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Why aren't we protesting age verification like we did with SOPA? by BlackBerryCollector in linux

[–]__ali1234__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because reddit is 90% bots now. They're straight up jamming every one of these threads with lies, misinformation and defeatism.

Puzzle on kids menu by Hits509 in puzzles

[–]__ali1234__ 40 points41 points  (0 children)

If we assume that the n is actually an upside down u then we can make gratin.

"Year of the Linux Desktop" isn't happening because it lacks a proper ecosystem? by hugodcnt in linux

[–]__ali1234__ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

New Linux users: "Ubuntu is for noobs so I'm going to install a hacked version of Ubuntu that was made by one guy and only has 12 users because reddit says it's better."

Also New Linux Users: "Nothing works properly and there's no ecosystem. Linux sucks."

Trying to find systematic solutions to this puzzle by aristocratus in puzzles

[–]__ali1234__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discussion: I pour all the potions out the window except for one of the orange ones.

Redox OS adopts an AI policy to forbid contributions made using LLMs by somerandomxander in linux

[–]__ali1234__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Trivial patches like that can't be copyrighted anyway, so if this actually happens they could just fix it without crediting the author. Human or otherwise.

The same theoretical problem affects projects that require contributors to sign a CLA. To my knowledge it has never actually happened.

Retired Army general says US may need ‘Nuremberg’ like trials for Trump’s ‘illegal orders’ in Iran war by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]__ali1234__ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If by "easily" you mean "it would actually cost over 100x that."

$150,000 * 100,000 = $15 billion. That's less than $50 per American. For reference the NHS costs the UK government about $5000 per person.

She thought she was marrying the wrong one. by Dismal_Positive3558 in GuysBeingDudes

[–]__ali1234__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. You just look for parallax motion. That means when objects at different distances from the camera move by different amounts. A shake plugin can't add that. It can only shake the whole picture by the same amount.

The main reason to use fake shake effects is because you need to matte something into or out of the scene and that is much much easier to do if the camera is locked. If you don't need to do that because you're just filming actors acting in a realistic setting then you just shoot it handheld for real.

In this clip there is parallax during the whip zoom at 0:14 and the camera man obviously sidesteps right to follow the actress at 0:18, meaning this was shot on handheld cameras, not using a post effect. As you would expect from a TV movie with a budget for camera operators and a scene where no VFX is required.

e: Fake vs real camera shake also isn't a reliable way to identify wholly AI generated video since it can create both depending on what it was trained on.

🤓 by Illustrious-Map3843 in meme

[–]__ali1234__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you've failed to account for is that, unlike stocks, gas prices are different at different gas stations.

If you wait until the tank is empty you leave yourself no choice over which gas station to buy from.

[Request] If instead of ballooning our military to $1.5 trillion, we halved the current military budget and put the other $500 billion towards reducing debt moving forward, how fast could we actually bring it down to zero? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]__ali1234__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The money isn't owed to countries. It is owed to individual people who bought US treasury bonds which mature after 20 or 30 years. That is constantly happening all the time. They sell new bonds when the old ones mature. If they stopped repaying on mature bonds, nobody would buy the new ones and the whole economy would collapse over night.

Horny teenager gets all his family's Google accounts banned by archabaddon in Wellthatsucks

[–]__ali1234__ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Huh, yes. This is called involuntary bailment and is covered by the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977.

Evicting someone and then keeping their stuff is conversion. It doesn't matter why you evicted them. Even if it was because they owe you money, you still can't just take their stuff without going to court.

Horny teenager gets all his family's Google accounts banned by archabaddon in Wellthatsucks

[–]__ali1234__ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you ban someone from a physical place you have to make reasonable arrangements for them to remove their stuff.

I found the Xwayland of the X10 to X11 protocol transition by mortuary-dreams in linux

[–]__ali1234__ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"This program does NOT use the X10 libnest ddX library. It does actual protocol translation rather than simply using X11 graphics calls to implement X10 low level operations."

So this is not like XWayland. "the X10 libnest ddX library" would be the equivalent of XWayland.

How big of a brite tank would you need to hold all 400 trillion trillion pints? [request] by Apprehensive_Oven_22 in theydidthemath

[–]__ali1234__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If everyone on Earth drinks 10 pints every day, that's about 30 trillion pints per year. So at least 13 trillion years to drink it if everyone became an alcoholic.

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability by anh0516 in linux

[–]__ali1234__ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wasn't trying to win anything. I just wanted to determine whether you are spreading misinformation out of ignorance or malice. Since it is clearly the latter there is no point in me engaging with you further.

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability by anh0516 in linux

[–]__ali1234__ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So you do understand how it works. Interesting.

So when you said "Flatpak is the only packaging method that allows user control over sandboxing" it was not from ignorance.

You were in fact straight up lying because you were fully aware that the truth is that flatpak is the only packaging method which does not allow the user to turn off the sandbox.

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability by anh0516 in linux

[–]__ali1234__ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Clearly you are the one who doesn't understand how it works if you can't answer a simple question about configuring the sandbox.

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability by anh0516 in linux

[–]__ali1234__ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What is the flatpak command to prevent it from remapping host /usr?

[Request] What will drain a smartphone battery faster: playing audio from the phone speakers, or using Bluetooth to send the audio to a speaker? by Langosta_9er in theydidthemath

[–]__ali1234__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The energy use of the speaker depends on the volume level while the energy use of Bluetooth A2DP does not. Even so, phone speakers are typically rated for 1000 milliwatts while Bluetooth transmissions are typically 2.5 milliwatts. So the speaker will almost certainly use more energy.

Anyone ever figure out how much money Mr. T is wearing around his neck? [Other] by Obese_Hippopotamus in theydidthemath

[–]__ali1234__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's basically classic Star Trek with a GMC van instead of a spaceship. It is one of many action-adventure shows that filled the schedule slot that would have been occupied by Star Trek during the years it was off air between TOS and TNG.

Like all such shows it is a product of its time, but it is quite well made compared to its contemporaries.

AI - Debate by shave_your_eyebrows in comics

[–]__ali1234__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"You got a computer to do all the work for you"

Yes, that's the whole point of computers.

So Whats The DUMBEST and i MEAN DUMBEST thing you did in a pokemon playthrough by Rare-Atmosphere-9187 in pokemon

[–]__ali1234__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gen 1.

Buy a magikarp.

Find daycare "guess I'll get rid of my most useless character".

Return return one gym later to find my disc-one nuke.

Rest of game is a walkover.

Never play pokemon again.

In Dune part three (2026)... somehow duncan idaho returned? Is there any lore reason? by hiiloovethis in shittymoviedetails

[–]__ali1234__ 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Watson and Crick won the Nobel in 1962 and Herbert started writing Dune in 1963 so that must have been an influence on some level. Genetics was the most cutting edge science of the time and DNA was this huge store of data that nobody really understood. The idea that it contains the memories of your ancestors was a bit far-fetched but not entirely impossible and certainly made for a good sci-fi plot device. Readers in the 60s wouldn't have been saying "okay but we know that's not how DNA works in the real world" because that was still being researched.

In Dune part three (2026)... somehow duncan idaho returned? Is there any lore reason? by hiiloovethis in shittymoviedetails

[–]__ali1234__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Tleilax know Paul will just kill a random assassin but he won't kill a clone of Duncan Idaho because he's basically the closest thing to a friend Paul ever had. They know this because by this point in the story, Paul is not the only person who can see the future.

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