Kissaki

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

For reference, the source file is background.js

URLs at the top, init calls at the bottom, and above that the event registering stuff (tab nav and nav).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Notably, 5.0.1 was released three days ago. So a fix is available.

The first patched release is version 5.0.1, released 2 days ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

With Ollama you can install and use various free AI models.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

What do you mean by Grammarly costs a lot of money? It has a free tier. Which is quite generous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

but "The tittle says it all" /s

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

So very ironic when it's the opposite between them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

mkv is not a file archive format.

It's a media container format. Like mp4.

Both can include [file] resources, but that's different from a file archive having and extracting to files.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No prebuilt binary releases?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any form of audio and video uses codecs. It applies to streaming websites as well. It's usually technological details that is not obviously disclosed to users for simplicity/convenience.

It's possible to inspect the stream and media, and find out what is being used. It may offer alternative streams, to support more efficient modern and less efficient older platforms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Streaming can provide decent quality, but not high quality. That's simply too costly on scale.

Bit rate alone doesn't necessarily tell you quality either.

I suggest you look for downloads and look for

  1. Release Groups that match your intentions (once you found favorites you may want to stick to them)
  2. Screenshots on releases/info pages
  3. Encoding information

To assess encoding information, you look at file type, video codec, and encoding bit-ness.

From high to low compatibility, and low to high compression ratio:

  1. mp4 file, AVC/x264/h.264
  2. mkv file, HEVC/x265/h.265
  3. mkv file, HEVC, 10-bit
  4. mkv file, AV1 [10-bit]

You can consider the triplets of the codec to be different names for the same thing.

You'll be able to play all file and codec types on a PC, but not necessarily on other devices. If you're streaming from PC to something else, that's fine too.


I'm usually looking for 10-bit HEVC releases because of their vastly superior size for quality. If that's not available, HEVC or AVC. In most cases, it doesn't matter too much to me.

A video with a lot of movement or visual detail will have bigger sizes.


If you compare an AVC release and bitrate with a HEVC 10-bit release and bitrate, they are vastly different. You can get the same quality for a fraction of file size and bitrate. More bitrate is often a waste of bandwidth and storage space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From the article it sounded like they were doing reviews, not let's plays. Reviews are inherently and substantially more transformative. They're not merely appending the content as it is played. They're supporting their assessments and reasoning with footage and proof.

 

From the conclusion:

Our research recommends using multi-method approaches to offer a comprehensive understanding of different media, such as social media, in terms of their role as a space for building and influencing public opinion.

Findings related to heightened affective prejudice in Singapore emphasize the need to foster cross-group harmony through interactions and communities on social media and possibly other public spaces that eschew the social and economic constraints evident in offline societies.

We recommend that policy efforts focus on literacy as a supplementary way to improve ingroup-outgroup relationships.

Dispelling prevailing stereotypes through fact checks and educational efforts on social media may offer a more viable alternative than efforts to curtail social media content altogether.

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