Notices by Ben S. (hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

@thomasfuchs they do it mainly for making extra money on the backend via data collection and/or serving ads, but secondarily because people expect them to have streaming capabilities.

I hate it because it means they take longer to turn on and off, and they can crash or have other weird behavior.

I've never connected my current TV to the internet.

There is an entire subgenre of youtube videos where vocal coaches react to famous singing performances.

I just entertained myself by watching several of them flip out over Mike Patton's live performance of "Midlife Crisis" with Faith No More on Jay Leno.

@thomasfuchs @acsawdey "move fast and break things" is probably a little too on-the-nose

@ryanc @foone what are the recommended terminal emulation/font settings? Tried running it in a Windows git bash session (mintty) and it doesn't seem happy lol

PSA: #jetbrains is going to feed your code and other interactions into AI unless you opt out:

@thomasfuchs @vkc also a lot of the 21st century ones aren't ideal because they have the brains of an early LCD inside, making them no longer work with lightguns out of the box. My WEGA is like this unfortunately.

Super interesting (as usual for Displaced Gamers) part 1 breakdown of why gameplay lag occurs in Metroid on the NES: https://youtu.be/3G6vkRz-_0I?feature=shared

One major cause turns out to be that the game compresses the world data by storing rooms as collections of multi-tile prefabs, rather than as uncompressed tile layouts. This achieves an order of magnitude reduction in world data size, at the cost of having to construct rooms on the fly in RAM - often incurring redundant writes for clearing and pasting.

Welcome to the Hotel Castlevania

@joeo10 whenever I think about the state of Internet service in the US, I get angry. This is what happens when you privatize infrastructure and then double-down by granting regional monopolies (not to mention passing laws written by companies, showering companies with taxpayer money without holding them accountable for results, etc.).

@thomasfuchs please report to my account immediately, and bring screenshots of your 10 most significant toots.

@emsquared @joeo10 oh yeah, I think he may have also done Silent Running

@KydiaMusic @emsquared it was probably even more influential on the first Star *Trek* film, which doubled down on the pacing problems inherent in using lots of long visual effects sequences.

@joeo10 @HopelessDemigod seriously, just regulate apps/corporations to not enable spying on their customers. Unfortunately rich US donors have their finger in this pie too, so politicians can't do anything meaningful about it.

@HauntedOwlbear @mos_8502 good point: regardless of how bsky turns out, it's on track to be remembered as one of the major elements of Twitter's demise, and that's good.

"Don't complain that I post paywalled links" okay but I'm also not going to jump through a bunch of hoops to read the thing you linked, so you just wasted both of our time. May as well have linked a rickroll.

@joeo10 @KarlBode was just thinking about how this is coming. I'm so tired.

@joeo10 people can feel that both parties have sold out the poor and working classes, but they can't see it clearly through the haze of billionaire controlled media, so they're just yanking back and forth on the biggest lever they have - even though the only two settings are "bad" and "horrific".

It's clear that the DNC is deeply compromised by moneyed interests, to the point that they just aren't capable of meaningful reflection or action.

@robdaemon so then it's more "JavaScript developers are the easiest/cheapest to find, so this is the fastest/cheapest path to get what we want" which is one level worse lol

@joeo10 part of the problem is that the groups she lists tend to have a lot of money to contribute to campaigns.

YouTube seems to have broken most embeds on Mastodon, Discord, etc. I'm not going to wait for their bloated app or a web browser to fight for RAM on my wimpy tablet just to watch a video linked from a shitpost.