[Lethal Company]

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No way Teams is the most lightweight vehicle around

You’re right. Later in the video, this shot with the same fake film effect appears and that’s indubitably AI (look at bottom right):

The video narration implied this is footage from a rare or unfinished film, though.

Which spoiler works in Thunder?

    ::: spoiler Lemmy syntax  
    <content>  
    :::

Reddit syntax: >!>!<content>!<!<

Are you implying it’s from a stock footage site that used AI? They would definitely get their previews indexed on search engines. Alternatively, it’s been generated on request, which would make it impossible to find.

I put them in a spoiler. Compliant viewers should hide them by default.

The film artifacts are quite unusual (the vertical lines span exactly one frame, one of the lighter spots stays on pretty much the same spot between frames 1 and 2) but I noticed no other red flags. In fact, the hair is very convincing. The eyes seem to reflect different things but her right one is somewhat in the shade and the light source reflection could be different because it’s close to her face.

It’s the legs, you…

Lethal humanoid monsters, weird voice acting (likely not AI though) and “telephone”-distorted audio (it’s not just because I limited the bitrate to 20 kb/s to fit under 10 MiB, the YouTube video is like that). It’s an artistic choice but not a very rare one, so likely not directly inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s audiobooks.

You are right, QR codes are very easy to decode if you have them raw, even the C64 should do it in a few seconds, maybe a minute for one of those 22 giant ones. The hard part is image processing when decoding a camera picture - and that can be done on the C64 too if it has enough time and some external memory (or disks for virtual memory). People have even emulated a 32-bit RISC processor on the poor thing, and made it boot Linux.

Some of them use bismuth, which is as weakly radioactive as it gets, but why? It’s still a heavy metal and might be poisonous if parts of it shed off.

Yeah, I’m using Joplin over Nextcloud and it would absolutely be compatible, the Markdown syntax is the same after all.

I wouldn’t say “shit” but rather niche. Most people who would love a Reddit-like place have Reddit and don’t hate it enough to switch, especially since we don’t have extensive hobby communities with long history.

In almost all microwaves, the control circuitry or mechanical switches only ever switch 2-3 power circuits: motor+fan(+bulb sometimes separately) and the heating (transformer+diode+capacitor+magnetron) high voltage circuit. It can therefore only switch the heat between 0 and max, usually in a slow (15-30s period) PWM cycle (that hopefully does not coincide with the tray rotation period). The inputs can be manual only, or sometimes there is also a scale, moisture sensor and microphone, along with thermal fuses for safety.

I think the pizza setting is just generic medium one with short 50% cycles to allow the heat to spread. The popcorn setting can be much more interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss

If it’s a joke, the website is way too committed to the bit. They appear to also have less ridiculous articles with no obvious signs of satire, host Sunday and Friday service, sell books etc. The “New Month” is probably just something to fill their WordPress template’s calendar widget that they never figured out how to delete.

I’d also love a more diverse industry but not with 2-3 major players steamrolling everyone else. I am sure there are talented filmmakers from Hungary, Kenya, Paraguay or wherever whose thought-provoking, innovative, well-executed movies never receive as much attention as another South Park season or Marvel movie.

This is GRUB’s final warning before you dig too deep in the OS list. Never hold ⬇️ for more than 45 minutes. If you do, make sure you have punch tape with a bootloader available or you’ll have to manually enter machine code instructions to get your computer back up.

I don’t like wealthy entrepreneurs either but I would be cautious about letting kids watch Chinese cartoons especially. China is undoubtedly trying to get a solid spot in the global animation industry and it’s definitely the CCP behind this push. I think they are after the influence opportunities. Of course, US producers have long dominated the industry and churned out way too many rags-to-riches stories but you should not cheer if it’s another extremist group that’s challenging the status quo.

There are worse shows, such as its Chinese bootleg Deer Squad. It has been dubbed into dozens of languages already.