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> Piracy is competition to bad content behavior

I really wish we had the bandwidth we have now, back in the Napster-era.

Napster, and others forced, persuaded and cajoled the music industry to consolidate, whether they liked it or not, on Spotify, and iTunes.

If we'd had easy free sharing of movies, it's not hard to envisage something similar to what we see now in the music industry forced on the movie companies. Now it's honey pot torrents all over the place.

No customer wants to spend X on Shudder, Y on Netflix, and Z on Prime, plus Hulu, HBO, and your cable/satellite fee either. Paying 200 GBP/USD a month is utterly absurd.

Frankly, I'm glad I have a waning interest in modern movies as I get older, and I'm actually more interested in watching old black and white movies that are "free to air" in my country.
Worth pointing out that IRC isn't necessarily the first choice for coordinating a response, but it is a great low-dependency, independent fallback. IRC runs on a stack that is completely independent from the rest of Google prod (it's just a Linux machine running an IRC daemon). So when almost everything else goes down, so long as basic network routing is still working, IRC is still up.
I couldn't speak directly to this of course but some kind of Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/NzbDrone/NzbHydra/Deluge/Jackett running in docker containers with a GPU or Intel QuickSync for transcoding is something... Maybe throw in Tautilli for monitoring and something like Ombi (There is probably something better now) to make requesting easier and you are off the races. I mean, in theory of course.
COVID-19 is statistically about as dangerous as the Hong Kong Flu in the 1950s, if you look at the IFR instead of the CFR (It's been obvious since they started doing serology tests that the COVID-19 CFR is wildly off from the IFR, and it's a much milder virus than advertised). The only difference is the world population today is much larger so many more people have died.
http://archive.is/9A4Vp
...or CMake Development Kit (CDK)
It can be an opensource program or a library that everybody uses. And corps can have there own proprietary program
Not for my terminal or anyone else who uses gnome terminal or any Linux terminal.

If you have money then maybe you could actually fork gnome terminal. Just make sure it's GPL.
No, the UK was still terrible at it in Q4 2020. it was a grim winter, and actually largely avoidable. Lockdown happened anyway, but late in the day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55379220

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-20/covid-19-millions-in-eng...

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-records-highest-ever-...
Plex: https://www.plex.tv
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I understand getting a Switch for the exclusives, but outside of that I wouldn't get a portable console for access to games I couldn't play otherwise, but access to games outside of the normal environment (my desktop PC).

If you look at the metacritic list of best games for Switch:

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/...

Most games are just ported PC games, which would be playable on a Steam portable console (assuming they're available on linux).
You’re looking at this wrong.

This is a massive opportunity for someone to do what iTunes did to music and what Spotify did after. It just might end up being Amazon...
Underrated comment this is the bane of my existence. I can definitely see pixels on 4k 27". 4k @ 27 inches is a measly 163ppi. Lg 5k is closer at 217ppi. Meanwhile the iphone 12 pro is at 460ppi. Higher PPI means more distinguishable smaller screen items allowing you to move the screen closer (imagine 10-12inch viewing distance instead of 24...) all of which leads to way more effective screen real-estate imo
WaPo seems pretty consistent pre and post Bezos.
I haven't finished Atlantis or Universe yet. They're on my to-watch list.

As for franchising into other media... there's a brand new tabletop role-playing game that'll be launching later this year. I wonder how the Amazon deal will affect it.
It's a very tiny percentage of oil that gets used in this way.
Hi HN, this is something I built four years ago; tkbash allows you to spin up interactive windows for Linux-like systems with just one or very few lines of bash commands. The idea might be familiar to you if you have worked with AutoHotkey on Windows before.

The only thing you need otherwise is having Tcl/Tk installed, a package often preinstalled on various distros. tkbash is a bash wrapper around Tk code.

Example:

$ tkbash mygui label label_id -x 10 -y 10 -w 50 -h 50 --text "Sample text"
My parents watched a lot of sci fi TV when I was kid, SG-1 is the only show that I ever actually sat down and watched more than the occasional episode of.

I remember being struck by a scene that was (I believe?) pretty early in the series where Sam's about to fight some guy hand to hand; Jack protests this (but not in a way that makes it clear whether he thinks a woman shouldn't do it or if he's just unsure of her fighting skill), but once getting told what level she had trained to he immediately backs off.

It gave me (who was at most 13 years old I think) the impression of what good respect between the sexes should look like.

I could also be mis-remembering this because it's been a really long time though.

Good show.
Will it make a difference? If it’s a one way trip, what’s earth going to do about it if some guy decides to play warlord on mars and commits atrocities to do so?
Is it weird that I am excited about this? I want tech to rethink how distribution is done, and if I have to watch them buy shit and then get anti trusted to spin it out so be it :)
Best case: It will end up burnt as trash.

Realistic case: it will end up in the oceans as microplastics
My wife and I are no strangers to "buying" on-demand movies we enjoy. But our experience with Verizon FIOS is that every couple of months those titles "aren't available." Our "Purchased" area is empty.

Last night was one of those nights. We settled in a bit early for TV (minor celebration) and decided we had time to re-watch a movie, and our kid-still-at-home would join us. But we couldn't get it and ended up watching some junk (background while we talked mainly) and, of course, losing the kid's interest.

The alternative was to try to call CS and spend perhaps an hour troubleshooting.

If, however, we owned our own physical copy we could have watched it.

My evening, crippled by tech failures of the vendor, and no recourse for compensation for loss of use or our time.
How do you feel about only ~60% of Israel's population is vaccinated? Does this seem to have a effect?
The difference is that Shell, and other petroleum companies, knew the harm of CO2 for 50 years, consumers only half of that roughly.

They could have start investing and do R&D on alternative and mitigation and help us move forward. But no, they just buried it under the rugs to get our money.

That is deception, especially when they will not be the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess.
I plan to keep wearing my mask on public transit and crowded places forever. I like the anonymity and I'll be protected from influenza and the common cold. It's a small price to pay.
Those movies just wrap up plot lines left over from the show. They're basically extended episodes.
I'd argue that we've reached the tipping point already. It will accelerate now. netflix just increased their prices again to compensate for slowing growth.

All these stream platforms produce their own exclusive shows and chances are that you're only interested in one or two flag ship series and the occasional movie or so. I believe this will hurt hulu the most then hbo before the rest, because compared to netflix and disney they have less exclusive content.
This leads to a downward spiral, where you need more exclusive content to attract users which leads to more fragmentation and eventually drives costs, which is bad for platforms with less (exclusive) content, because user may ditch first because of unattractive content/cost ratio...

Pirating is great if you're just interested in a particular new show but nothing else, for me that's HBO.
What you're missing out on with pirating is discovering new shows/movies that you actually like just by browser the platform.
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> Shell can either adapt their workforce and knowledge to a disrupted economy

While this may sound "unreasonable" or "bad for profits" to many, the Finnish Neste does exactly this[1]. Pooring all their investments in not just "lowering carbon emissions" but becoming carbon-negative really fast.

[1] https://www.neste.com/about-neste/who-we-are/strategy/transf... - their own story, but many news outlets have their story from a more neutral point and all agree that Neste is going full-renewable very fast.
(disclaimer: I own stocks in Neste)
Lookup plex or jellyfin with sonarr or radarr to handle content. All projects are on github
I remember an interview with the showrunners that basically said that. There weren't enough tall and skinny people to perform all the roles adequately, not to mention background extras. And it limited them from casting the actors they really wanted to cast, like Jared Harris as Dawes.

They do still deal with the disorientation non-natives deal with in Earth conditions, though. There was an episode that spent a significant amount of its story showing Bobby dealing with being on Earth for the first time and seeing unfiltered sunlight and the extra gravity. There's been a few other instances of it, but it has definitely taken a backseat since that torture scene you mentioned.
Yup. That’s why I feel a little bit uncomfortable being their customer. You can tell their end goal is to become the e-commerce platform for everyone. It might sound great for customers until they aren’t.
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I wrote "So far the increase in the virues' virulence with new mutations wasn't correlated with decrease in deaths as far as I know" which suggests the virus is not evolving to be less deadly as you suggest. In fact the British variant was both more virulent and more deadly than the original COVID strain:

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n579

This contradicts your position that COVID evolves just like the flu does. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
> CMake as a library with bindings for various scripting languages (e.g. Python) would make a lot of sense to me.

Well, if your thing is fragmentation and bit rot and maintenance hell, sure.

There were plenty of competing build systems for C++ that provided Python bindings, such as SCons. For some reason, CMake with its awful BASIC-like DSL became the de facto standard.
Your friend may want to look into Plex. It has a good web client, as well as mobile and desktop so family can use it without a lot of work. It supports profiles and the server manager can assign collections to profiles to enable hiding some content from some users.
I suspect that he is. It is pretty sad to see delusional people like this.
Ask for a tilt table test. POTS usually takes a while to diagnose because tests are done to rule out fatal conditions.

I have POTS, you feel like shit a lot of the time but it’s very manageable.

It’s usually caused by a viral infection.
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That only solves half the problem. There's no easy (read: 1 click) way of quoting an older message. No easy way of handling notifications (read: not PMs but when someone mentions you in a channel like @handle in other chat services), no easy way of handling roaming, etc.

Yes, ZNCs solve some of these problems, but they're not easy to set up, the channel mentions isn't even remotely as intuitive as that in Slack et al and the playback history isn't as user friendly as the history in other chat services because it replays _n_ messages irrespective of whether you saw them or missed them while DCed. Which can make roaming a PITA at times.

I say all this as a someone who loves IRC. I've built IRC clients in the 90s, numerous IRC bots, ran ZNC services and even use IRC as my primary IM back in the early days of Android (and thus seen first hand the frustrations of using IRC on the train and getting frequent disconnects to my bounce).

IRC as a concept is amazing however IRC as a protocol sucks by modern day standards and while all the little workarounds are fun to hack together, ultimately they still fall short of what products like Slack and Discord are doing. So I can totally see why some people don't bother with IRC any more.

I've not (yet) played with Matrix. Maybe that's the spiritual successor to IRC. It sure as hell can't be any worse than XMMP (I _really_ wanted to like XMMP but just couldn't get past how unnecessarily over-engineered it was)
How come you built this cool thing, read hacker news, but didn't submit?
>I'd be pretty pissed off too if one day [item] were legal and the next day the courts declared them to be illegal

They lied for decades about the dangers of climate change.
I've been using nheko (well, the fork of it that's actually maintained). There are a couple areas in which it's a bit of a WIP, but it's a pretty good experience so far.
There are no hard limit on matrix room member counts. e2e encrypted rooms with thousands of users se a lot of key negotiation traffic, but with such sizes maybe full encryption doesn't buy much as any user can share the log/history.
I've just made this comment myself. It's amazing how much casual violence there is in modern films that you just don't notice because it's everywhere.

I've watched more black and white classics in the last 15 months than I have in the last 20 years. Particularly the old sci-fi, horror, and slapstick films. Harold Lloyd, The Three Stooges, and Chaplin. Plus all the old St Trinians, and Sherlock Holmes. Abbot and Costello and so on. So pleasant to watch.
By running your blood through a specific DNA methylation test - Illumina I believe. Not cheap stuff.
These people are going public because they do feel that it affects their survivability and therefore it is evil to them.

Hope this helps.
"The assessment culminates in the conclusion that RDS is obliged to reduce the CO2 emissions of the Shell group’s activities by net 45% at end 2030 relative to 2019 through the Shell group’s corporate policy. This reduction obligation relates to the Shell group’s entire energy portfolio and to the aggregate volume of all emissions (Scope 1 through to 3). It is up to RDS to design the reduction obligation, taking account of its current obligations and other relevant circumstances. The reduction obligation is an obligation of result for the activities of the Shell group, with respect to which RDS may be expected to ensure that the CO2 emissions of the Shell group are reduced to this level. This is a significant best-efforts obligation with respect to the business relations of the Shell group, including the end-users, in which context RDS may be expected to take the necessary steps to remove or prevent the serious risks ensuing from the CO2 emissions generated by the business relations, and to use its influence to limit any lasting consequences as much as possible." Excerpt from the court sentence: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:...
Imaginary Worlds[1] had a great episode on the origin of the books and politics in the Expanse

1. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/politics-of-...
Sorry you’re going through this. I have a close loved one with long Covid related issues and it’s been a miserable year for them, with a lot of uncertainty about the future. A young, otherwise healthy person. I understand your sentiment — while people are ready to move on, a lot of people are still working through either the trauma or continued physical effects of this disease.
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Good to see someone rescuing EPIX, which has a couple of really good shows that nobody watches because they don't know where to get EPIX.
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Seeing Laconia with serious CGI budget is going to be amazing.
Couldn't there be another register that controls whether access to the problematic register in EL0 is allowed, though?
Yeah. I’m sure there are all kinds of tools today — maybe even publicly accessible.

Imagine how this is used today to both distort the facts and and distract the public from topics import to Israeli crimes in Gaza/Jerusalem.
Yeah. And if you don't at least look like you're cooperating, the USA will put you in a literal naughty list of bad countries and develop "action plans" for dealing with it.

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2019_Special_301_Report...

You can't just isolate yourself from them either without massive economic consequences. Even if you suffered through those consequences, they'll probably just force you to trade anyway just like they did with Japan once.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290508
Yes, season 4 has the exact same budget per episode and the same production company/crew as the other seasons. Amazon doesn't have anything to do with perceived changes (I thought 4 was still good and 5 was great).
It would be weird if Royal Dutch Shell blacklisted the Netherlands. They might very well do a Unilever [1] and re-register as a UK only business.

But since this is also based on EU law they'd basically have to leave all their business in the EU. Which would probably reduce their carbon footprint by the requested amount. ;-)

Also BP, Exxon, Mobile and other petro companies: Better watch out since the chance of lawsuits like this agains them is pretty big.

An in an other also:
EU is struggling [2] to reach reductions in CO2 emissions. This can help a little.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/11/unilever-pi...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-07/eu-says-c...
I doubt this strategy means taking over Freenode. No one can be this stupid. At this point it seems like he's deliberately trying to destroy what's left of Freenode, for some reason. There can't be much profit to be made for IRC and the little he can make he obviously destroyed.
I just started doing the same last week (weird to suddenly see this thread after not much mention of SG1 for a long time...) and agree it is great. It is nice to watch as a series instead of the random odd episode I saw as a kid watching cable TV in the 90s. There is so much more of it than I remembered. I've almost finished season 1, so it's going to tide me over for a good long while!
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Could you give a journal article citation for a better current worldwide IFR estimate?
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Hopefully other courts will follow. There's talk in France of making ecocide a crime against humanity, this judgement is also partly based on a humans rights arguments.

I know we still enjoy our chocolate icecream with slave labour from African children and consume our tech gadgets built on the blood of an Uyghur genocide - but hey you got to start somewhere!
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> Why has this not happened yet?

Regulatory capture, and campaign finance laws. Until we fix the latter, we can't fix the former.
What do you think cable networks were in the 90s? If you weren't paying a middle-man to aggregate them onto a single monopolized access point in your house you'd be paying NBC/ABC/CBS/etc individually. Think about how premium channels worked at the time; you'd pay for HBO or Cinemax on top of your monthly cable bill. It's not as though those premium channels were significantly cheaper than HBOMax or Netflix, and they didn't offer a fraction of the content you could consume at any given time.
So... basically GPD Win?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD_Win_3
It's reached the point where I now have a mental heuristic that anyone claiming "cancel culture" is the one in the wrong, and this heuristic is almost always right. It's really just a shorthand "How could I have known there would have been consequences for my terrible actions?!", with said actions typically being completely unrelated to any issues of speech policing (as we see here).
This has been going on for some time.

Snoonet was the first (attempted?) victim with mods being hired by Private Internet Access and London Media Group (Lee's founded companies) and some weird corporate IRC 2.0 plans.

Sad to see they got freenode now =/ But yeah moving to Snoonet and mentioning that in topic was not a ToS violation back in the day.
"Consistently positive reviews from users" are not enough.

Steam Link became obsolete, and the controller just didn't sell (despite being excellent IMO!)

This could see a similar fate, or it could be the breakout hit made possible by their learning from past hardware
That's exactly what I expected this to be when I clicked on it, I'm pretty disappointed.
Maybe not completely, though. The guide is definitely helpful, but a lot of people don't want a list of 10 different options to have to trudge through. Even if you're more than skilled enough to understand and digest a guide like that, going through it and making a choice still takes mental energy that busy people don't necessarily want to expend.

What sites like Slack and Discord offer that, to the best of my knowledge, no IRC network does, is a one stop shop. A "go to webpage, click button, now you're chatting" experience, all hosted right there in one place, together with free and zero-configuration apps for both desktop and mobile with push and perhaps even email notifications and all sorts of goodies like that.

Which I personally think is fine. Maintaining that kind of tightly integrated experience costs money. Corporate money. Which, as this freenode kerfuffle illustrates, isn't necessarily something I want getting quite so tangled up in my IRC networks. But I'm also fine with communities that have different values or are trying to cater to different audiences choosing an option that feels better to them. I'm not sure it serves anyone's interests to be a busybody about these things.
discord has 140 million MAUs. IRC as a whole has probably less than 1 million. Still not a fan of it for free software projects to use proprietary chat solutios as the official place for discussion (maybe inofficial).
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Things the US fought against: Japanese occupation of East Asia. Nazi occupation of Europe. Soviet occupation and oppression of Eastern Europe. Oppression of Iran by a theocratic fascist government. Russia again. Establishment of a nuclear capable unbelievably horrible regime in North Korea. More Russia. A regime in Afghanistan that murders girls for wanting to read. Lots of more recent Putin shit, for details ask the populace of any neighbour of Russia on it's western side.

So yes, they've done a lot of bad crap. Their history of supporting corrupt murderous fascists in latin America is a notable series of lows. Not that the communist alternatives were all that wonderful. However it's a very mixed bag. Take the US out of the post-war period, and does it really look a whole lot better?

If you're going to go off on one about countries the rest of the world could have done fine without for the last 70 years I could probably name a few for you.
That sounds like Shell can use more teslas.

while selling the same amount of fuel if not more.

Hey at least we are not releasing the CO2 emission.
Firstly, I think there’s a pretty clear difference between enslavement, which is a practice that intentionally deprives human beings of their rights, often violently and often en masse, and beef, coffee, and chocolate, which are food products that are enjoyed by consumers around the world.

Secondly, neither slavery nor the use of CO2-generating industrial processes were suddenly found to be objectionable overnight. Both have been the subject of intense attention across the globe and over decades. Nobody at Shell is surprised that carbon dioxide is a problem. They have made the choice to continue to invest in and defend their business model for many years.
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