I fucking hate Roku

coming from someone who's had like five of them

yes thank you I want to pay for ads on my TV thank you

the state of TV/home teahter is dire

linux *still* doesn't support HDR so you can't just use a mini PC running Linux without compromising in one way or another. nvidia shield also started injecting ads. using the TV OS is a horrendous experience. most streaming services are either expensive and offer ads or cheap and offer ads

🆓 store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-outer-worlds-spacers-choice-edition store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thief-5bb95f

nukke: ugh, the shield too?

i was just thinking a bit ago maybe apple and them were the last ones

i'm surprised linux doesn't support HDR yet

dozzle.dev/guide/analytics `--no-analytics DOZZLE_NO_ANALYTICS`

🤔

i actually, truly, and deeply hate TVs and associated stuff

we've got a fire stick that bugs out, hangs, crashes, and stops responding to input a couple times a week; several rokus that all dont respond to the app/wifi remote around 90% of the time; an android tv (google tv? idk, whatever) that stopped working after boot (but the boot logo shows up fine...) and the manufacturer refused to fix it under warranty

you can use windows but then you're stuck without a "remote" style interface in 99% of apps (if there even *is* a windows app and you don't have to just use your browser)

if you use linux you're *definitely* stuck using a browser

the "best" option is somewhere around "a wireless keyboard and touchpad, and a browser" which *sucks*

at least the solution to streaming services is simple though

ugh, firestick is no fun either eh

has my name in it too!

given it's amazon i bet they under specced it and then bloated the software lol

"best" is really stretching it. you need chrome because widevine is a *must* if you wanna watch content at anything more than 1080p

nukke: i mean... what's better?

also the same solution to streaming services works there

keep in mind, best != good ;)

oh yeah i didn't mention all the ad's on the fire stick... the roku has ads but i don't mind them at all, just unobtrusive banners on home & screensaver

that's fair, but again, even if you have pirated hdr/dolbi vision content, you won't be able to play it properly on linux

the fire on the other hand literally takes away your home screen sometimes and replaces it with an ad that autoplays sound which is obviously what i want when i just hit the home button to stop plex playing theme music

i mean you can do tonemapping to effectively transform it into sdr, but at that point you're just not playing content "as intended"

steering: ewww

(but then again people, in the year of 2024, are okay with watching hdcam rips)

yeahh sure but note i didn't specify an OS for that browser to run on xP

nukke: that's how i watched dune 2 🫣

telesync lol

Back in my days, we were happy to get a 240p CAM.

petition to ban fireonlive

xD

personally idgaf about hdr

nukke: to be fair, a friend wanted to see it and was only here for a short time/didn't want to wait like i suggested :3

so i was like ok fine

i have a few cams right now, but those are for kiddo

so she doesnt drag my wife to the theater to watch the same movie for a 2nd and 3rd time

this conversation is gonna give me an aneurysm

:D

can't believe I am speaking with y'all

i mean

how else am i supposed to get kung fu panda 4

😩

keep going

fireonlive was mad at me the other day

2160p

i downloaded all the old episodes of NCIS at 480

>:|

and overwrote his higher quality ones

NO

right???

!kickban steering

i cri everytim

hey, only overwrote S19 and S20

ah :P

still

cri

the latest stuff is still 1080 :P

soon: 'hey i moved to 140p'

:d

would if i could

steering is the type of mfer that would use liblzma 5.6.1 to compress his 480p ncis rips just to "save space"

no one tell him about ffmpeg

or tdarr

👀

HandBrake, and no changing any settings allowed.

I actually did try zip up a bunch of videos when I was 13 or so

`ffmpeg -i $file -profile:YIFI ...`

err, YIFY

aXXo

<3 axxo

nukke: i'm sure you loved the quality

>ARCHIVE TEAM'S MASTER VIDEO

uh, what is this

JAA/arkiver ^ lol

ಠ_ಠ

got an alert for it today lol

axxo was better than yify lol

i don't like my shows looking like stop motion, i don't mind potato resolution though

:3

-+rss- Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/fak…-threats-to-generate-fake-seo-gains news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934696

lol

Aah, we got one exactly like this last year over an image on one of our wikis.

This has been going on for far longer than decent-enough LLMs have been widely available, so the claim that it's 'AI' seems dubious.

Ah, AI images, that seems reasonable enough. Previously, they used random existing images, ironically enough.

oh wow, a DMCA against the AT wiki, sheesh

o_O

do you remember which image?

No, I'd have to dig through my spam folder. It was PD or CC0 or similar.

we need to come up with more ways to inject ads into places

then patent them, and sue whoever tries to use them

The website looks very much like the site I found back then. So yeah, same shit, different colour.

JAA: twitter.com/jamespotterdev/status/1775971832404849034

lol no attempt was made to hid or lower the blow of a price increase xD

Beautiful

ah np

the fuck lol

ffmpeg 7 is out: ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr7.0

Multi-threading! Nice

:D

>Source: Archive.org >Transfer: Slow

...fair

github.com/atuinsh/atuin >Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server.

"As well as the search UI, it can do things like this:" # search for all successful `make` commands, recorded after 3pm yesterday" `atuin search --exit 0 --after "yesterday 3pm" make`

o_O hmmmm

steering: re "best != good ;)": i've unironically startend to refer to that with "the least shitty one". there's just too many things it applies to. streaming services, the current laptop market...

JAA: guess who's caught a train witheout tables for their notebook 🤡

Ah yes

fireonlive: can i haz that in a browser? firefox keeps autocompleting URLs for me that already 404d the last time i tried 😂

JAA: but it's a short-distance one, to be fair

Right

i was linked this podcast on the xz stuff btw, which has a nice interview with the dev who found it. but after that it's immediately into speculation on who might have done it, which sucks without knowing about the technical details. risky.biz/RB743

reading it on my phone now :)

c3manu: that would be nice!

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you: balsamic vinegar

100 millilitres of balsamic vinegar

That seems surprisingly cheap.

the way this xz backdoor gets injected seems pretty cool to me

although i rarely read up on how such exploits work

Sure is, very sophisticated mechanism.

A bunch of people learned a bunch of things about how the executable sausage is made, just in service of understanding this backdoor

nicolas17: re: ad conversation, I'm sure you're aware of this right? snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds

myself: i like that, the executable sausage

echo executable sausage >> bandnames.txt

>But he’s been too busy to rest on his laurels. The next version of PostgreSQL, the database software he works on, is coming out later this year, and he’s trying to get some last-minute changes in before the deadline. “I don’t really have time to go and have a celebratory drink,” he said.

Typical German

the non paywall/login version

Nice

"The IRC client itself, as a client, isn’t that usable because this project is an elaborate joke✱." ;(

:-(

-+rss- Fortran on WebAssembly: gws.phd/posts/fortran_wasm news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944275

Discord viewbotted YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=J54eUQ0xuhk

lol

Has someone grabbed that video? That is technically against Youtubes TOS even though it most likely was an accident

I highly doubt YouTube will actually do anything about it other than maybe penalise its algorithm stuff in the background

that_lurker: indeed; as part of an april fools sampling

i'll double check it made it to WBM though sec

yep got it

-+rss- Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links: macrumors.com/2024/04/05/app-store-…uidelines-emulators-music-app-links news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946694

>Guideline 4.7 permits apps to offer HTML5 mini apps and mini games, streaming games, chatbots, game emulators, and plug-ins.

>Apps may offer certain software that is not embedded in the binary, specifically HTML5 mini apps and mini games, streaming games, chatbots, and plug-ins. Additionally, retro game console emulator apps can offer to download games. You are responsible for all such software offered in your app, including ensuring that such software complies with

these Guidelines and all applicable laws.

hm

that means eg. Nintendo can offer an emulator app that lets you download (buy?) NES games, rather than having to include them all inside the app and be subject to individual review whenever new ones are added

of course it won't allow third-party emulators to do that, since allowing game downloads would be against 5.2.1

ahh

what if they included, like, a 'tetris clone'

and you could add your own files/point it at an arbitrary url

glad you can emulate switch with suyu so nintendo is fucked either way

FSR upscaling to 4k and 60fps

ryujinx too :3

can't stop the signla

signal

so you can convert a steam deck to a switch with better gpu