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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly what prompted me to comment, since the blog that sourced Al-Jazeera also added certain details that didn't seem based on anything like actual evidence. Although I admit it wasn't anything near as extreme as the IDF canibalizing babies.

If we must call out pro-Israel propaganda that makes outrageous, unsubstantiated claims like that, we must do the same for pro-Palestinian propaganda, regardless of how we personally feel about the conflict.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I was also banned from [email protected] and had comments removed for "Re-enforcing neo-liberal cultural hegemony" and "Believes in objectivity in media lmao".

My offense? Saying that a report sourced solely from an eye-witness account via Al-Jazeera regarding another massacre of civilians and aid workers in Gaza needed to be corroborated by further evidence before we regard it as hard fact. The irony is I'm very much pro-Palestinan.

According to the mods, however, that apparently means I have to throw all media literacy out of the window and blindly accept any anti-Israel claims without question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Lol omg. I tried long pressing everywhere except the page number icon, which I only tapped, and nothing happened. I'm clearly having one of those days.

That's cool, though. I haven't been able to find any FOSS app that has this feature before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, that does look nifty, but unfortunately I was thinking specifically for Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I just figured that out, thanks!

From what I can see, there's no way to rearrange the order of pages, though, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

Darn, for a minute there I thought this app might allow you to add pages to rearrange pages in existing documents like Notebloc. So few scanner apps offer this, but it's super useful.

Edit: BTW I was talking about Android, plus if you read the comment chain below, this one does! Just long press the page number icon and drag to move.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This didn't happen to OP, and it isn't recent - look at the report date.

This happened back in 2021 and apparently blew up on Reddit and Twitter, causing OpSec to release a public statement that claimed that the DMCA notice was a fake.

https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-download-dmca-notice/

https://torrentfreak.com/opsec-says-dmca-notice-system-was-spoofed-to-target-ubuntu-download-210527/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 94 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

It's funny that this article doesn't mention the one company that pretty much single handedly created the need for this legislation in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Lol, I'm not saying that brickwalling the mix to achieve a certain effect isn't a thing, but at the extreme levels of compression and clipping apparent on that track, it's unlikely that a FLAC would sound even remotely different. Apparently the band agreed - in 2020 they issued a remaster which seems noticeably less crushed:

Dynamic range comparison screenshot

Incidentally, I saw Sunn O))) live once. I can still feel my bowels shake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Killer samples do happen, sure but vorbis at Q9? I'm highly dubious. That track in particular just sounds badly recorded to begin with. If you have that same version in FLAC i would be interested to see some ABX test results or test it myself.

For archival purposes, though, I agree FLAC is the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seriously? Fucking hell, that's depressing.

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