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droopyEyelids commented on FFmpeg 8.0   ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8... · Posted by u/gyan
mtillman · 5 days ago
Exciting! I am consistently blown away by the talent of the ffmpeg maintainers. This is fairly hard stuff in my opinion and they do it for free.
droopyEyelids · 5 days ago
Could you explain more about it? I assumed the maintainers are doing it as part of their jobs for a company (completely baseless assumption)
droopyEyelids commented on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library   openculture.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/Anon84
dr_dshiv · 12 days ago
A good place to start is Cornelis Agrippa’s “Three Books on Occult Philosophy.” Agrippa was a lawyer and esoteric feminist (eg, he wrote “on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex”) and defended women accused of witchcraft throughout Europe. His “three books” gave birth to the “occult” nomenclature.

Or my favorite, Marsilio Ficino. There is a statue to Ficino when you walk into the library. Ficino was hired by Cosimo Medici (the Florentine who invented banking and funded much of the Florentine renaissance) to translate Plato and other esoteric books coming from the fall of Constantinople. He published “De Mysteriis” in 1497, which paraphrases neoplatonic understanding of Gods, Demons, Heroes and Soul — arguing that gods and demons don’t feel — indeed, not even the soul (“the lowest of the divines”) has any part that feels.

(Aside: This idea was actually referenced in “K Pop Demon Hunters,” where they debate whether demons can feel — or are “all feelings”)

It is an old Pythagorean tradition that sensation or consciousness arises out of the interaction of the immaterial soul and the material body. That “three world” idea is echoed by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose in his book “Road to Reality.” He talks about how the material world produces the world of consciousness which produces the world of ideas (including mathematics), which seems to produce the material world…

In any case, there are many old ideas and nuggets of wisdom that have yet to be mined and discovered— don’t think for a moment that scholars have read all these books! We might need AI for that…

droopyEyelids · 11 days ago
Where did you find De Mysteriis? Any edition you recommend?
droopyEyelids commented on OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography   openssh.com/pq.html... · Posted by u/throw0101d
caryquinn · 16 days ago
This is an extremely import topic and one I'm glad is being brought up. I come from the physical ID and anti-counterfeiting space (think passports, banknotes, etc..) there is A LOT of buzz around this and how it relates to one's digital footprint and identity. We need to think differently about how to approach encryption... math-based cryptography is becoming very vulnerable.

We're building something that even the smartest ai or the fastest quantum computer can't bypass and we need some BADASS hackers...to help us finish it and to pressure test it.

Any takers?? Reach out: cryptiqapp.com (sorry for link but this is legit collaborative and not promotional)

droopyEyelids · 15 days ago
>math-based cryptography is becoming very vulnerable

Can you explain this a bit more?

droopyEyelids commented on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager   danfabulich.medium.com/pa... · Posted by u/dfabulich
mminer237 · 22 days ago
Private keys themselves are essentially just glorified passwords.
droopyEyelids · 22 days ago
I hope you are making a humorous understatement
droopyEyelids commented on Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers   chicagotribune.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/NaOH
teekert · a month ago
It’s worth noting that this industrial scale is only possible with pesticides and herbicides that are very bad for insects and suspected hormone disruptors and carcinogens, etc.
droopyEyelids · 22 days ago
Im not sure we were on the same page. I'm saying that the importance of these agribusinesses is similar to the importance of the military- so something like insect damage or hormonal disruption, soil erosion, etc don't rank as factors that count.
droopyEyelids commented on Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers   chicagotribune.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/NaOH
xnx · a month ago
Farming is somehow still regarded as being some mom-and-pop heartland thing rather than the highly optimized manufacturing operation it has been for decades. Direct farm employment is now just 1.2% of the population. It was 40% in 1900. The special treatments farms and farmers get is an outdated relic kept alive by the electoral college.
droopyEyelids · a month ago
The highly optimized manufacturing operation has made farming into a powerful tool of statecraft internationally. Other countries become dependent on our beans and corn to [indirectly] feed their people or for inputs for their own industries. That gives us diplomatic leverage.

Once you start thinking about that, a lot of the mystery or 'inefficiency' of farming in the USA makes more sense. For example, the subsidies to grow corn and soy but not kale and squash or whatever was in the article- growing kale and squash isn't a strategic priority.

droopyEyelids commented on '70 MPH e-bikes' prompt one US state to change its laws   electrek.co/2025/07/29/70... · Posted by u/harambae
potato3732842 · a month ago
Going 30 on anything that resembles a bike in geometry and construction is not a leisurely activity one engages in casually. 40 is pushing it, 50 you know is unsafe. 70 is a publicity stunt in a controlled environment. Yes, I know road bikes (with or without electricity) hit high speeds in certain situations, but those situations are away from traffic or potential traffic, a big downhill in the middle of nowhere or a race course or something like that.

This is a self solving problem. It doesn't need a law. Nobody is going lightening fast on anything that resembles a bike except in the few situations where a) they can b) doing so is less sketchy than not (e.g. going faster than the bike "likes" is can be less sketchy than going too slow for traffic).

The fact that there is a huge pent up demand for "totally not a moped" type stuff really goes to show you the degree to which not laughing these people out of town has already perverted the personal transportation market.

Edit: The above are Philly speeds. Add 5-10mph for Miami or somewhere else wide, smooth and flat with great visibility. But the cars are going faster there too and the pedestrians are fewer and/or more removes so I don't think it actually matters.

droopyEyelids · a month ago
The way I'm interpreting what you said, it feels like you're dismissing the state's role in protecting the health of citizens. Especially children, who are known to be deficient in their judgement and decision making.

It's not reasonable to say "every parent should learn about the dangers of different types of electric vehicle through the injury of a child in their peer group"

droopyEyelids commented on '70 MPH e-bikes' prompt one US state to change its laws   electrek.co/2025/07/29/70... · Posted by u/harambae
droopyEyelids · a month ago
"Connecticut already uses the common three-class system that codifies legal e-bikes as up to 20 mph (32 km/h) and 750W (one horsepower) for Class 1 and 2, or up to 28 mph (45 km/h) for Class 3 e-bikes.

But now the state is updating its e-bike laws, adding that any e-bike with over 750W of power will be considered a “motor-driven cycle” and require a driver’s license. Over 3,500W? That will be considered a motorcycle and require a motorcycle endorsement to legally ride, as well as registration and insurance like a motorcycle. "

I love PEVs and this basically makes sense to me.

droopyEyelids commented on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]   bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8... · Posted by u/nathanyz
beepbopboopp · a month ago
This, but further more, there are 100s of comments about "the genocide" here, but almost none about what Israel should do. They have a neighbor who just committed a huge act of terror and whos standing installed political party calls for the elimination of the country. They live in a region where their ethnic group has essentially been wiped out systematically in all neighboring countries.

So, "Stop the genocide" and then what? Build a bigger fence? Wait for the next episode? Im generally interested if anyone has an opinion that goes beyond leave Gaza alone and considers Israelis dilema.

droopyEyelids · a month ago
I’m having trouble distilling the essence of your message in a way that leaves us with any common moral ground.

Would you agree that “an eye for an eye” type justice is undesirable? Because it seems like you are advocating for genocide as a response to the oct attack, going well beyond “eye for an eye”!

droopyEyelids commented on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth   twitter.com/premqnair/sta... · Posted by u/rfurmani
fusslo · a month ago
I am convinced every executive and wanna-be executive is on the 'inside joke' of funneling money out of the company into their pockets.

I am also convinced that investors believe it's the C Suite's responsibility to tear away any equity from employees to leave the largest pot for investors.

droopyEyelids · a month ago
This is what it means to own

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