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9point6

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  • Meta thrown off key global clean energy scheme over gas spree

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  • A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

    Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year's revenue, not profit.

    You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

    For scale: Elon Musk's XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That's double the carbon output of the UK

  • Uncle Bob becoming even worse:

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  • Bob is a shithead

  • Auth apps

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  • Authentik is great, super versatile, if not a bit of effort to get it set up initially

  • The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin

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  • Same yeah, I've even got jellyfin set up in parallel in case Plex ever goes to shit, I still end up going for Plex 99% of the time currently

    I completely understand anyone that doesn't want to buy into it today, but the $75 I spent a decade and a half ago has been pretty good value for me

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • Lol the keywords list is hilarious, imagine publishing a list of things that rustle your jimmies.

  • Needs some cobwebs to hide the plastic appearance

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  • Has no one introduced you guys to the concept of the corner cupboard?

  • PSA WordPress Core had Critical Vulnerability. Patch released on Friday. Immediately update

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  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • Holy shit have they finally updated it?

    They had Guardian as mixed factuality for years

    Unless they've completely overhauled all their rankings though, I expect a lot of the more subtle biases will still be present

    Edit: from a year ago https://web.archive.org/web/20250816111509/https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/

    And it had been like that for a number of years (I don't make a habit of checking it regularly given my distrust of it)

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • Lmao just read the readme of the project and got all the red flags I need

    Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) Integration

    I can forgive someone with a passing exposure to it not knowing, but MBFC is notorious for having biased rankings.

    The regular example I use is the Guardian being placed on the same factuality ranking as breitbart (the nazi rag), but it's not one case, there's a general right-wing bias in the rankings.

    The developer of this project is very clearly just trying to put their finger on the views of their users

  • Horse Drawn from Memory [Elder Cactus]

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  • Okay go

    Here I was thinking they should have made it look crappier

  • I think we can all agree...

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  • FWIW the international broadcasts did the same, I think it was a single feed to all syndicates

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    New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

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  • Guy tried to do the right wing grift and didn't realise you need to target the people who already don't have much, the people who do have money for this kind of thing are the grifters who don't fall for the scams because they run them.

  • 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture

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  • How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

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  • Become?

  • Volume

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  • Honestly you shouldn't need to break the bank at all to be better than the built in speakers in most cases. I don't want to say definitively because I'm sure there's some basically scam products out there, but pretty much any sound bar will be an upgrade in 99% of cases.

    A quick search shows a number of well known brands with offerings under £100, and one from a company I don't recognise that apparently seems to have a number of positive reviews and available for £40

    You'll obviously get a further improvement if you go above the budget level, but that's definitely not to say you can't get a decent improvement over not having one at all.

  • Volume

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  • TBF this always ends up with a lot of misplaced blame on the consumer

    TV manufacturers decided/figured out long ago that Joe public cares more about a screen being thin, at time of purchase, than it having any semblance of audio quality. And they assume anyone who cares about audio will buy a set of speakers or (increasingly) a sound bar anyway, so they just need the bare minimum included.

    This has gotten to the absurd point now where the speakers included in your average TV aren't much better than a particularly loud phone speaker.

    It's basically impossible to get something that sounds even audible on those speakers, without doing what adverts do and compressing the shit out of the signal, which has the bonus of sounding loud and bad for everyone, there's no bringing the detail back that was squashed out. Movie studios aren't going to mix a movie that sounds bad on a system designed remotely properly (e.g. a cinema or reviewer's TV), so we're in the current situation.

    The unfortunate situation today is you basically need some kind of separate speaker(s) with a TV because the manufacturers all have cheaped out across the board and don't include anything good enough any more. The consumer shouldn't be expected to know this and have to pay extra, the TV should come with speakers capable of producing audio properly.

  • [Mr. Lovenstein] Moon

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  • Focal length motherfucker, do you choose it?

    If you don't, you're letting your focal length choose your photos

  • George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’

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  • It's not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I'd make a salad

  • George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’

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  • Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

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