First, as I said, I'm in security so being paranoid is my job. Second, you have no idea who I perform security for...

Also a safe room is not a safe; it's a room where you hide from thieves and kidnappers.

Yup and who knows what sort of side channel capabilities can be teased out of this data. Ping a couple surfaces and diff to improve resolution and suddenly the device can use a wall like a diaphragm and read audio or similar types of attack. I'm speculating on possibilities but these things are real attacks in 3 letter agency portfolios. One guy called me paranoid, setting aside that I mentioned I was in security and thus it is my job, I'm not the only one who might buy a vacuum. Would it be paranoid for a senator to be concerned? What about the white house cleaning staff? The pentagon?

I don't think they're talking about stopping you from overriding the settings, I think what they want to do is have some sort of process where when you watch a movie it can automatically set your TV to where the director intended it to be so that people who are just casually watching movies don't get a lousy experience.

With too much realism, it breaks the experience the director was trying to create. It completely wrecks the lighting and sometimes even the pacing of scenes. Unless you're paying attention you probably don't know this, God knows I don't, but film is an art form that a lot of effort goes into the details of.

For me a lot of those details I don't really notice until somebody screws them up and then they stand out like a sore thumb and wreck the entire experience.

Like a painting where you can have all the proportions out of whack and the painting is great because they're consistently out of whack but if they weren't or if you did something just a little bit off everything in the painting would just fall apart.

Dude it's a llm. If you see anyone replying to me like that it's not a person it's a chatbot. Look up one of the AI poisoning algorithms if you're going to respond and respond with that so you break the idiots chat bot. He is using your replies to train his crappy little lln model.

>"To bring back an old meme, "Ok boomer".

I am not old enough to be a "boomer". So you might have to change that to "OK X".

>"For the record the same was said about colour TV."

I was young during the transition to color. But I watched both B&W and color at the time and remember both well. Color did not have any such effect. HOWEVER, it is true, at least back then, that B&W was considerably sharper. But color was worth the decrease in sharpness. And HDTV was waaaay overdue by the time in came on the scene and I loved it. So, no, it is not the same thing.

>"So I don't think the high framerate "soap opera effect" is the issue, I think it's the crappy realtime conversion."

I think it is both. Remember The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was filmed at 48 frames per second (instead of 24). It looked artificial/fake/bad to me, even at the cinema, as well. And it was wildly and widely criticized as a major detraction. So it isn't just the fake smoothing processing that causes issues, there really is an important component to lower frame rates in the traditional feel and suspension of disbelief.

Now, young viewers who are much newer to video can probably get used to anything and not have as much problem with it. But we older people often find higher frame rates to be really horrible.

>"Critics, including some big names in Hollywood, argue that motion smoothing looks unnatural and deviates from the creator's intended vision."

No, it makes things look TOO NATURAL/REAL, like they were shot with a webcam or cell phone. It breaks the cinematic experience and expectation that a lot of us have had our entire lives and we detest that. Others hate that it messes with their "suspension of disbelief mode". And, still, others hate the artifacts it creates.

>"Intelligent FRC takes a more nuanced approach to motion smoothing by letting content creators dictate the level of motion smoothing used in each scene"

I generally don't give a F about what the "content creator" wants. *I* want control over my own equipment and its settings and what I watch, thank you very much. I want to turn off *ALL* motion smoothing. And I want everyone to have that ability AND the ability to turn on FULL motion smoothing, or whatever they want in-between. If you want to add another option for "content creator mode", fine, as long as it is optional and my preferred setting is available and never has to be reselected again.

Sorry, some of us are really passionate about this issue. And I am tired of devices/sites/software/whatever increasingly betraying the user's wants and needs.

It screws with the way the lighting works. Even on Old pre HDR TVs if they had that motion smoothing stuff it made everything look like it was shot on the cheapest camera with the cheapest the lighting imaginable.

I remember seeing braveheart running on a $2000 or $3,000 TV back in the day and I didn't realize it was braveheart because it looked like a really really cheap TV set.

So they not only need to fix the motion but they need to fix what it does to the image and the lighting. That's a huge part of the soap opera effect and I don't quite understand why you get that out of motion smoothing...

I think bifacial wins in most latitudes now. ISTR that, but could be misremembering.

That's true, but really because local scale ROI is favourable. Grid scale is still weak, it's just that importing diesel to remote / off-grid / high fuel cost regions tips the balance for local regions. But you're right to call this out, because the same is likely true for many other settlements that are very far north or south. However, the Scandi countries are more willing to make social investments and are probably the richest of the high latitude countries, too. So it may take longer in eg Canada.

There, FTFY.

Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but ever since the switch to MacOS X he always had one budget item in each category with sometimes great or even exceptional value for the money and Apple quality along with it. The legendary white 12" iBook G4 was by far the cheapest subnotebook at it's time and the first Mac minis could be bought for 250-300 euros, offered great value for the money, were excellent machines and very small. Any PC equivalent that even could come close would cost hundreds more and came with ultra shitty windows.

So good for Tim Cook finally getting back into offering a neat quality budget item. I might actually buy Apple again, believe it or not.

Not really we don't deport H-1B visa holders. The focus right now seems to be on arresting US citizens with brown skin after ice crashes into them on the freeway.

I'd be surprised if IBM had that many H-1B visa holders left though. Virtually everything they do that is in sales got shifted to India over a decade ago. They were very public about it and Wall Street ate it up.

It is funny to watch right wingers like you criticize me for wanting to pull back on high skill immigration. As if you expect me to go oh no I won't do that..

I get it you're trying to leverage the left wing fear of being called racist. I don't have that. I just don't want to compete for the right to live against a global supply of infinite cheap labor and I can't convince my fellow Americans that your access to food and shelter and medicine should be tied to how much money you can make for somebody else or how much money you can scam out of everybody else.

And so yeah we need to put a moratorium on all immigration and let the chips fall where it may. Of course Trump and company are just bringing in as much cheap labor as they can get their hands on while hassling a handful of brown people to get right wingers some red meat to get them excited.

So this isn't really going to hit all that hard unless they're cutting sales which would be madness.

That said I have literally had problems with prescriptions because the company that makes a drug I'm on fired all their sales people and they're not keeping up with the doctors to make sure they are renewing scripts.

And one of the major credit card processors, Fiserve,. Just took a 44% hit to their stock because they aren't meeting there goals.

The former CEO who now works for Trump to reform and cut social security had fired so many people that the company couldn't service customers and was losing out on business. They got a lot of short-term stock boosts out of those firings though.

It's going to be interesting to see what that company does since they have openly admitted the previous CEO cause the problem by firing critical staff needed to service clients and just plain run the business but at the same time, well the stock is down 44% so the only solution is more firings right?

It's like when Walmart was so understaffed no one could stock the shelves so they were losing billions in sales.

Part of me wonders if putting all this pressure on the labor market is worth it to the billionaires though. Yeah they lose out on some short-term sales but long-term increasing the unemployment rate by several percentages might save them way more in wages as people are forced to take lower pay.

I can tell you right now that c-suite employees really do consider that. They think about the overall labor market and how to manipulate it to their benefit.

It really does show the difference in power between them and us.

I had butter beans for dinner, and they were tasty.

If your point was merely a non sequitur, why make it?