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9point6

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  • David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans

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  • Check out the version with NIN

    I think I like it best

    Edit: link for ease https://youtu.be/-hMr9irtbIQ

    Double edit: lol the version you posted is that version and now I'm second guessing myself....

  • Text Rendering Hates You

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  • I wanted to say I'm ambivalent to text rendering

    But that would be a lie to myself, I actually care about it quite a lot.

    Most of my life is reading shit on screens; it'd better be good

  • More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

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  • welcome to your life

    There's no turning back

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  • Why do I feel like the venn diagram of people who survive in any random apocalypse scenario is an independent circle from the one where people have prepared for apocalypse

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    Musk’s DOGE Failed To Slash Government Spending, Instead Leading To A 6% Increase

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  • Remember when we let an (American style) libertarian take control of Britain for a month?

    She managed to wipe £21bn of wealth in our country out of existence in a fucking day. Predominantly wealth held by the public sector

    +6% expenditure? You're fucking lucky.

    The experiment is over, let's fire these wankers into the sun so we can get on with not dying in the next couple of decades

  • In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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  • Imagine making a language so bad Microsoft had to come along and fix it

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  • Oh this is silly

    I like it

  • "i can hear the difference"

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  • Oh yeah for PCM it's CD quality on everything and capable of 24bit/96khz on most hardware made in the past decade (I think there's some high end stuff that does 24bit/192khz, but funnily enough I imagine you need a somewhat higher grade than typical cable for that, since most are made of super cheap plastic fibre, which is usually fine)

    You can also send bitstream over it for most pre Blu-ray multichannel formats if you have a compatible receiver

  • "i can hear the difference"

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  • FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically

    Much lower in practice of course, but it's a bit better than 128k

  • Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig

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  • ”Your decision to withdraw at the last moment—explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure,” the letter, shared to the Associated Press, reads, “is classic intolerance.”

    Lol. Lmao even.

    Imagine telling on yourself like this

  • Speedy Delivery

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  • Imagine sniffing your own farts this much

  • Try our new cheesedogs!

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  • Those are some heavy links

  • Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next

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  • Given the rate this stuff has progressed in a few years, don't count on being able to recognise it by eye forever.

    And frankly, even if a large minority of people can still identify the difference immediately (which tbh I reckon is close to the point we're at now), that makes for a majority that will glance at an image and take it as real without question.

    Those people can vote and shape our world

  • Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation

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  • Again, for complete clarity:

    I'm not talking about Russia, we all know they're warmongering shitheads

    I'm talking about The Times, who some people might not realise are also in the business of stirring up conflict for their own purposes

    Given that, you can start linking reasons to trust the option section of their paper if you like and that would be on topic

    Edit: moderated language to avoid muddying my point

  • Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation

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  • Not sure where you got highly accurate from, I thought I made the opposite point pretty black & white. Any accuracy in their article is frankly coincidence and not imperative.

    I skimmed the text you gave and then decided to go and read the quotes from the source in news articles. Everything else in the article is opinion I'm not (nor should anyone else) be interested in.

    For clarity, I'm not disagreeing that Russia is doing stuff, that's straight from MI6. I'm exclusively talking about the particular dubiousness of any words from the opinion section of this paper, regardless if the origin of the story is verifiable.

  • Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation

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  • Oh definitely, always double check, especially if you're hearing something new or unexpected

    I was more coming from a position of this being something to be particularly cautious around. It's an option piece from an outlet whose owner has a well known financial interest in keeping people scared and angry. It's usually of benefit to avoid the article entirely; I probably should have just been more blunt tbf

    For this I'm fortunate enough to have a ground news subscription, so I went on there and searched MI6 to find the relevant story, then found it on BBC & Reuters

  • Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation

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  • Reminder The Times is owned by Murdoch and has gone to shit compared to when it became regarded as a "paper of record"

    Everything you read from them should be double checked elsewhere

  • Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next

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  • Where do we go from here?

    Looks like oblivion, frankly

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  • Yeah, for audiophiles this is actually a better situation now tbf

    You can get inline USB-C DACs that are head and shoulders above the DACs that were used in 95% of smartphones out there. Or more frustratingly with Samsung, they used to (probably like 8-9 years ago now lol) include half decent DACs but configure them terribly which could only be fixed with custom ROMs, so I had to choose between shit audio or my banking apps.

    Average Joe that doesn't care about that just uses Bluetooth today anyway since you can get cheap Bluetooth headphones for about the same as cheap wired headphones (where the audio is going to be crap whatever you do). And of course there's the cheap but passable inline DACs they used to include with phones that you can pick up for pretty cheap if you really want to use cheap wired headphones for whatever reason.

    It was definitely annoying when they all just got rid of them, but at least now when I want to use my wired headphones on a device, I know it will actually sound good and isn't down to what was the cheapest DAC they could get away with putting into the device itself.