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  • DVD is limited to a 4GB size, bluray bumps that to 40/80GB which allows for virtually full quality media*.

    Of course your local library might not have the film/show you want or the bluray is prohibitaly expensive or not even available in your region, in which case the arrrrrr stack of software can get you what you need automagically.

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    Only theaters (and people willing to drop several hundred dollars) get access to the 300GB+ uncompressed movie data DCP, so a 70GB 4K bluray rip (H.265 with Dolby Vision) is indistinguishable unless you put it on a theater sized projector and painstakingly look for differences in quality.

    TV Shows however don’t get streamed in such high quality (and definitely not broadcast), so the bluray is the definitive top quality version of the media, and you can tell the difference in quality from a stream rip vs a bluray rip. The uncompressed version is a project file sitting on the studio’s server that you will never see or practically need (unless it gets shown in theater in which case the studio may opt to make a DCP).

    I’m pretty sure there is some insane group out there that torrents DCPs but I’ve never seen them lol.





  • About time this hit enterprise.

    Been saying the downfall of OpenAI and Anthropic will be local models that can accomplish the same thing without needing a dstacenter worth of GPUs to run.

    Plus you have no total token limit on self hosted models. You can let a slop agent run for weeks without ballooning costs or getting rate limited.

    And no model censoring, so you can go build that nuclear bomb you always wanted lol.

    Both AI giants are already losing a ton of money because their pricing isn’t viable for the amount of training they’re doing trying to be on top. If they readjust, they’re gonna suffocate against much cheaper solutions.



  • There was a post recently asking about doing hibernate with secure boot + LUKS + TPM on Fedora and it is actually possible and still pretty well supported, but it does mean you have to go through the lengthy setup yourself.

    The one real modification you need is to use a kernel patch that sets a flag that allows hibernation images to be loaded in lockdown mode since using LUKS effectively mitigates the issue of image tampering.

    Tbh I think its been long overdue as a returning feature because Linux has certainly grown a ton in the Laptop space where the battery save is a huge difference in sleep vs hibernate.





  • vLLM to host and openwebui for a frontend that I really only use to demo models to friends.

    harness

    Opencode running with full access inside a rootless podman container with only the directories I want mounted (usually a single project, sometimes read only).

    So far though, I’ve only used it to document and report on project repos because Qwen is not that good at actually coding (although it can give pretty decent conf file examples, but not always optimal).

    Also useful for parsing pita data dump type files that I’m too lazy to construct multiline awk commands for.


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•The old ways
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    23 days ago

    The funniest part is I’ve gotten better answers from duckeuckgo and Bing’s AI back in the day because they both didn’t treat reddit as a reputable source of info lmao.

    Dunno how the scene is now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if its the same.



  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•A spectacle for fools
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    27 days ago

    There’s a reason why soviet era technology was infamous for its use of plywood stalinium.

    There’s also a reason why post industrial american technology is infamous for its use of chinesium totally legit made in USA stickers.

    People are gonna hate this answer but the best products are made in a properly competitive market.

    The USSR had state owned OEMS that ultimately relied on deals with foreign manufacturers to jump start their success significantly later than their international counterparts.

    The big 3 US OEMs lobbied congress to block foreign imports to protect their inferior product in the home market (multiple times, notably against Japan and recently China).


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Movie details
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    29 days ago

    Haha I remember watching independence day for the first time and thinking “oh damn they’re gonna infect the aliens with a disease” and then Jeff goes “computer virus” before tapping away with his laptop.

    tbf though I consider that movie the king of blockbusters for the absolute massive list of wacky tacky bs that occurs pretty much the entire runtime of the film lol.


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    I don’t know why people forget even the first moon missions had a quarentine trailer/chamber used by the astronauts for this exact reason.

    They were pretty sure they weren’t gonna find microbial life on the moon but they sure as hell weren’t gonna take the risk in case there actually was.


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    Whenever evil antagonist broadcasts his evil message on every major advertisement screen and TV in the world (and PC/mobile device), with full audio.

    stupid rant
    1. Ad screens don’t have speakers you dolt

    2. No one in times square looks at the ad acreens except the tourists when taking a picture

    3. Not all ad screens can handle a live stream connection and you’d need to hack into each one to play your message.

    4. It is literally impossible for everyone to be conveniently watching the TV at the same time as everyone else across the globe

    5. Overriding every TV broadcast channel with your message requires an RF array an order of magnitude more powerful than Russia’s massive Murmansk-BN electronic warfare system.

    6. No one watches broadcast TV anymore in most developed countries

    7. The internet cannot handle a simultaneous stream of video to every digital device in the world without the use of multicast or broadcast, which means evil antangonist is either rolling in with hacking the entire internet backbone to enable multicast traffic or magically broadcasting a signal to devices that don’t support receiving a broadcast signal.

    8. Evil antagonist has to use multiple zero day CVEs just to force stream his evil message on PC/mobile devices for a whopping 30 seconds.


  • EDIT is this actually a service? If this exists I’ll fucking do it, I swear

    It technically is for a lot of PC repair shops that don’t otherwise advertise it, but I remember some ye olde Craigslist posts offering such a service back in the day lol.

    I’d honestly do it for free if I knew you in person lmao.


  • Uh no, most if not all of the paid indexers are not worth it compared to just waiting for an open invite from a quality one.

    Not even the gold tier quality ones allow paid entry AFAIK. They only allow people who are long time seeders and uploaders with reputation.

    The one thing you might have to pay for is a VPN in case you want to torrent on public indexers, which is often worth it because not everything will end up on private indexers, and you usually have to wait a couple of months before you can join a solid private indexer.