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  • Most video playing apps have an option for this, I know VLC does.

    It was a way of setting up video to save size while not sacrificing visual quality on old CRT TVs. Got left behind as it looks like this on more modern TVs.

    So there are some exceptions to size being quality, and you’ve found the most obvious one. .ISO files are full copies of discs, including blank space or filler garbage data. So a DVD might only have a 1GB game on it, but the disc is 4GB, so the ISO is 4GB. Video discs are usually filled more “fully”, but then there are also limitations with how the video can be encoded for DVD that tends to make the video files larger than they would be using more modern formats.

    All that to say, if you aren’t interested in the special features on a DVD, or the experience of switching virtuap discs, you’re probably better off looking for the video files outside of an ISO file, if the ISO is of a DVD.

    Blu-ray ISOs are closer to space effective, but it’s still most effective to get just the video files.




  • Man, I can’t be the only one that feels like it’s just a little creepy to talk about someone any of us only barely know through the internet like that. Especially knowing she’s literally 18 vs the average age around here seeming to start at the upper 30s.

    Anyway, from what I can tell she doesn’t have much issue getting it, she’s just still horny. Having the collective of lemmy effectively cheering her on probably doesn’t help, even if her posts are legitimately entertaining.

    I remember being a sexually active 18yo. Hormones are a motherfucker. Young, dumb, and full of cum. Had a long term GF who was just as much of a freak as I was. We used to try and beat our “high score” of orgasms per day. I was in no way “deprived” yet it was still easily 75% of what I thought about at any given moment. I found an old reddit account of mine from that time, and it is embarassingly horny as hell.

    So cut the (quite) young adult some slack and don’t be parasocial about it please.


  • I assume you must have blocked the anime lemmy instance, or ml doesn’t federate with it. It’s not contained to reddit by any means.

    There’s a small cadre of users posting fan art of various shows and games on lemmy too, where I regularly can tell at a glance that whatever artist they’re posting also does hentai. Sometimes what they’ve posted is even just the one SFW image from a set. Thank god for the block button.



  • I’m remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about “the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn’t inherently mean everything is ok” after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.

    You need to make sure you’re monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it’s not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.

    And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it’s noise, but if you don’t see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going “yes I am online” is useful.






  • I never said that and you’re wildly missing my point. If the person running your site hasn’t run things in a way that they can tank some news coverage, it was doomed from the start.

    Take this very lemmy instance. The public facing load balancer they currently use is hosted in France. They aren’t revealing anything beyond that and anythung further isn’t something that can be reasonably found by anyone not involved with the systems administration side of things for the instance. The admins are careful to practice proper opsec as well, not revealing their home country.

    You can find all sorts of writeups about countless less than legal sites and projects, both ones that survived and ones that died. Not a single dead one is dead because of attention. Most are dead because the people running it made some mistake that allowed authorities to find their real identity so they could be prosecuted. Or because of internal drama. Or rising costs, like myrient which is closing the end of this month.


  • Oh no, the youngins are on their “if no one talks about it, the corpos won’t know” delusion again.

    Security through obscurity isn’t security, and plenty of sites have survived longer than most of you have been pirating despite coverage by actual news organizations. Your least (or most) favorite youtuber (or forum, or guide, or wiki) isn’t moving the needle.

    If you aren’t part of the actual scene that’s sourcing shit for day 0 (or earlier) upload you have nothing to worry about regarding open discussion through psuedonymous social media. Or people making youtube videos. Or guides etc.

    Pirate sites and fan projects that get shut down weren’t going to last anyway. Real ones arr either set up to last or find a way to continue. Like Pirate Bay and AM2R.