archpaladin1

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nobility... Whatcha gonna do. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Shai-Hulud's dumber cousin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an FYI to readers, port forwarding with ProtonVPN on Linux can be done, just with a little extra effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm split on this myself.

On the one hand, I do think there is a risk of Meta's influence becoming too pervasive over ActivityPub and ultimately kneecapping it. I think to presume this couldn't happen is naive. Further, Meta does have a history of trying to bring everything under its own umbrella, and if they see enough profit opportunity in trying to own the protocol then they will sink serious effort into doing so. They have done it with many other companies & ideas already.

On the other hand, preemptive blocking is not in the spirit of the fediverse, users should be able to make their own choice, and SDF is known for its general openness. "Why in this case and not others?" is a real question.

I personally don't think the influx of users/content & problems with "Eternal September" are too big a deal. True, I'm not a sysadmin or mod here. If those were real reasons to block the service then we should do it on logistical grounds without hesitation - there's no need for user input or discussion in that case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reload the page with Javascript turned off.

 

Figures. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, that's true; everybody borrows.

This seemed particularly plagiaristic though. Oddly placed yin-yangs? Allusions to the Roma people? An underworld looking distinctly hell-like?

At least make me work to find the source material.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah I agree the costuming was good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yep, this looks like the thing - thanks!

I haven't (yet) dipped toes in the *arr worlds yet, so it's great to know the feature's there.

 

Ahoy!

Once long ago I ripped some movies from DVD, and in ignorance, saved to a lossy format. (The DVDs have also long since gone.) This was fine for a time but now as TVs are getting bigger and quality is improving, I am seeing the compression artifacts.

Does anyone know of some software that will scan a directory for media, identify the codec used, and then find better quality rips present for download & replacement? I would rather not go through the process manually and I have to imagine I'm not the only one that's had this issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is a neat idea I hadn't thought of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Complete Baguazhang Nine Dragon System, by John Painter

It's out of print and good copies are about $130+

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes!

I hope part 2 lives up to part 1. If so, this could easily become a masterpiece trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She said many rich people wanted to set up their own educational or health foundations without checking whether there was a need or an existing charity or government-funded programme working to address the issue.

When the rich only think about charity as a means to further their own name, it's no wonder nothing ever really gets fixed.

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