What’s that bottom panel crossed shape one?

I love having to use 4 words to describe the number 99 (cope)

Emphasis, most likely

I bought a Hisense fridge and Hisense washer dryer a little under 5 years ago and they’ve been working flawlessly ever since.

Damn it I’m not in there

It’s true that they are anti-rights organisations though. It’s a shame that telling truth to power is such a dangerous thing in the UK.

Anything that makes companies lose the slightest bit of control they want to make illegal. If they can’t endlessly milk you for money it’s a problem.

If Minecraft came out today it would be a subscription service or at the very least would have season packs and cosmetics.

If you thought it would stop at children, you’re wrong. It’s about eradicating trans people. They’re just doing it one step at a time.

Do not give one inch.

It’s pretty obvious they are asking if the UK is next to block VPNs.

That said, I will agree that there is a second layer meaning. “These are the sorts of governments you will be aligning with following this policy”.

The UK is/was a colonial power. Usually those oppress people outside the country, but keep the people within relatively happy. Rights for the internal group but not external ones. A form of profiteering and oppression.

By comparison, most of the countries listed here crack down regularly on the rights of people within their country, and this is the direction the UK goes in when they ban protests and privacy.

Oppression is oppression, and oppression is bad.

I’ll quote myself on this crosspost:

I’m conflicted on this.

It’s good that more capacity is being built, and hopefully that capacity can be expanded to youth when the administration changes.

Of course, that will be too late for many youths that have already lost access to care, and will have suffered through adolescence and now require expensive surgeries. I wish he did more, but I understand it’s a balancing act.

To avoid you all a trip to reddit:

You’re right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre’s channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn’t have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that’s on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn’t. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator’s views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn’t excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn’t meet it this time. We’re now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance.

Speaking of, I spotted this on the Steam Store today.

Yeah as a result of this post I decided to look into AV1 grain synthesis again. That’s the only way I can see that AV1 can meaningfully “improve” over h265 right now for noisy content like movies, which is what enthusiasts care about.

Grain synthesis is where you analyze noise on the original file, denoise the video stream and reapply artificial noise of a similar style as the original at decode time.

It relies on a lot of assumptions:

• The denoise doesn’t kill your quality
• The grain synthesis looks convincingly like real film grain.
• decoding devices will support rendering the grain

From a short experiment, I found that VLC was able to render the synthetic grain, but MPV(.net) did not out of the box. I had to play around with gpu rendering modes to get it to work.

As for transcoding, it’s unclear what happens to the synthetic grain, whether it is burnt in or simply ignored. At least one or two people have reported it will just be ignored and you’ll get a weirdly smooth movie.

Typical end users do not. Companies do because it will save them money.

Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality, though if the cost of encoding is so high then just in terms of energy costs you may save money just going for a cheaper codec and upgrading storage with the saved money.

I guess that means people can go and run the reference code and start comparing the results for real now.

Hopefully an adaptation will get added to FFMPEG and Handbrake so we can have a play with it too.

15% suicide attempt rate without hormones

8% with hormones

Jesus Christ those are high numbers.

This clearly proves holding back trans healthcare was never about “protecting children”. It’s about erasing the identities of people who are aesthetically inconvenient to bigots.

I use VBR and adjust the quality slider until I cannot see artifacts. I don’t do anything particularly special and maybe there’s more that could be done.

I once heard of an approach where you remove all grain and reapply it live to reduce the bitrate. That sounds interesting but denoising usually results in quality loss and it will likely look pretty artificial. My tooling also does not support it, so I’ve not bothered.

If someone can recommend me a good encoder or tool I can try that is better than whatever comes with handbrake I’m happy to give it a go.

Having tried AV1, I found that it was worse than h265 for what I use it for: high quality movie encodes.

It doesn’t preserve grain well, and if struggles with maintaining quality in low light scenes.

On top of all of this it tends to be more CPU intensive than h265.

For this testing, I used Handbrakes CPU encoder.

I realise that this is maybe not what AV1 is intended for. It’s probably best suited to making low bitrate streams more tolerable. Maybe AV2 will be better 🤷

Dresses like this are the lady equivalent of manspreading.