Echo
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pretty much the *entire* value of ClearSky is seeing a view that is explicitly *not* filtered based on my identity as a viewer - requiring login for this is *at best* counterproductive!
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
pretty much the *entire* value of ClearSky is seeing a view that is explicitly *not* filtered based on my identity as a viewer - requiring login for this is *at best* counterproductive!
Breaking your existing features to force people into new ones we don't want is pretty terrible
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Breaking your existing features to force people into new ones we don't want is pretty terrible
so we will, at some point in the future, be able to do all the same things we used to do again without login? otherwise this kinda sucks
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
so we will, at some point in the future, be able to do all the same things we used to do again without login? otherwise this kinda sucks
well somebody's gotta do it
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
well somebody's gotta do it
cursed idea: relay it through a pair of `socat`s so you can spy in the middle
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
cursed idea: relay it through a pair of `socat`s so you can spy in the middle
(graphite is usually the lubricant of choice for locks, once that wd40 evaporates and it needs a longer term fix)
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
(graphite is usually the lubricant of choice for locks, once that wd40 evaporates and it needs a longer term fix)
It's actually a pretty terrible lubricant, it's just less bad at it than the grit you cleaned out with it
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It's actually a pretty terrible lubricant, it's just less bad at it than the grit you cleaned out with it
oh dang, did i do it wrong? i was pooping
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
oh dang, did i do it wrong? i was pooping
it seems to have no relation to *my* listening, just a generic one-for-everyone reccomendations list
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
it seems to have no relation to *my* listening, just a generic one-for-everyone reccomendations list
also because AIs get trained to solve the old puzzles, so they *do* actually have to keep changing them, but... yikes, not like this!
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
also because AIs get trained to solve the old puzzles, so they *do* actually have to keep changing them, but... yikes, not like this!
looking at only these two examples i almost wonder if they want you to pick a matching *drawing style*, since that's what stands out to me as obviously varied among the outputs... but that still leaves me quite puzzled on which ones would be "correct"!
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
looking at only these two examples i almost wonder if they want you to pick a matching *drawing style*, since that's what stands out to me as obviously varied among the outputs... but that still leaves me quite puzzled on which ones would be "correct"!
it probably won't help that the migration seems to have lost the temporal history of my likes, so it thinks they're all brand new, but i'm sure that will work itself out over time, assuming i actually *can* discover new stuff here somehow...
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
it probably won't help that the migration seems to have lost the temporal history of my likes, so it thinks they're all brand new, but i'm sure that will work itself out over time, assuming i actually *can* discover new stuff here somehow...
biblically accurate polarity mark
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
biblically accurate polarity mark
yeah, the good news is the odds are the actual video bits are all still in there, they're just "framed wrong" in some way, and re-encoding will (usually) get it closer to spec and at the very least make the glitches more isolated
worst case you get another video that still doesn't work!
worst case you get another video that still doesn't work!
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
yeah, the good news is the odds are the actual video bits are all still in there, they're just "framed wrong" in some way, and re-encoding will (usually) get it closer to spec and at the very least make the glitches more isolated
worst case you get another video that still doesn't work!
worst case you get another video that still doesn't work!
yeah, generally it's just a result of the *wild* diversity of encoding/decoding software, and the bugs contained therein - and those bugs change over time as some of them get patched as security issues
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
yeah, generally it's just a result of the *wild* diversity of encoding/decoding software, and the bugs contained therein - and those bugs change over time as some of them get patched as security issues
Sometimes a pass through ffmpeg to re-encode it will fix it, but of course that adds a generation
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sometimes a pass through ffmpeg to re-encode it will fix it, but of course that adds a generation
It may be only mildly encoding-borked in a way that older players tolerated and newer ones no longer do, I occasionally see that variation of bit-rot on videos
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It may be only mildly encoding-borked in a way that older players tolerated and newer ones no longer do, I occasionally see that variation of bit-rot on videos
Oops! All copies!
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Oops! All copies!
Bsky's auto volume does that if there's not enough real sounds
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Bsky's auto volume does that if there's not enough real sounds
okay but hear me out: more women
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
okay but hear me out: more women
activate the emergency cuddle pile for warmth!
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
activate the emergency cuddle pile for warmth!
with a bonus of "you can't turn the solar panels off to work on them"
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
with a bonus of "you can't turn the solar panels off to work on them"
Maybe we just need to complete the square with the other two possibilities
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Maybe we just need to complete the square with the other two possibilities
the story behind the name i use most places is *appallingly* embarrassing, but thankfully it it not one anyone would be able to deduce from the name itself, so only the three people who were there when it happened will ever know
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
the story behind the name i use most places is *appallingly* embarrassing, but thankfully it it not one anyone would be able to deduce from the name itself, so only the three people who were there when it happened will ever know