JD: Why won’t they stop doing it? I specifically demanded it.

Two observations:

1. He always denies more strongly when criticisms are true. This seems to be reflexive, probably stemming from his Roy Cohn, escalate-everything training. So I take this as evidence he has serious health issues.

2. Whenever he uses words outside his normal vocabulary, it’s because someone has used them to him recently. Since reporting has confirmed Bondi is preparing a report on “anti-American” terrorism (presumably at Trump’s direction, even if he remembered to send that message privately this time) that Ken Klippenstein has evidence will just be criminalizing opposition, we may actually be approaching the phase of fascism where people are arrested and charged with treason for criticizing Trump.

Very interesting. I followed BD circumvention on the doom9 forums from that link decades ago, but it looks like the VUK database method is more reliable now.

Is there some version of Handbrake or workaround for BD copy protection? This is the excerpt from the site, and matches my understanding that it isn’t a circumvention tool:

Supported Input Sources:

Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Yeah, sure, but it’s not this principle at play right now. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM 6 months ago on a whim for $87, and now it’s $300-450. That isn’t just because it’s not “cutting edge,” that’s extreme demand compared to supply.

Which LLM is this from, ChatGPT?

DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what’s available.

Yeah, but did you hear? Spez is a billionaire now! The last step of the business model! Great job everyone!

If ICE members know there will be no arrest and therefore no punishment, how will officers “stop” them?

Yeah, this 100% only works (but I think does work) with a reliable physical chain of trust, since we’re not yet in an age where you can Mission Impossible mask social engineer trust face-to-face. Not a great plan if this isn’t a USB drive handed directly to them, though.

You could always package them with everything they need to watch, like VLC (which should be able to read most formats anyway). Not clear if they are all on Windows, but perhaps you could include the portable VLC version that doesn’t require an install and make an obvious-named VLC playlist file for them to open.

My feeling is, it’s worse if we are one step closer to effective state-controlled media, but yes, all valid points

As bad as this reality is, my first thought is at least it isn’t going to Larry Ellison and Paramount. Coming from Zaslov, this seems like about the same level of terrible.

I’d vote for Newsom if he’s the nominee, but I really hope he’s not the nominee (assuming, obviously, the relative utopian future where we get to vote in 2028).

I’m glad when his media exposure goals overlap with doing actual good things, but - and I may be putting too fine a point on it - he’s basically Hillary if Hillary had a penis and was super jazzed about it, and I am fairly confident I know the smug look he makes when he smells his own farts.

Since we’ve all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.

This is the internet, you can’t swear here.

Ok, that is much closer to half (or, let’s just say effectively half) than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.

That is so technically accurate, I love it.

Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.

I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.

Did Larry Ellison get controlling stake in US Tiktok? I thought he was trying, but did I miss that happening?