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monsecchris commented on The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again   prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/... · Posted by u/parliament32
jimnotgym · 13 days ago
> UK’s censorship agency, Ofcom

I think that is a bit of a stretch. Ofcom is the telecommunications regulator. They are responsible for censorship, but to be a censorship agency it would have to be your primary role. Starting a blog like this, suggests everything below is going to be a bit OTT. Instead of censorship we have propaganda.

Ofcom license amateur radio, but spend no time censoring it that I know of. Last week they fined Virgin media for making a hash of converting vulnerable people from analogue to digital phone lines, without regards to their telehealth monitoring systems. That sort of mundane thing is Ofcoms raison d'etre

monsecchris · 12 days ago
The purpose of an entity is what it does, not what its mission statement says it should be doing.
monsecchris commented on Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/piker
monsecchris · 15 days ago
Judges here love to sentence you to 31months for words on twitter.
monsecchris commented on Novel OpenGL Pixel Shader Dewarping   medium.com/@monoclechris/... · Posted by u/monsecchris
mmozeiko · 2 months ago
From what I understand from code those unwarps are just doing matrix multiply to get unwraped pixel location? In this case doing these operations directly in fragment shader instead of texture lookup will be faster. Memory bandwidth is not free. But simple ALU like this (just couple FMA's) can easily hide in shadow of texture sampling that happens afterwards. So simply upload those undistortion matrices (mat1 & mat2) as uniforms and do matrix multiply in shader for adjusting texcoords.
monsecchris · 2 months ago
map1 and map2 are the same dimensions as the video image.
monsecchris commented on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers   reuters.com/world/uk/brit... · Posted by u/alex77456
jauntywundrkind · 3 months ago
It's just so frakking disappointing for a there to finally be a huge labor landslide in 2024 then for their leaders to turn around and be ongoingly in bed just the same with right wing fascism. There was such a clear mandate for something different something better something good, and it's such a stark betrayal, such a vile repudiation than republicanism is ever going to be acceptable to see such a mass betrayal such a hard sell out. To Palantir grade fascist information overloading control that Kier would commit to. Ugly gross time line of no good. One would kind of hope winning elections might meet something better than right wing fascist over-control, but no, not here. Disgraceful.
monsecchris · 3 months ago
Right wing are against this.

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monsecchris commented on HDMI Musings: YCbCr color subsampling, Dolby Vision MEL/FEL, and and5V injection   archimago.blogspot.com/20... · Posted by u/colinprince
CrossVR · 9 months ago
One note missing from the YCbCr color space explanation is that, while HDMI does support YCbCr, the spec requires all video sources to also offer an RGB stream. Thus it is not possible to use HDMI for a device that can only output YCbCr.
monsecchris · 9 months ago
You can, you just won’t get the hdmi compliance sticker
monsecchris commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?   mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz
mmastrac · a year ago
Could you elaborate?
monsecchris · a year ago
I have worked in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.

Belgium took 3 years to process the form for national insurance which caused me to draw down about 20,000 Euros. I couldn't drive my European vehicle in Belgium because I didn't have Belgium license plate which was required for insurance. Rather than working for the first 3months, I had to visit the gemeentehuis every alternate day to push some piece of paperwork to some government authority. I couldn't park my car in Belgium outside my property because I didn't have permission to do so because it wasn't a Belgian vehicle. In order to rent a property I needed a Belgian bank account, which I could only get if I was a Belgian resident, forcing me to live in a hotel temporarily and using that as my address. I required my accounts to be signed off by a Belgian notary, of which there is a government enforced limit, so to speak to one for a microsecond cost 1000 Euros minimum. At the time, operating a British company in Belgium cost 17,000 Euros fee. I still receive paperwork from the Belgian government more than 10 years after leaving.

The other countries aren't much better, and the only country that was easy to start working in was the UK.

monsecchris commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?   mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz
Ecstatify · a year ago
For those who have lived and worked in multiple EU countries, the benefits of EU membership are clear, including the relatively simple process of moving between countries.
monsecchris · a year ago
This is the fantasy that is commonly perpetuated but it is the opposite to reality.

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