This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember “forever”
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SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English22·1 month agoI’m surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it’s pretty good. I’m also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Europe@feddit.org•GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releasesEnglish3·1 month agoYes, this helps, thanks.
I already understood the need to avoid private money agents like Paypal, visa, etc. In the UK we have the BACS and FPS systems that allow for direct free money transfer. Though they should be more usable for day to day transactions, they work well enough if you need to send a significant amount of money between bank accounts.
Your explanation of the anonymity seems like the real value add of these digital currencies. The fact this only applies to the buyer and not the seller is a good choice, and definitely wins over blockchain crypto. Looking at it more closely, the fact they use signed tokens rather than proof-of-x is also a very good choice.
I will need to read up on Taler’s docs more closely. But looking at the summary of features on their site something hits me as an immediate problem - you need to “load up” a wallet. If Jane Doe wants to buy a coffee, it’s far easier to just use a bank card (which may interface through a private money agent like visa, or a middleman like google/apple). Loading up private wallets isn’t a difficult concept (it’s how gift cards work), but it does add extra steps of friction that I think will need to be removed before this can really be taken up by the general public.
It may harm the anonymity aspect, but I think that to get people using it a system that could operate like a tap-once-and-done bank card payment, loading up a wallet for immediate spend seems like the best solution. It would also help alleviate any fears that typically are associated with blockchain based digital currency - primarily of losing the signed digital money as it sits in a wallet out with the bank account’s protections. And once the system is normalised and people are used to it, then all the architecture is there for anyone that really needs the anonymity.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Europe@feddit.org•GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releasesEnglish443·1 month agoThere’s something I’m really struggling to understand when talking about things like Taler, and the “Digital euro” idea which has come up recently as well: What is it actually doing that’s new?
Money is distributed digitally already. When you get a paycheck, no-one is actually moving physical paper and metal cash from a business account bank vault to a customer account bank vault, it’s just numbers in a spreadsheet. So what’s actually new when we’re talking about digital currency like this post?
There must be something I’m missing here.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AIEnglish10·2 months agoFor a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as ‘Palantir says it has given up on AI’. Then I read the article and was left dejected.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"English7·2 months agoAbsolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphonesEnglish14·2 months agoUsers need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•Warner Bros. is closing Monolith, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, and has cancelled its Wonder Woman gameEnglish3·4 months ago“Key franchises”? And they don’t think WW is a key franchise? Out of all their films from the past few years, the WW ones have been some of the best. If they don’t want to do anything with it, they don’t deserve the IP.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•What gameplay systems or game mechanics do you enjoy?English2·5 months agoI’m not sure if this counts as gameplay mechanics or rather narrative structure, but games like Outer Wilds, Fez, Tunic, where the exploration and discovery of the game is the end goal of playing the game, not just getting to the game’s end state.
I’m not sure if there’s an accepted term for these games, but I’ve always thought of them as “archaeology” games. There’s a bunch of stuff, both plot and gameplay, that is hidden (sometimes in plain sight), until you discover it and find out what meaning it carries.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•Avowed entire community section on steam has been nukedEnglish7·5 months agoJust use PCGW for that https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Avowed#Game_data
Netflix’s short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.
In theory (big caveat) with enough time, effort, and determination you could reverse engineer your way around even the worst Denuvo has to throw. For simple streamed content like images and sound you can always analog-hole your way around preserving content.
But for anything where the key thing you want to preserve, like logic, that depends entirely on a server somewhere existing, that’s a problem.