00:09:50 <fireonlive> I fucking hate Roku
00:09:58 <fireonlive> coming from someone who's had like five of them
00:10:14 <fireonlive> yes thank you I want to pay for ads on my TV thank you
02:02:03 <nukke> the state of TV/home teahter is dire
02:03:18 <nukke> 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
02:10:18 <fireonlive> 🆓 https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-outer-worlds-spacers-choice-edition https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thief-5bb95f
02:10:33 <fireonlive> nukke: ugh, the shield too?
02:10:48 <fireonlive> i was just thinking a bit ago maybe apple and them were the last ones
02:11:19 <fireonlive> i'm surprised linux doesn't support HDR yet
02:22:36 <fireonlive> https://dozzle.dev/guide/analytics `--no-analytics	DOZZLE_NO_ANALYTICS`
02:22:38 <fireonlive> 🤔
02:22:48 <steering> i actually, truly, and deeply hate TVs and associated stuff
02:24:19 <steering> 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
02:25:29 <steering> 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)
02:26:07 <steering> if you use linux you're *definitely* stuck using a browser
02:26:44 <steering> the "best" option is somewhere around "a wireless keyboard and touchpad, and a browser" which *sucks*
02:27:33 <steering> at least the solution to streaming services is simple though
02:29:58 <fireonlive> ugh, firestick is no fun either eh
02:30:01 <fireonlive> has my name in it too!
02:30:20 <fireonlive> given it's amazon i bet they under specced it and then bloated the software lol
02:30:29 <nukke> "best" is really stretching it. you need chrome because widevine is a *must* if you wanna watch content at anything more than 1080p
02:30:49 <steering> nukke: i mean... what's better?
02:30:58 <steering> also the same solution to streaming services works there
02:31:00 * steering hoists a flag
02:31:04 * JAA adjusts his eyepatch.
02:31:27 <steering> keep in mind, best != good ;)
02:32:15 <steering> 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
02:32:22 <nukke> 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
02:32:39 <steering> 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
02:32:54 <nukke> i mean you can do tonemapping to effectively transform it into sdr, but at that point you're just not playing content "as intended"
02:33:12 <fireonlive> steering: ewww
02:33:16 <nukke> (but then again people, in the year of 2024, are okay with watching hdcam rips)
02:33:33 <steering> yeahh sure but note i didn't specify an OS for that browser to run on xP
02:33:42 <fireonlive> nukke: that's how i watched dune 2 🫣
02:33:45 <fireonlive> telesync lol
02:33:50 <JAA> Back in my days, we were happy to get a 240p CAM.
02:33:50 <nukke> petition to ban fireonlive
02:33:53 <fireonlive> xD
02:33:56 <steering> personally idgaf about hdr
02:34:15 <fireonlive> 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
02:34:26 <fireonlive> so i was like ok fine
02:34:35 <steering> i have a few cams right now, but those are for kiddo
02:34:45 <steering> so she doesnt drag my wife to the theater to watch the same movie for a 2nd and 3rd time
02:34:54 <nukke> this conversation is gonna give me an aneurysm
02:35:01 <steering> :D
02:35:03 <nukke> can't believe I am speaking with y'all
02:35:07 <steering> i mean
02:35:12 <steering> how else am i supposed to get kung fu panda 4
02:35:16 * fireonlive whispers REMUX into nukke's ear
02:35:23 <nukke> 😩
02:35:26 <nukke> keep going
02:35:34 <steering> fireonlive was mad at me the other day
02:35:42 <fireonlive> 2160p
02:35:45 <steering> i downloaded all the old episodes of NCIS at 480
02:35:54 <fireonlive> >:|
02:36:04 <fireonlive> and overwrote his higher quality ones
02:36:09 <nukke> NO
02:36:12 <fireonlive> right???
02:36:14 <nukke> !kickban steering
02:36:17 <fireonlive> i cri everytim
02:36:21 <steering> hey, only overwrote S19 and S20
02:36:31 <fireonlive> ah :P
02:36:32 <fireonlive> still
02:36:33 <fireonlive> cri
02:36:35 <steering> the latest stuff is still 1080 :P
02:37:01 <fireonlive> soon: 'hey i moved to 140p'
02:37:07 <fireonlive> :d
02:37:09 <steering> would if i could
02:37:21 * fireonlive slaps steering around a bit with a large dildo
02:37:48 <nukke> steering is the type of mfer that would use liblzma 5.6.1 to compress his 480p ncis rips just to "save space"
02:38:21 <fireonlive> no one tell him about ffmpeg
02:38:31 <fireonlive> or tdarr
02:38:35 <fireonlive> 👀
02:39:15 <JAA> HandBrake, and no changing any settings allowed.
02:40:20 <OrIdow6> I actually did try zip up a bunch of videos when I was 13 or so
02:40:23 <nukke> `ffmpeg -i $file -profile:YIFI ...`
02:40:34 <nukke> err, YIFY
02:41:07 <fireonlive> aXXo
02:42:07 <nukke> <3 axxo
02:44:21 <fireonlive> nukke: i'm sure you loved the quality
02:44:55 <fireonlive> >ARCHIVE TEAM'S MASTER VIDEO
02:45:00 <fireonlive> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87G6_K8ZAQ
02:45:07 <fireonlive> uh, what is this
02:45:50 <fireonlive> JAA/arkiver ^ lol
02:46:51 <JAA> ಠ_ಠ
02:54:41 <fireonlive> got an alert for it today lol
02:58:22 <steering> axxo was better than yify lol
02:58:42 <steering> i don't like my shows looking like stop motion, i don't mind potato resolution though
03:02:09 * fireonlive cleans the vaseline from steering's eyeballs
03:02:12 <fireonlive> :3
03:44:43 <fireonlive> -+rss- Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/fake-ai-law-firms-are-sending-fake-dmca-threats-to-generate-fake-seo-gains/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934696
03:44:45 <fireonlive> lol
03:55:05 <JAA> Aah, we got one exactly like this last year over an image on one of our wikis.
03:57:19 <JAA> 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.
03:58:47 <JAA> Ah, AI images, that seems reasonable enough. Previously, they used random existing images, ironically enough.
04:00:48 <fireonlive> oh wow, a DMCA against the AT wiki, sheesh
04:00:55 <fireonlive> o_O
04:01:04 <fireonlive> do you remember which image?
04:02:28 <JAA> No, I'd have to dig through my spam folder. It was PD or CC0 or similar.
04:03:56 <nicolas17> we need to come up with more ways to inject ads into places
04:04:13 <nicolas17> then patent them, and sue whoever tries to use them
04:04:26 <JAA> The website looks very much like the site I found back then. So yeah, same shit, different colour.
04:08:04 <nicolas17> JAA: https://twitter.com/jamespotterdev/status/1775971832404849034
04:08:52 <datechnoman> lol no attempt was made to hid or lower the blow of a price increase xD
04:11:34 <JAA> Beautiful
04:20:37 <fireonlive> ah np
04:21:00 <fireonlive> the fuck lol
04:50:16 <fireonlive> ffmpeg 7 is out: https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr7.0
04:51:59 <JAA> Multi-threading! Nice
04:52:46 <fireonlive> :D
04:57:17 <fireonlive> https://github.com/dockur/windows/
04:57:37 <fireonlive> >Source: Archive.org >Transfer: Slow
04:57:39 <fireonlive> ...fair
05:46:23 <fireonlive> https://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.
05:47:08 <fireonlive> "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`
05:47:13 <fireonlive> o_O hmmmm
07:01:30 <c3manu> 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...
07:02:15 <c3manu> JAA: guess who's caught a train witheout tables for their notebook 🤡
07:03:24 <JAA> Ah yes
07:04:18 <c3manu> fireonlive: can i haz that in a browser? firefox keeps autocompleting URLs for me that already 404d the last time i tried 😂
07:05:00 <c3manu> JAA: but it's a short-distance one, to be fair
07:05:09 <JAA> Right
07:07:38 <c3manu> 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. https://risky.biz/RB743/
07:08:08 <c3manu> reading it on my phone now :)
07:09:37 <fireonlive> c3manu: that would be nice!
07:19:17 <fireonlive> ladies and gentlemen, i present to you: balsamic vinegar
07:19:21 <fireonlive> https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08M9BXP1B
07:21:02 <fireonlive> 100 millilitres of balsamic vinegar
07:24:05 <JAA> That seems surprisingly cheap.
08:03:12 <c3manu> the way this xz backdoor gets injected seems pretty cool to me
08:03:44 <c3manu> although i rarely read up on how such exploits work
08:06:18 <JAA> Sure is, very sophisticated mechanism.
13:10:57 <myself> A bunch of people learned a bunch of things about how the executable sausage is made, just in service of understanding this backdoor
13:16:46 <nukke> nicolas17: re: ad conversation, I'm sure you're aware of this right? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
13:21:44 <steering> myself: i like that, the executable sausage
13:26:55 <myself> echo executable sausage >> bandnames.txt
15:02:04 <nukke> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/technology/prevent-cyberattack-linux.html
15:03:29 <nukke> >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.
15:04:19 <nukke> Typical German
16:16:56 <that_lurker> https://archive.is/tc9bN
16:17:05 <that_lurker> the non paywall/login version
16:59:12 <nukke> https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/
17:00:18 <JAA> Nice
17:05:33 <that_lurker> "The IRC client itself, as a client, isn’t that usable because this project is an elaborate joke✱." ;(
17:05:56 <JAA> :-(
18:05:45 <that_lurker> -+rss- Fortran on WebAssembly: https://gws.phd/posts/fortran_wasm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944275
19:09:36 <fireonlive> Discord viewbotted YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54eUQ0xuhk
19:09:37 <fireonlive> lol
19:13:15 <that_lurker> Has someone grabbed that video? That is technically against Youtubes TOS even though it most likely was an accident
19:15:08 <TheTechRobo> I highly doubt YouTube will actually do anything about it other than maybe penalise its algorithm stuff in the background
19:16:02 <fireonlive> that_lurker: indeed; as part of an april fools sampling
19:16:11 <fireonlive> i'll double check it made it to WBM though sec
19:16:43 <fireonlive> yep got it
21:40:35 <fireonlive> -+rss- Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/05/app-store-guidelines-emulators-music-app-links/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946694
21:41:12 <fireonlive> >Guideline 4.7 permits apps to offer HTML5 mini apps and mini games, streaming games, chatbots, game emulators, and plug-ins.
21:41:12 <fireonlive> >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
21:41:13 <fireonlive> these Guidelines and all applicable laws.
21:41:25 <fireonlive> hm
21:48:26 <nicolas17> 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
21:49:27 <nicolas17> of course it won't allow third-party emulators to do that, since allowing game downloads would be against 5.2.1
21:52:58 <fireonlive> ahh
21:53:13 <fireonlive> what if they included, like, a 'tetris clone'
21:53:22 <fireonlive> and you could add your own files/point it at an arbitrary url
22:30:35 <UwU> glad you can emulate switch with suyu so nintendo is fucked either way
22:39:02 <UwU> FSR upscaling to 4k and 60fps
22:40:29 <fireonlive> ryujinx too :3
22:40:34 <fireonlive> can't stop the signla
22:40:36 <fireonlive> signal
22:45:13 <UwU> so you can convert a steam deck to a switch with better gpu