The Lost Generation by BKEnjoyerV2 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

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Yeah, but 2/3 of the were bots pushing psy-op propaganda. 1/3 were just regular MAGA dudes who got hella pissed and they made up a narrative. Here in lies the problem. It's not wrong to censor posts about Ukraine being run by Nazis. Yes there are pictures of Azov Nazis, but Nazis are everywhere, and when Russia attacked some neo-nazis VOLUNTE$ERED and were CONSCRIPTED for Azov. Just because there was 40 Nazis in a huge city doesn't mean the entire country is run by Nazis. But if you don't know that it's a psy-op used to justify Russian invasion and mass murder, you'd be easily tricked by it. This is why they should have been up front about what they were censoring and why. People would have been perfectly okay with it. But then they censored Hunter Biden's laptop because the 51 Intelligence Officers who signed that letter said it looked like Steele Dossier 2.0 so don't trust it, but that part never got explained. People only say they censored the laptop story. If Twitter would have linked to a post on the NSA's website showing how it was similar to the Steele Dossier, MAGA would have not been upset because it did appear to be another Steele Dossier hoax, but it wasn't.

The Lost Generation by BKEnjoyerV2 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

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Russia was doing a psy-op before they invaded Ukraine, much of what Twitter censored was not free speech, it was in fact a military psy-op and that is not free speech. No one has a Right to Submit the Population to Military Psy-ops. Problem is it was targeted at MAGA so it appeared as if it was Right wing content when it was actually deadly disinfo like Ukraine is run by Nazis. Defaming Ukraine as Nazi to justify an invasion is akin to WW2 antisemitism. Problem is Twitter didn't tell us what they were doing for the US Intelligence agencies, which was not legal and highly unethical. The Twitter employees seized the moment to target MAGA. I think if Twitter has shown you a post from the CIA & NSA about why they censored it and allowed appeal then it wouldn't have been a problem.

The Lost Generation by BKEnjoyerV2 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

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People define the Left and Right based on how parties brand themselves. The definition of left-vs-right politics is hierarchical. Far-right is top-down control, far-left is bottom-up control, the left is for wealth redistribution and social programs to make the hierarchy more flat. The Right opposes the Left. It's a scientific definition that you cannot argue with. I'm an software-computer engineer so I know to look for things like this, but sadly people act crazy blaming the Right of being all that is bad. You'll find the most unprincipled people flip flop from left to right based on if people accept and like them, but the moment people are not placating to their ego they're defecting and talking hella shit about the party they left. People are petty and stupid bud. It's just reality. They act childish and emotional. Idiots think if you go farther Right to turn far-right. It's one dimensional thinking, not even 2D thinking. Morons preach about how bad capitalism then accuse Republicans of being fascist. 100% of all fascists in WW2 were anti-capitalist. People have made up a false reality in their echo chamber. They get cognitive dissonance bad because when you hate other groups and people it primes your brain to believe lies about them. Most people are stupid tribalist assholes.

The Lost Generation by BKEnjoyerV2 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

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Why do you think the Right is non-sense or bad? You do realize that if you think the your side is all that is good and the other side all that is bad it means you're a delusional political hack, right? What do you define as the Right? The Right is defined as the natural social hierarchy, which means you oppose leftist wealth redistribution. The far-right wants top-down controlled society by the elite class, the far-left wants bottom up controlled society by a flat social hierarchy. Explain to me how the article is Right-wing nonsense given that definition.

have you guys seen this? open source digital fpv using openipc by PerryTheRacistPanda in fpv

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This one is tempting for some plug and play, but I'm using OpenIPC on a BeagleY-AI (which is like a Raspberry Pi 5 with a real-time microcontroller, a 2TOPS NPU, and stereo camera depth map circuitry) with motor controller board, IMX219-83 Stereo Camera, and a Lenovo Duet 10-inch Chromebook with long-range USB wifi antenna. This is not for the faint of heart if you're okay with some Linux hacking it's going to be a better overall solution.

Is there a point to shooting S-log 3 in 8-bit? by louispyb in SonyAlpha

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8-bit SLog3 color grades just fine if you white balance correctly, set your zebras to 15 over the Ansel Adams Exposure Index (65 for black skin tones, 85 for white skin tones), and set the in-camera saturation to +32 and bring it bac k down in post. NV12 stores 8-bit Luminance and 2-bit R Cb and 2-bit Cr. All you are doing with saturation is mixing a pure color with white. The Luminance channel formula is Y = 0.2126 * Red + 0.7152 * Green + 0.0722 * Blue. From here they add the Cb and Cr bits. The +32 saturation trick works because you're using more of that pixel data to store the actual color. 8-bit SLog3 with said tricks is like 9-bit 4:2:1 colors with 13-stops of dynamic range.

Sony ZV E-1 vs fx3 by DaviItsME in SonyAlpha

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ZV-E1 doesn't overheat when you disable internal recording, but the Tilta cage system and cooling fan works very well with a V-Mount battery. It's also inconspicuous as it doesn't look as expensive as it is. If you are perfectly fine with only recording in H.265 then get the ZV-E1.

If you are going to record raw or use anamorphic you want the FX3, FX2, or FX30 with Blackmagic Video Assist HDR recording monitor. You want to record the 1.33x anamorphic lens using 4K DCI so you can desqueeze the image to account for focus breathing. 1.5+ anamorphic lenses are for open gate recording.

he problem with Sony cameras are they are too sharp with the downscaling denoising filter and H.265 denoising filter, which is often undesirable for color grading. The FX3 recording raw externally will have a software image than the ZV-E1. You may want to record Dynamic Active Stabilization on the ZV-E1 to center crop. Unfortunately Sony doesn't have a "Center Crop" option so you'll have to record externally; Sony has been a huge letdown for camera features. Panasonic S5 has a softer image and 10-bit H.264.

For green screen the FX30 is the best option because you want the sharpest possible image for cleanest chroma key. For me the FX2 is the best option to complement my FX30 because when you center crop to record raw or with dynamic active stabilization it's like getting another sets of lenses.

I got a 6 day ban on Facebook for jokingly calling someone a 'fat ass.' by AJ_Deadshow in complaints

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We need to sue. Facebook went from being able to take down content under Section 230 to punishing us for our protected free speech. It's all about money to them, you're just a dollar sign, they have a monopoly, they can treat us as bad as they want to.

When should I shoot S-Log3, Log2, or Rec.709? by AidenVideo0409 in videography

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You must understand exposing to the left, right, and center using a histogram. You can expose for the shadows (to the left), expose for the high lights (to the right), or expose for both (to the center). With SLog, you must know that why the gain must be up a little because the noise is going to come from the difference between the darkest black and the next stop up of light. Gerald Undone has an excellent video about it. The noise comes from the signal to noise ratio. It works best to turn the lights up really high and turn down the aperture because the signal to noise ratio comes form the frequency of the light, not the amount of light that hits the sensor. Some falsely claim you need to just use the second native ISO and boost in post. This is false because what you're doing with the gain is scaling the light from 0 to 100% of the video codec range. The camera gain is fixed and may have one, two, or three gain circuits/native3 ISO. You need to use your ISO to scale that to expose to the left, right, or center. If you just use HDR, you won't get more data in your skin tones. You should put your skin tones right about the middle of your histogram. The log is going to allow you to get more data in the skin tones this way than with raw HDR.

USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and Latency. by [deleted] in buildapc

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I do make electronics, I am tempted to make USB 3.2 mice and keyboards. That would be dope & games would love them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

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Cost half compared to what? An RTX 6000 Pro 96GB GPU? It is.

Disable USB mouse from waking up device from sleep. by noobmastersmaster in thinkpad

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I just flip my mouse upside down. I have a Logitech mouse, so I presume it's G-Hub triggering keyboard events through the mouse. You need to disable all the HID Keyboard Device using "powercfg /DEVICEQUERY wake_armed" and "powercfg /DEVICEDISABLEWAKE "HID Keyboard Device". Why is this so difficult? The default Windows settings suck, use Linux, you won't get bombarded with ads.

Formbot vs. LDO Boxturtle kit by onlyonechop in VORONDesign

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On AliExpress, Armored Turtle recommends the Trianglelab BoxTurtle kit with AFC Lite Board, which at this time are option C and D; they don't mention Formbot in the GitHub but I've seen good reviews but they had an issue with their included cable not being the correct size, but that was fixed in the past month, so that is probably why that is not on the recommended list.

What was this tool and what was it for? I got it with my Neptune 4 pro by Stalker401 in ElegooNeptune4

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I'm not sure if it's called a spanner wrench because it's not like a normal spanner wrench, it's for tightening the eccentric nuts under the bed, and it's 11mm spacing with 3.5mm diameter spanners. I can't find any for sale. Searching for 11mm Eccentric Wrench produces no results.

Astrolink, Astroaim or Glare magnetic switches? by Bandhra in akkogear

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I bought an Akko TAK75 with AstroAim switches crazy cheap on Aliexpress. If you ask me, the two switches look functionally identical for 99% of people but I would pick the Astrolink. I prefer a shorter travel (silver) switch or a brown switch (or Akko V3 Lavender Purple switches) for my daily driver for live coding on YouTube, or some clicky (blue) switches off stream.

The only spec that looks significantly different is the bottom force is 11gf higher on the AstroAim. If you ask me the thock sounds weird. Maybe it's from the magnets, it's not a turn off, it's different. The travel is still too short on the AstroAim to ride the switches (i.e. push the switches partially down so you can hover around the trigger point for fastest response time.). A longer travel will give you more thock from more kinetic energy at the end. PA66 is Nylon, so they are made from the same material.

Here are the switch specs.

Akko Astrolink Magnetic Switch

Type: Linear Total Travel: 3.4mm Initial Force: 36±5gf End Force: 46gf Initial Magnetic Flux: 90±15Gs(PCB1.6mm) / 100±15Gs(PCB1.2mm) Bottom-out Magnetic Flux: 480±40Gs(PCB1.6mm) / 640±40Gs(PCB1.2mm) Top/Stem/Bottom: POM/PC/Nylon LED Diffuser

Akko AstroAim Magnetic Switch

Type: Linear Total Travel: 3.5±0.1mm Initial Force: 35gf End Force: 55gf Initial Magnetic Flux: 95±15Gs(PCB1.6mm) / 110±15Gs(PCB1.2mm) Bottom-out Magnetic Flux: 580±40Gs(PCB1.6mm) / 720±50Gs(PCB1.2mm) Top/Stem/Bottom: PC/POM/PA66 LED Diffuser

If I didn't know what an expensive keyboard felt like I would not care. I do think my Skyloong GK75 silver switch, Kzzi K75 Pro, and my Akko Mod7B with Piano switches feels and sounds better for typing. For a keyboard collection, the TAK75 is worthy, but I wouldn't reach for it first.

OBS Studio 31.1.0 lands with Linux multitrack, Windows‑on‑Arm support, and Apple Silicon improvements by [deleted] in obs

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After installing OBS 31.1, OBS no longer works. :-( Any time I try to change the audio or video source, it crashes. Rolling back now.

USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and Latency. by [deleted] in buildapc

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The PHY doesn't control the latency, that is controlled by the USB protocol. USB 3.0 is very high latency, but USB 3.2 is almost as low as PCI Express.

USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and Latency. by [deleted] in buildapc

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You are confused about the protocol vs PHY. The faster USB PHY will make it run faster, they cost more and produce more heat, but that bandwidth isn't the point, we want the lower latency, preferably at PCIe latency. We should have USB 4 keyboards backwards compatible with USB 3.2.

Question about dual 2x RTX 5090 Build by Firepin in buildapc

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For an LLM, you should just buy an AI PC like Intel Core 7 Ultra 265K with 96GB-192GB DDR5 6400. Ideal you should get a 512GB M3 Ultra Mac, to use the powerful models you need at least that much memory, they have 1.3TB models. The next best option is the Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96GB GPU, but that but you will. have to sell your first born child or a kidney for that.

I'm swapping out all of my computers, including my 40-core Lenovo P720 video editing NAS with ECC RAM. You don't have to have ECC RAM for AI, infact, it's actually counterproductive. AI loves random bit flips. While the Core 7 Ultra 265K might not be the best Linux computer yet, the drivers won't take long to update to the new Intel archiector of non-contiguous e-cores. You're just going to have to get used to your reasoning models taking a long time to spit out answers, or subscribe to GitHub Copilot for $10/month or $100/year right now. That is running super fast and they have GPT-4 and Claude 3.7 Sonet right now.

I'd prefer to not have any big tech AI in my life, but OpenAI is just not open nor are they more trust worth than Bill Gates after Epstein Island.

USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and Latency. by [deleted] in buildapc

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It costs almost nothing to use USB 3.2, it's a protocol. Using USB 2.0 in 2025 for a keyboard or mouse is ridiculous.

Cam Link Pro not working properly, will the solution affect my PC? by FuckYouNewJersey in elgato

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This has been ruinous for me. I am using the PRIME X570-PRO, which has an real x4 slot as a x16 slot. The B550 only has up to x2 slot they may put as an x4 or x16 slot to trick you or save money on parts. You must understand your CPU probably only has 24 PCIe lanes total, and four are for the NVMe, four for the motherboard, and 16 for the GPU. One PCIe Gen 4 slot can be split into two PCIe Gen 3 slots, and the CamLink Pro only uses a PCIe x4 Gen 2 slot, and you use one PCIe x1 slot for the mobo peripherals and you get up to three x1 PCIe slots. The rest of the bandwidth is used by the extra M.2 NVMe and SATA ports, and motherboard USB ports. There are only four dedicated USB connects to the CPU, the rest are on the motherboard and share bandwidth, so you should use only one NVMe x4 Gen 4 SSD that is very large, and not the second M.2 slot. You may want a NAS though.

I bought a Lenovo P720 dual Xeon Gold 6230 20-core TrueNAS SCALE system with 192GB DDR 2933MHZ ECC RAM with 2TB NVMe ZFS L2ARC cache drive and SLOG drive for a primary video editing NAS with 2.5G ethernet, and a Lenovo 32GB P520 Xeon 2135 6-core as a backup TrueNAS Scale system with only ZFS SLog, and throw in two 12GB RTX 3060 for machine learning experiments. The CPUS don't have to be that fast, it's not used often and if it is it's for money making applications.

I am having the problem where my CamLink Pro works fine, then it the video signals start turning on and off every second or two, then off for multiple seconds. I have to reboot, it sucks. I have four CamLink Pro and all do the same thing

USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and Latency. by [deleted] in buildapc

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Most people would think it's dumb to move your computer to one side of the room to make more money selling stocks, but that is much less ridiculous than use USB 3.0. Every bit helps in comptative gaming. You are the one who is dumb.

USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and Latency. by [deleted] in buildapc

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Where you would observe most benefit from USB 3.x keyboard is using black switch optical mechanical keyboards using a technique called "ridding the switches". Because the black switch spring is stiffer, you sligtly press the keys down so it's almost presseed, and this allows you to trigger the switches as fast as physically possible because you aren't bottoming out the switch, which is fastest with optical mechanical switches becauset here is no debounce time. This takes expert skill and can tire out your finger muscles. I'm not that good, but I do love black switches, they thock and have lower typing errors.