Semi related: A couple of years ago a waste facility in Berlin measured increased levels of radio activity and traced it back to a restaurant where 13 cards laced with radioactive Iodine-125 were found:
Do you happen to know some software to repair/improve video files? I'm in the process of digitalizing a couple of Video 2000 and VHS casettes of childhood memories of my mom who start suffering from dementia. I have a pretty streamlined setup for digitalizing the videos but I'd like to improve the quality a bit.
Topaz is probably the SOTA in video restoration, but it can definitely fuck shit up. Use carefully and sparingly and check all the output for weird AI glitches.
Interestingly the gov.uk website and everything around it is a prime example of software that just works. In terms of performance and accessibility. I work/volunteer for a non-profit design agency and we use the the uk.gov design system and I just love it: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
I don't sites get payed (with money) but it probably improves the ranking in the search results (or at least some SEO guide claims that, so everybody does it)
I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.
Setting this up has become an automatic request from marketing people, almost as common as asking us to setup Google Analytics and such.
This is almost the equivalent to them to "have a CI/CD" for us devs: not having such things for them is strange, almost wrong. Of course the end goal is totally different.
> I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.
Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.
For fairness, I just disabled my Ad Blocker to check, and the popup seems to have changed, but the previous popups were quite explicit about sharing your email with the website:
While I don't consider myself an apple fanboy by any means they really did do a good job with their apple sign in, I don't know the full process but they seem to use an email from a pool of apple IDs for emails that prevent the app/service ever getting your real email.
It would be easy to assume that other oath providers are doing the same but absolutely not.
Yep, it uses an auto-generated @icloud.com for "Hide my Email" (useable in any website, or even if you want to give to someone in person) and @privaterelay.appleid.com when you use "Sign In With Apple".
This is quite visible in User Accounts where I work... while they do cause some issues from time to time (when the user disables the relay address for an active account), it guarantees privacy.
But I don't know if other popular single-sign-on provider do this.
Most of the ads I experience are pre-roll. In FF videos don't autoplay, so I just press F5 a few times until the garbage is gone. If an ad pops in the middle of something, I typically close the tab and find something else to listen to.
