Guy compresses Shrek onto a 1.44MB floppy disk

Redditor GreedyPaint hooked up a floppy disk drive to a Raspberry Pi to play a highly compressed version (0.03 percent of its original size on the DVD) on Shrek stored on a floppy disk.

I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage) with the help of a Pi and a custom x265 codec.

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The average rent in San Francisco dropped $1,000 since the beginning of the year

San Francisco apartments are, on average, $1,000 a month cheaper this year than they were in January, according to SocketSite.

With the average asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco having dropped 23 percent over the past year to under $2,700 a month and the average asking rent for a studio having dropped even more, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in the city, which currently measures around 2.3 bedrooms when counting a studio as having one, has dropped to $3,100 a month.

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Trump resembles traitor Benedict Arnold in GOP-promoted portrait

A portrait of Donald Trump posted by the Arizona GOP poses the President in unnervingly similar garb and pose to the famous portrait of Benedict Arnold, the traitor who was secretly in the employ of the British during the revolutionary war. — Read the rest

How Fiesta tableware is made

We have a lot of Fiestaware plates, bowls, and cups at our place, so it was fun to see how Fiestaware is made and to learn the history of the 80-year-old brand.