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L on has a meltdown by MoonMelon in c/twitter@lemmy.ml

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

The "Whest".

Facebook posts are peak by MoonMelon in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Your log cabin that doesn't have grid power to start with.

Guillermo del Toro Says There Is ‘Absolutely No Goddamn AI’ in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ 3D Re-Release: ‘We’re Protecting a Lineage of Art’ by MoonMelon in c/movies@piefed.social

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am friends with someone who was pretty involved in that big wave of stereo madness and 3D conversion years ago. There is huge range in quality for stereo conversion depending on how much the director cares and the studio is willing to spend.

Fun fact, Clash of the Titans (2010) was such a shitty, low budget conversion that "release the kraken" was an industry term for, "this is a shit, rushed, cheap job." There's a lot of variables unique to stereo filming and most directors don't understand it or care. For awhile many studios were just trying to cash in on the fad. Bad conversions can, at best, mean it looks like paper cutout shit and, at worst, give people headaches and make them sick.

Guillermo del Toro really cares. "Pacific Rim" is considered a very well done conversion. They even did things in the conversion that you couldn't do with a typical dual camera setup, like warping the depth offset to exaggerate the height of the robots (sort of like forced perspective, but with depth). You have to be very careful with interocular distance, convergence, depth of field, and keeping things consistent from shot-to-shot so people's eye muscles aren't screaming after 10 minutes.

I was honestly never into 3D, but I don't doubt him when he says its a good job. He was probably actually in dailies. There's as much directing that can (and should) go into stereo as any other sort of shot design.

50 years ago today, the pareidolic "Face on Mars" image was taken by NASA's *Viking 1* spacecraft by MoonMelon in c/anniversaries@sopuli.xyz

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Richard C Hoagland: I'm going make a whole career grifting this...

Lemmings who can fall asleep within minutes of their head hitting the pillow, what's your secret? by MoonMelon in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

I read fiction that requires almost no brain power. Either print or e-ink (no bright screen). Sherlock Holmes type stuff is like a sleeping pill.

*Permanently Deleted* by MoonMelon in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 109 points 1 month ago

Actually one of my most favorite memories because the simplicity of the solution using recursion blew my little mind. It was like discovering a magic spell.

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Had a dream I was watching South Park. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by MoonMelon@lemmy.ml to c/badposting@hexbear.net

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In this episode Butters is visiting Niagara Falls as a tourist, but he is arrested for being a foreigner. Nobody cares about his passport or the fact he was there "legally" and he gets funneled into a huge prison facility called "Alberta Alcatraz".

After several scary experiences he is in line for a phone call. When he gets to the front the guard pretends to not understand what he is asking for.

Guard: WELL, what do YOU WANT?
Butters: Uhh I want to make a phone call, please.
Guard: Puh-hone call? Puh-hone? What's that?
Butters: I don't understand mister. I'd like to call someone on that phone.
Guard: Oh THIS? DO YOU MEAN-

The guard lets out a long, trumpet-like fart that sounds like, "fooooooooooone".

Butters: Wha--- what?
Guard 2: YEAH! YOU MEAN- (farting) foooooooooooone!

Apparently this is how Canadians make the word, "phone".

Guard 2: HEY THIS LITTLE YANK CAN'T SAY- (farting) ffhhhooooooone!!
Guard: HAHA!!! (farting) fuuuooooooooooooooone!

All guards start laughing at Butters and farting "fooooone". They can all apparently do this quite naturally.

Butters: B-but, I don't have to fart right now.
Guard: IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU NEED TO LEARN TO SPEAK CANADIAN!

Butters resolves to save up his farts to get his phone call. Several days pass. Now trembling and sweating, a pale Butters can barely stand in line.

Butters: Oh man... I gotta make it...

The inmate in front of him effortlessly farts "foooooooooone" and is let ahead. Butters is up.

Guard: YEAH? WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS TIME?
Butters: I want... I want... I... uh... UH.... ahhH!!

Butters loses control of his bowels and sprays shit in all directions, then collapses. Everyone around yells in disbelief and disgust.

A large inmate walks up and looks down.

It's OK little buddy, my cousin had that same speech impediment.

Then I woke up.

touchStripFingerMount by MoonMelon in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 114 points 2 months ago

Gnutsak

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Time to check your furnace, patriots. (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MoonMelon@lemmy.ml to c/slop@hexbear.net

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian publishes letter to the people of the United States of America by MoonMelon in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 118 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants... Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

Seriously though I admire that, despite all we've done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don't deserve. Of course we're totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.

Reddit and FaceID Verification by MoonMelon in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 295 points 4 months ago

There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."

Darwin was a real one. by MoonMelon in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 169 points 5 months ago

His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin

Real estate agents are never the smart ones by MoonMelon in c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 151 points 6 months ago

Amazon requires gov-ID photo before refund. by MoonMelon in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 108 points 11 months ago

You paid for something and never got it. Initiate chargeback with your bank. Amazon may close your account for this, but fuck them.

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Does using Cloudflare's cdnjs compromise privacy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MoonMelon@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Prefacing by saying I'm a total noob to webdev.

I'm trying to move my personal portfolio site off of Squarespace and onto some sort of static hosting. Since I know nothing, I'm cobbling together hugo templates and using LightBox2 to show image galleries. The blog I'm referencing includes LightBox2 using this:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lightbox2/2.11.1/js/lightbox.min.js" integrity="sha256-CtKylYan+AJuoH8jrMht1+1PMhMqrKnB8K5g012WN5I=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

I would prefer to not subject people viewing my page to any external tracking if I can avoid it. My page has zero tracking/analytics for this reason. I briefly tried downloading LightBox2 and directly including it instead, and was able to get it working mostly, but some things were broken that I would need to debug. Before I do that I was wondering, is this even a problem? Is including stuff from cloudflare cdn like this sketchy? It's possible I'm being overly paranoid but I have no idea.