So I can subscribe for 1 month, download all the exclusive content, and then turn my membership off/back on based on the value I think I’m getting?

media.ccc.de is a great specialized “streaming service” too, mostly supported by NewPipe (oddly not Grayjay yet). I can understand German decently so I don’t have issues with the bilingual content. If you like Chaos Congress talks, you can also try DEFCON and other ones available on YouTube but I didn’t feel like including any of them because they’re just uploads of slightly different kinds of media, much like HBO’s Last Week Tonight channel I also subscribe to.

Because I manually download videos to watch on the bus or train (thanks Grayjay & NewPipe), most of my subscriptions are for long-form, often listenable content:

Retro Tech: Techmoan, Technology Connections, Posy, Janus Cycle, CRD, Ben Eater, DiodeGoneWild, pannenkoek2012, videolabguy, Adrian’s Digital Basement,The Science Elf, previously LGR and 8-Bit Guy/Keys

Science: Kuvina Saydaki, BobbyBroccoli, Numberphile, Computerphile, carykh

Tech News & Discussion (not always long-form): Louis Rossmann, Mental Outlaw, Brodie Robertson, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Asianometry, Atomic Shrimp, previously Thunderf00t

Urbanism: Not Just Bikes, Adam Something, Alan Fisher, Tramly, BritMonkey

D&D Story Narration: CritCrab, Puffin Forest

Bold channels are most underrated imo

If you really want a prebuilt one, of course.

Person who invented sorting algorithms watching you sort by new “to avoid algorithms”:

(yes, I’m also guilty of milking the ancient computer science vs. venture capital vocabulary joke; if you wanna start a flamewar better do it about “sorting” vs “ordering”)

YouTube versions are already compressed and lacking in detail. It’s really best to generate locally. If the work computer is running Windows, you can use the geq filter.

ffplay -f rawvideo -s 1920x1080 -pix_fmt rgb24 /dev/urandom

Bosses that capture the screen to monitor your performance LOVE this

Yeah, otherwise their enemies include law enforcement and shit gets real

It is indeed a Czech phrase but definitely exists in other Slavic languages (for example Russian is старый добрый, usually transliterated as “staryy dobryy” or “staryj dobryj”). No group seems to have claimed responsibility; the article says

There are no clear links between this campaign and any previously known crimeware actors, making attribution difficult. However, the use of Russian language in the PDB suggests the campaign may have been developed by a Russian-speaking actor.

The name for the malware seems to have been chosen by Kaspersky and possibly taken from one of the strings in whatever “PDB” is. I’m guessing it’s geographically close to Russia but not inside, as Russian threat actors (including script kiddies) tend to take care to exclude Russian citizens.

You’re lucky I’m just logged in, my main account is @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org

The Maxchanism oughta do it

I was wondering about OP’s soft-eject floppy drive. Seems quite retrofuturistic.

Both get referred to as 2K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution

I would prefer 2560×1440 to be called 2K5 but the industry is too comfortable with 2-letter resolutions now.

No, 1080p is 2K because its width is 1920 (close to 2000), 2160p is 4K (3840 px wide), 4320p is 8K (7680 px wide). It’s not 1K, 4K and 16K.

The town name and state is also very easy to figure out, and you can easily verify it by checking where Musk will be holding a town hall today. For each of the most violently crossed-out words, D███ and C███████, there is just one first name matching whatever is visible. Yes, I copied and pasted letters from elsewhere and the width is correct.

Greedy marketers just wanted to show a higher number… That’s why they switched from height to width, too.

By having seen a low-end 2017 laptop?

1080 rows of 1920 pixels each
1920 columns of 1080 pixels each

https://www.xkcd.com/1889/

If 2K referred to the number of pixels, it would look like this:

FullHD is actually a little over 2M pixels.

takes the aspect ratio from 3:4 to 16:9. so pixel density is barely better

What? Screen aspect ratio and pixel density are quite different things. Most FullHD TVs are widescreen and have pixel density below 36 ppi, and while high-DPI 4:3 screens are rare, they are not impossible in any way.

The terms “2K” and “4K” were totally commonplace since about 2010, although not as prevalent as 1080p. I hate how the video industry switched to marketing horizontal resolution (and rounding it up) just to make the number look big.

I know the difference but there are lots of people who aren’t really savvy with video technology. I wouldn’t blame them for thinking that ［🢐 １０８０ 🢒］ is just barely better than 1024x768.

2k and 4k does not refer to horizontal resolution but the number of pixels

Nope. 1920×1080 is 2 073 600 pixels, which would be 2M. “2K” is the horizontal resolution (1920) rounded up. A screen with literally 2K pixels would be around 50×40, lower than the crappiest handheld consoles.

No. They will just use the $10 card and leave. They will prey on the fact that “get a gift card for your computer troubles” is something a legitimate company has done.