lvxferre

My banana crumb cake turned out tasty, but it didn't grow as much as I wanted. I kind of forgot to take into account climate on yeast times, plus I'm not used to cakes so I had no clue if the batter grew as much as it should (for breads this is easier for me).

Beyond that I'm playing some Pokemon Emerald. Mostly abusing RNG manipulation for shinies, and faketime for berries. I'll probably start some Leaf Green or Fire Red playthrough, gotta catch'em all...

Bought a bottle of vodka. Now dumping all citrus skins in it. Some months later I'll have my fun with it.

No plans for Fri/Sat/Sun as of yet.

Sorry for the double reply.

In the short-ish term, I think a good way to address this would be if governments across the globe had laws like "a service provider cannot refuse to provide services to a platform based on the nature of the lawful content within that platform".

Odds are Visa/MC/PP wouldn't even try to fight against such a law - they don't really mind servicing itch.io, from their PoV it would be yet another customer; the problem is pressure exerted by those Protestant nutjobs in Australia, but once a law is present they can't exert that pressure.

Right, that’s why they CAN do it, but I’m talking about why they WANT to do it.

The reason why PP/MC/Visa "want" to do this has zero to do with "porn saturation" or whatever. It's basically "brand management"; they're seeing servicing sites with specific types of adult content as "brand damage", so they pressure those sites to not do it. That's it; if they believed the opposite they'd gladly force itch io to show a dick in the front page.

In turn, the reason Collective Shout is pressuring PP/MC/Visa through "brand damage" mostly boils down to conservative babble. Check this, regarding the group's founder and take your own conclusions.

I don't think it's just a matter of personal responsibility; it's part of the socio-economic system, whoever controls the capital can force others depending on it to do things they don't want to. In this case PP/MC/Visa forcing itch.io.

I don't care about porn games, but:

The fact MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal can censor lawful content is problematic, to say the least.

Mine either. But I did the mistake of websearching them:

• roach bin - apparently some people breed cockroaches as pets, or to feed their actual pets with.
• dermestid beetle aka carpet beetle - they're so notorious for feasting on dead bodies that forensics uses their presence/development to estimate date of death.
• pap smear - cells collected from the cervix, used to check for cancer.

This is probably obvious, but:

The reason those businesses so consistently distort what SKG is about is to mislead the public, into not supporting SKG. They want their "remote kill switches", even if they're an unfair market practice - because if you're playing a 10yo game, you aren't buying whatever slop they released in the current year.

Roach bin
Dermestid beetle
Pap smear

The further you read, the worse it gets.

When I had the same issue, I solved it this way:

lvxVidRencodeAll () {
  for i in *; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:v libx265 "zz-$i" ; done
  pw-play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
  }
lvxVidResizeAll () {
  for i in *; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -filter:v scale=-2:720 -c:v libx265 "zz-$i" ; done
  pw-play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
  }

They're both in a script that gets loaded by my .bashrc. Then I simply open the terminal, in a dir full of vids to perform one of those functions, and I run the command. No args. The first one converts the video to H265, the second one resizes it to 720p and converts it.

Why I'm sharing this: because odds are you won't use ffmpeg for a lot of different stuff, only for the same things over and over. You don't need an LLM for that, you need to spend some time deciding what you want to do, and then storing it for later in a script.

A better analogy would be when you pick pollen from one flower and use it to fertilise another.

...I do this all the time with my pepper plants.

No shit.

Also, one effect people are not often taking into account is that this will cripple exports that rely on raw or intermediate materials produced elsewhere. Making them less attractive in comparison with goods that avoid USA altogether in the production chain. All that surplus value, that would be extracted from people around the world? Gone.

I'd usually say "may he rest in peace", but he'd probably find it lame and boring, so: may he rest with lots and lots of booze. And cocaine.