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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-22 at 06:06

Anyway, I only mention these facts, because I saw this:

https://tldr.nettime.org/@w0bb1t/113866132514271285

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-22 at 06:04

If you have a problem with being overwhelmed with LLM scrapers, the absolute dumbest thing that you could do in response is to feed them as much synthetic content as you can dish out.

Because, dear friend, you are naïve if you think they won’t eat it ALL up as quickly as you can serve it. You better have the bandwidth for that before you start.

The only way to truly dissuade them, is to block them. (Yes, it’s hard, but it’s also doable… and, frankly, something you should have already begun.)

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-18 at 02:18

NYT: “U.S. to Deploy ‘Extraordinary Measures’ to Avoid Default on Jan. 21”

‘Janet L. Yellen, the outgoing Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to raise the debt limit and protect the full faith and credit of the United States.’

I’ll admit, I didn’t have ‘default on day 2’ on my Bingo Card.

https://archive.ph/h2WL8

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-14 at 07:34

NYT: “Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case”

Story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/trump-special-counsel-report-election-jan-6.html

🚨PDF OF THE REPORT:

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/76c2c1e8fe2e5ae7/d2d77a9c-full.pdf

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-13 at 21:08

Reading some other posts here today, I was reminded of the computer that “ran” my Middle School’s library: an Apple ][ with light pen (for scanning barcodes), and a custom software package.

If you ran the lightpen test in the program’s main menu, the package would more-or-less immediately drop to Apple BASIC, losing all of the day’s transactions.

Guess how I found that out….

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-12 at 08:13

Here in the States, if you were looking for big-budget sci-fi spectaculars… yeah, you weren’t going to find them on PBS, which is where this program aired originally.

If you were looking for good writing, direction, and interesting ideas… you knew that imported programs like these would deliver.

(And still do.)

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-12 at 08:08

Watched the 1981 BBC version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy this evening … which I literally haven’t seen since I was a boy.

Still entertaining, and rather briskly paced.

The budget, in seemingly typical fashion for many BBC productions at this time, could be guessed to be in the hundreds of pounds… total… and it shows on screen. 😂

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-11 at 03:04

I’m starting to hear from people who lived in Altadena.

Thankfully, they’re alive.

But they’ve all lost everything.

My heart goes out to them.

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-11 at 01:48

For the record, I think the picture is hilarious, but the bluesky “skeet” that goes with it … yeah, heavily self-defeating.

Also: won’t fix 608/708 caption display, BUT WILL do “AI Subtitles”? GTFO jokers

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-11 at 01:46

Group: “Why doesn’t anyone take us seriously?”

Group photo:

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-06 at 01:34

ROFL “the 4chan dating app."

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-05 at 06:07

P.S. We ended up watching this film, because the vast majority of the films available on Cramazon Prime (that were made in the last 5+ years) are straight-up-garbage that aren’t worth anyone’s time.

As I like to tell people, if you want to know part of the reason why the “entertainment industry” can’t seem to make any money, look at the slate of films that Amazon makes available to their customers.

If they [industry professionals] wouldn’t watch them, why should paying audiences?

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-05 at 06:00

While watching the film, I couldn’t help but wonder if the early mall scene was shot at what is now called the Westfield Culver City**, but it was actually shot at the former Sherman Oaks Galleria.

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• • Formerly known as the Fox Hills Mall. I’m actually wayyy-tooo-familiar with this place, as it was quite literally the closest place for me to walk to, and get a quick bite to eat the last time that I was sequestered at a hotel while working in L.A.

I got food poisoning from that hotel’s food.

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-05 at 05:53

Tonight, we watched “Commando” (1985).

Completely, utterly, & knowingly ridiculous action film that delivers all the hits, while being a complete parody of the genre. In other words, it’s highly entertaining example of the 80s Action Film. Also features a young Alissa Milano, and Rae Dawn Chong in a notable supporting performance (one of many in her career).

The costume department gets a nod for Bennett’s “chain mail,” which is actually knitted/crocheted grey wool… which is clear as day in HD.

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-05 at 02:15

Anyhoo… the “P2” version of the portable editor looks as though it was slightly smaller and cuter than the DVCPRO version that preceded it.

(from Panasonic’s April 2014 brochure)

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-05 at 02:04

LOL NO, it’s even worse - apparently an image format that macOS no longer supports.

This is how the same element looks on one of our High Sierra systems.

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-05 at 02:00

So, I’m looking at a PDF created by Panasonic in 2005/2006 which discusses their entire ecosystem of “P2” cameras and related products (for TV/Film production) … and all of the product images are missing.

WTF. Were they… dynamically accessed from the web???

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-03 at 21:18

Item number three deserves some explanation / expansion.

When this tape was being recorded, someone moved the antenna so that the signal wasn’t optimum for this channel (probably because they were watching something else on another channel). The resultant recording for this period of time has perfect sound, but the picture is … close to black.

The Line 21 captions - maxing out ~7.5 - 10 IRE - are copyable… with effort… and errors. Recapturing could improve quality, making it worth the time.

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-03 at 21:10

On today’s videotape digitization to-do list:

1. Finish letting the equipment warm up while I do other things. :)

2. Digitize the last home-recorded tape I picked up weeks ago. (So I can get some more. 😂)

3. Investigate whether or not I can “gain up” the ~33 minute segment of bad reception in the CBS TV Movie from 1984 that I digitized last night.

4. Plan backup of existing digitized videos, and subsequent digitization of the half-dozen or so commercial tapes we currently have piled up.

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-01 at 01:32

All that being said, this is very weird - and something I’ve not seen with any frequency before today.

I’ll have to see if there are any other irregularities in the compiled tracking data, on my RAID.

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