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CrayonRosary , (edited )

It's not, I assure you. It uses psychoacoustic properties of audio to simulate actual surround sound. I've been using it in gaming for years. You can literally hear when an enemy is behind you vs in front of you, and anywhere in the 360° around you. You can easily pinpoint their location in your head.

Pixel Buds Pro have this same kind of programming and you can enable it when watching surround sound content on your phone. You can even have it play regular audio but make it sound like it's coming from the direction of the phone. When you turn your head, the audio follows the phone and it sounds like the audio is coming from the phone in 3D, not just panned L or R in stereo. (I haven't played with this much, and I hope I'm not misremembering that last part which iPhone also has.)

Here's a computer generated example using these techniques. Headphones are required! Listen to this with ordinary headphones with no additional spatial processing enabled.

To my ears, it sounds like the 3 channels of the source audio are little spheres rotating around the top of my head like a halo. The music sounds distinctly different when it's behind me or in front of me. The distance away from my head is not far, though.

https://youtu.be/LpMsqFc7-Z4

A technique like this will never be perfect, and this is not the best example I've heard. The best would be using my Logitech gaming headset in a game. It's not perfect because everyone's ears are shaped differently, and your brain learns the microtonal differences which your specific ears cause as sound echo's around your outer ear and ear canal. This might be why I hear these music examples as above my head while others might hear it revolve directly around their ears or perhaps a little lower than their ears.

I enjoy how ignorant people who don't understand a technology dismiss is with snark and get upvoted by others. Wait, what's the opposite of enjoy?

It's like how religious fundies with little education make fun of our best scientific theories with arguments that boil down to "I'm ignorant, so I don't believe this". Congratulations on being on the same level.

CrayonRosary ,

You're not supposed to listen to pre-procrssed audio like that with additional spatial audio processing. You're supposed to listen with ordinary headphones.

CrayonRosary ,

They will just be normal earbuds on Windows, just like my Pixel Buds Pro. Even worse because I have to "forget" then rconnect the Buds from scratch every time I boot my PC. They will always say "connected" with no actual way to switch to them.

CrayonRosary ,

STOP

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MS is obviously doing their absolute best to blame-shift here

There is not a single word in that article that says anything about blame shifting. That title was written by wired.com

CrayonRosary ,

When you go on the internet you are accessing content on other people's computers. You are saying, "I want such and such document". There's an inherent lack of privacy in browsing the internet. You can try to be private about it, but ultimately you're not changing that you're requesting data from other people's computers and sending them data.

When you are doing something else on your PC besides browsing the web, Recall is still taking screenshots and tracking you. What apps you use, pictures you view, and many other things that might be completely offline and you don't necessarily want a history of stored on your PC, with screenshots and searchable summaries. Do you want each and every one of your fap sessions recorded? Why would you want any of your offline activity recorded?

What if you forget to pause this feature and someone finds these screenshots? Who cares, right? What if your a closeted gay teen living in a conservative country and your family finds the history?

Then there are people who don't understand computers using offline business software for accounting, or whatever, and even if they store their data files on an encrypted drive or something, Recall is taking screenshots of everything they do. If they don't even know its happening, their PC could have years of data that could be stollen from them at any point in the future. Even if they never open those encrypted files again. Obviously, if their computer is pwned, then the hackers could just take the enencrypted files when they're next accessed, but Recall snapshots everything all the time, even if you delete it.

Edit a self nude photo on your PC and forget to turn off Recall, and then layer decide to delete the photo... Too bad, Recall still has it.

It's a feature that's... ok if you want it, but it should not be part of the operating system, and it definitely shouldn't be opt-out. It should be an app that you install with deliberate purpose if and only if you want itand understand the security and privacy risks.

Microsoft instead wants to install it by default and probably turn it on by default. Even if it ends up being opt-in, MS has a long history of asking people to enable features in misleading ways. And the vast majority of Windows users don't understand computers!

CrayonRosary ,

That's not select-a-size. That's just tiny ass paper towels. Select-a-size towels have no perforations and you cut them with scissors.

CrayonRosary ,

How fucking tall are these people?

Also, I'm surprised a shop named "MEAT" sells meat.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

CrayonRosary ,

if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

Firefox let's you add arbitrary search URLs to its list of search engines.

CrayonRosary ,

It means the transistors and things are each 2 nm, not the whole chip. Just in case you were confused about that.

Smaller chips requires less power to run.

CrayonRosary ,

records everything you've done

It records the past!? Holy shit! That's amazing!

How is this not bigger news? How does it do it?

CrayonRosary ,

When a link contains parentheses, you have to escape them... or else.

'find' goes back a long way

CrayonRosary , (edited )

It works now. It definitely didn't before when using Sync for Lemmy. That kind of mistake wouldn't have worked on the reddit website either. I had seen it a million times. Not sure if the Lemmy web site would handle it right.

Both versions work on my end.

I'm surprised to hear that.

Markdown libraries normally see the closing parenthesis in the URL as the end of the link markdown syntax of [text](link). You had [text](link(stuff)) which is parsed as [text](link(stuff) A smarter markdown parser could handle it, so whatever app you were using might do that.

CrayonRosary ,

More importantly, we need to stop ignoring criminal case eye witness' hallucinatory testimony.

CrayonRosary ,

And you can't unlock their boot loaders. You must suffer their changes to Android, their assistant, their UI, their spyware, and bloatware. You don't own the device.

CrayonRosary ,

Well, congratulations, hacker.

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Not in the US

CrayonRosary ,

LLM's work on multi-dimensional search spaces

You're missing half of it. The data cube is just for storing and finding weights. Those weights are then loaded into the nodes of a neural network to do the actual work. The neural network was inspired by actual brains.

CrayonRosary ,

I have no idea. Maybe someone with a larger neural network than mine can figure it out.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

CrayonRosary ,

I don't subscribe, bit I wouldn't think about it compared to the price of physical media. I would compare it to satellite radio. Or cable radio. (Does Spectrum still do that?)

All three are paid, ad-free radio, sorta, though streaming services are on-demand.

CrayonRosary ,

So hard you dropped an O.

CrayonRosary ,
  • (W)INE (I)s (N)ot an (E)mulator. It's not a virtual environment either. It's just a compatibility layer that wires up calls to Windows libraries to their Linux counterparts. Proton is an enhanced fork of WINE.
  • Sleep mode is just... sleep mode, and consumes 10% of your battery per day.
  • DosBox runs on Windows, too.
  • The Steam Deck is a weak ass PC. I love mine, but it does not compare to a modest gaming PC.

I haven't gamed on Windows since buying my Deck, but you're testimonial here isn't very convincing. It's a portable gaming device that requires a dock (or hub) to even play on a monitor. It's underpowered by design. Not even all top Steam games run on it.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Edit: Maybe:

You can instead hold the power button for 1 second to open the same menu. Feels easier to me.

CrayonRosary ,

Ah, I don't use that on my Pixel 7 Pro, so it gives the old menu.

CrayonRosary ,

Without my glasses, I thought the thumbnail was some kind of ape. I blurred this screenshot a little to simulate.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2946de0e-43ac-4d43-afc2-dc79b5933e31.png

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

CrayonRosary ,

Ortega? The taco sauce?

NSFW-ish

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bac2c5d5-52ae-4a8d-b89b-2b887c39abda.jpeg

CrayonRosary ,

Don't use that as lube.

CrayonRosary ,

AI generated images aren't "deep fakes". Deep fakes came out a long time before image gen did. You take an existing movie and swap out just the face.

96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)

Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....

CrayonRosary ,

Please explain. How can google, Facebook, and such get data out of a hospital web server directly? That would be hacking.

CrayonRosary ,

Not really mad. Just very sad. I had been waiting years for it and I drove hours so I could spend the eclipse with friends within the totality. We made the most of it, but it sucked.

CrayonRosary ,

Maybe they meant home computers, and that's all most of their audience will picture in their heads, anyway. But yeah, not a very good computer historian.

CrayonRosary ,

Oh, 1998. My bad.

CrayonRosary ,

Wow, you have sold me on installing Nix next. I'm a programmer and this sounds dreamy!

CrayonRosary ,

I use a Firefox addon called "FB Purity". It blocks all sponsored and recommended posts. You can even configure it to hide posts like "Your friend commented on this" which would also put random public posts on your page. My main page is very clean and takes 10 seconds to scroll down every few days to see the most recent pet photos or any important news from my family.

https://www.fbpurity.com/

CrayonRosary ,

"I got to 800. Time to lock it in, go on a spending spree, and not pay anything back!"

CrayonRosary ,

Get EasyTether for your phone ($10) and you can USB tether to any PC that has the companion app installed (free).

Even a Raspberry Pi works. I have a Pi configured to broadcast as a WiFi AP, so I just plug in my phone via USB and I have instant WiFi for all of my devices. Takes a fair amount of configuration to do that, but there are tutorials online. Much easier just plugging your phone into a laptop for internet on just that laptop.

Or maybe a laptop can act as a WiFi AP, too. I do know Windows can share internet out a free Ethernet port very easily.

I use a VPN so my wireless provider doesn't see Windows update or Stream downloads, etc.

CrayonRosary ,

Probably, but all you really need is an app called EasyTether. I wrote a big comment about it on this post.

CrayonRosary ,

Brother Laser

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/53c24fe1-f2ff-4bed-9b95-c83d9f1fc2ea.webp

CrayonRosary ,

CD's are real objects and not digital goods.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

I can't hear anything above 20 kHz, and neither can most people. CD audio is passed through a 20 kHz lowpass filter. It is then sampled at 44 kHz. Due to the Nyquist Shannon Spamling Theorum, when sound is digitally sampled at just above twice the rate of the source audio, converting it back to analog perfectly reproduces the original waveform. And I do mean perfectly. The exact same waveform. (The extra 4 kHz is to prevent artifacts in frequencies very close to 20 kHz.)

Therefore CD audio is perfect unless you think you can hear above 20 kHz. (Spoiler: you can't) There are a few good YouTube videos on this topic, and the best ones are very mathy.

Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to educate myself some more?

CrayonRosary ,

Please explain. I'm still not seeing the point. Vinyl is outselling CDs because.... digital goods will be stolen from you? I don't get it.

CrayonRosary ,

The loudness wars were definitely a thing; you are correct. But that was a choice and not a limitation of the medium. Plenty of CDs were not produced that way. But that's not what the OC was talking about. They were talking about down sampling, not dynamic range compression.

CrayonRosary ,

Then why did it start with "yeah, because..."?

CrayonRosary ,

I really don't care to comment anymore on your FUD.

CrayonRosary ,

Crawls to a crawl is a very common phrase, I don't know why people are saying it's not.

CrayonRosary ,

I was being sarcastic. No one else had said anything about it. 😄

CrayonRosary ,

Firefox has an add-on called "Allow Right-Click" that lets you easily toggle blocking right-click scripts. Some sites offer a useful context menu, like Google Drive, so you don't necessarily want to always be blocking them. Hence the toggle.

CrayonRosary ,

Interesting. I'll give that a try.

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