You won’t believe what it is!

DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room

Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.

He knows the pain

Every so often I continue to be impressed with some of the unexpectedly specific sites that someone took the time to make.

I’m not shocked but highly dismayed that they manage to be a positive number at all.

I wonder, just as a thought exercise, what would happen if they ended up decertifying the election. I would presume some do-over eventually, if anyone could trust the system any more, but in the meantime do you just rewind the last couple months and decide it didn’t happen?

Lost the last G

And we have a congress willing to bow down and kiss the ring of a madman at the helm on all of our behalf.

I could wish this where fact, but it fails to take into account that beyond punches you also need social grace and appearances surpassing Ralph Wiggum…

Despite being comprised of similar letters Lemmy and LLM are not interchangeable…

Neighbor here has one of those for her kids with an adapter to plug in batteries from Ryobi tools. Nice idea if you have a stack of batteries around already that can be swapped on the fly.

And it’s organic too

The fuck they do. I had to go hunt down some tool grooming and using my kid at that age. A lack of confidence and want of external validation are powerful drivers to do stupid things that can have massive life changing impacts.

Why is it that a comedy news show is about the most courageous thing on these days?

Oh fuck off on both sides of that headline. Sure, we’ll let you create more monopolistic ISP lock in, just so long as you’re not making any effort at not being a biggot while you do it.

There’s a technical loss going from an analog to digital format just because of the fact that it’s a sampling of the sound wave. Similar to why Pi has no end and you could never calculate the exact measure of a circle, it can get as close as necessary for human consumption, but will never be the pure wave form. Thing is that even an analog format like vinyl isn’t a guaranteed perfect recreation just because of micro changes created any number of things that could cause a cutting head to be just a fraction out of line with the original.

What’s absurd about the whole argument is this notion that if you take a bit perfect copy of something and duplicate it that somehow inherently something is lost. Somewhat interesting way to consider it, we as living beings do that whole code duplication thing countless times a day just by cellular division as part of living, and for the most part it works without a hitch even without the error correcting code that computer systems have. With digital replication at least it’s simple enough to say that sequence A equals sequence B, therefore they are identical.

Pretty sure I still have some media for mine here even. Software might be a hunt to find where it got stored at though.

Assuming there’s no conversion I might have added in. Yes if you change from wav to mp3 or similar there will be changes. A disk image copy, or even placing a digital file onto a disk doesn’t alter the content regardless of burned or pressed, only the method of storage. A hash of the file should return the same regardless assuming no errors in the writing.

A CD, burned or pressed, will be a replication of the source as presented in a digital format. If you have to covert true analog sound to digital then the sampling rate will have some technical loss, though not perceivable to most humans.

A digital to digital copy will be a 1 to 1 replication of the data, there’s no expectation of loss other than perhaps physical error of the drive, which even pressed disks can suffer from if the stamper is worn.

Edit Source: literally worked in a optical media replication plant back when DVD was still a fairly new thing. It starts off making a glass master disk in a clean room. From that, a positive metal stamper plate is created for production runs, tested periodically to verify the output still matches the master dataset. Once the metal stamper is worn to the point of causing errors it is replaced.

Burned disks are functionally identical to pressed disks in operation but work by darkening bits in the media layer. They degrade easier because of the photo sensitivity needed to let the laser change their state.

Updated: 4/28/2025, 10:30 AM EDT: This article has been updated to reflect that 4chan appears to have come back online, according to a blog posted on the site on April 25.

Short lived but even if 4chan died the various spinoffs, some far worse, still exist. There will always be a place where the wild things are and they’ll continue screwing with society just for the lulz.