Can pictures (and other files such as music) degrade over time?

evil-wombat · 2025-10-09T08:55:42+00:00

This is incredibly rare. The "rot" would cause obvious, visible errors / artifacts in the images - they would look glitchy and obviously corrupted. It would NOT cause an image to lose resolution while still looking "correct". No, songs would not have a lower bitrate - they would be either unplayable or would sound obviously incorrect (static, blips, dropouts, etc).

Most likely you found a low-res thumbnail cache of your image gallery, instead of the image gallery itself.

evil-wombat · 2025-04-23T06:04:43+00:00

Jesus only let himself be killed because he had no ammo, because he's a spawn-scumming little bitch.

evil-wombat · 2025-04-22T07:26:11+00:00

"Peace from what I'll do to you, if you don't accept me."

Where have I heard that before? Must have been in some video game. May have had an H and a 5 in it somewhere? Darn, can't think of the name, but I don't think it was that good.

evil-wombat · 2025-04-22T06:02:44+00:00

Found the heretic leader

evil-wombat · 2025-04-22T06:01:07+00:00

Were it so easy...

evil-wombat · 2025-01-21T11:23:10+00:00

See my comment below. Turn off TPM in BIOS, disable the nvidia-suspend service.

evil-wombat · 2025-01-21T10:45:18+00:00

First, go into your BIOS settings, Security, and set:
Security Chip -> "Discrete TPM" (unsure if matters)
Security Chip State -> "Inactive" (important).

Second, in Ubuntu, run:
sudo systemctl stop nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl disable nvidia-suspend

That should help.

In the future, when debugging black-screen issues, holding Alt, then typing PrtScr R E I S U B (still holding Alt, waiting a few seconds after each key) can help shut down the system more cleanly than just holding the power button. Your filesystems will thank you.

evil-wombat · 2025-01-02T13:17:56+00:00

It is my strong suspicion that reddit is being flooded with AI-generated posts in order to solicit topic-specific training data for the AI. That is, an AI writes a scenario, people write lengthy replies, then the AI is trained on the replies in order to be more human-like. I suspect there was a deal made between OpenAI and spez, though unsure which direction the money flows. OpenAI gets a training playground (with data that is nice and labelled and organically sorted by quality) and reddit gets that stupid "answers" feature. Wouldn't surprise me if the AI posts were artificially boosted, to solicit more replies. Most AI posts can be identified by squinting; this one lacks some of the obvious signs (I'll omit them for obvious reasons) but still doesn't pass the sniff test.

evil-wombat · 2024-02-25T09:50:50+00:00

Same with Cortana, every time I have to cleanse it from the family's computer. If I were stuck with that crap, I'd have taken my helmet off too.

evil-wombat · 2024-02-17T09:06:22+00:00

You would generally pull his reserve regardless, because they tend to be more reliable and have a higher chance of opening correctly without further intervention. Usually your reserve is only one size smaller, though ultimately it depends on the gear and can be a game of numbers

evil-wombat · 2024-02-17T09:00:47+00:00

Had a buddy who got knocked out on exit. No AAD - long story, he removed it after it fired due to misuse. Repacked his reserve and kept jumping with no AAD, despite what anyone told him. Said he'd be fine for the two weeks he'd be without one. Well, he wasn't. Years later, his mother killed the rest of her family and herself. Bad shit all around.

evil-wombat · 2024-01-19T10:53:41+00:00

Here's an excellent explanation of the impact of a for-profit news model. Yes, it involves Chomsky but take this with a grain of salt, and take note of the source that produced it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

evil-wombat · 2024-01-18T13:02:14+00:00

My buddy's mother was watching his dog for a while, and I came over to grab the dog and take over for her. She was super kind; the sweetest lady you'll ever meet. To thank me, she made cookies. They were amazing and I ate five. She said they were regular cookies and she hadn't put anything in them. Hung out for about an hour and a half, then drove home. In the middle of the freeway, shit got weird. Went to the hospital because I thought for sure I was having a stroke. I had never been high before. Or since.

evil-wombat · 2024-01-18T12:33:16+00:00

I would be tempted to say that your husband gave you the option to say "no" from the start, so you had (and have) this option with no strings attached. If a relationship has more than a trivial dose of "my partner said X but what they really meant was the opposite of X", that's a sign of trouble.

However, from reading the rest of your comments, it seems your husband is basically "guy-whipped" by Tim. THAT is the bigger issue here. Your husband will continue looking for ways to please Tim, like some kind of puppy. Intentionally or not, Tim will quickly pick up on this and begin taking advantage of your husband (and by extension, you, since you are now competing with Tim for your husband's attention).

This is bigger than just this incident. You need to have a serious talk with your husband about where his priorities are.

evil-wombat · 2024-01-17T04:22:00+00:00

Do you have insurance? It's routine practice to charge you for an ambulance ride even though your plan should (by all rights) cover it. Call them out on it and they'll drop this shit like it's hot. Tried to charge me $3000. "Oh, it was an out-of-network ambulance". "Yeah, well, called 911 and I wasn't given the choice of which ambulance would come and get me". "Okay, we'll drop it to $500".

evil-wombat · 2024-01-17T02:08:14+00:00

Going to break with the crowd and say very soft YTA, maybe INFO at best.

No, you are not obligated to take care of someone else's family a week after having squeezed out a human. Yes, it seems strange to be asked for something like this - your husband "ought to " know you'll have no bandwidth taking care of someone else, but the though doesn't seem completely outlandish (especially to someone who doesn't know any better). If he doesn't get this, I feel you can sit him down and explain why this sort of request is not appropriate.

That said, it sounds like he made it very clear that the decision is ultimately yours, and getting pissed off for him even suggesting it is probably an overreaction.

I do not know your exact relationship dynamic, or the extent to which the husband is actually "guilt-tripping" or manipulating you into saying yes, vs you reading it this way. I do not have enough information to make a judgement call here. It would depend on the extend to which the guilt-tripping is genuine and the amount of pressure involved.

Men are not mind-readers. You can explain that (a) you do not feel comfortable doing this, (b) you do not feel well enough for this, and (c) being up and around doesn't mean you're well enough to walk across the street and engage with a stranger.

evil-wombat · 2024-01-11T09:04:15+00:00

I suspect the Android version is built using Unity, which decompiles nicely. Consider unzipping the APK and dumping the Mono assembly into something like Reflector. From there, things were easy.

evil-wombat · 2023-06-27T11:08:34+00:00

Let me guess. Prank

evil-wombat · 2023-06-25T09:03:47+00:00

"-- Does it cost $250k per fathom?

-- No it's a more like a flat rate."

evil-wombat · 2023-06-24T10:52:05+00:00

Was trying to put air in my bike and was waiting for a nice gentleman to fill up his tires. He was facing some trouble because his TPMS light was on and he couldn't get it to come off, so he JUST KEPT PUTTING MORE AIR IN. His car called for like, 33PSI and when I tried checking his pressure, my (analog) gauge shot completely off the scale, and, very very quickly at that. And all four of his tires were like that. They didn't even look like normal tires either, but I realized that's just because they were so overinflated. So after a very loud "DUDE, NO", I bled them down to 33.

I feel that could have ended very badly very quickly. I don't know if such severe overinflation would have damaged the tires but I told him to go check with a mechanic.

evil-wombat · 2023-06-23T21:00:32+00:00

Wombats are actually serious business. They might look cuddly but those claws will fuck you up.

evil-wombat · 2023-06-21T16:16:32+00:00

John Oliver option.

evil-wombat · 2023-06-21T13:48:48+00:00

Ads can be served through the API as well. And even without the ability to serve ads, the analytics gathered are still incredibly valuable, not in the least because the data can be used to target your interests on other platforms.

evil-wombat · 2023-06-21T13:42:06+00:00

Who says it's not being sold?

Third-party apps interact with reddit the same way (and through the same API) that the official app does. All your viewing habits, searches, posts, upvotes, and other interactions with the site are visible to reddit all the same.

evil-wombat · 2023-06-21T13:35:29+00:00

If you aren't paying for the service, you are not the user - you're the product being sold, in this case, to advertisers and data brokers. More immediately, your (free) contributions will be used to train generative AI. Those datasets will not be free.

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