Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net
- Social media instances
- https://hellsite.net
- Project repo
- https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab
- Twitch
- https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
- YouTube
- https://youtube.com/@bobbydog
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Scrappy queer
Joined Dec 2021
Bobby Brown
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Let me explain this real slow.
1. I borrow $100 from you today.
2. I pay you $10 every day for a year.
3. I have paid you back $3,650
4. I still owe you $90 somehow.
5. You then "forgive" the $90 debt.
In this scenario, absolutely nobody is paying anybody $90. Nobody is being stiffed $90. Nobody is being forced to pay someone else's $90 debt. Absolutely nobody is "getting a $90 handout for free".
What's happening is you have been paid back your original $100 and then profited a mere $3,550 on top of that and we're saying that's enough profit.
This post is about student loan forgiveness.
Bobby Brown
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Share this around! Full zine full of Covid info comics, ready to print by Hazel Newlevant. Please share! #Covid
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'cause all out of song
i've got it down and wrong
i see myself to get
the long all seeing road down
you come and take a sound
i bought the car made up
the coldest man he doesn't say it's wrong
Bobby Brown
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"It’s not that these people don’t know that an industrial-scale killing machine whirs just beyond their garden wall. They have simply learned to lead contented lives with ambient genocide." #NaomiKlein https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/the-zone-of-interest-auschwitz-gaza-genocide ht @hagbard @alanferrier
A reminder that Oculus buyer "Meta" will obliterate your account and all of its contents if you don't link it up to Facebook in the next few days. I may begrudgingly oblige despite not having bought anything, because the OpenHMD open-source drivers in development are really not quite there yet. Not that I'm well enough to use the damn thing for awhile anyway.
Bobby Brown
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This is your brain on #ai: "Subject to the terms of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display Your non-personal data for its business purposes."
Someone out there wrote "as a user I want my printer to steal my documents to train LLMs" without hesitation.
Bobby Brown
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Last RT...
that F1 + Rich People piece is clearly a loving tribute to one of the most famous articles Hunter S. Thompson ever wrote, called The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
So, that's where we're at more or less now; rich people so big mad you can't even make fun of them anymore, in a style that was acceptable in 1970.
Bobby Brown
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This is great: Road & Track hired Kate Wagner (McMansion Hell) to cover an F1 race in Austin, and pulled the story the same day it went up because she made fun of rich people. Lucky for us it's still on Internet Archive:
I just went off the vasodilator today -- wish me luck that the pulmonary hypertension never returns. :)
I was among the first to use it when it became available in 2013, releasing my new videos in 720p60, the best my dSLRs captured at the time; unfortunately, after ten years it appears they've been resampled or frame-dropped to 30fps, so they'll need a re-release at some point when I'm able.
Or the adjustment/transcoding process, anyway; best to keep masters in original format.
This problem is so widespread that it allowed a relatively early online mass-media use of 60fps to create a *retro* effect combined with letterboxing: that of the music video for "Finesse" by Bruno Mars. By jumping into a 4:3 frame from 24p to 60p, it instantly transported you back to the 90s watching In Living Color on a tube television, and yet also taking advantage of a relatively new feature of YouTube.
It's a shame what a massive proportion of archival video is marred by drop-field deinterlacing. The age of interlaced television captured and presented up to sixty fields of unique motion per second, and yet so much will be preserved in only thirty progressive frames per second, often with half the original vertical resolution. Today, digital bob filter and even motion-compensated interpolation (such as yadif=1) have become computationally trivial steps in the ingest process.
Illness has prevented maintenance on my very low-traffic (single-user?) instance for quite a long time, so I won't take it personally if you need to take countermeasures such as blocking it. I doubt anyone will be joining it to spam you as SSO signup is actually broken. Hopefully I'll be more able to use a computer properly in a few weeks and get things up to date. I wish it wasn't the case but I can still barely sit or stand upright for brief periods to eat.
A friend of mine needs a new animated scene transition for their stream and their prior artist is doing other work now; if anyone I know here is in the business of making them, please reach out!
the absolute wildest shit happens to me, i am a walking medical drama. it's fascinating and exhausting and terrifying! i can't deny i wish i could have normal problems! but i am grateful to be as fortunate as i am, and i am shockingly fortunate
I have returned from the hospital once again, with news! We have no idea wtf my problem was yesterday, and they chalked it up to benzo withdrawal (wrong!), but the right side of my heart is no longer super-sized. This bodes extremely well for my pulmonary arterial hypertension, and offers great hope for an exceedingly rare case of full resolution.
- Social media instances
- https://hellsite.net
- Project repo
- https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab
- Twitch
- https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
- YouTube
- https://youtube.com/@bobbydog
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Scrappy queer
Joined Dec 2021
