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Management lingo irritates me the most actually

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TragicNotCute

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Seems like we just need to circle back and then double click into this. I don’t want there to be any lack of alignment in this cross functional group.

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cRazi_man

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WTF does it mean? Are we doing the project or not??

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Sc00ter

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We're circling back, then double clicking! They said it in buzzwords. How much clearer could they have been!?

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wizardbeard

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Roughly translated from management speak: We'll need to come back to this specific aspect of the discussion on its pwn later, so we can more directly focus on this one part.

Could be blowing smoke to get someone stuck on something to let go so the meeting can move on, or a legitimate "this part deserves its own dedicated discussion".

There's a decent bit of good "steering" of groups and discussions that comes out of management speak, but the word choice and phrasing makes it needlessly opaque, and very "fellow kids".

Sometimes the opaqueness can be intentional too, to avoid making someone feel like their idea has been dismissed, or to slow down somebody while they parse what was just said so they can't keep rapid fire talking and dominating the conversation.

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arcterus

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You're triggering my PTSD from the weekly cross-team meetings I'm forced to attend.

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We will be starting a new working group to explore the feasibility of commissioning a new tool chain to assist in aligning our supply chain with our social responsibilities while maintaining stakeholder values.

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wizardbeard

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Translation: Creating a recurring meeting to look into changing to the our processes to have better PR while not costing any money.

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flandish

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my head-canon says a time machine’s only legal use is going to be to go back in time and smack mothers for raising road rage douchebags but… this may also suffice.

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Toneswirly

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Its meant to keep you on the other side of the gate. If you cant speak their lingo, then they can use it as an excuse for why youre not "management material"

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TriangleSpecialist

in reply to cRazi_man • 1 settimana fa • •

I am often torn a bit on this one, depending on the cases.

Don't get me wrong, management lingo is undeniably bullshit, trying to hide how simple what you're saying actually is, and giving yourself stature and legitimacy.

But I would argue that there are fields were the emergence of complex concepts (and lingo, and notations to define them) is a necessary evil. For sure even there, there are people who abuse it to big themselves up, but I also think a lot of the time, either the thing you're speaking of is genuinely complicated, or it's just not well understood enough. Sometimes I really wish I could say things in a simpler way, both in concepts and expression, but I can't find a way to make it so. Not by malice, not to appear to know more, but genuinely because I don't understand it enough yet either and that's the best I've got.

Having experienced it first-hand, I am more forgiving to this (depending on the attitude of the person spouting the jargon) and don't automatically assume all technical-sounding terms are automatically bullshit. They often are, but not always.

But management lingo is. 100%.

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masterspace

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You're literally just describing this meme.

When you don't know shit you think it should be simpler, when you slightly understand it then you end up using technical terms because you know those terms apply and aren't confident enough to replace them, and then once you know enough you get confident just describing everything as bags within bags.

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TriangleSpecialist

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My point being that for some stuff, you just can't describe things as bags within bags, irrelevant of where you are on the scale, at least not without being quite intellectually dishonest and oversimplifying.

I am not saying I am on top of the scale, I am saying I've met and worked with people on top of the scale (and couldn't keep up), and they don't explain things with bags within bags.

EDIT: for clarity, there are things that are too complicated for everyone right now. One day we may understand them well enough that someone can explain it in layman's term without loss of precision, but to get to that point, we must accept that we need to work with complex notations and lingo. Example: in the past, only Newton and Leibniz and a handful of others understood calculus. Now it's taught in high school. Newton and Leibniz were not in the middle of the bell curve, nor did they overcomplicate their theory to make it sound fancy.

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masterspace

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Eh I don't really agree, depending on how simple you're talking. Bags within bags, or dumbing things down to a grade school level, then sure, there are topics that can't be described succinctly.

But if you're talking about simplifying things down to the point that anyone who took a bit of undergrad math/science can understand, then pretty much everything can be described in simple and easy to understand ways.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen many people at the top who can't, but in every case, it's not because of the topics' inherent complexity, but either because they don't actually understand the topics as well as they may seem, or because they lack the social skills (or time / effort / setting) to properly analogize and adjust for the listener.

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TriangleSpecialist

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Anyone who took undergrad maths/science is not layman's term.

I also disagree with this for the record but that's besides the point.

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masterspace

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It is for a white collar job where most people have degrees.

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TriangleSpecialist

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"amongst the people who understand the jargon and notations, jargon and notations are layman's term"

Sure, I guess that's true if you limit your sample, this is not what I took the meme to mean but ok.

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masterspace

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No, I'm talking about engineers and scientists communicating with project managers, designers, lawyers, business people, and the many many other people who work in the same industry but do not have technical backgrounds.

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TriangleSpecialist

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And I am talking about the fact that believing that nothing is complicated and that complexity is always made up can be a dangerous, anti-intellectual and anti-academic argument.

Of course, if you're talking with people who don't need to actually do the job and only understand enough of it, and you still speak like to a specialist, you're not only in the middle, but also potentially (but not necessarily) kind of a dick.

But reading this and your example, and the fact we seem to be miscommunicating somewhat, I do wonder this: English is not my first language, what do you include in "technical science job"? Is it a specific job or group of jobs? I took it to mean any job with tech or science workers.

EDIT: further explanation of what went through in my head, which may clarify interpretation and intent. Having the management lingo example made me interpret that curve as a: all this jargon is just bullshit and you could do better without it. Definitely true imo with management lingo.

But what I was trying to say, maybe poorly, is that some technical jargon, in some areas, is meaningful. Explaining in layman's term is dumbing down. Nothing wrong with that when it fits the purpose, but you still sacrifice something in the process.

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masterspace

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I agree with everything you're saying, but even speaking specialist to specialist, or say to a group of specialist colleagues who might not be working on exactly what you're working on, you still often simplify away the technical parts that aren't relevant to the specific conversation you're having, and use specific language on the parts that are, because that inherently helps the listener to focus on the technical aspects you want them to focus on.

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TriangleSpecialist

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Glad you agree that technical jargon can be used, and must be used, at the top of the bell curve. Be it always or sometimes.

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FishFace

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The meme is about technical science jobs. There are absolutely technical science jobs where you cannot communicate key ideas and concepts without a) the person you're describing it to needing more than "a bit of undergrad math/science" and b) if you try to explain it without using specialist terminology, you'll spend an unnecessary hour for every quarter hour of content recalling the specialist definition of things because, for some reason, you refuse to use the precise word that the scientific community have agreed means exactly that.

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TriangleSpecialist

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Thanks, I gaslit myself into thinking I misunderstood what "technical science job" meant.

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cRazi_man

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I've progressed quite far in the technical science part of my job. I'm at the top end of the graph and encouraging my junior staff to simplify their language and message. Some things absolutely need technical terms, but they don't need to use overly complicated words to say "this has moved up" or "this thing is bad". More often meaning gets lost in using euphemisms instead of being clear about the message.

I've moved up the management role as well and really can't bring myself to move from the bottom end of the meme graph. Management really has its own language so they can say lots of words in meetings with very little meaning. We're in the business of doing shit......are we going to do shit or not?

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FishFace

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Well yeah, but that's business bullshit speak, nothing to do with science!

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masterspace

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Their literal entire first paragraph is about scientists doing it.

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FishFace

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Using jargon for "this has moved up" or "this thing is bad" is not specific to science in any way.

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masterspace

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If you're communicating with another scientist about the actual work you're doing then sure there are times when you need to be specific.

If you're publishing official documentation on something or writing contracts, then yes, you also need to be extremely speciific.

But if you're just providing a description of your work to a non-specialist then no, there's always a way of simplifying it for the appropriate context. Same thing goes for most of specialist to specialist communication. There are specific sentences and times you use the precision to distinguish between two different things, but if you insist on always speaking in maximum precision and accuracy then it is simply poor communication skills where you are over providing unnecessary detail that detracts from the actual point you're trying to convey.

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Sc00ter

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I recently (2 years) got into management against my better judgement. I dont do all this lingo bs and my team scores are always the highest. Its almost like if you treat your team like people, and peers, they respect you and WANT to work for you, thus being better employees.

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idiomaddict

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Good management is just good people skills. If you don’t have them, intentionally defanging your speech/correspondence helps prevent blowups. Unfortunately for people working under managers with bad people skills, this doesn’t actually make up for and mostly just highlights their managers’ deficits.

Tl;dr: management speak is intentionally harmless in and of itself, but is an obvious symptom of bad management.

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alternategait

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Your comment reminds me of this satirical article "Ortho Writes Perfect SOAP Note". The meat of it

Kershaw’s flawless note reads as follows:
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ZombiFrancis

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Nearly ten years of my life essentially reduced to "Keep poop in ground, not on ground."

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hell yea brother

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BeeegScaaawyCripple

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I experienced this in finance, tech, law, and food service (that chef would not shut up about maillard bullshit)

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Johanno

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I must strongly say that I, who am a person of short words and on the other there is this that also we need to talk about. But one must acknowledge the importance of the process and the situation, which we all know has to improve, but everyone has to his and her part. This and many other things has to be said. Thank you for your attention.

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Bag of words, have mercy on us

A must-read on the humanization of LLMs / chatbots

Bag of words, have mercy on us

OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?

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OmegaSunkey

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(That’s also why I see no point in using AI to, say, write an essay, just like I see no point in bringing a forklift to the gym. Sure, it can lift the weights, but I’m not trying to suspend a barbell above the floor for the hell of it. I lift it because I want to become the kind of person who can lift it. Similarly, I write because I want to become the kind of person who can think.)

This is one of the best quotes that I can grab from the page.

The second being:

Markus Strasser, an entrepreneur who tried to start one of those companies that’s like “we’ll put every scientific paper in the bag and then ??? and then profit”, eventually abandoned the effort, saying that “close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web.”

and last one:

For instance, if you show humans computer code that has security vulnerabilities, they do not suddenly start praising Hitler. But LLMs do. So yes, I would worry about putting the nuclear codes in the bag.

The paper cited in it is amazing, in the sense of confusingly surprising. Gonna give it a read.

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OmegaSunkey

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The thing I see LLMs more useful for is searching.

Imagine asking a robot where a book with certain contents is. I wish for that instead of a robot that does my homework, because I suck a little with searching.

I also saw them useful for science: putting all selected, finetuned scientific articles and papers into an LLM to see what it can do on a specific scientific field. So imagine my surprise seeing this is only doable for private associations, since there is nothing "good" on the public web.

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angband

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that would be great, but they'd have to redo it a bit, so you can peruse the sources to the text it produces from your prompt. I don't think they store that info, but that would be super awesome.

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AMD will pay Trump’s protection money— The company is willing to pay 15% tax on AI chip shipments to China.

https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/amd-will-pay-trumps-protection-money/

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Lazarus Group’s IT Workers Scheme Hacker Group Caught Live On Camera

Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima unit has been caught “live on camera” running its remote IT worker scheme, after researchers funneled its operatives into fake laptops that were actually long‑running sandbox environments under full surveillance.

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Two cities in Oregon have ended their contract with Flock thanks to citizen pressure.

Cities: Eugene and Springfield, OR

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Privacy is worth fighting for.

Eugene, Springfield announce end of Flock cameras

In a press release sent late Friday evening, the Eugene Police Department announced it has terminated its contract with Flock Safety.

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Pentagon Sharpens Tech Focus to Six Key Priorities

The Pentagon has narrowed its technology priorities to six critical areas aimed at rapidly strengthening U.S. military capabilities and maintaining strategic dominance.

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Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems

Exclusive: Campaign urges PM to show independence from US and push to rein in development of superintelligence

Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems

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Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance'

The Open Rights Group warns the government's digital ID plan is a "surveillance infrastructure" leading to "unprecedented tracking." They point to the faulty eVisa scheme.

https://www.neowin.net/news/digital-id-debate-privacy-group-warns-of-unprecedented-tracking-and-surveillance/

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Advent Calendar 8

Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs

This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
Pine tree, Oxford Botanic Garden
© Keith C Marshall, 2018
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Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones (2015)

Il quinto album degli Heartless Bastards è uno splendido esempio di gruppo che gradualmente giunge a una completa maturità artistica. A differenza di band il cui talento emerge da subito in maniera più cristallina gli Heartless Bastards hanno dovuto fare parecchia strada per trovare la loro dimensione ideale dopo aver oscillato tra post-punk e country... Leggi e ascolta...

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Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones (2015)

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How I block all online ads

A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.

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Hosts file, some general CSS rules in my usercontent.css and uBlock. Multi-step blocking and easy enough to casually setup.

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Below you'll find some other useful things, although they aren't exactly related to ad-blocking:
Browser extensions against annoyances:
Cookie popups: Consent-O-Matic
Captchas: Buster

I'd also suggest SponsorBlock — it has saved me so much time. There's also an option for TVs and streaming devices.
If you're on iOS, consider turning off Background App Refresh. Only a few apps use Background App Refresh as Apple designed it, the majority are simply abusing it to get more data about you. If you don't have always-on VPN, you risk exposing your real IP.
Patched apps are also a thing, and it's also possible to patch mobile apps yourself via ReVanced. While it's a decent option, it's also a security risk — I'm careful with it and don't use it with sensitive accounts.

TIL

GitHub - cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic: Browser extension that automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences

Browser extension that automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences - cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

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Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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This is a good read and makes a lot of great points. I think everyone in tech needs to understand the arguments here. The biggest thing for me is that LLMs are incredibly useful tools, but not in the way they are advertised. They are great for learning how existing code works, but shit at writing anything novel or innovative. From the article:

The past is a prison when you’re inventing the future.

In my opinion, if you're using LLMs to do anything but help you learn from the past, you're doing it wrong. LLMs cannot move you forward, and I think that may be the point.

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I've always said LLMs are fantastic rubber ducks. But taking said rubber duck and telling it to build something end to end or hitting tab without verifying anything is going to lead you to a world of hurt. the person doing it won't know the world of hurt is coming because they simply don't know any better. the company won't know the world of hurt is being built around them because like the vibe coder they dont' know any better.

then suddenly it's finished, pushed to production, and there's your world of hurt.

but hey I get paid to fix said world for them so keep on trucking I guess. at this rate I'll be retiring by the end of the next year.

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make their relationship Instagram official

The singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in Japan

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Not world news, just some random fuckers dating.

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Is Trudeau politicking these days? Or has he just fully embrace the post-presidential obama phase?

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La riposte pathétique d’Elon Musk face à l’Europe

C’est un spectacle fascinant, presque shakespearien s’il n’était pas joué par des clowns numériques, qui se déroule actuellement entre la commission européenne et ce qu’il reste de Twitter. Vendredi dernier, l’Union Européenne a frappé fort avec une amend

Illustration de deux clowns numériques de style cartoon, souriants, avec un logo stylisé en forme de 'X' sur fond noir avec un motif de réseau.
C’est un spectacle fascinant, presque shakespearien s’il n’était pas joué par des clowns numériques, qui se déroule actuellement entre la commission européenne et ce qu’il reste de Twitter. Vendredi dernier, l’Union Européenne a frappé fort avec une amende de 120 millions d’euros pour violation du Digital Services Act. La raison ? Des pratiques trompeuses, un manque de transparence crasse et, surtout, ce fameux système de certification payant qui permet à n’importe quel escroc d’acheter une crédibilité autrefois réservée aux comptes vérifiés.

Mais au lieu de faire profil bas, d’analyser ses erreurs ou même de prétendre s’améliorer, X a décidé de réagir avec la maturité d’un adolescent privé de sa console de jeu. La plateforme a contre-attaqué en bannissant le compte publicitaire de la commission européenne. Le motif invoqué ? Une supposée tromperie. L’ironie est telle qu’elle en deviendrait presque étouffante.

Une vengeance aussi mesquine qu’inutile

Commençons par le cœur de cette blague cosmique. Samedi, Nikita Bier, le responsable produit chez X (un poste qui doit nécessiter une consommation industrielle d’aspirine), a annoncé triomphalement avoir banni le compte publicitaire de la commission. Selon lui, l’institution aurait violé les règles de la plateforme.

Le problème ? Cette dernière ne dépense plus un centime en publicité sur X depuis 2023. C’est là toute la beauté de la stratégie d’Elon Musk. Pour punir une entité qui vient de vous coller une amende de 120 millions d’euros, vous décidez de lui interdire d’acheter des publicités… qu’elle n’achetait déjà plus.

Un porte-parole de la commission a d’ailleurs confirmé l’absurdité de la situation, rappelant que leur politique de non-publicité sur la plateforme est en place depuis plus d’un an, en raison précisément des inquiétudes liées à la désinformation. La suspension imposée par X est donc aussi effrayante qu’un pistolet à eau face à un incendie de forêt.

L’accusation de la faille imaginaire

Pour justifier cette décision grotesque, X a dû inventer une narration où la victime devient le bourreau. Nikita Bier accuse la commission d’avoir utilisé un « exploit » (une faille) dans l’outil de composition publicitaire de X. Selon lui, l’UE s’est connectée à un compte publicitaire dormant pour poster un lien déguisé en vidéo afin d’augmenter artificiellement sa portée.

En d’autres termes, X reproche à ses utilisateurs d’utiliser son interface telle qu’elle a été codée par ses ingénieurs. Si le compositeur de posts permet de créer des liens qui ressemblent à des vidéos, ce n’est pas un piratage de haut vol. C’est simplement la preuve que l’interface utilisateur du réseau social est une usine à gaz mal conçue.

L’hôpital qui se moque de la charité numérique

L’hypocrisie atteint ici des sommets stratosphériques. Rappelons le contexte, X vient d’être condamné pour tromperie. Pourquoi ? Parce que son système de coches bleues, autrefois gage d’authenticité, est devenu un simple reçu de paiement. L’UE a jugé que cela trompait les utilisateurs en leur faisant croire à la légitimité de comptes qui ne sont pas vérifiés. Et quelle est la défense de la plateforme ? Accuser l’UE à son tour de tromperie parce qu’un bouton de lecture vidéo fonctionne bizarrement sur mobile.
Un homme aux cheveux ébouriffés souriant largement, vêtue d'un t-shirt noir, devant un fond clair.
C’est exact, sur la version bureau, le bouton « play » du post de la commission lance la vidéo. Sur mobile, il semble rediriger vers le communiqué de presse annonçant l’amende. X appelle cela une manipulation malveillante. Le reste du monde appelle cela un bug d’interface sur une plateforme en déclin technique. Ce comportement erratique des vidéos est d’ailleurs monnaie courante sur X. Mais quand il s’agit de l’UE, soudainement, c’est un complot machiavélique.

Musk – La diplomatie du « Bullshit »

Pendant que ses lieutenants s’activaient à inventer des excuses techniques, le grand patron, Elon Musk, a brillé par son éloquence habituelle. Sa réponse à l’amende historique et aux critiques détaillées de l’Union Européenne ? Un tweet lapidaire: « Bullshit ». Suivi d’une question rhétorique tout aussi nuancée: « Combien de temps avant que l’UE ne disparaisse ? #AbolishTheEU ». C’est la réaction d’un homme qui n’a plus d’arguments. Face à un cadre législatif rigoureux comme le DSA, les mèmes et les insultes ne suffisent pas. L’UE demande des comptes sur la transparence, la protection des données et la véracité de l’information. Le milliardaire répond par des slogans populistes et des représailles techniques inefficaces.

twitter.com/elonmusk/status/19…

La réalité va frapper fort

Cette petite guéguerre sur l’interdiction du compte publicitaire ne changera strictement rien à la réalité financière et juridique qui attend X. L’entreprise a 60 jours pour répondre aux préoccupations concernant les coches bleues et 90 jours pour régler ses problèmes de transparence publicitaire. Si elle échoue, les pénalités pourraient s’aggraver. La plateforme peut bien bannir tous les comptes administratifs qu’elle souhaite, cela n’effacera pas l’ardoise. Prétendre que la commission a piraté l’algorithme en utilisant les outils officiels est une défense qui fera rire n’importe quel tribunal.

En fin de compte, cet épisode illustre parfaitement l’état actuel de X, une plateforme techniquement défaillante, dirigée par l’impulsivité, qui préfère accuser ses régulateurs de tricherie plutôt que de réparer son propre code ou de respecter la loi. L’UE a demandé de la clarté et de l’honnêteté. En réponse, elle a eu droit à une crise de colère. Si c’était ça leur stratégie de défense pour prouver qu’ils sont une entreprise sérieuse et non trompeuse, c’est un échec spectaculaire. Mais au moins, c’est divertissant.

Bruxelles frappe fort - X écope d'une amende historique de 120 millions d'euros pour ses pratiques trompeuses

L'UE inflige une amende de 120 millions d'euros à X d'Elon Musk, saluant une victoire pour la régulation numérique et la transparence.

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Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy

[url=https://archive.is/i5cR3]https://archive.is/i5cR3[/url] The Globe and Mail’s Tom Cardoso, Carrie Tait, Mark Mackinnon, and Stephanie Chambers have the deep dive on Sam Mraiche. I’ll include some highlights, but this deserves a good read because it p

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The Globe and Mail's Tom Cardoso, Carrie Tait, Mark Mackinnon, and Stephanie Chambers have the deep dive on Sam Mraiche. I'll include some highlights, but this deserves a good read because it provides an overview with additional information about some of the relationships between Sam Mraiche, Danielle Smith, Jitendra Prasad, and Mickey Amery.

Her former chief of staff, Marshall Smith, hired multiple relatives of Mr. Mraiche at the same time as he was living in a home owned by one of Mr. Mraiche’s sisters.

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“All of my family is in Canada now,” said Jamil Omairi, a pharmacist in the nearby town of Lala, another springboard for people destined for Alberta. Mr. Omairi is related to Mickey Amery, Alberta’s justice minister, himself a long-time friend and relative of Mr. Mraiche.
“All the young people here, people between 16 and 20, they have two ways to go,” he said. “If they find work, they stay. If there’s no work, they travel, and Brazil and Canada are the first destinations.”

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Mraiche may be a capable import/exporter, but his world view could be mercenary. An exchange between Mraiche and BTNX, a supplier of COVID rapid tests, highlights this view.

The following week, Mr. Mraiche proposed a solution: He did “a lot of business” in Turkey, he explained, and suggested the BTNX executive use those contacts to obtain additional tests.
Mr. Mraiche also returned to the idea of diverting tests, this time from the federal government. “They’re really going to notice that a million is missing?” he asked.
“They will, yes,” responded Mr. Sunderani.
As deliveries fell further and further behind, Mr. Mraiche, who told Mr. Sunderani he was under intense pressure from Mr. Prasad, became increasingly frustrated.
“Do you know what you’re doing to me, Iqbal?” Mr. Mraiche said in an early February call. “I don’t only sell rapid test kits. I’m one of the biggest constructors here, too. Do you know what you’ve done to me? I’ve had so much mud thrown on my face, it’s not even funny.”
“You better hope there’s another wave that needs rapid tests,” he continued later in the call.
“Sam, that’s – that’s a bad thing to hope for,” Mr. Sunderani said.
“Is it? Me and you are in the business.”
“Sam, you know what? At the end of the day I don’t know about you, but I’ve made enough money. I don’t want to wish –”
“Has Jeff Bezos made enough money yet?”
“I don’t care who Jeff Bezos is,” Mr. Sunderani replied. “He has – I mean, I don’t want to wish –”
“No one’s wishing anything. It’s just going with the flow,” Mr. Mraiche said.
A month after that call, BTNX sued MHCare for $7.5-million, alleging Mr. Mraiche’s business failed to pay for more than 200,000 test kits and refused to pay for a truckload it received in error. MHCare countersued for $62.5-million, alleging BTNX overcharged, caused the company to lose money and tarnished its reputation. The two companies remain locked in litigation, and neither party’s allegations have been proven in court.

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By the spring of 2022, the government’s response to the pandemic left Premier Jason Kenney battered. A scant majority of United Conservative Party members supported him in a leadership review in May, 2022, and he agreed to step down after the party selected a replacement.
Danielle Smith, then a party leadership hopeful, campaigned on COVID-19 grievances, railing against mask mandates and vaccine passports. Within a few months, she’d established herself as a front-runner.
A copy of Ms. Smith’s private calendar obtained by The Globe shows she took meetings during the campaign with everyone from physicians to executives – including Sam Mraiche.
In August, 2022, she was scheduled to dine at his north Edmonton home, the calendar shows.
Five days later, she was booked for a 30-minute Zoom call with Mr. Mraiche and Mr. Prasad, who retired from Alberta Health Services in the spring but stayed on as a consultant.
Ms. Smith, Mr. Prasad and Mr. Mraiche did not respond to questions about the meetings.

Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy

A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny

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[fixed] Can anyone help me? I'm getting this error while downloading with ani-cli. I'm using it on termux

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I guess you've already done updates on your packages in termux?

Updating:
pkg upgrade
ani-cli -U

I see that ani-cli prefer to use yt-dlp to ffmpeg if it's available so you could try installing that too.

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running ani-cli -U worked. Thanks

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Too many laws passing without 'proper scrutiny', Geoffrey Palmer says

A former Labour Prime Minister says Parliament is passing too many laws without proper scrutiny.

Sir Geoffrey Palmer told Nine to Noon the government was increasingly pushing through legislation under urgency, which allowed it to skip stages such as public consultation and select committees.

But Leader of the House Chris Bishop said just nine Bills have been passed in that way, and there were good reasons for all of them.

Palmer said the normal checks and balances were stripped out when laws were made at pace.

"Urgency has become the default mechanism for dealing with Parliamentary legislation and the standing orders are not followed and you also have extended sittings - and both of those mean the Government's agenda is completely at the will of the Government," he said.

Palmer said the Fast-Track Approvals Act 2024 - and its amendment - was a classic example of a trend that "ministers know best" and was "ministerial dictatorship".

"It was criticised by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment then, Simon Upton, the amendment bill puts the process that was enacted in 2024 on steroids.

"It gets faster and faster. It will be a fast-track to environmental degradation, [more] than it already is."

Bishop was approached for further comment.

The legislation, which passed under urgency at the end of last year, is back before Parliament with an amendment that the government intended to push through by the end of 2025.

It said the amendment to the Act would increase competition in the supermarket sector.

Despite being open for just over 10 days, it received 2158 submissions, with about 95 percent opposed.

Palmer said legislative checks and balances - which he already considered lacking - were further reduced when legislation was made at pace.

"What is the hurry? Legislation is law-making. You want to get it right. You have to analyse it, you have to do proper research, you don't bang it through because a minister has an idea.

"It needs to be properly drafted by Parliamentary council. We have had a degradation of our legislative system in New Zealand in recent years."

Bishop said the government had a big legislative agenda and limited hours in ordinary house time to get it done.

Regarding the use of urgency, he said: "I am reluctant to use urgency to avoid select committees outside of the standard Budget urgency process, and it is only done so when there are good reasons."

Too many laws passing without 'proper scrutiny', Geoffrey Palmer says

Sir Geoffrey Palmer says the government is increasingly pushing through legislation under urgency and skipping consultation.

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RRF Caserta. TV. The Madness

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Ripping Blu Rays is way deeper than I expected

I didn't think I'd spend hours reading about this today, but some things surprised me:

Just using a Playstation sounds like it won't work or will be a huge time sink.
Blu ray optical drives are way more expensive than I thought
The copy protections on Blu rays are exceptionally annoying, to the extent where there is really only one closed source software -- MakeMKV -- that can work around them.
This post goes into some interesting details.
Finding a drive that is known to work with MakeMKV is a pain. There's a brand called Pioneer that seems promising but they have stopped producing bluray drives ~~went out of business last year~~. I have no idea which model works, and it's common that secondhand sellers will swap enclosures and pass it off as a different model.
Sometimes you need to flash the firmware on the drive to make it work with 4K UHD discs.

I was going to try ripping a Blu-ray that I bought recently, since I couldn't find a quality rip anywhere, but I'm pretty turned off from the whole prospect at this point.

Anyway I'm not really asking for a specific reply, I just thought this topic was interesting and I'm curious what people think about Blu rays and optical media in general. Does the future seem bleak? Are we going to be stuck with shitty WebDLs for most new content? Or is physical media here to stay?

What is LibreDrive? - www.makemkv.com

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Pioneer is a well known Japanese electronics company, they are still going strong, but have exited the optical disc drive business.

So no, Pioneer has not gone out of business, they have however changed focus from optical drives.

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Got it, thanks for the correction. I had never heard of Pioneer before; I must've misinterpreted what I was reading on the forums.

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I had never heard of Pioneer before

How old are you? 😅 I think their name is bigger in the audio business, they made/make audio equipment, car stereos, CD Players, etc but you certainly don't see their name as often as you used. But then, people aren't really buying home/car audio equipment like they used to.

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JVC deck, JBL speakers, JL subwoofers, and a Kenwood / Alpine amp was the shit back in the day.

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If the basic version of MakeMKV isn't enough for you and you don't want to register for the full version, Handbrake is a good alternative.

HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

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henfredemars

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I think optical media is a dead platform. Hence, there is an apparent lack of interest I think in implementing alternative solutions. I’ve had success with MakeMKV using the docker container approach, but never tried to rip UHD.

The Corpo-inspired future is that you should not get to own any of your media outright. They will decide when you can stream it and to which devices. Piracy is quickly becoming the only viable option if you value your freedom, and it’s a very unfortunate state of things.

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tatterdemalion

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I really hope streaming doesn't become the only option, because even with >1Gbps internet, streaming services generally do not deliver as good of quality as I can get from something like a bluray. Even HBO and Netflix have very noticeable lossy compression.

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henfredemars

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Even in terms of story, the content is no longer optimized for quality. It’s optimized for watchability which generally refers to the ease of viewing even when you’re not completely paying attention.

They somehow found a way to even further commercialize and mass produce the moving picture.

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hobovision

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The watchabilty thing actually makes stuff nearly unwatchable for me because I like to, you know, pay attention to the movie I am watching. They have to make the characters so one note and cliche so that half-brains can pick up what's happening in the film. They beat you over the head with everything but don't bother closing up plot holes because they think you weren't paying enough attention to see them.

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Ulrich

in reply to henfredemars • 1 settimana fa • •

I think optical media is a dead platform

I disagree. You can still find almost every new movie with a disc release. If you actually want the highest quality home video, this is still it.

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SolarPunker

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Because Blu-Ray is the format for enthusiasts and collectors. A burned one don't have the same collection value, and many times even the same content since you don't have extras or alternative version of the movie. USB or Streaming is just more convenient for mosts.

Still would be nice to see more FLOSS support in this sense. We used to make custom art for our burned CD in the 90s.

I always prefer dedicated physical media for the stuff I really care and/or can afford: people underestimate the value of something you can easily show, gift, play, sell, etc. Digital contents don't have this intrinsic value in our physical world, so I don't think physical media will disappear in the next future.

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J-Bone

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Does the future seem bleak? Are we going to be stuck with shitty WebDLs for most new content?

For mainstream content and somewhat well known content, both regular BD and 4K BD rip are widely posted shortly after release.

You do have some truly niche content and non-english content where it's difficult to find BDRips / BD Remuxes, but you can usually access older DVDRips. If you're into this kind of content (as I am), you might as well just buy the BD (or stick to the DVDRip which is fine as far as I am concerned).

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cassandrafatigue

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might as well buy

Not unless the artist is selling directly

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J-Bone

in reply to cassandrafatigue • 1 settimana fa • •

Not unless the artist is selling directly

More often than not, for niche and/or non-english content, this is indeed the case. I also don't see the big deal with supporting a smaller publisher.

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sobchak

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I think there are probably enough collectors, AV nerds, and people without consistent high bandwidth unlimited internet to keep physical going for a while. It'll just be niche, like vinyl, I suppose.

It is kinda weird that optical stopped advancing. You can fit more data on a MicroSD card than BluRay. You can fit something like 240 blurays on a consumer HDD (and much more if you further compress).

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tatterdemalion

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I don't know about MicroSD longevity, but I've heard BluRay and in particular M-Disc can last 100-1000 years of something crazy. So for archive, it might still be a good option.

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Brickfrog

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The copy protections on Blu rays are exceptionally annoying, to the extent where there is really only one closed source software – MakeMKV – that can work around them.

Not quite, RedFox formerly SlySoft (RIP) used to market their own Blu-ray ripper and it worked quite well. What it used to do is on-the-fly decryption so you'd run it in the background and could use any other software to read the decrypted Blu-ray (e.g. using Handbrake or whatever). It did also have an option to just rip to a file IIRC. Unfortunately they randomly disappeared so their software is pretty much done. (some background on wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedFox)

That aside they always a competitor, DVDFab, that still exists today. Their Passkey software is the rough equivalent of what the old RedFox/SlySoft software used to do but they also sell a standalone Blu-ray ripper if that's more your thing (see dvdfab.cn/).

But yeah, in some ways you're stuck with MakeMKV, DVDFab, and maybe some others (?).

I'd have to dig it out but I actually bought a Blu-ray drive a while back that was on the list of drives compatible with these rippers but honestly it's been a few years since I've tried using it. Most times someone else already ripped a Blu-ray I'd be interested in.

Speaking of - If anyone knows offhand, how do people do this stuff on Linux? Does the Linux version of MakeMKV work well for this and/or are there other tools (?)

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tatterdemalion

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I don't have first-hand experience, but I've heard that the linux version of MakeMKV does work; though I've seen some issues reported in the forum. MakeMKV is even available on nixpkgs.

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cmnybo

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MakeMKV works great on Linux. I used it to backup all of my blurays and DVDs without any issues.

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Son_of_Macha

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If you own the disc just download someone else's rip, why waste time and energy reripping it, studios still think it's illegal.

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tatterdemalion

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I was going to try ripping a Blu-ray that I bought recently, since I couldn’t find a quality rip anywhere

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ramble81

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I bought a modified BD drive from a person who was flashing libredrive supported firmware and then got a registered copy of MakeMKV.

It’s been stupid simple for me to rip any BD or 4K disc that I can get my hands on. If you choose the “backup” option it spits it out to a folder structure which then use mkisofs to create an iso of things.

Honestly my biggest problem is constantly running out of hard drive space because I want to keep the original, uncompressed isos. What’s nice though is once i have the iso I can pop it back into MakeMKV and just extract what I want. I can then run that through Handbrake and compress to my exact specifications.

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far_university1990

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Is person still around? Or any lead to find similar person?

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ramble81

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Sadly no. He packed it up about 6 months ago. However if you can get your hands on an ASUS BW-16D1HT, you can flash the firmware yourself. I could have done that but he was offering it for a negligible difference and it was just quicker to do that method.

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Cooper8

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Does the BW-16D1HT offer good performance for 4kbluray playback as well as ripping? Looking at it it seems price competitive with the stand-alone players, and if it is good it would make financial sense to buy a dedicated pc and enclosure as an alternative to stand-alone player assuming it can drive HDR and Atmos

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ramble81

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I’ve honestly never used it for playback but since it can rip 4K at 2x-4x playback speed I would assume it’d be just fine. The issue is the system you build would have to have a card that can output Atmos bitstreams as well as HDR.

As for ripping performance I’m over 500 DVD, BD, 4K and it’s doing great. You do have to give it 30 minutes between 4K discs to cool down.

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Zomg

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Look on the makemkv forum for Libre Drives and what models are usable.

ASUS BW-16D1HT is a valid drive for libre drive and is what I use and can be sourced on Amazon. The pop it in an external enclosure if needed and flash the firmware for it on one of the pinned posts.

I personally don't pirate, but want to power my media server with the movies I buy, libre+makemkv does the trick for me.

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Mobile

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I recently got into the rabbit hole of digitizing my DVDs after discovering that disc rot is very real. I bought an LG blu-ray external driver, followed steps to flash firmware, bought a MakeMKV license to support the software, and bought a NAS to run a RAID 1 configuration to hold the backups of the DVDs.

I do think with Netflix buying out Warner Bros, optical media will take a hit. But companies like the Criterion Collection keeps optical media alive. Also CDs are alive and well when it comes to music.

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floquant

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How are you storing the DVDs? Bit rot is unavoidable, but optical media should be much more resilient to it compared to magnetic and flash storage (~100 vs ~10 years)

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fakeaustinfloyd

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They might be referring to the Warner Brothers disc rot issue announced earlier this year (affecting some mid 2000s dvds). Ideally, things are made well and last a long time when stored properly.

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Mobile

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I've stored them in a TV cabinet for years. Nothing special. I've created a Jellyfin server so if I was burning my DVD and blu-ray already, I may as well back up to files. And to point out austinfloyd's comment, disc rot was the other reason to back up the DVDs.

Also don't go with an Asustor 1102TL. I can't access the BIOS so I can't flash open media vault. I had a whole plan to have an automated Borg backup script running on the NAS but alas, I guess not. If someone can prove me wrong, please let me know.

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MDCCCLV

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I got the dune 1984 uhd and I can't even play it on PC let alone rip it.

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CCMan1701A

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You might have a bad disk, do an exchange. I have had many bad uhd disks from new boxes over the years. I wish optical storage wasnt used for this kind of thing.

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MDCCCLV

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No, it's the drm. I can see there's something there but I can't play it.

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CCMan1701A

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Sorry to hear. I think there are some firmware downgrades around to flash to some of the pc drives to get ripping working, unless this is specific to this particular movie.

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Mobile

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Hey @MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca, I just wanted to let you know that I bought a 4k UHD movie the other day and my blu-ray player that I updated the firmware on could not play the disc as well.

I found answers online pointing to updating the date volume unique keys (VUK). These keys are necessary to decrypt the discs. To make a long story short, there is a database online that you can use to update your keys to read your 4k UHD disc. I used this script in particular because I was able to echo the output the HTTP website. I didn't want to click on a link that is not using HTTPS.

I'm using linux so this was the solution that worked for me. I think there are other ways to update these keys. If you do go this route of using this bash script, please keep in mind that it's going to be a few hours. The transfer speed was in the kilobytes. Towards the end of my patience, I just hit ctrl-c to skip the keys for other nations that I don't see myself using.

Once all was done, I was able to get VLC to run my 4k film on my PC 😀

GitHub - ILPlais/GetFindVUKOnllineDB: Get the Blu-ray database from FindVUK Onlline Database

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WolfLink

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There are some external/portable USB blu ray drives that work with MakeMKV and cost like $30.

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jarmitage

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Yes, my old LG external drive bought at Best Buy has worked fine ripping Blu Rays for years.

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tatterdemalion

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Care to suggest a model? I haven't seen anything that cheap.

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WolfLink

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I think the one I have is the BP60NB10 LG Slim Portable. It looks like prices are at around $100-$130 for it online now though, I think they are not made anymore. I got mine up at a local computer store a long time ago.

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rumba

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I ripped a ton of my stuff back in the day, guess I've been lucky, every generic BD drive i've used just worked.

But once you get past the "works" hurdle, the real struggle begins.

It's slow, like really slow. Assuming you can find the right titles and convince makemkv extract them, it's a start the process and go brew a cup of coffee slow. But hey, I've got time and you don't need to watch it ... mostly.

Depending on the disk, it's still either crap quality or it takes up an ungodly amount of space. Even a decent sized drive buckles sooner or later if you're generating 20GB images.

Unless you're up on your network game, your streaming sticks/tv's can hardly handle the throughput to stream the video.

So you encode the video. HEVC (which is getting dicey starting january as the royalties go up and processors stop support hardware decoding) or hopefully AV1, which still has spotty support in places. and the re-encode? The easy software isn't free, the free software isn't easy, but FFMPEG isn't that hard to work with.

OR, you find an ISO provider and download it.

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d-RLY?

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I guess I lucked out when I bought my BD-R drive before I was aware that MakeMKV needed extra stuff like firmware. But my LG WH16NS60 is one that took the flash (never had to mess with firmware on an optical drive and was worried I would brick it). But the process was pretty easy and getting into ripping BR after so long meant that the easy option was around to handle the steps. Kind of considering getting a back-up drive to have around if/when the one I have dies (especially since big brands are dropping out or may do so in the coming years).

While not as easy as just using torrents or other P2P. I have found it kind of fun to get back into ripping CD/DVD/BD and learn/re-learn how things work these days. Also nice to have all the options I can to be able to have access to media in the event any of them are down. The only super frustrating thing is that so much of modern releases don't get physical (or even purchasable digital) releases. And in some cases where a physical release is an option, they are DVD and not even a 720p BD. Digital options are even worse in a lot of random cases where a store might have just part of a show (or even episodes in a season not part of it).

Currently the only real issue that I have is that I really really need to build a new main PC and finally turn my current PC into only being for ripping and hosting what I have. And to get large HDDs to replace the 2TB and 4TB SSDs I currently have for it all of course. I really would like to have good copies of 4K stuff without having to worry about going with bad encodes that look worse than many 1080p releases that my TV upscales.

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cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1196…

What Skwawkbox-Canary and other independent news outlets, together with local journalists and international activists have been reporting for months, has finally made it into the ‘mainstream’ media. A CNN ‘investigation‘ ‘revealed’ that the Israeli military bulldozed some of the bodies of aid-seekers slaughtered at so-called ‘aid’ stations into unmarked Gaza mass graves. Others were simply left […]
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday defended the Trump administration's policy of bombing suspected drug-trafficking vessels even as new details further undermined the administration's stated justifications for the policy.
According to the Guardian, Hegseth told a gathering at the Ronald Reagan presidential library that the boat bombings, which so far have killed at least 87 people, are necessary to protect Americans from illegal drugs being shipped to the US.
"If you’re working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you," Hegseth said. "Let there be no doubt about it."
However, leaked details about a classified briefing delivered to lawmakers last week by Adm. Frank Bradley about a September 2 boat strike cast new doubts on Hegseth's justifications.
CNN reported on Friday that Bradley told lawmakers that the boat taken out by the September 2 attack was not even headed toward the US, but was going "to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname," a small nation in the northeast of South America.
While Bradley acknowledged that the boat was not heading toward the US, he told lawmakers that the strike on it was justified because the drugs it was carrying could have theoretically wound up in the US at some point.
Additionally, NBC News reported on Saturday that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth had ordered all 11 men who were on the boat targeted by the September 2 strike to be killed because "they were on an internal list of narco-terrorists who US intelligence and military officials determined could be lethally targeted."
This is relevant because the US military launched a second strike during the September 2 operation to kill two men who had survived the initial strike on their vessel, which many legal experts consider to be either a war crime or an act of murder under domestic law.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, watched video of the September 2 double-tap attack last week, and he described the footage as “one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
“Any American who sees the video that I saw will see its military attacking shipwrecked sailors,” Himes explained. “Now, there’s a whole set of contextual items that the admiral explained. Yes, they were carrying drugs. They were not in position to continue their mission in any way... People will someday see this video and they will see that that video shows, if you don’t have the broader context, an attack on shipwrecked sailors.”
While there has been much discussion about the legality of the September 2 double-tap strike in recent days, some critics have warned that fixating on this particular aspect of the administration's policy risks taking the focus off the illegality of the boat-bombing campaign as a whole.
Daphne Eviatar, director for security and human rights for Amnesty International USA, said on Friday that the entire boat-bombing campaign has been "illegal under both domestic and international law."
"All of them constitute murder because none of the victims, whether or not they were smuggling illegal narcotics, posed an imminent threat to life," she said. "Congress must take action now to stop the US military from murdering more people in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific."
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Billionaire Palantir Co-Founder Pushes Return of Public Hangings as Part of 'Masculine Leadership' Initiative

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Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as "masculine leadership" to the US.
In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called "three strikes" anti-crime law to ensure that anyone who is convicted of three violent crimes gets publicly executed, rather than simply sent to prison for life.
"If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law," he wrote. "We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others."
Lonsdale then added that "our society needs balance," and said that "it's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable."
Lonsdale's views on public hangings being necessary to restore "masculine leadership" drew swift criticism.
Gil Durán, a journalist who documents the increasingly authoritarian politics of Silicon Valley in his newsletter "The Nerd Reich," argued in a Saturday post that Lonsdale's call for public hangings showed that US tech elites are "entering a more dangerous and desperate phase of radicalization."
"For months, Peter Thiel guru Curtis Yarvin has been squawking about the need for more severe measures to cement Trump's authoritarian rule," Durán explained. "Peter Thiel is ranting about the Antichrist in a global tour. And now Lonsdale—a Thiel protégé—is fantasizing about a future in which he will have the power to unleash state violence at mass scale."
Taulby Edmondson, an adjunct professor of history, religion, and culture at Virginia Tech, wrote in a post on Bluesky that the rhetoric Lonsdale uses to justify the return of public hangings has even darker intonations than calls for state-backed violence.
"A point of nuance here: 'masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable' is how lynch mobs are described, not state-sanctioned executions," he observed.
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll argued that Lonsdale's remarks were symbolic of a kind of performative masculinity that has infected US culture.
"Immaturity masquerading as strength is the defining personal characteristic of our age," he wrote.
Tech entrepreneur Anil Dash warned Lonsdale that his call for public hangings could have unintended consequences for members of the Silicon Valley elite.
"Well, Joe, Mark Zuckerberg has sole control over Facebook, which directly enabled the Rohingya genocide," he wrote. "So let’s have the conversation."
And Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin noted that Lonsdale has been a major backer of the University of Austin, an unaccredited liberal arts college that has been pitched as an alternative to left-wing university education with the goal of preparing "thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
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bridgeenjoyer via Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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Firefox Account

Maybe a silly question - but is it unwise to use Firefox for getting torrents, or saving any bookmarks in firefox? Is there benefit to using a private window (doubtful as I believe this only affects your device).

I know we generally can trust Firefox but they could turn quickly.

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_cryptagion [he/him]

in reply to bridgeenjoyer • 1 settimana fa • •

private windows won't add your browsing to your history. there is no benefit to using private windows otherwise. it's sole purpose is to hide your visits to sites you're embarrassed about from others using your PC.

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bridgeenjoyer

in reply to _cryptagion [he/him] • 1 settimana fa • •

In my case dont care about that, but I would like to keep them off my firefox account (not sure i care that much eveb tbh)

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