OmnipotentEntity @ OmnipotentEntity @beehaw.org

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Use ffmeg, here's how to do the image part: https://superuser.com/questions/1429256/producing-lossless-video-from-set-of-png-images-using-ffmpeg

To do the audio use the copy option. See here for an example usage: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21567029/ffmpeg-to-duplicate-an-audio-stream-and-encode-this-new-stream

I would love to see it. But I'm far more excited for RISC-V desktops, truth be told.

In engineering, there is an idea called hierarchy of controls.

Traffic calming is a "substitution" of the hazard. It, like unexpected construction, forces drivers to slow down due to the road not being psychologically safe to drive fast on.

Speed limits are an "administrative control" on the other hand.

People will drive as fast as they (possibly incorrectly) feel is safe, and a lot goes into that, of which speeding fines are only one very small part. If you really want safe streets for pedestrians and motorists, it is just not as effective an option.

Additionally, I'm level certain that Tory austerity is not really a viable excuse here, because I'm sure that there are ongoing efforts to "alleviate the traffic problem" by adding capacity. It's not that the money doesn't exist, it's that the money doesn't exist for this. Because elected officials aren't interested in this, because they're more interested in fine revenue and keeping car people happy.

However it throws hundreds of people through the equally discriminatory criminal justice system, and allows car insurance companies to jack up rates. Functioning even more effectively as a tax on being different than regular cops do. It also creates a financial incentive for the government not to fix the underlying cause of the problem of speeding.

Wishing and hoping for people to be better than they are isn't a solution. Just because traffic calming is more expensive, that's not a reason to not do it. It is something that needs to be done if you want to break car dependency.

"Speed trap" cameras are an entirely apt name. The solution to speeding isn't cameras, or patrols, or administrative controls, it's traffic calming, and that reduces capacity, so it's not considered. The trap is driving on the road at speeds they seem to be designed for, with speed limits significantly lower.

Fuck cars, but fuck cops more. We don't need to live in a panopticon. These cameras are a step in the wrong direction, and while I don't think the person who cut them down is doing the right thing for the right reasons, they are doing the right thing.

Dang, way to both sides genocide done by an apartheid state. Very centrist. Let the cooler heads prevail.

My possibly wrong, not researched, and half remembered from college first impressions are: the band gap is lower than Silicon, so it might not be appropriate in room temperature applications/very small gate sizes due to dark current. But the mobility is very high, meaning lower voltage gates might be possible, or higher switching speed/lower latency gates.

Thanks, I wasn't sure it worked in sh. I've been surprised a lot before by seemingly simple stuff like this.

If you need to pass flags you can use

        flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape "$@"


  

To forward all of the arguments to the script. Note that this might be a bashism, so you might need to change your hash bang to /bin/bash as well. Double check though.

(An easy way to check if something is working as you assume is just prepend the line with echo.)

Nix is also working on reproducible builds. In fact, the minimal installation CD for NixOS last release was reproducible. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-reproducible-builds-minimal-installation-iso-successfully-independently-rebuilt/34756/

Put a shell script in your PATH named inkscape with the following content:

        #!/bin/sh

    flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape


  

Note that you can use a local folder in your home directory to house small executables and scripts like this, so you don't have to touch your system config. I generally recommend using something like ~/.local/bin and add it to your PATH via your Shell's RC file.

To be fair, we've had 250 years of bad voting systems to put us into this problem. I don't think there are any realistic short-term solutions at all. We're not going to be able to turn this ship on a dime, especially because democratic politics is driven by public opinion, but being in power is a position of influence over public opinions, so it's self-reinforcing to a certain extent.

Support third parties, vote strategically, push for voting reform to bust the first past the post duopoly.

If the disc is corrupted it may be failing, recommending ddrescue over dd is probably a better call not knowing anything else about this situation. Essentially, no reason not to use it.

It's a website that seems to digest other websites and spit them out badly. Here is the original article: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-meteorlake-windows-linux

Forever. For the simple reason that a human can say no when told to write something unethical. There's always a danger that even asking someone to do that would backfire and cause bad press. Sure humans can also be unethical, but there's a risk and over a long enough time line shit tends to get exposed.

No matter how good AI becomes, it will never be designed to make ethical judgments prior to performing the assigned task. That would make it less useful as a tool. If a company adds after the fact checks to try to prevent it, they can be circumvented, or the network can be ran locally to bypass the checks. And even if General AI happens and by some insane chance GAI uniformly is perfectly ethical in all possible forms you can always air gap the AI and reset its memory until you find the exact combination of words to trick it into giving you what you want.

To add, many people did have the right of it, but they weren't given platforms because they weren't saying what powerful people wanted others to hear. This guy's message was boosted because it provided cover for the continued generation of CO2. It's not the case that if this one particular guy didn't make a mistake then we wouldn't have wasted time on this false corridor. At least one scientist will make this mistake or a mistake like this, it is an inevitably. In that hypothetical universe the only difference is we'd be hearing from that person instead of this one.

We know you're a gigantic money-hungry corp. You all don't have to lie and pretend to care about safety. We're not a bunch of idiots.

Alas, as long as there is doubt, there are a large number of suckers who are willing to give the benefit of the doubt. We are a bunch of idiots, collectively. That's why shit like this works.

ZFS has encryption now, dunno about the rest

Horseradish wasabi is good. I've also had real wasabi, which is even better.