IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You mean the images going down fairly regularly?

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Are you able to tag the appliances after you've huffed all the freon out? I've got an old fridge in the basement I need to get rid of but can't until I get someone out to extract the freon and put the evacuation certification tag on it.

DM me if you can help.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I will always use "M as in 'Mancy'"

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

NGL, it's kinda creepy.

Edit: I feel bad for the flippant answer, so here's a more involved one.

If it's just an academic curiosity, I can understand that. Like, if you're just wondering what all the fuss is about and how some people get sucked in and all that. OTOH, if you're just lonely and trying to fill that void, please don't try to date an LLM.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Having seen you around and generally respecting your position on various things...

Please be trolling. Please be trolling. Please be trolling

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not an answer to your question, merely an amusing anecdote, but Windows used to use a green screen (different shade though) to render videos.

"The media player program didn't render the video pixels to the screen," ... Instead, Windows would render a green screen (or a different color, depending on the version), then "render the video pixels to a graphics surface shared with the graphics card." The final step was to "tell the graphics card that whenever it sees a green pixel about to be written to the screen, it should substitute a pixel from that shared graphics surface."

--Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

Edit: Ninja'd by @x00z@lemmy.world

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  • Shun the toxic people. Block them and don't look back.
  • Seriously, block them. They're still gonna toxic whether you're there to observe it or not.
  • Find a well moderated instance that isn't afraid to show toxic people the door
  • Block .ml, grad, hexbear, dbzer0, and quokk.au
  • Block any other instance or person that centers itself around identity politics
  • Block all the news/politics communities. Just get your news from actual news services. The comment section for most news/politics posts here is worse than an entire garbage dump on fire.

And you'll end up with like 3 federated users left which is basically my /all feed now 😑

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I suppose I'm afraid that having a dog myself would be like a magnet for other dogs while on walks that I might be uncomfortable with or that my being nervous could make a normal meet and greet go poorly.

Yes. Also, your dog will pick up on your nervousness and either get nervous themselves or become defensive, neither of which are ideal and could make for a bad situation if you're ever at a park or out for a walk. Dogs are little copycats when it comes to mirroring their owner's anxieties and behaviors, and even if you deal with your anxiety, the dog may have adopted it in the mean time and you'd have to work to repair that damage.

Basically, you're smart to be asking these questions before taking on the responsibility of adoption. I'd recommend waiting until you've worked out your issues before potentially passing them on to your four-legged friend.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was surprised by that, too. When I went looking for a way to decode them with RTL-SDR, I assumed it wouldn't be parsing the audio but a narrowband data stream. TIL also.

Edit: It does kind of make sense with it being AFSK encoded in-band, though, or maybe I'm just so used to it being that way. I always thought the screeches were there to demand attention (and also be something that headend equipment can pick up and respond to). So it's interesting they're doing double duty as both an unmistakable audio cue to pay attention as well as containing the actual alert data.

Plus there are NOAA stations all over the country rather than centralized like the time signal transmitters. It was probably cheaper to do it in band at that scale.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

I don't want to repeat what others have already said as that's all pretty accurate. As a rule of thumb, just look at the site sidebar for various instances and just avoid any that base themselves around any form of identity politics. Sadly, that's a lot of them, but life is better without those kinds of attitudes in your face all the time.

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