Venia Silente

Pussy Throat! These Russian agents are really going the Deep Throat route…

Well, they’d be supporting their local businesses for that I’d hope!

if you make your service available in Australia you must comply with Australian laws,

How does this even work? This is among the stupidest arguments I’ve ever heard on the internet, at about the same level of flat-earthism.

Are you saying if I am in Italy, selling Italian good on an Italian shop set in an Italian street, and an Australian tourist sends an agent to walk the Italian street and buy a thing for them from my Italian stand, I am somehow beholden to Australian law? This but “oN tHE iNtErNeT”?

pretty ridiculous

In the good way, yes. Who was it the admin of a Lemmy instance, I think, who said he would receive alcohol as a form of ID verification because to even acquire it legally in the first place you have to be of age, anyway? That’s pretty much golden and incentivizes the local economy!

Haven’t tested piefed myself (laaaaazy here) but it doesn’t hit me much as more-centralized-than-not compared to, say, kbin (mbin now?) offering a sorta similar perspective. Am I missing out on something?

Different conversations in different moods and cultures on the same subject are something completely human and normal, and tech should not work to undo this. When we have seen tech undo this is with social media silos, after all.

Which is to say, any “solution” that integrates those conversations into one view should be, where possible, client-side only. That way I can opt in to view some conversations as unified or not, depending on eg.: how well do I know the context, or whether the OP is a person known for cross-posting (and to where), while at the same time not forcing everyone else to have their culture of conversation subsumed into essentially an attempt to make topical subreddits.

Installed from the internet, it’s downloaded. Installed from a local source (storage, adb) it’s sideloaded installed.

Fixed that for you. Why would the local, direct installation method be the “side” one? Have you become that terminally online?

I should have increased my next-to-nil activity on my fedia account but noooo!

Instead thanks to some recommendations I ended up on db0 (also on sopuli but I barely use that one). It’ seems like a fun instance and you get to write your own essay on why Leftism is Good while you’re at it. Alas, I lost some posts on lemm.ee that I had tabbed on phone to check later, no idea what to do about that. I hear there were plans to launch a read-only archive of the instance, which would be nice to at least recover that data and be able to find those posts and open them / save them from another account, but no idea what eber happened to that archive idea.

I have not considered Piefed… out of laziness mostly. I was not informed much about it by the time the migration took place, and while it should be easy to just create an account over there, I know in the heart of the cards that it’s gonna sit unused by me until an instancepocalypse hits db0. Ya know, just like my fedia and sopuli accounts. /shrug

Consider the following:

On the one hand. Slavery got repurposed and repackaged in a nice 9-to-5 format - 8 hours, so that we’d stop complaining. Compared to that, spending let’s say two hours on videogames is defo not bad.

On the other hand, we’re talking about Roblox, one of the largest brainrots around. There’s defo better stuff to engage in.

Those things are not related. You are thinking of wage.

project for emulator of a Nintendo console

Github

Where’s the emotion of the hunt in that!!!

Trump has already shown that greenness of cards means nothing to him, so it’s not like these people would be losing any immigration safe ground by not suing.

Needing a full JS engine to run on your user account for Youtube? What are the privacy and security implications here?

Same place as Facebook: already in the pockets.

Aaaah, a programmer’s answer.

"are you questioning my methodology?”

[watches along] “only your taste”

“carry on”

Nondiscreetly.

When boss asks why am I looking at the phone (or browsing around on the internet), I point out they hired me as consultant, so my duty is to look around and be informed of things so I’m not caught up emptyhanded when asked a question.

In my experience at least, the two primary benefits (and sometimes, the only benefits) of re-encoding are 1.- reduced file size and 2.- increased device compatibility.

The file size is relevant because you can fit more stuff for essentially the same quality: reencoding a FLAC album to ~160k Opus uses up only 1/5th to 1/4th of the space, ~196k Opus is 1/4th to 1/3rd of the space, so it can be a pretty good gain on aggregate. A movie in 4K is worth nearly 6 movies in 1080p and nearly 9 movies in 720p, and for ~95% of extant content in the world rebasing down from 4K to at least 1080p presents no practical loss.

The compatibility is usually only relevant when you want to have that content be easily accessible in eg.: a remote media server, a streaming system, or one of those gool ol’reliable MP3 thumbsticks. In those cases, you’d be reencoding audio from FLAC to MP3 to increase device compatibility (and getting some decent space savings too). If your Jellyfin server’s connection is over wifi or you’ll access the data outside of your local network, re-encoding to lower sizes means transmission requires less bandwidth, as well as other savings (incl.: energy consumption in aggregate).