Wikipedia only mentions analog/digital terrestrial, IPTV and cable as of 2020. They cite a 2013 article with this info: “Imported TV sets that are able to operate on both PAL and NTSC, such as those from Japan, have their NTSC abilities disabled by the government on import.” I can’t imagine how they do it on flat screens (it was not really feasible to import a new CRT in 2013+) because LCDs/OLEDs do all scaling in a single chip. Presumably, they could shut down the system if they detect 59.94 Hz with an added circuit but that’s easy to find and remove.

Does DPRK really have a TV satellite or is that guy just capturing analog (yes, analog) PAL or DVB-T2 terrestrial signals that make it to South Korea?

The statue is, unsurprisingly, in Gangnam. Personal judgement of the song aside, it made the district world-famous. That’s enough reason to erect a monument.

NFC implants are expensive but wristbands are not. Maybe that could work… I wonder if they make some that don’t look like mini watches, maybe a strap with a fashionably integrated chip and antenna?

I don’t know either if lack of a slash after domain makes for an invalid URL, I think they will just work, similarly you can just type “time.gov” into the address bar and the browser knows to try HTTPS on port 443 and HTTP on port 80, and request the document path “/” (explicitly, this is “https://time.gov/”). Lemmy and Fennec automatically add trailing slashes to them, apparently. However, you can cheat that by creating a hyperlink whose display text is “https://time/.<zwsp>gov” where “<zwsp>” is a zero-width space.

By the way, “www.” is a subdomain like any other, but people tend to add/remove it at will so it is considered good practice to make a redirect, or point the DNS A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) records to the same server, and mark one copy as “canonical” (this is required by search engines). Yet, there are many servers that only work with or without “www.”, and possibly some where the content differs.

Edit: that “explicit” URL got the port (:443) edited out by Lemmy!

You don’t have to print on temporary tattoo paper. Use regular paper and scissors to create a wristband. That is enough to test if the geometry is good enough for the scanner.

Yeah, at 1 mm per pixel, this will not last long.

How about an NFC implant? They can point to URLs too…

Nah, it’s 30%, and very much depends on how the damage is laid out.

• The corner squares (finder patterns) must keep a ⬜⬛⬜⬛⬛⬛⬜⬛⬜ cross-section at most angles. Most readers will accept even round ones. This applies to the smaller squares (alignment patterns) on larger QR codes too.
• The zebra strips ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛ (“timing patterns” if you’re a nerd) connecting the finder patterns must remain intact. Very few readers can correct for errors in that.
• At this point, a good reader will be able to detect the QR code’s position in the image and its resolution (“version” if you consume ISO propaganda), and thus calculate the location of every pixel (“element”, ditto). Each of those will usually be sampled at a radius of around ⅓ of the distance between them. This allows for slightly wavy codes but also codes with rounded pixels or even unrelated content in the edges. (For the record, this is lazy and I prefer this version of the concept that uses almost up-to-spec QR codes.) Google Lens is more sophisticated than just using a 3D perspective transform, as I already mentioned.
• One line of pixels around finder patterns is necessary for decoding (mask and ECC level info) and has basically no error correction so it should be also clear except the ⅓²=⅑ trick described above.
• The data is stored with robust Reed-Solomon correction, which is bytewise. You can safely cover about half of the advertised recoverable area with contiguous damage anywhere except the sections mentioned above. Still, you can damage more area (and reach the advertised percentage) by taking several things into account:
  • Know how the data is laid out in the specific QR resolution, and keep in mind that Reed-Solomon is bytewise. Thus, you want to damage as few bytes as possible, and for most total area, the strategy is to ruin all 8 bits in each. Without deeper analysis (looking up the byte layout), a good rule of thumb is that vertical damage aligned to an even number of columns from the right (skipping Column 7 with the vertical zebra stripe and thus no data) is likely to ruin the least amount of bytes partially.
    • Looking up the byte layout will also reveal that there are probably 1-7 unused pixels in the leftmost two columns (marked “X” in the image), probably arranged like ⡿ in the very top of the data portion (Row 10 and below) or ​⣷ in the very bottom (Row 9 from last anď above). These can be damaged without consequence!
  • Damage whose very dark spots line up with original black pixels (and vice versa) does not really count. Keep in mind that while using this strict definition of damage results in way fewer damaged bits, those are most likely not contiguous, so only a few 8-bit bytes will remain intact through this.

Print one out at 1:1 scale and wrap it around your wrist, then test it. Curved surfaces are challenging for QR code readers. AFAIK Google Lens is one of the best ones (it will follow edges of pixels in wavy codes) but you’ll want any old open source one to work.

https:​//time.​gov

Yes it’s already scannable…

Why wouldn’t it be? I’ve drawn 2 QR codes on graph paper already and of course they work.

Edit: a hyperlink with ZWSP is needed to remove the trailing slash

Omarchy is just opinionated Arch…
…by a guy whose opinions include

• Google Contacts, Messages and Photos, ChatGPT web app, Zoom, X, WhatsApp, Discord and RetroArch should be preinstalled but not Steam
• screensavers with agressive OMARCHY theming should be enabled by defaut
• People who criticize ICE should be deported

PLEASE DON’T starve the owl! There is another way: metabolism rate is proportional to the number of O₂ + hydrocarbons → CO₂ + H₂O reactions in the body, which can be measured as the amount of CO₂ created during respiration. For humans, the CO₂ concentration in exhaled air is close to constant, so by inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth into a bag (and not consciously hyper- or hypoventilating), one can get a very good measurement of one’s metabolism rate in different scenarios (and the lag is seconds, not hours for nutrition!). This is obviously way more difficult to do with a flying owl (even in a wind tunnel) but perhaps a surgically inserted airflow meter could work, or a closed-loop wind tunnel with very precise measurement of O₂/CO₂ levels. Yes, a flying owl has CO₂ emissions, and so does a running human, but way less than a combustion engine.

Another idea is to measure the carbon and water emitted as weight loss (yes, you lose weight by breathing) but there are other factors that could skew the results such as sweat evaporation, skin shedding etc.

Wordpress makes kitchen sink taps now?

I believe that, it is a wide range of LCD TVs from pocket models to projection monsters.

Nah, just 1080i. And this will fill the screen (in fact, with slight overscan) but obviously native resolution is better.

Some Bravia models had 6 analog inputs (not counting VGA+3.5mm), at least one of which was a full-featured SCART port with RGB support and AV output to the VCR. And interlaced content worked seamlessly, and probably looked better than on modern TVs.

Objectively stupid way of saying “7 out of 9” or “78%”.

Yup, my Sony Bravia is great for movies except some quirks:

• takes over 10 seconds to sync to HDMI
• panel is 1366×768 but only 1360×768 is accessible over HDMI (it can be shifted up to 3 pixels left/right though)
• its LUT for color brightness is all messed up with RGB HDMI signals, the lowest 30 or so brightness steps map to full black and then the brightness takes off steeply. A YCbCr-capable GPU is needed to correct this (an inverse LUT is techniclly possible but will not compensate for the awfully giant steps in dark areas unless the GPU also adds dithering).

This arrangement does not hålt the hönking though

There is a shitty 2007 TV movie by ČT Studio Brno (at this point, “shitty” is redundant) Kája a Zabi, where the protagonist, little boy Kája, mashes his keyboard in frustration, causing an off-brand Lara Croft to appear IRL. I haven’t seen the movie but she allegedly speaks broken Czech in a weirdly modulated voice, and keeps asking who Kája wants her to kill (“zabít”, hence the nickname she gets). I assume she is just about as psychopathic as Lara.

Jarrod Radnich’s piano arrangenent for He’s a Pirate ends with the “Sit on lower half of the keyboard” instruction. This is a good approximation of what the male portion of the polycule will sound like.

Edit: of course someone filmed themselves pressing all of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4wn70d9ML8