Please insert your fourth factor sensor probe to log into Uber eats

It’s always the people you expect

Honestly the one upside of this RAM crisis is that people are finally paying attention to how bloated modern software has gotten

1.2GB of ram to show a few images and numbers is patently insane though

Mac has always been opt+shift+hyphen

Honestly for old versions of windows yes, you had to learn the arcane alt+0151, but I was already used to that for typing in french on a British keyboard. It’s now more like Mac with win+shift+hyphen

Android and IPhone, you just hold on the hyphen to get to them

And many word processors (and Linux via compose) turn a triple hyphen into one

Honestly this is one of the biggest issues with it all that you don’t really see talked about much

Artists sink a load of time into a piece of art they are proud of, and because AI has got to the point now it’s not always obvious at first glance to average Joe, so people rely on heuristics to spot it instead.

For this artist apparently it’s “yellows”

For anyone who takes photos (or even video now) even half seriously, photos with Bokeh and good lighting get called out now

You like making instrumental electronic or sampled music? Get ready for everything to be called AI

Even writing: I always used to like using em dashes—they’re a pretty versatile piece of punctuation for any casual speech style of writing. If you use an em dash now though, someone just assumes the text is AI. So I’ve generally just stopped; not because I want to, because AI and people (somewhat understandably) not having a better way to identify AI writing.

Hell, I made an excel sheet the other day to work some stuff out and someone asked how I got the AI to do it…

Now I’m not saying it’s everyone, but I’m seeing a group of people forming, who basically say anything they can’t immediately understand how to do themselves must be AI. I have a suspicion it’s the same demographic that would say “well I could do that” in a modern art museum or “all they do is press play” when looking at any kind of electronic music production.

AI? Sure that probably contributed

But Reddit has been pushing its users away for way longer than that though

Wait, so now the meta is that you have to have a model you can’t control to keep the bubble going?

Aren’t the atom cores what they’re putting into a lot of their data centre CPUs currently?

Interesting development for them to do this

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?