elondaits (u/elondaits)

elondaits commented on Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/p... · Posted by u/ohjeez

skrebbel · 6 days ago

> However, in 1960 it was decided that it wasn't a Rembrandt, so people mostly stopped caring about it.

I'll never understand this about the art scene. Like, if Rembrandt was a shit painter, his works wouldn't have been so valuable today. But then, suddenly, one random painting of his is only interesting if it was actually made by him? If we can judge his entire oeuvre on quality, why couldn't we do the same with this one painting? How is it possible that people stop caring about a painting just because it wasn't made by Rembrandt?

I mean, is it a good painting or not? If not, why do we suddenly care now? If it is, why didn't we before?

elondaits · 5 days ago

Because part of the price of a work of art is its perceived historic / cultural importance. Autographs are taking this to the extreme, where only the mark of the author exists, on its own, and still gets a high price. On the other end, fakes and very accurate reproductions, would never be as valued even if the effect as a visual piece is practically the same.

elondaits commented on MacBook Neo apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/dm

hbn · 9 days ago

If they want to get these things into schools it would be insane to expect the schools to also supply everyone with AirPods or some other kind of wireless headphones.

elondaits · 9 days ago

AirPods have too much latency for playing music. You want wired audio for running GarageBand or Logic Pro with a MIDI controller. They could have gone with a USB-C to audio adapter, but then you wouldn't be able to plug the MIDI controller and charge the computer.

... Only a few people make music with a Mac, but it's been an important part of its history, and Apple cares about it.

elondaits commented on Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win hollywoodreporter.com/bus... · Posted by u/atombender

pentagrama · 15 days ago

After the Paramount & Warner merger it will be good if they launch a Criterion Collection type of thing with the outstanding back catalog, going in the other direction of streaming, and producing and selling good quality Blu ray hardware. In my dreams of course.

elondaits · 15 days ago

My guess is that they are looking forward to juicy licensing deals with OpenAI, Google or Meta for the rights to generate AI content featuring Batman, Harry Potter, and other characters in the WB stable.

elondaits commented on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings screenrant.com/stranger-t... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

xxdiamondxx · 2 months ago

Probably a good time to plug Filmmaker mode!

elondaits · 2 months ago

Typically “Game” mode, on TVs, turns off post processing, to avoid the extra frames of lag it causes.

elondaits commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

whatever1 · 3 months ago

Shouldn't these huge platform guys be mandated to offer data transfer-out service?

elondaits · 3 months ago

My thought. There should be a mandate to allow downloading all data on account closure from any service.

elondaits commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

otterley · 3 months ago

Out of curiosity, why did you buy and redeem such a large gift card instead of paying directly? And was this a form of payment that was unusual in light of your account history?

elondaits · 3 months ago

Back in 2015, I traveled to the US and wanted to buy a Macbook Pro at the Apple Store. The configuration I wanted wasn’t available in Apple Stores, and I couldn’t buy it online because at that point there was some limitation in the online store like they only took US credit cards, or something.

At the Apple Store, the employees suggestion (a more senior one, who was consulted) was to buy a gift card for the computer’s cost (~$1500) and pay at the online store with that. I didn’t do it because buying “virtual stuff” for that amount seemed crazy (this was a huge amount of money for me, at the time).

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testdelacc1 · 4 months ago

I hate to be the guy saying AI will solve it, but this is a case where AI can help. I think in the next couple of years we’ll see people writing small functions with Claude/codex/whatever instead of pulling in a dependency. We might or might not like the quality of software we see, but it will be more resistant to supply chain attacks.

elondaits · 4 months ago

I don’t think I’ll live long enough to trust AI coding assistants with something like schema validation, just to name one thing I use dependencies for.

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

eastbound · 4 months ago

> that has the ability to produce, advertise and cast a movie with talented actors.

Isn’t that most of the work?

You get: A lumpsum for your initial research that ended up as a character that people like,

They get: The idea of a character, but then they have to invest billions, build projects that work, tie relationships with cinemas and actors, advertise worldwide and maybe they make billions if they worked properly, but sometimes they make losses. Sounds like they worked for it, and building the initial character is like 0.0…1% of the talent involved.

Unionist gets: A nice story about how it’s always multibillion dollars companies that have all the money.

Maybe ideas are free and implementation is everything?

elondaits · 4 months ago

For over one decade now, maybe two, seemingly every big (or mid?) budget movie Hollywood has produced is based on existing IP: a comic book, novel, previous movie, TV show, or even non fiction article. I’ve been surprised many times by movies which seem original but are actually based on a French comic, or some other semi-obscure (internationally) source.

That tells me that ideas aren’t free. There’s a value to a fully cooked, ready to wear, tried and tested ideas.

As a second point, many good Hollywood pitches remain in development hell, unable to get a satisfying script, or a “second act that works”.

elondaits commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer

elondaits · 4 months ago

I administer a PHP website with very little legit traffic per month, but a few thousand pages probably. The bot traffic is crazy. We're not using Cloudflare for that site, but we're using a local static-page cache... and without it, the site simply can't function.

You don't need to be the target of a dDoS to use a CDN.

Also, using CDNs (Fastly via Github pages, not Cloudflare, in this case) once allowed us to be featured in a very large newspaper without worries, extra expenses, or extra work.

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pixel_popping · 4 months ago

Mostly since the AWS craze started a decade ago, developers have gone away from Dedicated servers (which are actually cheaper, go figure), which is causing all this mess.

It's genuinely insane that many companies are designing a great amount of fallbacks... on the software level but almost none is thought on the hardware/infrastructure level, common-sense dictate that you should never host everything on a single provider.

elondaits · 4 months ago

I self hosted on one of the company’s servers back in the late 90s. Hard drive crashes (and a hack once, through an Apache bug) had our services (http, pop, smtp, nfs, smb, etc ) down for at least 2-3 days (full reinstall, reconfiguration, etc).

Then, with regular VPSs I also had systems down for 1-2 days. Just last week the company that hosts NextCloud for us was down the whole weekend (from Friday evening) and we couldn’t get their attention until Monday.

So far these huge outages that last 2-5 hours are still lower impact for me, and require me to take less action.