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[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Believe it or not, as I play I keep finding parallels to Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Now the badge system being equipped per character is different, but the block/parry system feels similar in a comforting way.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Community: Every Subway storyline (especially the Britta relationship)

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A few questions:

  • Was there a time limit?
  • How much did it cost?
[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I think it's probably because this is a repost article.

An earlier version of this article was published in 2019.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

TL:DR: They don't need to listen to you. They already track "your metadata"

"To make it happen, Facebook would need to record everything your phone hears while it's on,” Garcia-Martinez explained in 2017. “This is functionally equivalent to an always-on phone call from you to Facebook. Your average voice-over-internet call takes something like 24 kbps one way, which amounts to about 3 kBs of data per second. Assume you've got your phone on half the day, that's about 130 MBs per day, per user. There are around 150 million daily active users in the US, so that's about 20 petabytes per day, just in the US. To put that in perspective, Facebook's entire data storage is 'only' about 300 petabytes, with a daily ingestion rate of about 600 terabytes.”

But there are scores of other data points the system has on you to determine what you should see at any given point. Not only does the system know exactly where you are at every moment, it knows who your friends are, what they are interested in, and who you are spending time with. It can track you across all your devices, log call and text metadata on Android phones, and even watch you write something that you end up deleting and never actually send.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is cool to know that when I'm done woth my Framework 13 I can upgrade the mainboard for $500

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Uow about some visual novel style games like 999, Hotel Dusk (DS emulator), Ghost Trick, Professor Layton (DS emulator or mobile)

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I also believe it may be a fake event

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

TL;DR Grammarly redefines --rem in their global css, breaking some websites that use it.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago

I mean it's true, Chris brings Ben around so they can do a version of Good Cop, Bad Cop. Which kinda didn't make me like Chris at the beginning.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can't forget TNG 5x2 Darmok. I wish the universal translator didn't work seamlessly all the time.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

I mean "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow,"

How would she know otherwise???

(/s)

 
 

Sorry, I don't know of a community to post this in. However, anyone else having trouble creating watch parties?

I am no longer able to host watch parties on things that are free on prime. I can however, start a watch party for seasons/movies I "own" through amazon.

Edit: Put own in quotes.

 

I'm wondering about your experience with them:

  • Have they replaced your seltzer/soda buying?
  • How much do you use your equipment?
  • Where do you get your CO_2 refilled and how much does it cost?
  • What flavorings do you use and which are your favorite?
  • What equipment did you buy and do you recommend it?
 

It's an approximation but still... It's an interesting quick read.

 

Today I found a video series that I was datahoarding... I know...

Anyway, I found this old reddit post from 3 years ago on how to download from Brightcove. So I thought I would repost this here for posterity.

Here's the post below with some small revisions from 3 years ago by u/publiusvaleri_us

I had a short video that I wanted to try to download, but the brightcove style seems to be hard to parse. I was wondering if there's a way to find out the actual URL to do the download, and I started on a hunch.

Of course I visited the webpage with the video and let it play. In Firefox, I use Web Developer Tools, then I selected the Network tab. It listed a lot of the streams of the video (mp2t) that appeared to be a form of streaming. The secret is to look for a file type of "x-mpegurl" which is the key to feeding youtube-dl the correct video URL.

I found this step was made easier by uBlock Origin (I only had to look for the red blocked packets)

Here is my command: (You must use ffmpeg, because of the multiple streams)

youtube-dl --prefer-ffmpeg --ffmpeg-location ..\ffmpeg\bin --restrict-filenames [URL FROM Web Developer Tools->Network.]

The only problem I found out is that some of the x-mpegurl files produce an end result without sound. They were combined in ffmpeg as render-render.mp4. But I found another one that downloaded to a slightly larger file, and it was called "master-master.mp4" when it was done. That video has sound. So if you examine your URL possibilities, look for the word "master" somewhere in it.

...BLAH-BLAH/master.m3u8?fastly_token=BLAH,BLAH

Let me know if anyone has questions or needs a few pointers. I'm surprised I figured it out without a lot of problems. When youtube-dl gave me the error for the main URL, I figured one of you guys knew all about how to do this... turns out that I do.... shocked emoji.

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Weekly Newsletters (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/teaching@discuss.tchncs.de
 

Do you make a weekly newsletter for your parents? If so, what do you put in it?

 

First year teacher? Veteran teacher with good advice? This is the post for you.

 

I think it would be helpful if we have a few posts this time of year to help new teachers.

So, what are some of your favorite procedures?

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Premium Mouse Meme (i.chzbgr.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
 

Image Transcription: Meme

Cain: dear brother, let's go for a walk

Abel: sure... but what's that rock for?

Cain:

An image of Mickey Mouse holding its hand up, as if whispering a secret

It's a surprise tool that will help us later.

 
 
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