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whaleross

@ whaleross @lemmy.world

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Hello. I've been silenced, removed and blocked enough on lemmy dot ml for being a filthy leftist but not a falling in line defending totalitarian states full blown authoritarian communist. Sooo I'm blocking everything from lemmy dot ml so I don't have to be bothered with any more of that nonsense. If you are on lemmy dot ml and commenting on me I will not see it. Ta ta.

  • TV remotes should have an easy-to-find (by touch) "volume toggle" button that toggles between two volume settings.

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  • You're not wrong in any way but I would just like to clarify in the most friendly way that the use of spectrum in audio context is frequencies and not amplitude. Compressing the frequency spectrum is not really desired unless for in very particular applications like specialized lossy audio compression, which in turn is even more confusing the terminology because now compression is about reducing the data rate in a controlled degradation. Anyway, the proper terminology would be that the audio is dynamically compressed to a smaller range.

  • Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today?

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  • Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.

    Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth and keeps pushing the limits of what is doable and eventually what is normal.

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    XXX

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  • This trick used to be €200.

    But you can have it now for €20.

  • Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?

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  • I can make up a compound word in Swedish for you. Osannolikhetsförlägenhet. Osannolik means improbable. Förlägenhet here means an embarrassing situation. So the word would mean something along improbability-embarrassment-situation.

  • If donald j trump was replaced with a body double some time in the last 15 years, would you even care?

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  • That is some Temu garbage body double. Not that the original was any better.

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    I do identify as a dog

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  • This is someone with a fetish to be gross and get attention for it. Just block them and move on. No need to feed their kink.

  • Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature

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  • Nobody cares about your history when you are spamming click baits for your videos. Raging about it not being appreciated makes you no favours either, princess.

  • What Happened To WebAssembly

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  • It is used where it is applicable. For regular web pages it is overkill that only complicates everything with no gain at all.

  • Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature

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  • Click bait marketing of some shitty YouTube channel.

  • What’s your go‑to “I don’t want to cook but I have to” meal?

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  • I make a fast (or faux) pesto while pasta is cooking.

    1. Press garlic in a mug, add basil, fresh ground pepper and salt. Crush on pine nuts if I have any.
    2. Cover with olive oil and give it a little stir.
    3. Grate parmesan cheese and mix it in.
    4. Some more parmesan cheese.
    5. And don't forget the parmesan cheese.

    Drain pasta, mix in pesto, enjoy. Can also be fancied up with your mentioned fancies or some olives or marinated peppers or artichokes.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • I think Qobuz feels much more premium than the two others. And at least for me, Qobuz Connect works like what I was missing from Sp_tify Connect when using Tidal.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • I made the same journey. Used Tidal 1-2 years but never felt quite comfortable with it. The one that shall not be mentioned have got a lot in the UI right.

    I'm still quite new to Qobuz but I like it much better. Their recommendations are much better, the search is much better, more info about fringe artists and sometimes albums too. Some bands/artists with the same name have confused albums but it's expected and okay I think.

    Over all I'd say that Tidal is a great streaming service but Qobuz has music nerd appeal that reminds me of walking into my favourite record stores and chatting about new releases and recommendations from somebody that actually cares.

    Getting back to you question, I see room for improvement but I'm much more comfy with Qobuz than I ever was with Tidal.

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • That is me putting it in embellished words of amusement instead of saying that the software ran numbers through the dongle if it was present so that the logic on the dongle would correct it but if it was not present it would allow the run and save except the altered numbers would have a unnoticeably tiny miscalculation that would accumulate over the numerous edits and saves during the project duration.

    Because I assumed that people would put it together themselves. Which apparently most people did. But some people still need everything spelled out for them. Ironically those that credit themselves more intelligent than everybody else.

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • Welp, I heard the story back in the mid nineties from someone that worked in an architect office. One save or a few without a dongle makes basically no difference but systematic license abuse will make you have to spend man hours to redraw the entire thing before delivering it to the customer. Considering how absolutely hysterical some corporate anti piracy measures were at the time I would not say it is not unbelievable, this being very early internet era and all.

    I recall some other corporate oriented software that would after some time only print blank pages without explanation if it detected a crack, there were a few console games that would corrupt your entire memory card with all your saves from everything, and music software and VSTs that would spread a cracked warez version to "the scene" that would have a trojan do other nasty things to your computer as a pre-emptive revenge.

    But you do you and have all the smarts. Who knows, I'm probably AI too.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • I'm happy to give Qobuz my money for providing an excellent music library and be the best paying streaming service for the musicians that I listen to.

  • Can anyone explain the expansion of space to me?

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  • Adding to other answers to your question, once you've grasped how it is, here is another mindfuck for you.

    Eventually the space between stars will be too big for emerging intelligent species in the far future on other planets to ever even know a starry sky. There will simply put not be any meaningful light from other stars to reach them. Their entire universe will be their star system and then nothing.

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • I'd imagine they got a lot of furious calls that turned into embarassment fast.

  • Bust Practice

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  • Right, Buster.

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • I think it was AutoCAD that had the most diabolical dongle of all. Some ancient version of the software would seemingly work without the dongle, leading cheap offices buying less licences than installs and plenty of architects installing them on their home computers. Everything seems to work fine, except every save a tiny fraction of a decimal far far away is off. Way too small for anyone to notice. Until they have been working for weeks and months on a project. And then and only then do they realize that all the lines have been slowly drifting apart.