Kalcifer

joined 2 years ago
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

[…] Me: "I don't work here"

This gives me big "ok boomer" vibes. Instead of this, imo, snarky response, could you not simply politely say that you prefer a human cashier?

Remember the human.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Neat! Reminds me of Geryuganshoop from One Punch Man ^[1]^:

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References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Geryuganshoop". Publisher: ["Fandom". "One Punch Man Wiki".]. Accessed: 2025-08-09T06:12Z. URI: https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Geryuganshoop.
  2. Type: Image. Title: "Geryuganshoop Profile Picture". Author: "Pyaasa". Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "Geryuganshoop". Publisher: ["Fandom". "Top-Strongest Wikia".]. URI: https://topstrongest.fandom.com/wiki/Geryuganshoop.]. Accessed: 2025-08-09T06:17Z. URI: https://topstrongest.fandom.com/wiki/Geryuganshoop?file=Geryuganshoop_Profile_Picture.jpg.
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In B.C.'s defense, imo, most of the land to its North is either too mountainous ^[1][2.1]^ or has too harsh a climate ^[2.2]^ to be realistically inhabitable. I think it's also worth noting that 15.4% of B.C.'s lands are protected ^[3]^.

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  1. Type: Document (PDF). Title: "BC Fact Sheet". Publisher: "Super, Natural British Columbia". Accessed: 2025-08-09T04:10Z. URI: https://www.hellobc.com/content/uploads/2019/04/TM_BCFactSheet.pdf.
    • Type: Text. Location: [§"The Land". ¶2]

      Ten mountain ranges push west from the Canadian Rockies in the east to the Coast Mountains and the Vancouver Island Ranges in the west, and ancient temperate rainforests hug the coast. In between are rolling grasslands, lush valleys, tens of thousands of lakes, glacier-fed rivers, and even semi-arid desert. Mountains cover 75% of the province.

  2. Type: Article. Title: "British Columbia". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-08-08T03:18Z. Accessed: 2025-08-09T05:48Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia.
    1. Type: Image. Filename: "BC_Elevation.svg". Author: "Awmcphee". Published: 2024-04-27. Location: §"Geography". URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BC_Elevation.svg.

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    2. Type: Image. Filename: "British_Columbia_Köppen.svg". Author: "Adam Peterson". Published: 2016-08-12. Location: [§"Geography"§"Climate"]. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Columbia_K%C3%B6ppen.svg.

  3. Type: Article. Title: "Protected Lands & Waters in B.C.". Publisher: ["Environmental Reporting BC". "Ministry of Environment". "British Columbia".]. Published: 2016-06. Accessed: 2025-08-09T05:59Z. URI: https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/land/protected-lands-and-waters.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.

      […] Protected lands and waters cover 15.4% of B.C.'s land base and 3.2% of B.C.'s marine areas. […]

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

How so? It wasn't my intent to misrepresent your words. That being said, I do apologize if I've accidentally (and potentially carelessly) misinterpreted what you said. I'll gladly fix my comment if you help me understand where my interpretation went wrong 😊

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

[…] read how to read a book […]

Thank you for the recommendation 😊

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I look at any individual’s history when they post anything sketchy and contextualize. […]

I am concerned that this would distill down to argumentum ad hominem.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

[misinformation] is hardly an issue on this platform […]

In my opinion, that statement of yours is, ironically, responsible for why there may be an issue with misinformation. You state it with certainty, yet you provide no source to back up your claim. It is my belief that this sort of conjecture is at the source of misinformation issues.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media? […]

Regarding my own content: I do my best to cite any claim that I make, no matter how trivial. If I make a statement for which I lack confidence in its veracity, I do my best to convey that uncertainty. I do my best to convey explicitly whether a statement is a joke, or sarcasm.

Fundamentally, my approach to this issue is based on this quote:

Rationality is not a character trait, it's a process. If you fool yourself into believing that you're rational by default, you open yourself up to the most irrational thinking. ^[1]^

Regarding the content of others: If I come across something that I believe to be false, I try to politely respond to it with a sufficiently and honestly cited statement explaining why I think it is false. If I come across something of unknown veracity/clarity, I try to politely challenge the individual responsible to clarify their intent/meaning.

For clarity, I have no evidence to support that what I'm doing is an effective means to this end, but I want to believe that it's helping in at least some small way.

References

  1. Type: Comment. Author: "@The8BitPianist". Publisher: [Type: Post (Video). Title: "On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse". Author: "Veritasium" ("@veritasium"). Publisher: YouTube. Published: 2024-11-04T16:48:03Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_OApdxcno.]. Published: 2024-11-04T09:06:26Z. Accessed: 2025-03-29T07:48Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_OApdxcno&lc=Ugy6vV7Z3EeFHkdfbHl4AaABAg.

What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media?

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works -5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

[…] Pronouns are a thing that harms nobody […]

This feels like a hasty generalization. For example, if one is experiencing gender dysphoria, we could assume that misgendering them with their undesired pronouns would cause them psychological distress ^[1]^ — ie harm.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Gender dysphoria". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-08-05T16:25Z. Accessed: 2025-08-06T04:23Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria.
    • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.

      Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to inconsistency between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

[…] I feel like the line of questioning is a trying to head down a reductio ad absurdum path…

I'm just trying to clarify your position.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

If a child is still legally the responsibility of its parents or guardians then the guardians would be responsible for making sure they vote in the best interests of the child. […]

I agree with this, but, for clarity, the parents aren't the only ones that could vote for the best interests of the child: For example, a stranger, unrelated to the child, could vote in the best interests of the child.

 

For example, I've come across this:

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References

  1. Type: User Page. Name: "CanadaRocks" ("@CanadaRocks@piefed.ca"). Publisher: ["Lemmy". "sh.itjust.works"]. Accessed: 2025-07-22T02:07Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/u/CanadaRocks@piefed.ca.
 

References

  1. Type: Video. Title: "Playing Minecraft for 1 Minute Everyday - Day 515". Author: "Ohmywatt". Publisher: "YouTube". Published: 2025-07-16T00:37:42Z. Accessed: 2025-07-16T00:48Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3be20822S5g.
 

Location to work on is at X=430 Y=74.

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Hard-Earned Pay (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
 

Image source ^[1]^.

References

  1. Type: Post. Title: "Dream job". Author: "LadyButterfly" ("@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone"). Publisher: ["Lemmy". "sh.itjust.works". "A Comm for Historymemes" ("!historymemes@lemmy.world").]. Published: 2025-06-27T05:38:58Z. Accessed: 2025-07-03T06:26Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41051405.
 

I'm trying to digitize some VHS tapes (presumably recorded as NTSC), but I have some questions that I've yet to find answers for. My current process/setup is as follows:

  • VHS tapes are played in a PV-D4745S-K VCR
  • The VCR's composite output is captured using a generic EasyCap capture card.
  • The captured output is fed into OBS Studio with the following settings:
    • A source with it's device set to the capture card, the video format is set to YUYV 4:2:2, the resolution is set to 720x480, the frame rate is currently set to Leave Unchanged (more on this later).
    • Under Settings>Video I have set Common FPS Values with 29.97.
    • I also have set my encoding options under Settings>Output, as well as audio settings under Settings>Audio, but the details of that aren't relevant in this context.
    • I also have deinterlacing disabled by right clicking on the scene and selecting Deinterlacing>Disable.

With this, I seem to be able to capture VHS tapes with decent quality, but I have some nagging questions:

  1. How do I verify if OBS has indeed captured interlaced? I'm trying to capture both fields, but I'm unsure if that's actually happening, and I'm not sure how to go about verifying it.
  2. Should I capture at 29.97 FPS or 59.94 FPS? My thinking is that, given that I'm capturing interlaced, I would think I would multiply the number of captured frames by 2 as, if I understand correctly, each captured frame contains 2 fields, and each would be captured sequentially, so if I want to capture at 29.97 FPS interlaced, I would need to capture at 59.94 FPS. I'm not sure if I'm right about that though.
  3. I mentioned above that the framerate under the source properties is set to Leave Unchanged. The reason for why I chose that option is because the only other options that it offers for framerates are 30.00, 20.00, 10.00, and 5.00 — ie there is no option for 29.97, nor 59.94 — so I'm using Leave Unchanged in the hopes that it's autodetecting the proper frame rate, but that's mostly an assumption on my part. The closest to NTSC's 29.97 would be 30.00, but I'm not sure if this is an issue. And what's confusing me more is that I have 29.97 FPS set under Settings>Video with Common FPS Values and 29.97 set. If I set to source framerate to 30 with OBS at 29.97, will that lead to syncing issues? Is there a way to force the source to use 29.97 to match OBS? What's confusing me further about this is that if I list the formats for the capture device with
    v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video2 --list-formats-ext
    
    I get the following output (I have truncated it to only list what's relevant, as the full output is long and contains unnecessary information):
    […]
    [0]: 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
        size: Discrete 720x480
    […]
         Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
         Interval: Discrete 0.050s (20.000 fps)
         Interval: Discrete 0.100s (10.000 fps)
         Interval: Discrete 0.200s (5.000 fps)
    […]
    
    There is no option for 29.97 FPS, and, as can be seen by the output, it matches what OBS sees. Is this an issue? It seems, to me, that the capture card isn't capable of proper NTSC framerates, and can only capture at 30 FPS as the closest value.
 

ReferencesType: Webpage. Title: "OpenStreetMap". Author: "Adam Dunn". Publisher: "OpenStreetMap". Published: 2025-06-03T20:13:15Z. Accessed: 2025-06-04T00:18Z. URI: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/167151314.

 

For example:

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/factorio@lemmy.world
 
 

References

  • Type: Video. Title: "Factorio lets fix video #1". Author: "kovarex". Publisher: ["kovarex". "YouTube"]. Published: 2025-05-07T22:24:16Z. Accessed: 2025-05-20T00:34Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmliviVGX8Q.
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NotJustBikes uses Linux! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
 

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