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Comment Re:F. Youtube (Score 2, Insightful) 204

There are some extremely informative channels you just have to find them due to Sturgeon's Law. Here are some of the better ones:

* Documentary: MagnatesMedia
* GameDev: Sebastian Lague
* GameDev: SimonDev
* GameDev: RandyPrime
* Hardware Reviews: GamersNexus
* Hardware Reviews: Hardware Unboxed
* Math: 3Blue1Brown
* Math: Numberphile
* Music, Rock History: Professor of Rock
* Motorcycles: FortNine
* Social Commentary: UpperEchelon
* Social Commentary: ColdFusion

Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 117

Found the lazy/shitty programmer that couldn't be bothered to add a trivial additional check for tabs. /s

const char* Text_SkipWhiteSpace (const char *text)
{
    while (text && ((*text == ' ') || (*text == '\n') || (*text == '\r') || (*text == '\t')))
    {
        text++;
    }
    return text;
}

This isn't fucking rocket science but basic 101 Computer Science.

Comment Re:When I was a kid (Score 1) 120

> no home theater setup on the planet that can come close to the picture sound quality of a good digital cinema setup

For video a good home theater setup is MORE than "good enough" especially with OLED and true blacks. I also GREATLY prefer my plasma to film but YMMV.

Let me know when I can:

* adjust brightness / contrast,
* control the volume,
* adjust treble/base,
* adjust an individual channel's loudness, or
* turn on/off CC

when at the movies because for every 1 advantage the cinema has the home theater has 5x.

The movie starts when *I* want it to and I don't have to sit through 20+ mins of shitty ads.

Lastly I can eat and drink whatever I want AND without being price gouged an arm and a leg.

Theaters used to be a social experience but with the time and money alone you waste commuting they archaic. Whatever advantages they used to have are long gone.

Comment Re:And there's the little footnote (Score 3, Insightful) 212

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater much?

(Almost) all religions at the core teach forgiveness, compassion, and how to connect to the our innate divinity.

Beliefs aren't the problem, it is the actions of immature people that is. The sooner your stop judging others the more happier you'll be.

Comment Re:I guess the people have spoken (Score 1) 215

What pisses me off is shit like Star Trash: Disaster aka Discovery (STD) gets 5 seasons yet good Sci-Fi like The Orville, which is the proper spiritual successor to ST:TNG, struggles to get a Season 4.

Star Tard: Retard aka Picard was utter crap the first 2 seasons. How this crap got made boggles the mind.

Comment Re:So (Score 1) 82

> Intel still holds the top of the x86 cpu market.

LOL. Found the User Benchmark shill. /s

AMD: HEDT called. They want their Intel propaganda back.

Intel hasn't been top of the x86 market since the 50% price gouging/drop of the i9-10980XE from the previous i9-9900K when Ryzen and Threadripper started eating Intel for lunch in 2017. Even shill site User Benchmark is blind to how faster Ryzen is when they changed their multithreading scoring algorithm because AMD's Ryzen 3000 was making Intel look incompetent.

For gaming some games show i9-1900K to be faster while others show the Ryzen 7 7800X3D to be FAR faster.

For apps Blender is fastest on the 7950X than the 14900K in Blender. In general benchmarks AMD and Intel trade blows. For compiling Threadrippers kicks the 14900K to the curb.

Workload matters. It is imperative one does their own benchmarks because modern CPUs are extremely sensitive to throughput, latency, and cache usage.

Intel literally held gaming back a decade with quad-core before AMD made "Cores for Cheap" their unofficial slogan.

Submission + - SPAM: Stop killing games

sanf780 writes: Ross Scott, from the YouTube channel Accursed Farms, is championing a self described amateurish international effort called Stop Killing Games. The mission is explained as:

An increasing number of videogames are sold as goods, but designed to be completely unplayable for everyone as soon as support ends. The legality of this practice is untested worldwide, and many governments do not have clear laws regarding these actions. It is our goal to have authorities examine this behaviour and hopefully end it, as it is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media.

The website describes the best identified paths that you can contribute with, including exact procedures on how to contribute. As an example, Ross is using the videogame The Crew, published by Ubisoft, selling over ten million units. Ubisoft announced on December 2023 that the game is being rendered unusable on March 31st 2024. No effort has been made by the publisher to allow owners of the game to play the game.

There are some game developers that show that games may be preserved, as described in Eurogamer article Live service devs should make a private hosted version of your game when projects are shut down. These developers are the rarity these days.

Link to Original Source

Submission + - When Booking.com becomes Booking.Scam

benrothke writes: I shared a story of research by Elad Damari from Perception Point about attacks against Booking.com.
I then discovered that there’s an entire industry of Booking.com scammers who are exploiting people needing help. These victims will have their bank accounts drained afterward. With no recourse from law enforcement.
https://brothke.medium.com/whe...

Submission + - FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts (reason.com) 1

schwit1 writes: The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.

Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.

Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.

"Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.

"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.

"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."

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