I never saw it in 3D, so that is actually amazing. They’re showing it in the massive ballroom of an old 1950s cinema here and I’ll definitely watch it, because I love the atmosphere. 🥰 (it has a balcony and those classic red seats!)

LLM is an excellent tool to increase your study efficiency. If…

…it’s not constantly making up shit and presenting it as facts, you mean. Right?

They also randomly delete albums and state increased playcount by AI as the reason for removal, and they also allow random dudes publishing remixes on your own artist profile, because there are no checks in place. You can just fill out the artist name in a text field and publish a song:

The artist KARRA recently made a video about it which went viral.
(She also made this meme release up top to prove how broken the system is.)

So fuck Spotify in every way you can. They don’t deserve the money, since they’re clearly doing nothing for the artists with it.

A Thinkpad Compact Keyboard II. It’s really nice to type on. Only the stock feet are trash and break easily, but there are a lot of people 3D-printing more durable replacements.

[Everyone liked that.]

(except the pro AI trolls, but they’re up for a rude awakening anyways)

Absolutely! I was forced to work on a Mac with a Magic mouse at my first job. There was no place for my fingers to rest comfortably. I had to hover them above the mouse or otherwise the thing would always detect inputs I didn’t want.

Combined with its minimal height, it gave me quite a lot of pain. I don’t know how people can work with this atrocity.

The charging is a meme at this point, it’s really absurd. Thank god I don’t work for a boss who’s an Apple cultist anymore.

I use a keyboard with an inbuilt trackpoint. I never have to move my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, it’s really amazing.

The worst input method is definitely a touchscreen, directly followed by Apple’s magic mouse and touchpads.

Of all movies out there to get a sequel/remake, I did not have this 80’s boobfest on my list of possible candidates. 😝 (I really enjoyed the second movie, though. Maybe they can pull it off and it’ll actually be good.)

The girl who plays Eleven looks like she’s 50 now

That’s what being Drake’s friend at the age of 14 (when he was 33) will do to you.

“You know we text – we just texted each other the other day and he was like “I miss you so much” and I was like “I miss you more”. He’s coming to Atlanta, so I’m definitely gonna go and see him and I’m so excited.”

Seven years later, and it’s still disgustæng.

So I badgerbadgerbadgerbadger which was the mushroom mushroom at the time.

Google has been been cracking down on installing .apk’s on your phone for years and they’re getting more and more aggressive about it. It’s not a question of if they’ll disallow it completely, but when.

It’s already extremely tedious. Back in the Android 2.3 days (oh, good old Gingerbread) you could just get an APK and install it, but those times are long gone.

Years ago they threatened the developer of Total Commander to remove his app from the PlayStore unless he patched out an APK install feature, so he was forced to do that.

Now another example: Try to install eBay on a phone that is not passing device integrity. It is not listed on the PlayStore because your device doesn’t pass safety checks. You can grab an APK and install it, but the OS will check if the app has been installed through the PlayStore and if it hasn’t, it will complain and close itself.

GrapheneOS has patched that bullshit out, btw.

And this behaviour happens with all apps where the developer has enabled the “App Integrity” option, which is heavily pushed as a super-great security feature. So developers might just enable that feature, not being fully aware of the implications.

As you can see, it’s one method at a time, slowly but surely, until Google fully controls the ecosystem. The intention behind that is pretty clear: They don’t want people to have AdAway and Revanced, they want money and user data. And they also want you to login to the PlayStore, get hooked on their stupid daily points challenges and spend your hard-earned money on virtual crap.

This is textbook enshittification, it will only get worse from here on.

Land of the free!*

*excluding free healthcare

That sounds more like your drive not being supported by LibreDrive. OP talked about expired beta keys, which is a current problem with makemkv.

Yes.

Regards,
The Movie Industry

I gave in and bought makemkv yesterday. It just works.

There isn’t a CFW for PS4. But what we have is GoldHEN (which enables us to run decrypted games, also called fPKG’s) and various methods to run GoldHEN.

Up to firmware 9.00 (I believe) there is a browser exploit to run it, up to 11.00 you can also hack the console via PPP (pppwn) and up to 12.02 GoldHEN can be loaded with a BluRay you have burned before.

So you basically start the system and put it in a state where it accepts unsigned code. It’s very similar to PS3HEN. There’s also a method of hacking the console with some obscure Japanese games and one with a PS2 game. Some absolute madlads even made it possible to hack the PS4 with an LG Smart TV. 😆

The channel MODDED WARFARE always reports on those methods and makes tutorials, highly recommended.

Well…looks like my employer will have to buy me a Macbook soon.

there’s not a lot that non-Apple users can do with them

Oh, there is.
I am a web developer and I use this to run Safari and the iOS simulator without paying Apple’s “debugging tax”.

And a PS4 BluRay exploit has just been released, so you can crack the whole thing by burning a BluRay (up to a certain software version).

Lots of legitimately obtained backup copies to play!

And depending on how OpenAI tweaked it this time it will either realize its mistake after being made aware of it or double down even harder on it.

I only use it for coding and it once told me my code not working was due to a bug in Webkit, so I asked it which bug specifically. It created links to bug reports but rewrote the titles of them. So initially it looked like it had numerous sources that backed up its statement but when I clicked on them those were bugs about totally different things.

It would not back down even after I specifically told it “You just made all of this shit up and even rewrote the titles” and got stuck in a loop of “I’m sorry, but you’re wrong and I am 100% sure I haven’t made a mistake”.

Kinda creepy. Especially when you think about the system rewriting reality when it comes to much more important things. Let’s just reinvent some history, that would be a good idea, right?