterparts (which only include subtitles for other languages) or only have one of several seasons that made its way from the scene to usenet or a torrent tracker. Therefore, to avoid needing to download two variants of the same content and merge the sought combination of their video/audio tracks, is there a simpler means of acquiring dubbed audio of movies and TV shows? Language-specific public trackers (Torrent911 and YGGTorrent for French) seem to be a reliable means of acquiring alternate releases of movies containing dubbed audio that otherwise are identical in length to the original English releases, making them mergeable, but they seem to be lacking in terms of dubbed releases for anything but the most popular movies and TV shows. Usenet fills the gaps somewhat, but as language-specific private torrent trackers seem hard to gain access to, I haven't found a reliable source for most dubbed releases and dubbed audio tracks.
Having already configured a VLC-powered Google TV configuration with USB hard drives for a relative without the router or download speed needed for reliable streaming, I'm now trying to configure a similar setup for another relative with a non-smart TV and an even slower download speed. The only requirements for such a device would be the ability to be controlled entirely with a remote, a USB-A or USB-C port compatible with USB hubs and media storage devices, and the reliable playback of videos of assorted codecs and file extensions. As Roku, FireTV, and Android/Google TV streaming sticks tend to be plastered with ads as a means of promoting content within their ecosystems, an alternative HDMI device that minimizes the number of button presses between turning on the TV and and reaching the navigation menu for videos on attached USB storage devices would be preferred.