Last Christmas I gave a family member a flash drive containing ~10 high quality movie encodes, basically a shortlist of the year's personal highlights I think they'd enjoy too. I don't know if they've used it, but I'm going to make a habit of it until I hear otherwise. A drive for a handful movies is cheap enough to not worry about if it's never seen again. Give them a large capacity drive however, or access to a Plex server, and paralysis of choice occurs.
Tregetour
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Data and metadata about you are a kind of digital noose that hangs loose about your neck, until a third party* pulls it tight to hang you.
You're right to feel bitter. You're the victim of an abusive software stack. But it's important that you come away with an understanding of why R_ddit was able to identify you individually, and why the ways in which we interface with the web really do matter, despite normie's typical self-justifying complaints.
*Anyone, identifiable or not, without warning, for any reason, at any time
There are contexts where such a statement is fine. Even in a context where it could be construed as rude and prejudiced, it still doesn't matter, because it's such a milquetoast insult. A shitty throwaway putdown on the level of 'okay, boomer' or 'male, pale and stale'.
Overmoderation on the public web is as much of an issue as its lack.
Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.
This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.
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.
ST got the future of healthcare right: when the toolset is so advanced you can wave a thingy over a body part and perform diagnoses and repair on the spot, the profession becomes 99 per cent bedside manner.
Smear campaign
A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[
Look everyone, it's the season 37 opener of I'm not going to use the great tool because people I don't like are also using the great tool!
Every one of us has a thousand different kinds of little people inside of us, and some of them want to get out and be wild, and some want to be sad or happy or inventive, or even just go dancing! That's why we all have so many different urges at different times. And all those different little people inside of us: we must never be afraid to take them with us wherever we go. Who knows when we may need one of them to pop up and rescue us from ourselves! Variety, my dear Alex. The great secret is not the variety of life, it's the variety of us.
Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn't like.
The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones