Sal Godinez™

I’m happier than ever, at least, that’s my endeavor

We’re in the last season of Silicon Valley lmao

Soulja Boy right now:

This tweet is hilarious, but what’s also hilarious is the wide variety of friends and followers who have sent it to me today. From liberals to conservatives, evangelicals to Jews, the straightest men to the gayest women.

This wins the internet for today

the racial difference in payment app usage is fascinating

There has to be some word for this concept It's why designers from tech who design touchscreens like Jony Ive won't put a touch screen in a car but use real knobs Or why programmers don't actually like smart homes and smart appliances at all but want things analog Or why tech people raise their kids without mobile devices Like knowing things so well from inside of it (tech) that you choose to NOT use it because you know the negatives that come with it in specific contexts

Supervisor "I'm sorry we can't sign the papers to approve your vacation days" Me:

I HATE IT HERE!!!!!!!!!! I SHOULD HAVE GONE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Hardware manufactures NEED to start adopting native AV1 decoding

Chuck E. Cheese pizza is in my top 3, no question about it

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

Edward Snowden said it the best: "When you say 'I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide,' that's no different than saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say.'" "Simply because you are following the law, doesn't mean that you'll be exempt from governmental interference in your private life."

How it feels pretending to agree with people so they stop talking

We need a Kirkland Signature version of Alani’s Cherry Slush asap

Has anyone fully vibe coded a tvOS app and had it not be bad in both UI and usability? Just a thought since 90%+ of tvOS apps can’t nail both imo, or still officially support up to the 1st gen Siri remote 🙃

On this day 14 years ago, Mac Miller dropped Macadelic. Coming off the success of Blue Slide Park, this was the moment Mac showed he wasn’t just the “frat rap” kid people tried to box him in as. Macadelic felt darker, more experimental, and way more personal, a clear shift in both sound and mindset. The tape featured records like “Loud,” “Thoughts From a Balcony,” “Fight the Feeling,” and “The Question” featuring Lil Wayne, one of his biggest co-signs at the time. It also brought in production and features from names like Kendrick Lamar, Juicy J, and Casey Veggies, showing Mac was leveling up his circle and sound. What made Macadelic different was the psychedelic, introspective vibe, you could hear the transition from the carefree energy of his earlier tapes into something more complex. Themes of fame, substance use, and self reflection started creeping in heavy here, laying the groundwork for everything that came after. Despite being a free release on DatPiff, Macadelic still moved like an album, millions of downloads, constant rotation, and a fanbase that really started to take him seriously as an artist, not just a moment. Looking back, this tape was a turning point. Not just another mixtape… this was the beginning of Mac evolving into who he would ultimately become. #macmiller #macadelic

Logging in with Snapchat?! lmaoooooo

At one time, especially for players who wanted to open private or local servers, LogMeIn Hamachi worked as a hidden LAN bridge while playing Minecraft. The idea was simple: Hamachi created a virtual network that made computers in different cities appear as if they were on the same local network over the internet. Normally in Minecraft, LAN worlds can only be seen by people connected to the same Wi-Fi network. With Hamachi, friends could connect from different cities as if they were on the same network. One player would open their world, and the others would join using the IP address shown in Hamachi. This became one of the easiest ways to play with friends in the early 2010s without needing to open ports, rent a server, or have technical knowledge.

once rappers learn how to pronounce this nigga’s name it’s over