You should cross post this c/science_memes ! Instead of cooking the average paper for call deadline, it’s nice to publish something funny every once in a while.

Just like modern cars… I wish there was some kind legislation that would limit phone-home telemetry to emergency service telecommunication frequencies, and be opt-in only. That way any OEM operating under commercial cellular frequencies would thus be unlicensed, and subject to FCC violations and import bans. Like what OnStar was originally pitched as; only auto dialing to 911, and 911 only, if you were unresponsive after airbags deployed. OEM couldn’t use the telecommunication frequencies for anything other than networking with emergency service endpoints on the same VLAN.

Anything recorded by the vehicle would be required to stay on the vehicle due privacy regulations, like the black box recorder for warranted forensic investigations. OTA updates could also be distributed offline for users to download and flash via USB, like any motherboard bios, so transactions would be write only.

What? I’m using neon with Nvidia’s v550 driver right now. I’ll try switching switching to v555 driver as linked in OP via apt once it available through Nvidia’s (compatible) debian repos for Ubuntu.

https://neon.kde.org ? Not sure if it’s received this patch yet, but it ships the latest version of KDE 6.

For the uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

Are the two Linux devices on the same IP subnet?
Are any of the other KDE connect features working?

For a second there I thought you were advocating for fluorescent green or monochromatic CRT screens of old.

I’m surprised I couldn’t yet find a dummy HDMI plug to spoof a 4K@120Hz capable display. All the ones I’ve found thus far only support 120Hz at 1080p, and never any HDR support at all. I have an OLED android device with 2K screen and matching refresh rate, but the without a physical monitor to stream capturing from. Emulating such display resolutions and colored depths also seems just as formidably challenging.

Aside from my PC, the newest device I own is only a snapdragon 8 gen 1 soc device, which I think sadly doesn’t have a hardware AV1 decider. Definitely a consideration for later upgrades.

I would also guess the smaller range of hardware revisions is easier to keep track of when considering something as device specific as microphone frequency response curves or approximate intrinsic camera calibration values, thus simplifying the post-processing or data ingestion from an aggregate deployment of recording equipment.

While Android devices are probably significantly cheaper, they’d vary quite a bit in terms of microphone, camera, and lens manufacturers, not to mention ADCs, gain to noise ratios and cheapest firmware, depending on what the OEM felt like swapping to for that minor product revision.

Not sure how precise these researchers are trying to calibrate and rectify field measurements, but if they’re using internal phone sensors rather then external AV peripherals, then homogeneity across field computers would simply matters of data uniformity.

Any recommendations for fine tuning Sunshine to match Nvidia’s local Gamestream? I haven’t had much luck in getting Sunshine to run as smoothly at 4K 120Hz HDR 150Mbps via LAN as Nvidia’s deprecated streaming server software, so have to slow to migrate over.

I wonder how health insurance providers would then find ways of carving out new coverage exemptions for treatment to upper lips.

I kind of want to see a charter plot of that scoring function projected onto a 3-axis manifold with a colored heat map. How would I minMax my anticipated score given my current age or projected lifespan?

Also, no one like to sit with their back to the walkway corridor, with other guests and staff constantly squeezing past and behind your seat.

That clip was really short and sweet.
Really enjoyed the hand painted water color animation.
Would also a perfect cross post for Deep into YouTube.

What about a hyperspace bypass?

“You’ve got to build bypasses.” - some earthling

It feels like we’re finally, and thankfully, coming full circle. I remember buying my first digital camera in the early 2000s, specifically chosen because it was one of the many that included USB web camera functionality. Aside from downloading the photos on its internal storage, external storage was optional, you could also use the included software to serve as a webcam source.

I can’t remember if it included a microphone, I’m thinking it didn’t. It also ran off on those small stubby film camera batteries, and not off USB power from the cable you connected it to, which was kind of dumb, and made it expensive to use as a webcam. The video quality must have been something around 140p, and any kind of conference call software was garbage back then as well. Yet the premise of a single device having multi-use features was such a no-brainer, given you already had have the PC USB integration to use it as a point and shoot digital camera.

Modern smart phones have such excellent cameras, it felt really odd that you had to use a lot of hacky work arounds and reencoding over network streams to emulate the same functionality that some of the first affordable digital cameras on the market had decades prior. I spend some time looking into weather a custom Linux kernel could be used with Android to emulate the standard USB profile of a UVC camera device, but it’s really nice to hear that this kind of functionality is being pushed through Android mainstream development.

https://github.com/tejado/android-usb-gadget

Guess it only took a pandemic and Apple to showcase the same functionality to spur the core Android development into gear to match feature parity.

Oh, nice tip! Any good way of emulating that on a mobile Android keyboard? Or do you just copy and paste a lot? Perhaps this could be done with a custom autocorrect dictionary injury?

Related commentary on the take down:

• https://youtu.be/1-PIhsD987I

There was a fairly big 40K lore channel on YouTube with a rather good AI impersonation of David Attenborough’s voice and narration style/scripting. However, I just went to check it, yet it must have recently gotten hit with a DMCA and taken down. A shame really. Though I never got into 40K lore before, or the 40K franchise in general, I am a big fan of David Attenborough, and so that ended up really drawing me in to a new literary universe. However, it was a big mistake by the YouTube creator to use the name and photo likeness of Attenborough in the branding, video titles, and thumbnail art on the channel. I think without pushing that line, the AI voice with a clear disclosure could have kept the channel under the legal radar.

• https://old.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/17b4t1v/attenborough_lore_shut_down/
• https://youtube.com/@AttenboroughLore

From the pinned comments made here, this looks to be the same creators new channel, now using a different voice, no longer based on any one real person:

• https://youtube.com/@Scholarslore
• https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnbGL8Z6KYg