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New comment by kodt in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

kodt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:45:02 +0000

Infinity - 21 is still infinity

New comment by kodt in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

kodt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:48:40 +0000

Seems to me that hardware modification would be a banned technique.

New comment by kodt in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

kodt — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:33:18 +0000

I wonder if making the game free to play before shut down would allow them to skirt the law?

New comment by kodt in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

kodt — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:35:48 +0000

>(also if you're wondering, I don't think the boundary is along racial lines)

read the entire comment waiting for this

New comment by kodt in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

kodt — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:33:28 +0000

depends if you do a copy paste or cut and paste

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:02:58 +0000

even better if it is a pirate radio station

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:31:48 +0000

So like a teacher?

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:19:38 +0000

What if you are performing your own song which was heavily influenced by other artists?

Also I believe performing covers is legal

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:19:58 +0000

If you steal a book and read it, should you have to pay every time you use the knowledge gained or recall parts of it from memory?

New comment by kodt in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

kodt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:25:28 +0000

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/us-senato...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-...

New comment by kodt in "Backing up Spotify"

kodt — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:52:52 +0000

For their mail service they did

New comment by kodt in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

kodt — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:50:03 +0000

I didn't meant to say no-one saw it theatrically but I probably did undersell it there.

The DVD was such a huge seller and coincided with the format really catching on. The Matrix was the "must have" DVD to show off the format and for many was likely one of the first DVDs they ever purchased.

It was also the go-to movie to show off DivX rips.

The popularity of The Matrix is closely linked with a surge in DVD popularity. IIRC DVD player prices became more affordable right around 2000 which opened it up to more people.

New comment by kodt in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

kodt — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:08:57 +0000

The Matrix is an interesting one because it really caught on with the DVD release. So that was most peoples first exposure to it, not the theatrical release. Even if incorrect, if that was the first way you saw it, it is likely how you consider it "should" look.

New comment by kodt in "Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence"

kodt — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:25:02 +0000

I don't see any comparison at all between intentionally starting a fire and your car exhaust unintentionally starting a fire.

New comment by kodt in "Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence"

kodt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:19:28 +0000

Isn't lighting any fire in the woods during dry conditions inherently malicious?

New comment by kodt in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

kodt — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:34:59 +0000

I think there are a few examples where the bitrate is higher than a native rip however.

New comment by kodt in "Any level of alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia"

kodt — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:20:13 +0000

yes, but in very low amounts. Usually less than what a non-alcoholic beer would have.

New comment by kodt in "The great medieval water myth (2013)"

kodt — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:19:42 +0000

Perhaps, but you often see the myth written as a quick sentence or two before some beer related article. Academics may not be writing that, but lazy writers will repeat it often.

New comment by kodt in "The great medieval water myth (2013)"

kodt — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:09:51 +0000

The myth often states that water was unsafe to drink, so they drank beer. Suggesting water was never drank. Showing that water was regularly consumed does debunk the myth even if the truth is perhaps in the middle.

New comment by kodt in "Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies"

kodt — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:29:30 +0000

I left X because of how bad it got but BlueSky is also quite often useless in terms of good discussion. Recently any substack article posted is just filled with comments about how using substack supports Nazi ideology, no other discussion to be had. When it comes to anything related to AI the comments are all about stealing from artists. It is as if people just wait for the right buzzword to appear and post their canned response. Interesting posts that don't cause any controversy just don't have much engagement.