https://xkcd.com/418/

It really is quite interesting how brazen the “rules for you and not for thee” has gotten

Grand theft copyright and literal cybercrime?

Oopsie doopsie!

Oh, is this the reason you lot voted him in again?

Fucks sake. Clown country

RA1 hellmarch echoes

Nothing, you should give it to me to dispose of

Please insert your fourth factor sensor probe to log into Uber eats

Not strictly my rarest

But I remember taking a good while to actually achieve it (FTL)

Oh hey

There’s a whole school of political ideology about explicitly not centralising power in the hands of a few people

I guess it’s likely they’re doing some amount of that, yeah. However I believe the way directors typically approach IMAX is to still centre the shot the way you would without the extra vertical frame, so a centred crop would usually be the best option.

I’d find it hard to believe that they never take the opportunity to shift things a bit if it would make it better anyway

Home releases will almost certainly get the non-IMAX, 2.39:1 crop they’ve already cut for standard cinemas, and it’ll get the standard cinema letterboxing you see for other theatrical releases if you watch on a 16:9 TV.

Pan and scan has thankfully died off as a practice

FWIW, 16:9 is mostly used for wide-screen TV content (about 1.85:1), the effect is more pronounced because cinema screens are typically 2.39:1 with most content being that ratio

That’s why you still get letterboxes watching films on TV a lot of the time, despite us all having widescreens now

It’s partly because people would complain the other way if they only used half the cinema screen to display the full IMAX image. I’m not gonna do the maths, but I think Odyssey being 1.43:1 ratio would leave about half the screen blanked out on the sides.

But mostly because it’s the main selling point of IMAX films is there’s more image than a standard ratio. That more is supposed to be mostly in your peripheral vision rather than where you’re focused, directors aren’t really putting anything important in these extremities of the image.

So to pillarbox that image would just dramatically shrink the bit of the screen the viewer should be focusing on, on an already smaller screen.

As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is always hilarious

This is a bit of a misread from where I can see

There’s more people upset about not being on the list

Inflation is good for musk, it means his investments make more money

Let’s all not be naive here

Bob is a shithead

Authentik is great, super versatile, if not a bit of effort to get it set up initially

Lol the keywords list is hilarious, imagine publishing a list of things that rustle your jimmies.

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities

The CVE list always cracks me up, there’s like tens daily