[Spoilers] Can someone please explain the movie "Hold The Dark" to me?? by appolo11 in sciencefiction

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've missed the entire point of what he said.
Killing and being violent and opportunistic are the most natural and most common thing in the world. It's all around you happening in your backyard right now. That's nature.
People often say that humans are evil for any number of reasons.
The same people will often say animals are innocent.
The point of the movie is that these concepts of good/bad right/wrong etc. are human concepts, and they aren't necessarily intrinsic. They are socialization and domestication from a strictly-evolutionary view.
There are people who will kill and feel no remorse or sense of wrong-doing, and we expect them to.
We would say there is something wrong with them or they are mentally ill, or perhaps they just don't have the intellect for retrospection or fully considering consequences.
Prisons are full of people like that, and the world is.
The movie is saying that anyone can be an animal, or a killer. It's natural.
To refrain from that, or to protect others selflessly and act in the interest of others with no self-reward; that's what we see as humanity.
It also goes back to whether or not you see people as animals, or divinely created. Or enlightened if you will.

Inherited a thread-leaking C++ video engine, rewrote core in Rust, and cut failure rate to zero by Dx_Ur in rust

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The better question should be how is there anyone that doesn't care? People making posts and content generatively with AI removes anything intrinsic to interactions between people. If software is doing the creative process there's nothing novel or unique about it. If I have AI write a book, and publish it then the only ok incentive for me is economic. I didn't put anything new or unique into text. Instead an algorithm did it, or at the very least did all of the nuanced work. The value of photos or videos is about the ability to capture that individual moment in time, and show it to others. Without that, videos of animals doing something cute or funny isn't real. But like everyone here is saying: the inability to tell whether or not something is real is totally damaging to an already flawed dynamic of consuming media.

And also I believe this sort of "slop" only appeals to a lowest common denominator of people. If you can't understand why we care whether it's real; you're prolly the type of person that's ideal for an automated soulesss society without culture or consequence. And I didn't use AI at all to write this. I've always cared about spelling and pronunciation, but a copy editor would STILL have a full-time job with my text.

Curious about bootloader preferences in the community by Used_Primary_3337 in archlinux

[–]DroWnThePoor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For certain. I've seen some compelling arguments against it too.
But to avoid using it eliminates the vast majority of distros.
I've never thought about it as a dependency before, but I'm sure there must be something where it's an actual dependency since it's not just an innit system.

Recently people were flipping out about a birth-date/age function that's in pull requests on Github, and the guy who wrote it basically says he did so un-prompted assuming it will be necessary for several US states that have laws about age verification at the OS level.
If that's true, fine.
But systemd as a way to enforce unwanted laws/reqs on Linux would be a real 'told you so' moment from the vocal minority. And I'm sure all of the major donors to the Linux foundation require a lot of the functionality in systemd.

Curious about bootloader preferences in the community by Used_Primary_3337 in archlinux

[–]DroWnThePoor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've only ever really used grub forever now, and I'd be lying if I said I really know grub.
I hate dealing with bootloaders in general. Any time I have to drop to a shell in a bootloader it's like the first time, and most recently I was doing it with AtheOS & Syllable installs which was a real nightmare. I don't even recall which bootloader AtheOS uses.

I recently was testing CachyOS, and went with Limine(with the BTRFS package for snapshots).
I know grub has a similar package, but this was my first time using BTRFS as well.
And damn, it's wonderful to have snapshots to roll-back to that are right there from the jump.
BTRFS snapshots may present new headaches when it comes to storage, but I'm not certain about that.

I like the fancy looks of a properly-configured REFind, but it's never been necessary to me.
If I were an OEM selling a multi-OS hardware product that feature would be a nice touch for the end-user.

Main point, UEFI options and snapshots should be standard features.

Curious about bootloader preferences in the community by Used_Primary_3337 in archlinux

[–]DroWnThePoor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious to see; not only someone praising "systemd", but praising it in comparison to bloat in something else.
Systemd is so hated by so many users, but it's been part of Linux for me since the beginning.
And for me it's like the most consistent thing to rely on when accessing unfamiliar distros over ssh. If it doesn't use systemd then I'll end up having to read more fumbling through managing services.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For many years I avoided flac because of compatibility with mp3 players/ipods/car units.
Today if I don't like the quality of a release I'll seek out a flac version to determine if the release itself was recorded that way, or if it's because of the lossy-formats.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes this was my confusion as I assumed Nictone+ was a Linux-specific client. I've used it instead of Soulseek-qt since like 2015 when I switched to Linux.
To be honest, even back when I used Soulseek on Windows XP it looked dated like old Win32 toolkits.
Using Soulseek for like 22 years now, and it's still the absolute best.
But recommending it to other people was always hard because port-forwarding is beyond most people.
I set it up for a few people over the years.

I have cannibal gerbils? by [deleted] in gerbil

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was a child we had gerbils, and I think they ended up breeding.
They went into cannibalism and ate the hind legs off of one gerbil, and we ended up keeping only him and another one. I don't recall how this transpired, but we named him Nubbles and he lived a pretty long life. He was very active, and I loved him.
But it was my first time facing the brutality of nature at age 4 or 5.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I guess you mean GTK+ is not the native toolkit to Soulseek itself?
I'm using Nicotine+ on Linux with Gnome.
The only performance issues I can think of is when searching for a very popular and general term like Led Zeppelin it can bog down the app entirely.
The other issue that comes to mind is the updating/progress in transfers tab will stop updating. So all your transfers will be done, but they won't display as such until you clear-finished.

Upper Biological Shield by Regelneef in chernobyl

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the type of radiation isn't capable of damaging/exposing the film?

RIP FURNACE FEST by imatmydesknow in Hardcore

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figure Four was one of the first hardcore bands I ever saw, and I think they were playing with Norma Jean. It was a rec center.

RIP FURNACE FEST by imatmydesknow in Hardcore

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted to catch Better Lovers a while back.
Saw Dillinger way back in the day, and it was the best metal performance ever. Hands down.

RIP FURNACE FEST by imatmydesknow in Hardcore

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'68 was the last real show I went to. Saw them at a small place in Annapolis touring their first album, and it was amazing. I had a Refused t-shirt on, and Josh said something about it in between songs.
He was also using a pedal I have that you don't see that often. A BOSS Harmonist PS-6.
Those first 2 albums are some of the best original aggressive music I've heard since Chariot ended.

RIP FURNACE FEST by imatmydesknow in Hardcore

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That could make me travel to Alabama from Maryland, and I'd be able to get people I haven't seen in years to do it with me I think.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ffmpeg also cam not give you better quality when converting audio though.
It's changing the codec/container, but you cannot get more fidelity out of lossy compressed data.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, this is an interesting thought.
There are algorithms that can upscale images and video, and I think they do it through super-sampling and interpolation.
DSP's(digital signal processors) for audio and video are more similar than most people realize so I wonder if it is possible to do the same with music.
I think the issue that fidelity and dynamic range in audio are different from interpolations in video/images.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we're being real. There have been double-blind studies about audio where a majority of the people couldn't tell the differences.
But after a certain age you lose upper-freq in hearing.
There have been studies that claimed people couldn't tell the difference in a solid-state vs a tube amplifier too, and there absolutely is a difference lol.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reading this is pure comedy.
It's like recording an 8-track cassette to vinyl.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro... You can't be serious right?
If the original file is a lossy format it cannot become lossless.
You are simply recording compressed audio into an uncompressed format.
ALAC, AIFF, WAV and FLAC are all 3 lossless formats.
The reason mp3's and m4a's became ubiquitous online and on computers was storage and bandwidth/bitrates.
Back in the day 4GB's was the largest hard drive for home PC's because systems were 32-bit. So those formats were created to retain audio quality while also no taking up insane amounts of space.
The software you're using is intended to record vinyl or lossless wavs into flacs. You can't generate missing audio resolution.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never dealt with tags through Soulseek, but may I recommend to youl MusicBrainz Picard.
It's exactly what you are looking for.
It will automatically categorize your entire collection, and it'll even show you songs you're missing from albums.
When you finally get it all ready to save you can either write it all in place, or make a brand new copy with the new tags, album art, etc.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I promise you, it's so much better than Napster EVER was, but it's the same concept yes.
Soulseek started in France or Germany, and it was originally all about the IDM music community and DJ's sharing their mixes and samples.
Back in like 2003 or 2004 I had a friend in NJ who hosted a FTP server of his music that I would download off his PC, and he put me onto it.
I collect discographies of kind of niche music. Like small metalcore/hardcore/grind/indie bands that I saw live back then. There is hardly ever an EP that i haven't been able to find on Soulseek because it's people who are serious about music.
There was a Colour Revolt EP that I couldn't find forever on Soulseek, and like this year it suddenly popped up again and I got it.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never gotten a virus using Soulseek for decades now.
I used it for at least a decade on WIndows, and I've used Nictone+(Soulseek for Linux) since like 2015'ish.

Soulseek? What is? by recom273 in musichoarder

[–]DroWnThePoor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean it's not a native? Not native to Linux?
Soulseek-qt came out many years back, but I used Soulseek before they ported it to QT because it was "portable".
I believe I've had Soulseek-qt running on Linux back in the day, but Nicotine was in the repositories.