Xanza @ Xanza @lemm.ee

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Sure, but look at the title. You don't call, after blowing up a school, child casualties "people." That's what we call trying to soften the blow.

Strike on school

17 people killed

lol ok. Anything not to paint Israel as child murderers, I guess. Careful not to consume the boot.

Hey look, a crime.

It's likely illegal. The administration would call it theft of service because it's not authorized and they wouldn't be wrong. I also don't see why you would want to do it. You're giving the IT department at your school complete access to your web history.

I can't for the life of me understand how you're having a difficulty understanding this to begin with....

You said that at 4% market share they would be idiots to not break their backs chasing that 4% in revenue but were there right now and they're not breaking their back at all they're hardly doing anything...

The entirety of your statements that you've said so far are verifiably incorrect because they are the reality that we're living right now. I'm not the one that struggling with reality buddy, that's you.

Nothing happens. A bill like this is not designed to do anything productive, but rather give senators of springboard to politically denounce what Donald Trump is doing because he hired a middle-aged billionaire high on ketamine to gut the government.

It allows them political safe haven to denounce what the President is doing. Why they need a political safe haven to be able to do that? You would have to ask someone smarter than me because I just don't understand it.

Nobody said they're not. Jesus. You get really upset when someone points out that you're wrong, don't you?

Fact of the matter is, is that *nix is less than 4% of the market, and they're not going to upset the market for that 4%. It will eventually get bigger, but until it does, there's not a lot of hope.

This is the year of the linux desktop.

It's not trust me bro at all. That's the situation we're currently in. So if these businesses would be "crazy" to leave all this money on the table and they currently are, what does that say to you?

I know critical thinking is hard, but try.

1. This number is taken from the Wikipedia page, and represents a lab setting from totally uncompressed to full HEVC encoding. It's not representative of data savings that you get from one video codec vs another, which is likely less than 4-6% between something like VP9 and HEVC... The 25-50% of completely fucking laughable in a realistic setting and you look like and idiot for bringing it up.
2. It's absolutely an overestimation by every conceivable metric available.
3. You can encode to whatever you want, but if you take a VP9 encoded video and re-encode it, you may only save 1% and it will take several hours to encode. There are even situations where you will save nothing, or the resultant video file is actually larger even with HEVC.

It's zipping a zip file. Endlessly re-compressing things doesn't yield positive results in the way you describe.

The market share is already there and there not doing open source drivers, so I guess you're empirically wrong. I dunno what else to tell ya.

Well they're not, so I guess they are. 🤷‍♂️

I don't disagree, but at the same time, circle back to my original statement. Even if every single *nix user were to only use open source drivers, that's still not enough. 4% of the market share isn't going to change anyone's mind about *nix support.

Blu-rays are compressed.

All streaming data is compressed at some point. I clearly meant not over-compressed. 4K video or UHD BD can both be taken from their original states and processed through HEVC to get crisp 1080p h265 10bit at a steep data discount. But it'll take a very long time to process. It's simply not worth it.

“Zipping a zip file” doesn’t apply here because zips are lossless.

It's a figurative expression and I feel that was pretty damn obvious...

1. I've been encoding HEVC for a long time and I've not once seen a file-size drop that dramatically. You're outrageously overestimating the file-size savings here.
2. If a video file is already compressed you'll see diminished and even negative returns by attempting to compress it further. OP seems to be taking pre compressed video files from the internet and attempting to compress them again (lossy to lossy) which is very very very stupid.

I'm confused... Are you grabbing pirated video files from the net and re-encoding them... If you're attempting to further compress already compressed video, you're just zipping a zip file. It's crazy and you'll do nothing but bloat the file size (versus a properly compressed video file) and further reduce the quality of the video via artifacts. I'll call the police and have you committed right now.

If you're grabbing 8/4k or UHD BD movies and re-encoding them into lets say, 1080p HEVC 10bit, I could see that being worth it if you really love the movie (and have 5 days with nothing to do), but only if you're going from an inferior compression to better (h264 to h265), otherwise like I said, you're zipping a zip file.

Because hardware manufacturers don't care about 4% market share. They just don't. They can't survive by pandering to that 4%, and it costs them time and money to make decent hardware drivers for linux.

Sad truth of it.

Your mistake here is to not know or understand what the word "comparison" is.

The most terminally online shit that I've seen this year is you inferring that because two nouns are used in the same sentence then they must be equal. Learn what critical thinking is, and then apply what you've learned. I'll help you later on down the road, I promise.

Israel v. Palestine isn't an entire population of terrorists vs the very innocent Israel whose never done anything wrong in their entire lives, ever. It's a modern genocide. We know that. There are dozens of independent governing bodies who've made this distinction. And I'm sorry if it hurts your sensibilities that I can't advocate for someone who says "maybe we should just drop it! let bygones be bygones!" as if Israel skinned Palestine's knee and isn't actively murdering children and calling them agents of Hamas to legitimize it.

If your brain is that deteriorated, then that's perfectly fine. You're entitled to your vote. But mine isn't, and so am I--and I won't give it to someone who says some insane shit like that.

This isn't a "she pro-Israeli, so no one should vote for her" post, like you seem to be implying. I think its important that all voters know that's she's pro-Israel and make their own distinctions.

Those are not even on the same planet as the same....

Binary supply-chain attacks are not “minor security issues”.

Yes they are. The binaries for Ventoy aren't even updated from release to release. It's not even evident how old they are. So crying about an attack that only matters if these binaries are bleeding edge is absolutely a minor issue. I don't even understand how someone of sound mind and body could possibly believe otherwise.

Not having a security first posture on these kinds of attacks is how the xz event happened

No one is making the argument that security doesn't matter. No one is pushing the idea that Ventoy is secure. I'm saying singularly and only that a supply chain attack is just about the dumbest goddamn angle possible to bitch about Ventoy because I could argue that Ventoy would be more vulnerable than it is now to a supply chain attack if the binary blobs are built and updated every time you build a bootable drive. It's just a truly fucking insane argument that shows a lack of understanding of what a supply chain attack is. The built binaries may be vulnerable and it's difficult to prove if they are or not, but if you update the binaries all the time they're more (attack surface is larger) than if they're only updated when absolutely necessary...

It's just plain a poor argument and I'm tired of every armchair expert pretending that its not. People in high security environments aren't using Ventoy. It's just such a ridiculous argument.

I'm not scared of what she would do when in power. But having the opinion matters. It matters. You shouldn't elect people to lead us who don't treat others like humans. Period.

I won't help get her elected for the same reason I won't help get a member of the KKK elected--and if you can't see the parallel there, then I won't help you get elected, either.