Kissaki @ Kissaki @feddit.de

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What happened with trademarks?

The two are very different.

Everything is protected under copyright by default.

Can you provide some examples of western productions that were put into the public domain (which needs to happen through an explicit act)?

I think the distinction is somewhat arbitrary. There's Japanese anime shovelware, good and bad anime. Chinese studios have been making contributions and have been part of the Japanese anime industry. So I don't make a distinction generally or primarily.

I guess the biggest factor and differentiator is the audio language - if that is where you want to draw the line. (A consequence of the primary or only targeted market.)

I've watched one with CN dub, which was an interesting experience. But I'm willing to accept and explore it and it feeling different - what matters in the end is the dub/voicing and general audio quality.

The one I watched was ok. Decent, but not more. I watched it through. I peeked into Link Click - which is rated quite high on AniDB (8/10) - but it didn't particularly get me invested and interested. Which is not a Donghua vs Anime thing primarily though.

Overall I think it's a very good thing. China is a big market and has the chance of becoming a big industry - even moreso than it is now. It means we can and will get more products, more to choose from, more good stuff too. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm not seeking it out actively. But AniDB is one of my discovery resources, and it lists them too. (Condition created primarily for the Japanese, Chinese, or Korean ("CJK") market) So I will see them and consider them for what they are.

Now I'm wondering whether the one I watched a while ago was Chinese or Korean. 🤔 I don't quite remember.

AniDB and MAL rating 8/10. I'll definitely check it out.

Noteworthy comment I found while checking it out:

The English version of this movie has many differences, its runtimes are not the same, there is a colour palette change and it is missing the second Ending Song that was only released for the JPN version.

Rituals don't have to be religious or related to religion. Daily regular, repeating activities are rituals - even without any link to a religion.

Does your Christmas have a direct relation to Christianity? It can be celebrated as a social and societal construct, possibly with imagery and rituals, with or without actual intention and relation to the religion.

Personally, I don't think I've ever experienced Christmas as a celebration of god and Christ in the direct and factual sense. Thinking back, we had the stories of birth and my mother even tried some singing with us. I don't think I've ever taken the stories for fact though. It's a setting, a story, a celebratory setup. (But I wonder if that may be back-looking reinterpretation with a changed mindset. It certainly wasn't something that stuck over time and after early childhood.)

This website demonstrates the difference between different fps rates. In comparison, you can immediately see the stuttering of image refreshes in lower resolutions.

• https://testufo.com/
• https://testufo.com/framerates-versus
• https://testufo.com/framerates-text

You may not notice 30 fps being choppy because of no or less grand movements, and because of no direct comparison.

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In this post they asked what one considers ethical piracy, and this is how I commented:

Calling it ethical is a higher bar than calling it ethically acceptable. Ethically acceptable is a higher bar than practically acceptable.

If you are factually incapable of getting it otherwise, it is ethically acceptable. If, at the same time, you need the material, it is ethical.

Without the need and unavailability or unavailability, I would always be careful about calling it ethical - I would not call it ethical.

In those cases it is at least subjective and a weighing of various morals, costs, need or desire, and practicality. (By pirating you are a beneficiary without supporting the thing - which one should at least be aware of and weigh.)

I often don't consume what I don't deem a reasonable price for a reasonable offering. I occasionally (or maybe rarely?) buy music on Bandcamp because I can download and own it in high quality. For movies and series, there is no such thing, which is a requirement for me to pay. So I don't buy or rent individual movies and series at all. (Bundled streaming can be a reasonable offering. It's not about individual products then.) Overall I buy videogames for reasonable prices, to a higher degree than I play (or even can play) them. When it's a good or great price for something that interests me, looks good, and I want to support, I buy it. Software has many free and open source software available - so I don't see a need to anything in that regard.

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Using a DNS that blocks ad domains works for blocking third party apps. The duolingo video ad still shows up though.

DNS is a OS setting.

Closing an reopening the app works too as a workaround. Progress is saved on completion, before the ad.

The water has to be cooled too, and there's still air around it though?

I guess we're talking about direct contact, not around a container, otherwise the water turned ice may even serve as an insulator?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

Pirate parties were already using it in practice.

Cut is as a prep step and it becomes a salad.

As a (former?) developer of Mumble I'm delighted to see it mentioned.

They're not as extremist or powerful as you seem to think.

With ffmpeg

    
ffmpeg -i src -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 0:v:1 -map 0:a out.mkv

  

ffmpeg uses a sectioned parameter approach. Input parameters and input, optionally multiple, output parameters and output target.

In my example I specified copy as codec so the streams are copied as-is, without reencoding. I used map to map video streams 1 and 2 of the first input, and default/all audio streams.

The ffmpeg reference docs are thorough. The wiki has some more guide, example, and explanatory docs.

It offers a web UI. Enable it and forward the port. Done.

I never feel sure

Never feel sure about what? Whether some people criticize the stack or point out issues with the stack?

Everyone knows the various workarounds.

You have no idea what "everyone" knows. Many - and I'm certain most - don't.