• @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1153 months ago

    you focus on that popup and ignore all the crank shit that is on this page

    yes a piece of granite (?) with $60 pricetag put on my amplifier COMPLETELY changes how my vinyls sound like

    statements dreamed of by the utterly deranged

  • @Daxtron2@startrek.website
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    1113 months ago

    All this does is infuriate actual users trying to use your site. Content thieves will just download it via a script or curl and you won’t be able to do anything about it.

  • @dan@upvote.au
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    1083 months ago

    I always found these anti-right-click scripts funny since they usually don’t block Ctrl+S to save the page, Ctrl+U to view source, or Ctrl+P to print (or these days, F12 to open the browser dev tools)

    • @jayandp@sh.itjust.works
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      553 months ago

      My personal favorite is Ctrl+Shift+C which brings up Dev tools in selection mode, so you can click on the picture or whatever and be taken straight to its HTML code.

      • @Faresh@lemmy.ml
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        63 months ago

        It also is a bit annoying that that is the keybinding, because whenever I have to copy something from the browser to the terminal, I must remind myself not to do Ctrl-shift-c as I would in the terminal.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        But then you find that website used JavaScript to calculate URLs to the actual website content for which wget is no match.

        Or it’s just otherwise JavaScript-dependent website. Wget can’t parse that.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      I can take a screenshot and then have it automatically OCR the text. Hell, I can take a picture with my phone of my chicken scratch handwriting and have it OCR.

      And as someone who remembers buying OCR software from OfficeMax for $40 that barely worked, that’s pretty amazing.

      • @dan@upvote.au
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        63 months ago

        What are you using to OCR screenshots? I have lots of old screenshots and I’d love to OCR them and find notable things I worked on and took a screenshot of.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          I have an iPhone and it just sorta does it automatically. If it thinks there’s text it will put yellow corners around it and let me copy it to my clipboard. On my Mac I can just start selecting text and it will figure it out.

    • @XTL@sopuli.xyz
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      Or reader mode or page info or… well, anything. All it does is annoy the user when tripped.

    • @Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz
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      513 months ago

      Considering they think putting rocks on top of your playing equipment changes the sound, their work has negative value.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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        283 months ago

        Technically, a weight on top of AV equipment’s cases will change the resonant properties of the chassis but that does not produce audible effects unless it’s on the speaker cone. The author considers this and dismisses the possibility because “rocks not heavy enough”.

        Also, a sufficiently large rock will affect the performance of any Hi-Fi equipment.

      • @wabafee@lemmy.world
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        Sometimes I think the whole industry of audiophile is just a bunch of baloney. Reminds of chifi IEM the KZ ZEX pro or something where people were praising for the improve sound and more drivers. Turns out only 1 driver is used and the rest are just there to justify increase in the price. It being no different than their cheaper version.

        • @bassomitron@lemmy.world
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          163 months ago

          Audiophiles are 100% targeted with tons of nonsense products, mainly because sound is such a subjective thing beyond a certain level. That’s not to say all hifi products are placebo-driven, just that the industry is rife with them.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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          103 months ago

          Well, my cheap Bluetooth speaker vibrates terribly and weighing it down helps. This will not help devices which already have vibration-preventing features, such as rubber feet or acoustics-aware housing design. And only some rocks will wobble depending on the base shape and point of mass.

          • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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            I planned on getting my dad a sound bar for his TV on his birthday because the TV he uses, the plastic grill over the speaker vibrates something fierce and it sounds like absolute garbage any time something with any amount of bass plays. But maybe I can just glue some rocks to it 🤔

            • @franzfurdinand@lemmy.world
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              113 months ago

              When I hear “glue rocks to it”, I feel the urge to post the steering wheel picture. Because that one lives in my head rent free.

              It’s only tangentially relevant, but still.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      43 months ago

      He could afford hundreds of dollars’ worth of placebo just for this single article. Either there’s an undisclosed sponsorship deal, or he has enough money to fuel all his means of self-delusion hobbies.

  • Crass Spektakel
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    653 months ago

    In my whole life I never bought digital audio or video content on vinyl, VHS, CD, DVD, Blueray. Never ever. It sounds as weird to me like paying for air to breath.

    But one day I visited a live concert of a small band which I loved as a teenager. After the show I met with their drummer, gave him €200 cash and said “You know, when I was young you were cool about kids copying your music without paying. You told us if we like you music we can enjoy it. And if we can afford it, we can pay you. Back then I couldn’t. Today I can.”

    And so I paid them five times as much as I saved back then by copying their music.

  • @Betch@lemmy.world
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    Don’t get scammed with audiophile rocks. I’ve done my research and found out that audiophile rock salt does the exact same thing and it is MUCH cheaper! Feel free to copy this and spread the word!

      • @Betch@lemmy.world
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        293 months ago

        … Jesus fucking christ. My research is invalid. I’m going to have to start all over again. 🤬

    • riquisimo
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      223 months ago

      Dang that sounds so good I can hear it in the image.

        • @myster0n@feddit.nl
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          163 months ago

          The science behind it is that it sounds crunchy because the rock salt draws out the moisture from the music. You will have to replace the salt on a regular basis though - depending on how much music you listen to.

          • @Betch@lemmy.world
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            73 months ago

            Yeah that’s true but still, I listen to a lot of really wet and moist music and even then. For the price of one good quality audiophile rock I can have a lifetime supply of rock salt for both audio and seasoning purposes.

      • @Betch@lemmy.world
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        63 months ago

        No no, I’m not like that, I promise. I understand your skepticism. It saddens me that this is where we’re at today but I understand.

    • Canadian_Cabinet
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      43 months ago

      You’re doing it wrong. You need to match the type and size of the rock to your headphone impedance, this is common knowledge man

      • @Betch@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        I would need a boulder yo. My headphones have an impedence of 170,000 ohms. This will have to do.

          • @Betch@lemmy.world
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            33 months ago

            Urgh god damn it. Yeah I just called my contractor, he’s gonna come bust a hole in my ceiling on Tuesday morning. Salt boulder will be dropped in by Friday.

      • @Betch@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        Sorry I can’t sell any at all. Not even a gram. I have exactly enough for myself, nothing to spare.

  • @Kindness@lemmy.ml
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    503 months ago

    Probably the source of their problem:

    Copyright Infringement – Outing – dasklang.com, isecope.com, headgamesonline.com and technocratsblog.com

    As I See It, News, comments & Information

    Apr 16, 2019

    Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.

    I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.

    The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.

    As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.

    • Olivia
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      133 months ago

      Huh. Wonder why they stopped the warnings if it was so effective.

      • @RatBin@lemmy.world
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        83 months ago

        It’s just an alert() function thrown at you. Whatever it says, it is not enforceable as it is not a contract. But It’s annoying

        • @havocpants@lemm.ee
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          33 months ago

          It’s a bootstrap modal, not an alert. In Firefox you can just hold shift when right clicking to bypass the js events and show the menu anyway.

      • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        It was/is extremely easy to bypass. All you have to do is disable Javascript, or what 13-year-old me used to back in the day was spam the right-click button and the menu would pop up before the script could stop you.

  • @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    413 months ago

    I was about to give some empathy for the dude but their articles are trash and they would be lucky if we stole them.

    • @fidodo@lemmy.world
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      103 months ago

      Zero empathy. There are tons of reasons to right click that have nothing to do with copying, plus he’s a complete moron to think that there’s any way to prevent someone from saving something that’s already downloaded on their computer.