Notices by Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified: (alyx@gameliberty.club)

@LukeAlmighty @matrix Is this about it being a reference to how Indian scammers will steal from you via gift cards? Or is it something else?

@j The only reason I'd participate in such an auction is if I could burn the sketch right after receiving it.

The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
The entire free/open/whatever you want to call it ecosystem feels like it's hold together by Linus Torvalds and a bunch of scotch tape (not even proper Scotch brand tape, no, that's proprietary of course, can't have that. Cheap, knockoff tape).

If scientists discover some form of immortality within the next two decades, the only reasonable thing this community should do is pull all their money together to buy it for Linus. But they won't even be able to do that right.

@pomstan @matrix
That's a thing only in 'Murica. And even there, it's not mandatory. Just a shitty practice kept in place by nurses and shitty feminists.

@matrix At least the right wing puritanism isn't gonna get my kids sterilized.

@j @PurpCat @beardalaxy @matrix
It has a few bad spots here and there, but I'd say it compressed better than the previous one. Which is not that shocking. Animations will do that.
Watchable on a phone definitely, maybe even a smaller tablet.

I'm curious though, what do you seek to get from these experiments? The smallest file size possible just for the fun of it, or a good sweet spot of size and quality for watching on a small screen, or streaming online?

@crunklord420 Who wrote this?

@matrix Lover's Lab. No further comment. If you know, you know.

@maxmustermann Please open up the asylums.

@maxmustermann
Satire?

@j @matrix
If this were the usual 700MB DVD rip, I'd say very bad. Seeing how this is only 100MB, that's quite impressive. Compressing a movie down to a bad MP3 encode bitrate is something.
Still though, there are a lot of noticeable artifacts. I don't think I'd watch this as it is on anything larger than a 5" phone.

@matrix I'm sure there's plenty of reasons for it. Me personally, I simply can't use Firefox because I absolutely hate how it renders fonts. I've tried every way imaginable to teak settings, but to me they just feel thick and blurry. With Chromium browsers by contrast, I get thin, crisp sharp lines.

@Jazzy_Butts @j @matrix
People really need to remember that falsely accusing black people of rape used to be a common tactic to get them lynched.
I don't care if MLK was a womanizer. Rape is bad 'mkay, but that should be seriously investigated before throwing words around. And since the guy is dead, nobody is gonna waste time figuring out the truth here.

Personally, I'm more interested about the Rosa Parks thing. Not the first time I've come across someone saying it was a publicity stunt. But I do think it might be the first time hearing a 15 year old girl was involved.

@matrix
Me: Come on, Firefox' market share can't be this low
>quick online search
>it was 2.74 in August 2024
Oh my god... it is. Firefox is dying. Samsung's browser is close to passing it, and that's an Android only thing, and only on Samsung devices. Can't wait for the cope from the open source crowd.

@matrix
>was there ever an explanation for why she was having sex with a dog?
I think a different question is better suited here: was Hollywood aware of the dog pill before internet trolls were?

@LukeAlmighty So he's retarded. What else is new?

@j @LukeAlmighty @matrix
Weirdly enough, these drop off points can be more convenient for all parties involved.

For the customer, maybe you're not at home at the scheduled delivery time. And maybe you don't want the package to just be left at the door, in case someone tries stealing it. Also, where I leave, I don't think delivery drivers are even allowed to do that. When I get a package, I need to give them a code sent to me via SMS from the store to confirm that I'm the client who ordered it.
And maybe I'm just a misanthrope and I don't want to deal with a human to get a package. But if the package is delivered to one of these drop off boxes, I can just swing by it when I return from work or whatever, and pick it up. The drop boxes are widespread enough that there's little extra walking I need to do to detour to one on an outside trip.

And for the driver, he has a simpler delivery route, with less stops, less fuel usage, etc. More environmentally friendly, more traffic friendly, and the driver can focus more time on delivering to the customers who specifically ask for things to be delivered straight to them because it's more urgent.

@PinochetsCommieCopter It's a fun meme, but do Americans actually want Canadians?

@matrix Well... I gave the entire thing a read. And I have to say, it's up there next to Zoe Quinn's leaked book as one of the most retarded things I've ever read.

@VIPPER So what you're saying is that Linux is the tool of the Jew?!

@j Haven't checked any 4k videos of static, so can't say that I know. But I doubt the bitrate YouTube provides is worthy of being called 4k. Your video would probably fare better I guess if you open it on a relatively small screen (meaning an average monitor). But I think that on a large TV, the low bitrate might be more obvious.