edgineer
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Comment · 2 months ago
It takes twice the file size to double the framerate without reducing visual quality of the original frames, whenever I try, with HEVC, AV1, etc. I can take a lower framerate video, run some software of constant size to interpolate the frames, and play back at a higher rate, but in practice I can't save that higher framerate video to a new mp4 file with small or constant size increase. It's got to be about linear.
Comment · 6 months ago
It's not all-or-nothing; sometimes some people at Google push for some things to improve privacy. Rarely happens when revenue is at stake.
Android used to ask you "do you want to alllow internet access?" as an app permission. Google removed that, as it would stop ads from showing up. Devastating change for privacy and security, great for revenue.
Comment · 7 months ago
Polsia (AI slop backwards)
Comment · 7 months ago
I can see the logic of talking to the people who believe they will live forever, once you start wondering "what if people could actually live forever?"
Comment · 7 months ago
>The car was making a turn. Something felt off—the steering wheel jerked one way, then the other, and the car decelerated in a way I didn’t expect. I turned the wheel to take over. I don’t know exactly what the system was doing, or why. I only know that somewhere in those seconds, we ended up colliding with a wall.
>I don’t know enough about what actually happened during my accident to say that Tesla’s technology crashed the car.
The cause may have been the combination of FSD and human takeover. When the car fucks up, the driver can take over poorly. Sort of how 'overcorrection' on a highway could spin you out of control.
There is a gray area where a car's guidance drives stupidly, yet would not actually result in an accident. The hot take is that a driver with his face buried in his phone the whole time may have had a better outcome.
Comment · 8 months ago
The only case of public urination -> sex offender which people can point to is Juan Matamoros. He claims this, but the actual case is too old to verify it, and we should not take his word for it.
Arrested in Massachusetts in 1986, charged with two counts of open and gross lewdness, sentenced to two years.
As of [0] lived in Florida, and was in jail for violating probation on a charge of cocaine possession with the intent to sell.
From the article: Paul Mishkin, the Boston lawyer who represented Matamoros in 1986, could not recall details of the case this week, but said it was clear the judge considered the incident very serious.
“He [Matamoros] told his side of the story to the judge, but clearly there was evidence that made the judge disagree,” said Mishkin. “A two-year sentence in this incident is a fairly severe sentence. You’d have to think there’s evidence to support that.”
[0] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2007/03/21/long-ago-charge-t...
Comment · 8 months ago
Things are changing quickly. Some users are being allowed only 3rd party age verification.
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/12/discord-uk-age-verificatio...
Comment · 9 months ago
There are sites for searching for your (or anyone else's) publicly revealed information, but the one free one I knew of was forced offline.
Downloading the datasets--there are so many with so few options to obtain them. The mega-compilations likely won't include everything, either, like your license plate numbers or all your compromised addresses, nor the site from which hackers stole it.
So basically don't bother. If you want the same experience, open up notepad, HIBP, and your password manager, and make a little doxx file on yourself, in CSV or JSON.
Comment · 9 months ago
Benedict became notable because of her death; Biographies of Living Persons has a privacy section that gives reasoning. These reasons, e.g. identity theft, complaint from the person, harassment, can not apply to a deceased person.
News articles did cover Benedict under the name Dagny.
As far as policies go, this page should be titled "Suicide of Nex Benedict" according to this policy [0], yet the talk on that subject ended with "closed with no consensus to move." [1]
This does speak to the selective application and selective enforcement of policies on Wikipedia. But I was most concerned to learn about how scrubbing the histories of pages is official policy itself.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Choosing_article_tit...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Death_of_Nex_Benedict/Arc...
Comment · 9 months ago
The page is protected, the general public can't edit it.
There was already discussion on the talk page, "Should Nex's given name be included?" with consensus of "no." That discussion was archived, but you can see it here [0].
From what I can see, the word "Dagny" has been retroactively redacted from all history of the page and its talk page.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Death_of_Nex...
Comment · 9 months ago
There were no passengers on the accident aircraft.
Comment · 9 months ago
The Guinness book of world records listed Kevin as the world's most notorious hacker, not the first.
They did retract they record for its lack of objectivity.
Comment · 9 months ago
That's opinion/stereotype, and unsupported. From Rob Cockerham's experiment (2002):
"I guessed that 98% of all truck beds are empty"
"In 25 minutes I had counted 150 trucks, and 99 of them had been empty. This 66% empty ratio was much lower than I had expected. I hadn't realized that so many trucks were being so successfully utilized."
"The results were similar: 39% of the trucks were hauling goods, and 61 of them were empty"
"Along with this adjustment of my perception, I also realized that an empty truck is no more wasteful than an empty back seat. Most cars AND trucks in the US drive around with 75% of the cargo space unutilized...what difference does it make if it is interior or exterior space?"
https://cockeyed.com/science/data/truck_beds/truck_beds.html
Comment · 9 months ago
Using couriers, and not phones, was largely how bin Laden escaped capture for so long. Took months to track a courier back to him.