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solrize

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  • Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?

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  • Bands can start their own "labels" on archive.org, https://archive.org/details/netlabels . is that what you had in mind?

    The attraction of youtube for almost all listeners is the huge copyrighted collection, which is (mostly) there through artist permission or upload, because the artists get a chunk of the ad revenue. Any serious competitor would also have to somehow deliver a payment stream, which means ads or subscriptions or something. Not really a fediverse thing.

  • [Unknown artist] Fake it until always

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  • xkcd 624?

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • Lemmy is sort of crappy through its software decisions, similar to how Reddit is crappy but in some ways worse. There's not much we can do about that as users. Reddit also manages to paper over some of its crappiness through moderator interventions, while Lemmy tends to let crap slide. Crappiness = clickbait titles with no indication of what the link is about, lots of duplicate posts, etc. Lemmy adds the problem of fragmenting communities across instances. I think I heard that posts duplicated across multiple communities in a single instances will somehow be cleaned up in 1.0, which can help.

    Anyway there's not a whole lot that users can do, except maybe launch some new instances or forks that don't suck as much.

  • how to dust properly

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  • How can I wipe the dust in a way so as to avoid just pushing it around so much?

    Vacuum it. My friend has a Roomba that does her whole house automatically. I thought those things were ridiculous until I actually saw it.

    Also, as someone said, air filtration should get some of the dust out of the air. That is healthy for breathing. If you don't mind the noise, you can make a powerful air filter from a box fan and 4 furnace filters: look up "Corsi-Rosenthal box" for how to do that. Otherwise you can get a smaller one.

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • So find the places where the bitrate changes and decode and analyze those frames. Outdoors, true, leaves blow around, there is wildlife etc. A harder problem. I was thinking more of an indoor security camera. As for examining the bit rate, I guess it depends on the encoding, but e.g. in .mp4 there is a "key frame" every so often and then a bunch of delta frames, and if stuff is changing too fast iirc the key frames become more frequent. But I believe there is a fast way to scan for them, that is needed for fast forwarding in video.

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • I have to wonder if there's a faster way than literally decoding the video and analyzing the decoded frames, if that's how you're doing it with ffmpeg. Video compression revolves around motion estimation so maybe it's possible to just scan the file and find frames where the motion vectors (the data saying how the stuff in the picture is changing at a given frame) suddenly get larger. I assume this is for something like a security video that usually shows a static picture, and OP wants to flag when someone enters the room. In that case there will be almost no motion most of the time, and suddenly there will be some.

  • How do you vet open source software if you don't know code well?

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  • Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion

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  • The keyboard just sits in my backpack, so I have it if I want to type more than a few sentences on my phone, which usually means I didn't bring my laptop (an old chonker). A smaller laptop would be better tbh, but my old one broke and I haven't replaced it. Yeah seeing the phone screen while typing isn't so easy, but I'm a touch typist, so I type first and then look. Battery not too much of a problem tbh. I just charge it up once in a while. I had one previously that used AAA cells (preferable) but I misplaced it.

    It's not perfect but it beats the phone keyboard and I would say beats a Blackberry-style keyboard. I never used a real Blackberry but I had a Nokia E63 for a while, and it was the same idea. It was better than a screen keyboard but still a severe compromise. You can currently get something like that from M5Stack.

    The tiny BT keyboard with horrible keybounce that I had for a while looked like this:

    https://www.adafruit.com/product/3601

    I like to think the linked one might be better, but I haven't tried it.

  • Venezuela Has Right to Have Relations With China, Russia, Cuba, Iran - Acting President

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  • "I did not have diplomatic relations with that country, the PRC".

  • Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean

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  • Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

  • Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion

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  • The BT keyboard I use weighs a few ounces. It is not pocketable but I don't notice it in my backpack. I had one way back that was pocketable and would have been way more usable than a blackberry keyboard, but the keys bounced something terrible, probably due to crap debouncing software inside. I thought of getting another one that might be better, but am happy with the full sized one. I don't write that much text on a phone anyway. I use my laptop when I can.

  • Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion

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  • It sounds to me that the dumbphone experience could be supplied on a regular android phone, with an app or launcher that uses kiosk mode.

  • Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion

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  • Android 16, $399, 170g, blackberry-like keyboard, "companion" to a bigger phone or can be used as a main phone, 4000 mah presumably non-removable. It does have a wired headphone port, props for that. Main purpose seems to be to declutter the comms apps such as messaging, plus make typing easier with the blackberry keyboard. Meh. I have a full sized but skinny Bluetooth keyboard that weighs a lot less and was like $10.

  • These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin mining

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  • Basically electrical resistance heating. Not good.

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    Headscale and Crowdsec not playing nice

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  • generally, use "netstat -lpn | grep 8080" (or whatever port number) to find out what process is already listening on that port. This kind of thing happens all the time.

  • Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards ["Izanami"]

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  • The Trump Administration's $3 Meal: 'A Piece of Chicken, a Piece of Broccoli, Corn Tortilla, and One Other Thing'

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  • What are things to learn and know before getting into vinyl and record players

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  • Those aren't really sufficient reasons to deal with vinyl IMHO. Do it because you want another weird expensive hobby maybe, or because there's music you like that you can't easily get in other formats. Or you like full sized album art, etc. Otherwise in practical terms it's mostly not worth it, IMHO.

    I was into it back in the day. But I found when I bought a new LP, I'd usually dub it to tape cassette on the first listen. After that I'd usually play the tape instead of the LP just because it was less hassle.

    These days just rip everything to FLAC and transcode that to other formats as the need arises. It's on your HDD so you still own it. Make backups of course.

  • Is Lemmy.World an authentically "modern leftist" community?

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  • Modern leftist community that keeps clamoring to defederate lemmy.ml which tbh isn't that political? Nah.