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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 4 points 10 hours ago

YT will likely attempt to play creators and viewers off one another. Similar to how hospitality does so with patrons and staff re: tips. You could see a FUD campaign aimed at anyone republishing their work on competitor sites.

Reminder: seeders, please seed on I2P in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Beware the great green deception: ‘perceptionware’ is being used to hoodwink us in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A good example of this scam that sticks out to me is plastics recycling. The marketed goal is a circular, sustainable^TM^ plastic economy. The real goals are uninterrupted plastics manufacturing and the maintenance of tax receipts from plastic goods consumption. Industry and government simply do not want less plastic in the world.

List of Active Reddit Alternatives 2023, post that reddit deleted in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago

https://archive.is/oXqaH

Cloudflared. Hmm.

Reddit is a disaster and it's ban/appeal system is a joke in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago

It's not discussion moderation though, it's LLM input QC. It's fundamentally dishonest.

Reddit is a disaster and it's ban/appeal system is a joke in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm convinced the primary moderation goal is expunging any comment that could remotely contribute to LLM 'racial bias' - and given the mods are humans, they want to expend the least effort possible in the performance of their roles, so practically any statement along the lines of '$nouns are $adjective' gets hammered without a thought.

From the makers of Tribbles n Bits, it's Oops! All Politics (With ad read!) in c/tenforward@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ask yourself: 'Was Starfleet ever not woke?' If the answer is no, congratulations – you’re ready for the truth.

No amount of memeaganda will get me to believe this. The answer is an emphatic yes.

ultrakill subreddit Apparently filled with nsfw in c/reddit@lemmy.world

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[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 3 weeks ago

Is it really misuse if the mechanism was designed to be misused?

What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 4 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't logged in for nearly three years. Has TI been overhauled again?

What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Dirty Bomb

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[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Characters like him are targeted because they are both successful and anti establishment

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Shoutout to Manger Jesus (Talladega Nights, Adam McKay, 2006) (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 month ago by Tregetour@lemdro.id to c/filmsframes@lemmy.world

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Protector of arresting color palettes. Spiritual sponsor of NPBs. Discarder of crepes.

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Brothers on the wall (Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, 1989) (lemdro.id)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Tregetour@lemdro.id to c/filmsframes@lemmy.world

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This film's second act has a stereotype/racial epithet montage that will always be funny.

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KDE Plasma 6 reboots on video playback (lemdro.id)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Tregetour@lemdro.id to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Since about Plasma 6 onward I've been getting system restarts when attempting to play back video files and/or seek through them.

Kernel 6.5.0-41

KDE neon 6

Plasma 6.1.2

Qt 6.7.0

Ryzen 7 3700x CPU

AMD R9 390 GPU

16GB DDR4 RAM

The system will crash and reboot when:

Attempting to play any video with an mp4 container (mpv and vlc tested)
Attempting to seek with the mouse while playing most videos (mp4 and matroska)
Scrolling too fast in a file manager
Clicking and dragging to resize various windows (terminal, browsers, etc)

The system performs fine when:

Playing videos in a webm container
Playing videos in software like avidemux, kdenlive, gwenview, etc.
Streaming video in a web browser

The issue has persisted through these toubleshooting measures:

Update to latest BIOS firmware
Switching between Wayland and X11
Substitution of the PSU to a brand new unit

My assumption so far is that it's not hardware related. Currently I suspect it's Plasma. Below is the journal output of records around one such crash time of 5.19-5.20pm:

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kf.plasma.quick: Applet preload policy set to 1

Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/main.qml:195:25: QML FolderViewDropArea (parent or ancestor of QQuickLayoutAttached): Binding loop detected for property "minimumWidth"

Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: Toolbox not loading, toolbox package is either invalid or disabled.

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/main.qml:162:21: QML KSortFilterProxyModel: Binding loop detected for property "sourceModel"

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.cups.cupsd.Notifier" to PrinterFinishingsChanged(QString, QString, QString, uint, QString, bool) :

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairRequested(QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:23

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairDone(Solid::ErrorType, QVariant, QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:24

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon supported false

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon enabled true

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qml: SystemTray ItemLoader: Invalid state, cannot determine source!

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max screen brightness via dbus: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl'")

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max keyboard brightness via dbus QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/KeyboardBrightnessControl'")

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.klipper: Invalid or non-local url for preview: QUrl("mtp:/Pixel 5/Internal shared storage/Tempfold/archive.zip")

Jul 13 17:19:25 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.usb-VIA_Technologies_Inc._Audinst_HUD-mx2-00.analog-stereo.monitor"

Jul 13 17:19:27 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator/contents/ui/main.qml:61:13: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool

Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.

Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

Suggestions for next steps would be welcome. Is it worth considering a rollback to the previous/older Plasma versions? Assuming Plasma doesn't like my DAC or keyboard or whatever, is it worth substituting or removing USB devices?

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The carving of raw potential (Monos, Alejandro Landes, 2019) (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Tregetour@lemdro.id to c/filmsframes@lemmy.world

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First of all, Monos is a film set in the jungle, so you know it's already good (see Raiders, Jurassic Park, Sorcerer, Predator, Apocalypto, etc.). Secondly, Landes has an eye for scene composition and potent metaphor. Thirdly, it gets awfully good performances out of a mostly amateur cast.