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@topspin Product idea: Wide-band EM white noise generators with a convenient PCIe card form factor.
75W should be enough power to defeat this kind of stuff.On second thought, that probably depends a lot on how wide-band you go.Inb4 this already exists. Well, maybe not as a PCIe card, but, yeah.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Inb4 this already exists. Well, maybe not as a PCIe card, but, yeah.
Maybe we could also put processing units and memory on them and have them mine bitcoin and use the hashes they're computing to seed the white noise generator.
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@izzion Why must everything be white?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@izzion Why must everything be white?
Yeah you want pink for this anyway
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@izzion Why must everything be white?
Remember: do not eat the YELLOW snow!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@izzion Why must everything be white?
Remember: do not eat the YELLOW snow!Eat yellow snow, it might be beer
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Eat yellow snow, it might be beer
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Full HD
Man, they need to update their standards, that's what, ten years out of date by now?
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https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
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@DogsB Can't cause me problems if I don't use their service.
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That's not theft - it's plagiarism, which is definitely not a crime. We checked
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
It's going to cause problems for people who aren't currently adhering to the Netflix TOS
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@DogsB Dbrand are master trolls
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
You can watch Netflix on a TV outside your home for up to 2 weeks as long as your account has not been previously used in that location. This is allowed once per location per year.
So no watching your Netflix while visiting parents, or going to the same place for vacations several times per year?
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@Parody said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Time to go back to 40 pin cables?
Or at least to stop having clear plastic sides on PC cases. Can't get much signal out through a solid metal sheet.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Parody said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Time to go back to 40 pin cables?
Or at least to stop having clear plastic sides on PC cases. Can't get much signal out through a solid metal sheet.
I'm still waiting on data exfiltration via LED modulation in the RGB displays.
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@Boner Was the robot about to lose?
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@cvi This was . I didn't read it, but the embedded text included a statement by a tournament official that the boy had violated safety protocol by making his move "too quickly".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Parody said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Time to go back to 40 pin cables?
Or at least to stop having clear plastic sides on PC cases. Can't get much signal out through a solid metal sheet.
I'm still waiting on data exfiltration via LED modulation in the RGB displays.
There was a case of data exfiltration with HDD blinkenlights a long long time ago.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@cvi This was . I didn't read it, but the embedded text included a statement by a tournament official that the boy had violated safety protocol by making his move "too quickly".
No mention of why the robot has to grip its pieces with bone-breaking strength?
I'm actually wondering if the finger was broken when people tried to pull it free.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
No mention of why the robot has to grip its pieces with bone-breaking strength?
Maybe???
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I didn't read it
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Watson said in In other news today...:
No mention of why the robot has to grip its pieces with bone-breaking strength?
Maybe???
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I didn't read it
I did. Like I said: no mention.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
No mention of why the robot has to grip its pieces with bone-breaking strength?
I was asking this myself too.
Slashdot linked to an article where one can see the arm:
It doesn't seem to be robot purpose-built for chess, and it does look quite beefy. There's mention of the boy (seven years old!) reaching in and moving a piece at the wrong time, but I'd still say that the failure is with whoever set the thing up for inadequate safety (or possibly whoever let a seven year old near that thing).
Also missing in the image: big-ass red E-stop button?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
the boy had violated safety protocol
Yes. A 7 year old. That's still the fault of the operator, no matter what the boy did.
Anyways, it's just a finger, kid's heal quickly.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
You can watch Netflix on a TV outside your home for up to 2 weeks as long as your account has not been previously used in that location. This is allowed once per location per year.
So no watching your Netflix while visiting parents, or going to the same place for vacations several times per year?
Full quote:
Traveling with Netflix
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You can watch Netflix on your laptop or mobile device while traveling.
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You can watch Netflix on a TV outside your home for up to 2 weeks as long as your account has not been previously used in that location. This is allowed once per location per year.
So, no effect unless you use specifically a smart-TV client at your holiday location.
Which e.g. I do not. Ever. Because I hate "smart" TVs.But if you can bother to connect your laptop to the vacation house TV via HDMI? Go for it. Eat your heart out.
This has less to do with visiting parents, and more to do with sharing your account with your parents on an ongoing basis.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
You can watch Netflix on a TV outside your home for up to 2 weeks as long as your account has not been previously used in that location. This is allowed once per location per year.
So no watching your Netflix while visiting parents, or going to the same place for vacations several times per year?
Full quote:
Traveling with Netflix
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You can watch Netflix on your laptop or mobile device while traveling.
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You can watch Netflix on a TV outside your home for up to 2 weeks as long as your account has not been previously used in that location. This is allowed once per location per year.
So, no effect unless you use specifically a smart-TV client at your holiday location.
Which e.g. I do not. Ever. Because I hate "smart" TVs.But if you can bother to connect your laptop to the vacation house TV via HDMI? Go for it. Eat your heart out.
This has less to do with visiting parents, and more to do with sharing your account with your parents on an ongoing basis.Okay, less annoying then, since I usually just watch via computers. Though my wife seems to prefer using the smarttv app over the computer plugged into the tv.
Not that it's any problem according to what they say.
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@acrow
people with their own holiday home can pay for a secondary account, no probs!
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@Luhmann People with their own holiday home can also afford a second dock for their laptop. Considering the price of Netflix, that dock will pay itself back in a few months.
One of the ways you can invest in yourself. Like the old adage goes: You make your profits when buying, not selling.
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Lots of Alzheimer research may be "wrong" (i.e. fabricated):
https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
Anyway, when you already have the disease, you may have forgotten that by the time you started reading.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Parody said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Time to go back to 40 pin cables?
Or at least to stop having clear plastic sides on PC cases. Can't get much signal out through a solid metal sheet.
I'm still waiting on data exfiltration via LED modulation in the RGB displays.
No, you're not.
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@Luhmann Can't they just get two identical TVs and bring the internal storage with them?
TBF- being stupid enough to buy not only one but two smert TVs probably implies that they shouldn't poke around inside electronics.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann Can't they just get two identical TVs and bring the internal storage with them?
TBF- being stupid enough to buy not only one but two smert TVs probably implies that they shouldn't poke around inside electronics.
Regardless of skill with electronics, it sounds like a lot of palaver to save $3
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann Can't they just get two identical TVs and bring the internal storage with them?
TBF- being stupid enough to buy not only one but two smert TVs probably implies that they shouldn't poke around inside electronics.
Regardless of skill with electronics, it sounds like a lot of palaver to save $3
Depends.
I don't care how much time I spent figuring out how to root the TV (TBF, it wasn't all that much), but anything that blocks ads is worth it. And no, I won't pay for YouTube Premium before hell freezes over.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
If they don't cancel this horrible idea before releasing it worldwide I suspect they're going to need to hire account retention personnel
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126602/hn
I hope that Netflix has invested in more support people because this is going to cause problems.
If they don't cancel this horrible idea before releasing it worldwide I suspect they're going to need to hire account retention personnel
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
I was going to watch Secretary Kim, but they took it off Netflix Finland before I got around to it.
Disclaimer:
We only pay for Netflix because my wife watches some Chinese soap opera on it.
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@topspin It's the only kind of cartoons I can get with plots that make sense (or some semblance thereof) and characters that act like they have half a brain (humorous obsessions notwithstanding). I'd rather my kids watch Pokemon than what now passes for kids' cartoons.
Do take a look at what comes out of the TV on Saturday mornings. You'll see what I mean.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
It's the only kind of cartoons I can get with plots that make sense (or some semblance thereof) and characters that act like they have half a brain (humorous obsessions notwithstanding).
Don’t forget rampant sexualisation of minors!
It’s kind of weird though that if I were to recommend the series to anyone that is put off by anime I’d have to be like ‘oh no, it’s not weird and pervy, there’s only one episode that fetishises a child.’
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meanwhile in Flanders:
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
It's the only kind of cartoons I can get with plots that make sense (or some semblance thereof) and characters that act like they have half a brain (humorous obsessions notwithstanding).
Don’t forget rampant sexualisation of minors!
If you pick that kind of film, I guess. But that's kind of like complaining that the magazine stand in your local shop has a fetish porn section. I don't remember seeing anything in Pokemon that I wouldn't see on the street, for example.
Or in Cowboy Bebop.
Or in Aggretsuko.
Or in Black Lagoon.
Or in Yu Yu Hakusho.
Or in BNA.
Or in anything from Studio Ghibli, if that's your cup of tea.Or in... most anime that Netflix happens to have on offer in my country. Funny that.
ETA:
And after reading the article, I'd still rather let my kids watch JoJo's Adventure than some of the crap on TV kids' segments. Because it's still more likely to give them a balanced worldview.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
If you pick that kind of film
I'm afraid you don't get it. It's not that there aren't any without pedo angles or worse. It's that:
- Some of them definitely are, and apparently it's perfectly fine.
- I can't be sure of any recommendations. Even yours. The pedos have ruined it for anyone who's categorically unwilling to allow shit like that.
fetish porn section
Wrong! Pedo is not just fetish porn. I can't believe I have to point it out to you, so I'll chalk it up to bad analogy. Try using cars next time or something.
I'd still rather let my kids watch
When kids watch that, it'll (to a certain age) fly over them, because they haven't been exposed to it (hopefully). Ignorance is really a bliss at times. But when adult neckbeards and legbeards are into it, we're going to have a problem.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
If you pick that kind of film
I'm afraid you don't get it. It's not that there aren't any without pedo angles or worse. It's that:
- Some of them definitely are, and apparently it's perfectly fine.
- I can't be sure of any recommendations. Even yours. The pedos have ruined it for anyone who's categorically unwilling to allow shit like that.
Push for pedo normalisation results in anti-pedo obsession among normal people. Which ruins everything. You can't have any media with children, about children or even just for children, without at least some of the public screaming that it's pedo material. This is madness.
The same way you can't show male friendship anymore, because it will be labeled gay immediately.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
If you pick that kind of film
I'm afraid you don't get it. It's not that there aren't any without pedo angles or worse. It's that:
- Some of them definitely are, and apparently it's perfectly fine.
Pedophilic material is not fine in my view either. But after Cuties, I'd say that problem is by no means limited to Japanese animations.
Someone paid by the government has watched, age-rated and allowed those films on this continent. So they're apparently legal. But that just means we have a moral issue instead of a legal one. But that discussion is .
- I can't be sure of any recommendations. Even yours. The pedos have ruined it for anyone who's categorically unwilling to allow shit like that.
I get the point. I'm just countering with: In spite of turds all over (and there is less of those than you think, especially if we're restricting to stuff meant for kids), Japanese stuff still tends to be better than than what I get on TV. Especially if you like such things as plots and actual character development.
fetish porn section
Wrong! Pedo is not just fetish porn. I can't believe I have to point it out to you, so I'll chalk it up to bad analogy. Try using cars next time or something.
Bad analogy, granted.
But, cars? Like, some of the cars on the used car lot having cocaine in the trunk?
Hm. I once found a pack of cigarettes in a relative's car. He doesn't smoke. But he'd just bought the car from a dealership.I'd still rather let my kids watch
When kids watch that, it'll (to a certain age) fly over them, because they haven't been exposed to it (hopefully). Ignorance is really a bliss at times. But when adult neckbeards and legbeards are into it, we're going to have a problem.
Of course. I believe some stuff was put in to make shows more appealing to parents watching with their kids. But in those cases it's usually not pedophilic in nature. Like the picture you posted; the character in question is an adult.
Whereas Jojo's Adventure, the whole point of the show is to be as weird as possible. It's watched by people who look for something extra weird, that makes them say "What the hell did I just watch?" after every episode.
Now, consider this: If the episode in question is watched by someone who's not into minors, what will their reaction be? " " maybe? (Disclaimer: I haven't seen that season of JoJo's Adventure.)
Whereas someone looking for actual pedophile material will have plenty of more explicit options that for some inexplicable reason are still legal in Japan.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
It's the only kind of cartoons I can get with plots that make sense (or some semblance thereof) and characters that act like they have half a brain (humorous obsessions notwithstanding).
Most modern American cartoons seem to be short of about 6 months ADHD treatment.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
It's the only kind of cartoons I can get with plots that make sense (or some semblance thereof) and characters that act like they have half a brain (humorous obsessions notwithstanding).
Most modern American cartoons seem to be short of about 6 months ADHD treatment.
That too. But what they're missing the most is ...best explained by this classic Indiana Jones clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyBtMxZgQsThere are dozens of reasons why this scene could not be filmed today in the west. But Japanese films are not thus encumbered.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
But after Cuties [an American movie about preteens twerking], I'd say that problem is by no means limited to Japanese animations
: Cuties is a French movie about pre-teens twerking that was released in France without issue.
The backlash came from when it was re-released in America and Americans were upset that the movie was for pedos.
I'm not sure how that affects your point, but I'm not going to pass up the opportunity to shit on the French's weird sexual practices.