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TIL Chris Cocker who is now Cara Cunningham went into pronography after her viral leave britney alone video.
  • It's a bit difficult in a case like this, as it does add context and acknowledges their new identity so as to link what was a well known video to an existing person. I'd struggle to know who this was otherwise. I don't think there's any malintent here.

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    GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck
  • Absolutely. Having such good UX is uncommon for these kinds of projects since its most contributors are going to be focused on reverse engineering tasks. It's not to say that good UX isn't associated with good programming, but it's not terribly common that a project focused on reverse engineering puts effort into front-end development.

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    GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck
  • Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I'm consistently disappointed with other emulators that don't let me tweak things quite to the same degree. I can't tell if it's just the nature of Nintendo's console architecture from that era, or if there simply isn't the same degree of effort/priority put into exposing those kinds of features in other emulators.

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    I love piracy and seeders
  • I don't know about the latter half of your statement, but my main reason for its use is pretty simply just that there's more music available, and it doesn't take all the time it normally would to get invited to a good music tracker. If anything, specialized Torrent trackers that could offer the same volume of music are a much bigger pain go deal with.

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    I love piracy and seeders
  • Soulseek is a P2P file sharing system centered around music in particular. It's pretty direct. Unlike a torrent where you'll have multiple seeds for a single source, you're connecting directly to other individuals for the content. It generally operates under the expectation that you're also sharing something, and some users may opt not to allow downloads to people who do not also allow downloads from themselves. The downside to this system is you may need to wait for that person to come online before you can start a download, while with a torrent, other seeders can fill that gap.

    It's survived as a pretty big platform for music hoarders to source hard to find material, but it's so dead simple to use and it has a quick and reliable search. Nothing secretive about it, it's basically just another P2P network that has more in common with Napster than the Pirate Bay

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    I love piracy and seeders
  • Can I introduce you to soulseek? I promise it's going to serve way better than torrents for that kind of stuff.

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    New AMD SinkClose flaw helps install nearly undetectable malware
  • BIOS updates are the only way to receive critical stability and security patches. They can take a bit of time, but these days its generally pretty straight forward. Some manufacturers even allow you to check online right from the UEFI so you don't need to rely on an ancient USB drive.

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    New AMD SinkClose flaw helps install nearly undetectable malware
  • AGESA update applied via BIOS update. Effectively just a microcode patch. Pretty common, and since we're seeing Epyc CPUs from the same generation as Ryzen 3000/Zen 2 being patched, I feel like it's pretty lousy not to patch them as well.

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    RFK Jr admits to dumping bear carcass in New York's Central Park
  • Almost definitely. Between hunting rats in cow carcass pits, eating strange bushmeat on safaris and a lifelong habit of collecting more roadkill than he has room for, it's almost certain he's consumed something parasitic as a result

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    RFK Jr admits to dumping bear carcass in New York's Central Park
  • Probably because he helped get it off the road after she hit it. I don't think he's being sexist here, I think he quite likely did encounter a woman who had hit a bear. He apparently has a whole thing for roadkill meat, and is more than happy to make it his problem.

    The guy is stranger than fiction.

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    Younger people of Lemmy. Would you buy a CD at a concert?
  • I like CDs, but I guess I can't really call myself a kid anynore though, being in my mid twenties. I typically use Spotify for discovery/casual listening but but an album on CD or digitally through Bandcamp when the option is presented to me. I went out of my way to buy a 25 disc CD changer.

    Vinyl have definitely become way more popular for physical music purchases, but I like the smaller footprint of a CD.

    I do think the vast majority of people use Youtube Music, Spotify or a similar service though. It's inexpensive, has family plans and optical media players just aren't common anymore.

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    What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language?
  • Well I thank you for your contribution regardless. Roku is all I've got, so it helps to have people like you annoyed enough, and knowledgable enough to contribute.

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    What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language?
  • It occurs to me I've literally never tried to play my music library through Roku. I usually just cast to a speaker with my phone. Is it part of the main branch?

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    Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
  • I see this comment every now and then, and it always forgets the cost of the transaction, confirmation time, and of course, the need for miners to exist to process these confirmations/transactions. The energy cost is extraordinary, and the end user is taxed for the use of their own dollars.

    It's not really feasible on a broad scale. Bitcoin is a holding stock, not a valid currency. Its value only increases because it manufactures its own scarcity. And as its scarcity increases, it naturally moves toward centralization since mining becomes too large an activity for the individual to reap any benefit. You can argue for proof of stake to eliminate the need for mining, but then you open the doors to centralization more immediately.

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