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nebalee commented on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025   mbh4h.substack.com/p/neur... · Posted by u/keiferski
kevin_thibedeau · a month ago
> But even by 1984, dead channels were a thing of the past: 24-hour news had been around since 1980

My neighborhood didn't get wired for cable until 1988 and my family never had it until 1997. We had four stations and then a fifth when Fox started. It was pretty normal for people to experience dead channels if you didn't live in a city where CATV had been deployed. Even then you could tune to unused channels when the cable tuner was too primitive to maintain an active list or you miskeyed a number on a remote.

nebalee · a month ago
And game consoles, home computers or VCRs provided ample opportunities to experience this during setup when using the RF connector. Also, the successful 1982 Poltergeist movie had some very prominent scenes involving TV static.

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nebalee commented on Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition   map.koljapluemer.com... · Posted by u/blackbrokkoli
nebalee · 5 months ago
Neat, but England is wrong. The area highlighted when clicking is the United Kingdom.
nebalee commented on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy
LorenDB · 8 months ago
Counterpoint: LTT recently tried SteamOS on PC[0] and found that even without an official desktop release from Valve, it just works.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdR-bxvQKN8

nebalee · 8 months ago
Neat. The printer bit made me roll my eyes, though. They could not get a printer work with the desktop OS that is Windows, and after also unsuccessfully attempting to get it to work on the OS of a _hand-held_ _gaming_ device, which they just showcased as a PC-based alternative to a living room console, their conclusion is "needs some work"? I, mean what? Would anybody expect to be able to print from a PlayStation or a Switch? What would you even want to print?
nebalee commented on Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty   theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
numbers_guy · 9 months ago
I am not trying to demonize any demographic. Everyone tries to cheat the system especially when you have a system that is easy to game. Yes, the most severe corruption is at the very top. Doesn't mean we should ignore other problems.

When you create perverse incentives you attract systematic cheaters. We literally conducted this experiment in Germany. Now the government is trying to roll out a restricted benefits card instead of giving out cash, because people come from overseas just to get on the benefits system and send the cash back home.

nebalee · 9 months ago
> When you create perverse incentives you attract systematic cheaters. We literally conducted this experiment in Germany. Now the government is trying to roll out a restricted benefits card instead of giving out cash, because people come from overseas just to get on the benefits system and send the cash back home.

Is this anything more than a right-wing talking point? There is no proof that this is actually happening in any meaningful scale.

nebalee commented on Watermark Anything   github.com/facebookresear... · Posted by u/zerojames
pornel · 9 months ago
Yes. The data is embedded in the pixels of the image, and it's embedded in a way that survives recompression of the image and some editing.
nebalee · 9 months ago
Does it still work when I take a photo of the screen with a camera?

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