You could stream 144p6 video with phone-like audio with a RealPlayer browser plugin and a 28k modem in 1998. Very few websites served video but some TV channels were available live like this, maybe also in 240p15 at double the bitrate with a luxury 56k modem or ISDN. Viewers with slower modems could often download such videos as VODs (depending on copyright because those didn’t have RealPlayer DRM) as WMV (with Microsoft’s proprietary codec better than MPEG-2) or AVI (as MPEG-2 so you could burn it onto a CD and view on a DVD player but it’s unlikely you’d have a big disk and CD burner but processor too slow for that video). DVD-quality video (high bitrate 480p30/480i60/480p24/576p25/576i60, now considered low-end for movies) only became available to stream about 10 years later.

No humans left to draw panel #5

Oh wait, that’s if they genocided bees

unsigned char age_bracket_low = 0;
unsigned char age_bracket_high = 127; 

QR codes can have arbitrary looks even without dirty tricks (abusing the error correction to add a logo or taking advantage of central sampling to color all but the middle 3x3 square of each data pixel) but boy, is it hard.

Examples:
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31694735/18805217 (strings a long number in Number mode (3 decimal digits per 10 bits) to the URL, and somehow the resulting number turns out to be a small even number times a very high power of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkWjzqMbuA (uses padding bytes plus maybe some of that “intentional damage” in QR codes with logos)

It is designed to especially penalize ⬜⬛⬜⬛⬛⬛⬜, which is a part of the finder pattern (big squares in the corners) and the swastika.

I get it. Having a super secure browser installed on a government-issued work device likely raises suspiscion. Use Tails on your own machine.

To make you check and rickroll you indirectly. Iťs an edited screenshot, you don’t see metadata of unavailable videos

fediversesearch.com another site uses a similar Google trick but instead of a specific domain, it filters by footer text that appears in the default Lemmy UI such as “Modlog”.

Be a better husband than AI. Fun fact: you can buy a vibrator and use it with your wife if you’re afraid of that too.

Our family PC has one family user.

Why photograph with a polarizing lens for a catalog? It reveals impurities.

In the 90s, March did start with a Monday in '93 (ruled out due to Start button and Windows key) and '99. But it’s unlikely you’d see TV static (with a decently emulated camera shutter effect) behind an error dialog window - is it the desktop background?

West Bank, Gaza Strip, Terra nullius?

So much “nerd” paraphernalia is BS… This one is ridiculous (one doesn’t get to “be a programmer” by sorting and collecting 10 personality traits as if they’re goals or achievements) but at least it shows varied syntax in the C language: the number of unique keywords is very high.

To show you’re a nerd, don’t go with obvious “look, this is what I am” but use dogwhistles (Conway’s Game of Life or fractals can look like knitting patterns) or to be obvious, some things you personally like or made. Badge with your distro’s logo or mascot, code you actually wrote or its output, wearable blinkenlights project… Just be more focused on your interests than yourself.

#define unlocked endl

Yeah, nobody writes that except to make a single joke

You are correct, that is simplified. The whole line is

int personality = sizeof(goals) / sizeof(goals[0]);

To get the length of an array in C, it’s necessary to divide its memory footprint by the size of a single element!

BTW you can see what appears to be ASCII in the background of that image. You can decode it if you’re bored.

Here are some of the missing pixels:

Yes! The picture is inaccurate, people who need to learn ffmpeg rarely know they do.

Depends on what the angel would say in his schizophrenia-induced converstions. Either they’d refuse it outright or insist on a custom-trained model on public domain religious texts (and there’s not enough of those to make a model with unique, coherent output, so not much better than the random word generator).

You can send a (salted?) hash of an email or its contents but that’s just a bit too complicated.