Notices by Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)

I am so tired of AI LLM garbage being FORCED into every aspect of life now. Youtube is now providing context aware automatic reply options for creators on the backend.

The erosion of human communication like this is going to have disastrous consequences in the long term.

I keep hearing watch time is the most important thing for for Youtubers, not views. I was checking some of my stats (for the first time ever, lol), it seems I need to be optimizing my channel for the highly lucrative viewer market of those watching on Wii.

They have the highest per view watchtime out of any other operating system, clearly based on the evidence I should be putting all my effort going forward into Wii focused content.

@thomasfuchs I did not last long in that position lol. Thankfully I was able to switch to embedded dev in the same company. But man was that not what I was expecting.

@thomasfuchs
When I started seriously learning software dev independently, I couldn't understand why people used libraries so invasive they may as well have been their own languages. I refused to learn things like JQuery and C++ Boost because I just wanted to know the underlying syntax.

I feel I became a more rounded developer going that route, but it made it much harder to get a job. I eventually landed a job by showing pure LAMP knowledge, only to be bait n' switched to using Sharepoint

@thomasfuchs
I had to look up the camera after seeing it be so low res because I wasn't aware of a 90s 3D camera. I was pretty surprised to see it was so new lol!

@thomasfuchs
Can confirm, that's some pretty nice 3D!

I found it to be inverted with the cross-eyed method and didn't need to flip it to view here as SBS

@thomasfuchs

Right now I've been using an Extron DVS-510 paired with any HDMI capture card that will do full RGB data. It's not perfect, but it's by far the most flexible I have used (which does not include any RetroTink products). The Extron can do Composite, S-Video, Component, VGA, and some other weird stuff if you can adapt it right. The timings are all very adjustable as well and I can get some pretty sold results

If you want a PCIe card, I love my Datapath VisionRGB e1s for VGA capture.

@thomasfuchs
There are a lot of things I haven't messed with like an OSSC and RGB2HDMI. They are probably good, the Extron is just *cheap* while being really solid and the only thing I can't do with it is nearest-neighbor/line-doubling scaling.

Is there a particular thing you want to capture or are you looking for a catchall solution?

@thomasfuchs
Ah yeah, they work fine on the later ones.

I have a Sony DVP-S9000ES which is early for SACD and the laser just isn't up to it anymore. It's just so wretchedly excessive for what it is that I really want to try it lol. They copper plated the *bottom* even!

@thomasfuchs

> SACD

Out of curiosity, do you have a native SACD or only hybrids? I've been meaning to pick up a native one some time but they were only made for like 1 year and are all not very exciting releases.

None of my cool Sony SACD players can detect the DVD layer on hybrid discs so I haven't messed with the format too much.

@thomasfuchs
Hold on now, is this a "phone" without the ability to talk to anyone and a giant red button to block them from calling again?

That sounds pretty great to me

moo

@thomasfuchs
I was never really interested in the 901s since you need the active equalizer. But now that I see they double as a cat plinth...hmmm.

Hard agree though, my SX-780+SA-3200's will still be working long after all the modern stuff has failed in non-repairable ways.

@kiwa
Intel had to save up all their 5's from the 586 and Pentium 5 so they could make Core i5's for the rest of eternity

Well, I can now confirm first hand that google does not attempt to contact web hosts at all before mirroring content to serve it themselves.

It doesn't really hurt caps.wiki since I don't serve ads on it to keep pay for hosting. But still, it's interesting to be on the other side of this.

LOL, Ubisoft just straight up said "the thing" in my support email response.

Thanks for not dancing around the topic you must be obviously be aware of with the very public campaign.

Now to continue on with my next steps for https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

@thomasfuchs
I normally like to use the period correct hardware, but ball mice are just terrible.

When I use a 90s computer I even cheat and bought a bunch of these brand new beige Cherry optical mice the blend in perfectly as "vintage" lol.

@thomasfuchs
It's hilarious not only that they covered it back then, but *how many times they did*.

I keep September 1981 on my Byte shelf at the ready and on the rare times I have someone over to the office enjoy showing it to them.

@thomasfuchs I'm actually surprised it's that low. XP era hardware is just barely still usable today for a lot of internet things and that hardware was plentiful and cheap for a long time.

I speculate smartphones have replaced it more than later Windows machines.

@thomasfuchs I could see that, but it would present an interesting dilemma. Presumably you would want landscape 3D for rear photos and video, but facetime is portrait. So the display would need to be capable of 3D in both axis (I'm not aware of any device or development capable of that).

Maybe just facetime could be done with 3D cameras and then use the tracking to fake a 3D display à la Johnny Lee Wiiimote tech demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_KKxAuLQw