r_deckard

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And JPEG2000 is what's used in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - that's the file format used to distribute feature films. That's not going away soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Firefox extension "easy youtube video downloader express" Silly name, great product.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if they're going to keep their own herds of cattle on carefully-curated paddocks, to achieve gelatin quality the likes of which we've come to expect from Kodak?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

What I'd like to know is how the hell do they manage corrosion in all that salty air? Sure, the op centre is probably filtered and air-conditioned, but if there's one thing about marine environments, salt corrosion will happen, and you can't put 30 coats of paint on a floppy drive's components.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I was system operator for an IBM System/36 in the mid-late 1980s and that thing used two 10-slot magazines of 8" floppies for backup.

It was replaced in 1989 with an AS400 that used half-inch tape.

And that backup solution was replaced with an LTO library.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This will please Rachel Riley no end. I expect her messages of support and congratulations any moment now.

Any moment........

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Australian federal election senate ballot paper would like a word. Senators are popularly elected in Australia. You're thinking of the UK, where the "upper house" AKA "House of Lords" are appointed. And until recently, some of the positions were hereditary. If you were the first son of "Lord Blatherskate", you would become Lord upon his death, and proceed to occupy his seat in the House of Lords.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Didn't someone get Debian running on a Talos II workstation?

Granted, that's tinkering, but getting Debian to a workable state.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Gee, it's lucky they didn't start requiring an account for personal use....... Oh, wait.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Same in Australia. The libnats (right-leaning) broke the fibre-optic rollout by claiming it would be too expensive, and replaced it in non-metro areas with wireless, claiming 25Mbps was adequate. They didn't mention that slow internet would benefit the Murdoch -owned Foxtel satellite services. And here we are now with internet services worse than some poorer countries.

I chose Starlink because I will never get fibre optic, my only broadband option is geo-synch satellite, with speed and data caps, and 600ms latency.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Underfloor heating is great. Underfloor cooling without some form of dehydration will lead to condensation, moisture, and mould.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Branagh's Henry V

Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing - it's just a bit of fun, much like the play.

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