Oh is this another one of those shitty things we have been leading the world with in the UK?

I think we’ve had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years

*You still miss half the matches played because of the Saturday 3pm blackout, which prohibits those matches being broadcast

Oh shit, that really sucks

I still have nightcall come up on my playlists every now and again

Not strictly my rarest

But I remember taking a good while to actually achieve it (FTL)

Oh hey

There’s a whole school of political ideology about explicitly not centralising power in the hands of a few people

I guess it’s likely they’re doing some amount of that, yeah. However I believe the way directors typically approach IMAX is to still centre the shot the way you would without the extra vertical frame, so a centred crop would usually be the best option.

I’d find it hard to believe that they never take the opportunity to shift things a bit if it would make it better anyway

Home releases will almost certainly get the non-IMAX, 2.39:1 crop they’ve already cut for standard cinemas, and it’ll get the standard cinema letterboxing you see for other theatrical releases if you watch on a 16:9 TV.

Pan and scan has thankfully died off as a practice

FWIW, 16:9 is mostly used for wide-screen TV content (about 1.85:1), the effect is more pronounced because cinema screens are typically 2.39:1 with most content being that ratio

That’s why you still get letterboxes watching films on TV a lot of the time, despite us all having widescreens now

It’s partly because people would complain the other way if they only used half the cinema screen to display the full IMAX image. I’m not gonna do the maths, but I think Odyssey being 1.43:1 ratio would leave about half the screen blanked out on the sides.

But mostly because it’s the main selling point of IMAX films is there’s more image than a standard ratio. That more is supposed to be mostly in your peripheral vision rather than where you’re focused, directors aren’t really putting anything important in these extremities of the image.

So to pillarbox that image would just dramatically shrink the bit of the screen the viewer should be focusing on, on an already smaller screen.

I only ever front rowed the IMAX once

For Interstellar

Frankly, it added a je ne sais quoi

What an actual manchild

People who are actually done don’t write several essays in a week and set up targeted DDoS

Imagine having such an oversized ego to think that your views are the only correct ones, and then that it’s your duty to enforce them on others in clandestine ways.

Particularly when those views are ultimately not much more developed than those you’d expect a child to hold

Why not?

A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK

As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is always hilarious

This is a bit of a misread from where I can see

There’s more people upset about not being on the list

Inflation is good for musk, it means his investments make more money

Let’s all not be naive here

Bob is a shithead

Authentik is great, super versatile, if not a bit of effort to get it set up initially

Has no one introduced you guys to the concept of the corner cupboard?

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities

The CVE list always cracks me up, there’s like tens daily