Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 2 weeks ago:
Locate the antenna based on signal strength, then trace the power and transmission lines.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that at the point the FCC isn't enforcing things by fine, if you do set up a broadcast antenna, the stations (or as you aptly said, the conglomerates) can sue you for blocking their signal, because they have a contract that says they "own" those bands. And they'll sue you for loss of income, because if they sell less stuff by way of ads, they get less ads in the future, and then it's all downhill.
The big challenge is, most people now watch TV either through walled-garden streaming platforms (when was the last time you watched an IPTV or IceCast stream?), cable, or satellite.
Radio might have a hope if you can get it out there, but most of that has been captured by Spotify. It's an ongoing point of contention between my fiancee and me, because I like listening to terrestrial radio and believe that shortwave and HAM are the voices of the people, plus I listen to shoutcast / icecast "stations" regularly, and she pays for Spotify. I can't think of the last time she used the radio built into the infotainment deck in her car instead of beaming her phone to it.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 2 weeks ago:
I doubt that we'll see any result that benefits the people.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 1 month ago:
Ah, my sympathies then.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 1 month ago:
Garish yes, but it was great for color-blind people.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 month ago:
ECMAScript was such a mistake.
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 2 months ago:
Ah, fair enough then. I'll be honest, most video I've got in my storage is still MPEG-2. A tiny amount is MPEG-4. I don't really have anything that's nominally in H.26x
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 2 months ago:
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 2 months ago:
I mean, isn't that first part exactly what the legislation was about? They want to ban porn and make people angry and desperate for a revolution. They're removing the circuses to go along with the removing the bread thanks to SNAP and other funds being frozen. They absolutely must want a violent revolution.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 4 months ago:
Or, in more realistic terms, the internet is already mostly dead. Half of the stuff that should be available on clearnet or the visible web is now hidden in Discord chats. The hope lies in things like Gemini, Tor, and Freenet, but even there the braintrust is in Matrix.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 4 months ago:
If you mean it's the hot sheets and they're never wrong, I don't disagree.
- Comment on The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity 5 months ago:
Techlords? Wait I've heard this before.
No, wait, that was the Teklords. But they're still evil enemies of humanity that need to be destroyed.