cptnapalm (u/cptnapalm)

cptnapalm commented on Rob Reiner has died hollywoodreporter.com/mov... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

alsetmusic · 3 months ago

Well that's just terrible. I went to a trade school for learning audio engineering. One of the instructors always used a day to show "Spinal Tap" to his class. I didn't realize it was fiction for about the first 40m. The guy made some great films.

cptnapalm · 3 months ago

Having been in a metal band and known guys that toured, I can assure you that This is Spinal Tap is a real life depiction of being in a metal band.

cptnapalm commented on The RAM shortage comes for us all jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

stevenjgarner · 3 months ago

My understanding is that this is primarily hitting DDR5 RAM (or better). With prices so inflated, is there an argument to revert and downgrade systems to DDR4 RAM technology in many use cases (which is not so inflated)?

cptnapalm · 3 months ago

DDR 4 shot up too. It was bad enough that instead of trying to put together a system with the AM4 m/b I already have, I just bought a Legion Go S.

cptnapalm commented on An LED panel that shows the aviation around you github.com/AxisNimble/The... · Posted by u/yzydserd

cptnapalm · 3 months ago

There's a flight path directly over my house. I'm going to see if my wife would be on board for this.

cptnapalm commented on Disney Lost Roger Rabbit pluralistic.net/2025/11/1... · Posted by u/leephillips

latexr · 4 months ago

> "Termination of Transfer" was introduced via the 1976 Copyright Act. It allows creators to unilaterally cancel the copyright licenses they have signed over to others, by waiting 35 years and then filing some paperwork with the US Copyright Office.

You have to wait half a lifetime?! Talk about a performative (pun unintended) law.

> when Congress gives creators new copyrights to bargain with, the Big Five (or Four, or Three, or Two, or One) just amend their standard, non-negotiable contract to require creators to sign those new rights over as a condition of doing business.

That’s the sign of a deeply broken system. It should never be possible for someone to sign away their rights. If you can sign them away, you can be swindled of them.

cptnapalm · 4 months ago

Termination of Transfer is what happened to the Friday the 13th franchise. The screenwriter wound up owning the name Jason Voorhees, but not the adult visual of Jason. As I understand it, the F13 franchise owners could have made movies with adult Jason Voorhees as long as they don't call him Jason Voorhees. All in all it was a mess. I think it's all resolved now, but the situation did tank the online game that a lot of people enjoyed.

cptnapalm commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

WalterBright · 5 months ago

I used to rent a storage unit. I lost the key to it, and went to the manager. He came back to the unit with a small battery powered grinder. Cut the padlock's loop through in a few seconds.

Most locks are only good if the attacker doesn't have any tools.

cptnapalm · 5 months ago

Just found out my unit was robbed. The thieves ignored the lock and just destroyed the unit's latch which the padlock secured.

There went Uncanny X-Men 94 through 300.

cptnapalm commented on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content businessinsider.com/youtu... · Posted by u/delichon

n4r9 · 6 months ago

Does the "freedom" in free speech mean freedom from censorship, or freedom from being drowned out? People often assume the former, but the latter is worth consideration.

cptnapalm · 5 months ago

That's interesting. Off the cuff, I'll say it would depend on venue. Like on Reddit, you can easily have dozens of people saying exactly the same thing and other views can easily disappear in the muck. That's not even getting into the dominant view down voting all dissent. Still, everyone there can type out their thoughts in as complete a fashion as they so choose.

In person, things are different. The dominant side can and often enough does drown out dissent. In that case, the intent is to silence. So that would be "censorship" in a cultural, not legal sense which would be hostile to the freedom of speech in the cultural sense, not legal.

cptnapalm commented on US cities pay too much for buses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

Y_Y · 6 months ago

And congratulations to any of today's lucky ten thousand who are just learning of the Principal-Agent Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

cptnapalm · 6 months ago

I didn't know this had a name! Thank you!

cptnapalm commented on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content businessinsider.com/youtu... · Posted by u/delichon

emseetech · 6 months ago

Community notes is better than nothing, but they only relate to a single tweet. So if one tweet with misinformation gets 100k likes, then a community note might show up correcting it.

But if 100 tweets each get 1000 likes, they're never singularly important enough to community note.

cptnapalm · 6 months ago

Fair enough on that. The problem I've seen (and don't have a good idea for how to fix) is on Reddit where the most terminally online are the worst offenders and they simply drown out everything else until non-crazy people just leave. It doesn't help that the subreddit mods are disproportionately also the terminally online.

cptnapalm commented on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content businessinsider.com/youtu... · Posted by u/delichon

sazylusan · 6 months ago

Perhaps free speech isn't the problem, but free speech x algorithmic feeds is? As we all know the algorithm favors the dramatic, controversial, etc. That creates an uneven marketplace for free speech where the most subversive and contrarian takes essentially have a megaphone over everyone else.

cptnapalm · 6 months ago

As I understand it, Twitter has something called Community Notes. So people can write things, but it can potentially have an attached refutation.