Why would Greece, like any other net importer of IP, care about this any more than it historically has? Could the sudden change in focus be at the behest of a foreign country? Really jogs the noggin

You know that quote by Gabe Newell that gets posted all the time in this comm? The perceptive one that we all like to treat as the end of the matter?

Well its truth is matched only by its extraordinary naivete. IP interests are not going to invest in competitive service delivery. They are going to invest in technical solutions that remove the need for competitive service delivery altogether. Only once the high-margin options are exhausted will they relent, and start the hard work of building something value-for-money. Doing the right thing is a last resort.

Nothing surpsises me about a single small sectional interest (football copyright) being able to wreak such havoc and inequity on a whole nation. Italian standards of governance are a joke.

One of the best YT lectures on censorship I’ve come across is Ada Palmer’s “Why We Censor: from the Inquisition to the Internet”. It lays out the universal nature of such regimes, including their slapdash conception and setup, and the arbitrary and indiscriminate targeting they engage in thanks to how co-optable they are.

My fledgling settlement of Highjade in the steamy tropics got hit by transport pod raiders. Four of them barged into my fab lab and killed my main crafter, then trashed the equipment. A few days prior my only drug maker was kidnapped, so I’ve run out of penicillin too. On the bright side I still have a masterwork sniper rifle and I thanks to all the flagstones I’ve laid, no infestations in a long while.

Some advice for TNG. Don’t skip seasons 1 and 2. It’s popular but misguided advice. I finished TNG this year and generally enjoyed these seasons despite their flaws.

To that effect, here’s an optimized episode watch guide for each. Six episodes removed per season to save you 9 hours in total. Return to the skipped episodes later if you’re interested.

Didn’t it ultimately achieve its aim with the creation of Lower Decks?

TNG 3x03 The Survivors. Trek works just as well when introspective personal drama gets priority over the science fiction.

One of these days I’ll post my maiden TNG viewing notes…

Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that’s on the album you want and finding the data that way.

The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones

Every 60s show seems to be scored as though the camera could pan out any time and reveal whatever setting you thought you were in was in fact a black-tie ballroom party with a big band ensemble.

Context is king. If there’s vital/time-dependent correspondence you’re waiting on, notifications can matter. But email in 2024 is pretty darn transactional, in which case a daily check is enough for most. Notifications for something suggest that I need to drop what I’m doing and attend to whatever arrived. That just doesn’t apply for service provider marketing, purchase receipts, etc.

And then the opsec angle comes into play: https://www.axios.com/2023/12/06/apple-google-requests-push-notification-data

Notifications are overrated. I turn them off for the bulk of apps.

Devote one or two small time windows each day for life admin. Outside those windows it shouldn’t be seen or heard.

Started playing Rain World. I’m getting huge ICO vibes.

The cost of paper and plastic recycling is passed on with the co-operation of government. Their interests are aligned with those of industry. The cost is handballed (‘externalized’ if you want the slime term) first to individuals and ultimately to the environment. With moral hazards like this I wouldn’t expect substantial change to be driven by authorities. It’s going to take technological breakthroughs.

As an experiment, take any remux from your collection and encode it by dividing the raw video bitrate by 2.5

What you’ll invariably find:

• Perceptible quality degradation at 100 per cent scale: 0%
• " @ 200 per cent scale: <1%
• Space saving: >50%

If you agreed to host her collection carte blanche, that’s your failure to manage expectations.

The better approach would have been to make an X GB partition (whatever you’re comfortable allocating) say there’s a specific amount of space available for family use. When it fills up it fills up.