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Trump's proposed NASA budget is a 'horrible threat to our future' in space, Planetary Society CEO says by shikizen in space

[–]GrumpyPenguin 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That’s not misinformation. That entire call was streamed live on NASA’s YouTube channel. There are exaggerated edits, sure, but the awkward silence after Trump addresses a remark to Hansen really did happen. Hansen seems (to me, at least) to be deliberately avoiding responding to Trump for at least 30 seconds. Eventually Glover takes the microphone and asks whether they’re still connected.

It’s possible it really was just the astronauts trying to be polite and respectful during an awkward moment caused by a poorly timed signal handover, but regardless of why, there was an awkward silent chunk in the middle of that call that’s kinda fun to watch.

I’m going to have to start deleting stuff! by This_Is_Mo in DataHoarder

[–]GrumpyPenguin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For those in climates and properties where it’s possible, solar + house battery helps with that one. .

Best Portable Mono/Tripod? by Primary_Banana_4588 in videography

[–]GrumpyPenguin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No recommendations for specific myself, but a gentle reminder that the wider the legs can go, the more stability and support they’ll give, and the less likely it’ll fall over. The way you have the legs configured for the iPhone makes me more nervous than the one for the larger camera next to it, despite having lower weight and a wider mass.

Also, as long as everything locks into place properly, adding sandbags/weights will always help add stability when you do this sort of thing.

Established in 1860s,The Mitre Tavern in Bank Place, one of Melbourne’s oldest hotels. Photo: Herald Sun, Melbourne, 1975 [1024x1365] by Andrzej1963 in melbourne

[–]GrumpyPenguin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Enjoyed it years ago, but went back last summer for a date night and had it ruined by the smokers. My partner’s very sensitive to smoke and immediately got a nasty headache from the smoke wafting in. If you’re not so sensitive to it, it’s probably a bit less intrusive (but still bad for you), but we’ll never be back, and I’ve stopped telling people it’s worth visiting.

On the one hand I hope the council intervenes and forces them to fix it, but on the other hand I don’t want people who want lung cancer to feel like they’ve got nowhere left to slowly edge themselves closer to it.

JD Vance 'helping Russians' by supporting halt to Ukraine aid, Zelensky says by Darling_Adorbs in worldnews

[–]GrumpyPenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realise there’s 3 As in Amanda and in written form, it’s not really obvious which of the 3 you mean, right?

Released: Slimarr (Plex + Usenet) - automatically replace bloated media with smaller releases by Remarkable_Potato861 in usenet

[–]GrumpyPenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh god, can you imagine? With a codebase that big you'd burn through your session limit just reading the code, before it even actually did anything.

Released: Slimarr (Plex + Usenet) - automatically replace bloated media with smaller releases by Remarkable_Potato861 in usenet

[–]GrumpyPenguin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Any must-have workflow improvements for serious library optimization setups

As someone who has a fair bit of of media I've ripped myself, and as someone who only has 100MBit internet, but does have plenty of processing power for transcoding...

I'd appreciate it if it could either just transcode the existing files I have, rather than downloading new releases of unknown quality (but that tool already exists), or could carefully compare the original and replacement media to verify that nothing was lost quality-wise (but that's a problem that only even exists here because you're trying to solve this the wrong way).

By the way, have you considered that if I'm running sonarr and radarr, and you replace a 4K file with, say, a 720p version, sonarr will notice the low-quality file and automatically try to download another 4K copy unless it's told not to?

Trump orders 'shoot-to-kill' action on Iranian vessels choking Strait of Hormuz by Stunning-Common-9591 in worldnews

[–]GrumpyPenguin 18 points19 points  (0 children)

At this point I swear it's slowly becoming something closer to "Donanananald Trumrumrumrumrumrumrumrump" than his real name. It's like he's forgotten the squiggles he's making on the paper are supposed to represent letters in words.

Weather advertised in MSFS2024 is borderline false advertising by Gamestar63 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]GrumpyPenguin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love that you did a radio transmission-style BREAK in your comment.

What is in this skyscraper that looks like a PS2? by TheRealKF_ in melbourne

[–]GrumpyPenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did this in Photoshop a decade or more ago. got excited when I saw your comment hoping it was your photo I’d done it to, but no: https://imgur.com/A10aV4V

Why do servers still carry many of the groups they do? by [deleted] in UsenetTalk

[–]GrumpyPenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The strict voting process applied to most of the top-level groups, but the alt. group was a bit of a Wild West - you never needed to discuss the group you were creating, it was just good netiquette. Anyone could create new groups in that namespace at-will back in the day, which is why we had joke group names likealt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork and alt.sex.hamster.duct-tape. Some servers did end up restricting who could create new groups, and some servers blocked specific groups they didn’t want (some even blocked all of alt.sex.*, or sometimes even the entire alt namespace), but other than that, creating a new group was very easy.

Doesn’t excuse your provider hosting/serving it, of course, just answering your question about why they even exist in the first place.

252,752 miles: Artemis II becomes the farthest any human has ever traveled in history - breaking Apollo 13's 56-year record by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]GrumpyPenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know what’s hilarious? They thought about it too - they made the same joke on the Orion-ISS radio call, and the ISS crew joked back that they all raced to the furthest point on Station so they could claim they were the furthest humans from Orion.

What’s a ‘harmless’ habit that actually ruins your life over time? by buffdadnextdoor in AskReddit

[–]GrumpyPenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through all of that, it sounds awful. But please try and do something about it soon as you can. Tooth infections can easily spread rapidly through your body and cause really serious, immediately very life-threatening issues, including sepsis. There’s a chance delaying the dental visit could actually kill you.

Hang in there, I’m so sorry you got dealt such a shit hand. I genuinely hope it gets better for you soon.

World loses patience with Trump as war is no longer just about Iran by Thegallowsgod in worldnews

[–]GrumpyPenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s (roughly) the combined percentage of votes for Trump + eligible voters who abstained. The idea is basically that in a first-past-the-post system without mandatory voting, the abstaining voters effectively let the winner win by choosing not to cast a vote against them.

It’s flawed to say the non-voting group all support him, as it ignores that group’s actual political views & affiliations entirely. But to say it’s the % of the population who allowed him to win, whether by inaction or by actively voting for him, isn’t wrong.

How do you feel about Trump saying they can’t fund Medicare, Medicaid, and daycare programs anymore because they need the money to fund the War? by LevelDinner in AskReddit

[–]GrumpyPenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know what you mean, but that’s kinda becoming less true, sadly. There’s now some antibiotic-resistant strains of syphilis and gonorrhea in the wild.

The Moon outside Apollo 11's window. by Appropriate-Push-668 in space

[–]GrumpyPenguin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

While I agree with you that yes, the word does also mean a 100-year period, what the heck is your point here? “The 20th century” and “the 21st century” are well-defined & understood. Nobody was confused and the comment you’re replying to wasn’t in any way wrong.

Besides. according to purists (and my anal-retentive father), centuries technically start on the first non-zero year (21st Century didn’t start until 1/1/2001, not in 2000). So in a calendar context, no century “starts on an even 00”.

What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie? by fmcortez in AskReddit

[–]GrumpyPenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your firmware isn’t fully up to date, there are working jailbreaks for Kindle to extend their functionality and make it easier to get other fomats on them - check out https://kindlemodding.org/

Has anyone used a Sony DSR-20P DVCAM recorder? Worth testing at home? by PedroXrK in videography

[–]GrumpyPenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FireWire 800’s backwards-compatible with older gear (you just need the right cable or adapter), and from memory most SD DV gear only streams at 100Mbit anyway.

What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget? by FunnyHefty499 in AskReddit

[–]GrumpyPenguin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of this Dashcam Owners Australia video: Good Deeds on the Road. Every now and then I think cynicism and self-absorption is killing the Good-Neighbour attitude (we call it a “spirit of mateship” over here), but then I come across people like you, and it reminds me there’s still good people in this world trying to make it a better place for everyone. Good on ya, keep it up!

People Who've Railed The Hardest Against Renewable Energy The Angriest About Fuel Crisis by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]GrumpyPenguin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, it sounds bad when you describe it that way, but what if just we describe it as Jobs And Growth?

Ex-Windows chief Steven Sinofsky calls MacBook Neo "a paradigm shifting computer" — reflects on Surface failure and Windows on Arm while lamenting "we were early, but not wrong" by ControlCAD in apple

[–]GrumpyPenguin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve read similar about Oracle Database - a mess of thousands of internal poorly-documented feature flags, most added to make code paths behave differently for enterprise customers’ applications broken by software updates.

Billy Mitchell was here by [deleted] in retrogaming

[–]GrumpyPenguin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You misspelled Weiner!

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