Seefra 1

Well, it’s now cinema is supposed to be.

Ideally they could make two mixes, one for serious viewing and good systems and another for bringe watching or bad speakers. But since that would cost more money and isn’t done, a good dynamic mix is preferable because you can always throw a compressor and some limiting to a dynamic mix, but you can’t recover information after it’s lost. And as a film and series enjoyer I don’t want my experience to be nerfed.

As for ads, I have no idea? I haven’t watched an ad since I got internet many years ago. Idk how you’re getting your media, maybe get an adblocker or use torrents?

Because cinema is supposed to be immersive, it’s supposed to take the audience into the action, it’s supposed to make you feel like you’re there. Dynamics play an important part of this.

It’s not enough to acknowledge that there has been an explosion or a monster has screeched, it’s important that the viewer feels in danger, like the monster can actually harm the viewer. To get that adrenaline pumping.

Ofc when your levels are ridiculously exaggerated and you stretch over to the volume control all the time, then the immersion is broken because instead of watching the film you’re too busy riding the fader.

You don’t hate dynamic range, you hate bad mixes, two different things, without dynamics audio sounds like shit. An explosion is supposed to be louder than talking speech.

It’s just not supposed to try to mimic the absurdity of an actual explosion, to the point of discomfort.

Also, like said before in the parent comment, most consumer systems don’t even even have the dynamics to reproduce it without distortion (or damage the woofers).

Technically speaking it’s very easy to implement, it’s just a compressor, oldest thing in audio after maybe the EQ.

VLC has a compressor under effects, if you’re using Linux you can add effects to pulse or pipewire really easy too.

The issue with hard drives is that they tend to fail even on ideal conditions and even when powered down. Yes I’ve lost very important data to a powered down hard drive.

While it’s possible to recover information on a hard drive as long as the plates themselves aren’t damaged, that requires very expensive specialised tools and skills. Which probably wouldn’t be available in a scenario where the information on the drive would be of any value.

DVD-R (and probably consequentially Blu-Rays) aren’t any better in my experience, I’ve lost more data to DVD-R than to hard drives actually. Even when stored in low light conditions they tend to just stop reading.

However optical media has one big advantage here, is that the discs themselves are cheap, so instead of having all your digital eggs in the same basket, you spread them over several discs and while some information may be lost, others may survive.

Now, here’s an interesting thought, with digital data, the data either reads or doesn’t read, the so called digital cliff, may become partially corrupted and other parts still read, but after the corruption gets past a certain threshold all information is lost.

With analogue equipment even after severe signal degradation the contents while very deteriorated may still be perceptible, forwardermore an analogue signal is much easier to decode in the event that you need to restart civilisation building tech from scratch and don’t have access to the very very specific specifications of something like the audio codec or the filesystem.

You can probably hack a rudimentary cassette player together from very simple components, all you need is a tape head (a coil), a motor (a coil and a magnet), and an amplifier (a transistor or vaccum tube). (I’m probably oversimplifying here).

Overall I think the most important thing is having redundancy, or if redundancy isn’t possible at least don’t have all eggs in the same basket, instead of having everything in a single 8TB HDD, to try spread them into smaller 512GB ones, or DVDs or flash drives or all of the above. And don’t store them all in the same location, if an area gets flooded or someone builds a building on top, you’re only losing a small part of the information.

Electric cars with used and dead batteries have no resale value.

How surprising

The Hubble still works?

That’s nice, I thought I read an article some years ago that it was going to be decommissioned.

Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS

Shhh! Don’t give them ideas…

Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows

You’re responsible for the technology you create.

So if I create a knife I’m responsible if someone uses it for murder?

Maybe I should implement a camera on the knife that records your kitchen 24/7 to make sure the knife wont be used for murder, is that OK with you?

Unionize workers in Microsoft.

If you “unionize” microsoft and keep windows non-free software, the employees get better wages, apart from that the users still get spied upon, and the means of production (windows source code) still under ownership of a small group of people, (and just like any other operating system or knife, can) still used for nefarious purposes.

Even if the workers at the microsoft commune decide to made windows non-spyware anymore, there is still no way to actually be sure since there’s no way to verify it.

Also, proprietary software isn’t only a prime example of private ownership of the means of production, but also a prime example of artificial scarcity.

As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.

Free software is a requirement for free people, if you don’t understand that, then you really have no understanding of how technology works, of how people work and how freedom works.

I recommend reading the following article: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html

“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee”

Use Krita

I personally would throw the dishwasher away, and before that, permanently damage it to make sure no poor soul picks it up from the trash thinking they scored a free dishwasher without knowing it was once used to wash literal shit.

I would never be able to ever eat anything from any dish every washed on that machine, but again, that’s me and my personal emotional reaction to it. I understand that if it reaches 90C it technically kills all bacteria or something. But I would still refuse.

For that same reason I never buy used kitchen utensils, because I have no way to know what has be used for before.

And they are still missing the most important menu item “Stop after this track”

If you were the one being underpaid to do his job, you would do the same.

Isn’t that true for most models until someone destiles and quantises them so they can run on common hardware?

Empty spaces > What shall we do now?

“What shall we do now?” Is basically the part 2 of “Empty Spaces” but was removed from the album as it wouldn’t fit the vinyl.

The song is still present in the film, and a boxset if I recall

Your OS doesn’t, put the messaging apps that your friends/family/coworkers use do.

And no, you can’t convince them to switch messager, I tried.

I’m something of a musician myself, and it saddens me that I can’t find any active music production or audio engineering communities on Lemmy.

BTW, would be interesting having a community dedicated to free licensed/copyleft/0cc/creative commons/non profit music.

$1K on advertisement

Add a lot of zeros to that.

Most companies spend a lot more on advertisement than developing their product.