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emma OP wrote

numbers may be bad, but it prominently features advertising for apple's new subscription shit, and also premium templates that you have to pay for. you simply cannot get this modern experience with excel 97.

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emma wrote

now i'm extremely curious to know what motion smoothing would do to those flames.

it's extremely weird that frame rate is like the one thing they never fuck with in cinema. they threw out all the analogue film projectors, invented thx, dolby this and that, hdr, 3d, and all a whole bunch of other shit that cinemas and/or consumer technology had to adapt to, so there were plenty of opportunities to establish a new standard for frame rate. i believe the soap opera effect would go away if people just got used to seeing films in higher frame rates.

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emma wrote (edited )

my favourite part of this is the eu commission downplaying this as (paraphrased) 'haha oops that's spicy', like with all the noise they make about child safety and the need to snoop on everyone's communications to prevent bad things, this is all they have to say about regurgitating child abuse material.

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emma wrote

I've never been burned like this by a piece of open source software.

i have. irssi just silently sets your irc name to your os account name, so i ended up having weirdos come to my house when i was 14 or 15.

also element used to set your public key name to your device name, which conveniently apple sets by default to your account name + "'s iThingy", so a lot of people in my circles got a nasty surprise.

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emma OP wrote

it had like a horseshoe-shaped heater inside. i didn't get a good view, as i couldn't open the kettle itself any further (all the stuff i broke off was on the base), but my first thought was that it had somehow burnt off a huge section in the middle. however, a bit of searching revealed it's supposed to look like that.

there were no chips or anything.

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emma wrote (edited )

i've been trying to disable that shit for like an hour, but the dashboard won't let me in

update: it finally let me in, and now it turns out let's encrypt isn't set up (we used cloudflare's origin certificates), so cloudflare has to be turned back on

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