For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8

LDAC is great, but simply stating that the encoder is "open source" is quite misleading (while technically correct). The codec is owned by Sony and heavily licensed. It's a savvy business move of Sony to make the encoder free to use though, so everyone else can support their standard while charging manufacturers who want to integrate it into their headphones.

If we want a really free and open high quality codec, we should push for opus support via bluetooth

That so called regime is a travesty. Hope the Iranian people can some day be free.

lol...

Das ZDF hat sich von einem Tweet des Satirikers Jan Böhmermann zu CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz abgegrenzt. »Das ZDF distanziert sich von der Äußerung Böhmermanns. Der Tweet ist eine private Äußerung von Jan Böhmermann, die in keinem Zusammenhang mit einer Produktion des ZDF steht«, teilte der Sender mit.

Diese Distanzierung hat natürlich die, nicht so unterschwellige, Konnotation, dass so eine Äußerung durch Böhmermann in einem offiziellen Format von den Zensoren des ZDF nicht gestattet worden wäre. Gut zu wissen, wie es mit Politsatire steht. Blos nicht die Gefühle irgendwelcher CDU "Politiker" slash Witzfiguren verletzen.

These results are just a drop in the bucket in relation to the grim state of German election results and overall societal discourse.

There's not much room for optimism right now. Very dark skies ahead and things may get much worse before they will become better.

Meh, there's plenty of naturally occurring things, that look 'artificial' to the human eye at first glance.

Some metallic spheres after entry of a meteoroid into earths atmosphere are not enough unless you explain how they couldn't have formed naturally.

In my workplace we worked tirelessly to get rid of all VMware VMs as fast as possible when new pricing became clear. Thousands migrated. What a huge fuckup by broadcom.

If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.

nice bait mate.

How dare people try to mod a game they bought? What a sad state of affairs, Diablo 2 had such awesome mods.

Well they are also playing "Erika" which is a right wing dog whistle, though maybe not as uncommon in these circles, as outright Nazi salutes

Edit: Also curiously most people, myself included, never find themselves in danger of accidentally heil hitlering even when blackout drunk. Seems to become a more common occurrence in Saxony though.

tl;dw: flasche ist okay

Wieder sechs Wochen verschwendet

Das traurigste an der ganzen Geschcihte von dir, ist ja, dass 6 Wochen garnicht mal so wenig sind. Würde man 6 Wochen lang intensiv Excel machen, dann kann ich mir vorstellen, dass man am Ende dann tatsächlich einigermaßen was kann.

Wenn man den ganzen Kurs aber auch mit "ich les mal kurz den ersten Absatz wikipedia zu jedem Thema" ersetzen könnte (und so scheint es mir), ist das ganze echt Zeitverschwendung.

How come people are willing to download and install pirated software though?

You can just remove "priated" from that statement and come to the same conclusions. Considering the amount of bugs, backdoors and 0-day exploits distributed via official software I sometimes wonder why people execute proprietary, closed source programs at all.

An no, "reputable" companies mean nothing, just look at Microsoft clowning around with their signing keys.

Cringe.

"Ich habe eine app benutzt"

danke fuer diesen wertvollen astroturfing beitrag, aber jetzt weiss ich endlich, dass man mit der KI-App-Gen 2 von Runaway Research ganz lustige (haha) trailer machen kann.

Wer geht eigentlich unironisch auf 'news' seiten wie dieses watson.ch?

From an outside perspective: The US can't even agree that there's a problem (yet). Most people will proudly defend the car dependent way of life. As soon as there is a consensus about needing to change, the process could start and then it will take 30 years. Clock hasn't even started ticking yet, so yeah, lost cause for now.

These conversion & deconversion stories always go the same way:

"I'm an impressionable fuckwit who immediately gets on the first ride that looks appealing. But soon I realized I wanted to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride, because it looked much cooler than it actually was. Whew what a relief when I got off. Let me tell you about my current ride, which is much better, the most important ride of the world and you should definitely get on it too. Everyone who doesn't get on THIS ride (which is definitely the correct one to be on) is evil and dooming humanity!

I'm a reformed person."

ohh boy, I almost forgot about that. That was super painful. It's a website linus, not a file browser.

Don't delude yourself: This is just a convenient excuse for them to do this.

Having to maintain an active community outside of their control is an inherited burden from purchasing a former indie company.

the dude wrote a kernel, I very much doubt he needs to brag about his ability to write assembly.

While I’m not a fan of nostalgia-mining or the constant remastering and remaking of games

... but in the same sentence has nothing but good things to say about constant tinkering and overhauling:

companies are still keeping some popular older games accessible by relaunching them with better graphics, fine-tuned gameplay, and even added scenes

Dude sounds like he's just speaking out of two sides of his mouth.

By the way, this is also why they are against game preservation. Artificially making the $thing unavailable is a sure fire way to sell it again 'remade'.

There's an interesting blog post on this subject (likely someone posted it already): https://dkb.blog/p/google-search-is-dying

I find it to be very agreeable. Search is dying and I don't agree that appending "site:reddit.com" is any kind of permanent solution, just a workaround that will also break.