Hard_Space

I have multiple 5tb external disks attached to my main tower that (among other things) serves up Plex content. I switch each one out every year, for equivalent of about a hundred dollars each. I try and find a compromise between the amount of read requests and availability for these disks, but in the end, if they're read often enough, they die soon enough.

What killed the last one was an experiment with installing Emby. Like many similar systems, it bewilderingly has no rate-limiting function, and will thrash a disk to within an inch of its life in order to index it. And that was the most recent thing that killed one of my external Plex drives, with multiple series and movies on it.

So yes, just keep refreshing the media, at reasonable intervals.

PS Yes, I know this is a poor method of content storage. NAS is looming up for me one of these days.

Yes, my monthly profile backup would have been worth repeating before this experiment. If anyone knows how to make a 7Zip archive of a live and running Firefox profile, I would back up far more regularly - but Firefox's lock state foils the backup, meaning I have to close down Firefox to archive the profile.

Please be aware that at least one of these settings will log you out of all your accounts (I suspect it may be the one related to fingerprinting, though I am not certain). If, as I am, you are signed into 10-20 essential accounts, including work accounts, it is going to be very difficult to get your browser back into its prior 'ready to use' startup, state, even after you have reversed some of the settings outlined here.

There are easier ways of getting a 'fresh start' for cookies and logins on Firefox than this. It has taken me an hour to undo some of the damage done by even timid experimentation with these settings.

Sadly, this experiment logged me out of a YouTube-only Google account that I was able to make before Google closed the loophole that allowed you to make a YouTube-based account without the need for any email address or phone number. Re-authenticating at login for this account now requires that you supply an existing email address and phone number, so the utility of that particular account has gone forever.

Does anyone know if Zen identifies itself as 'Firefox' at program-level when running on Windows? This is the biggest mistake that FF forks and offshoots make, since it makes it impossible to run Firefox and the derivative work at the same time.

Love the smooth zooms in that video.

This is region-locked to the US.

Was replying in the spirit of OP.

Since this is a Reddit-style comment, have to say that username checks out.

When I heard they were making a movie of Doctor Sleep, knowing that the final 20% of the book is absolutely untranslatable to coherent movie content, I could not understand how they could close it. In the end, they more or less worked around the finale, which is basically a series of psychic battles fought remotely. It's a tolerable movie.

One example of a truly unfilmable King/Bachman novel is Thinner, though maybe it could now be done, at great expense, with AI (there was a ridiculous TV version, though).

I interviewed him, when I was aged 16, in 1983, and asked him about The Shining. He was in a conciliatory mood on the topic that day, but re-emphasized how little he thought of Kubrick's shot choices for the scene where Danny discovers Wendy reading his manuscript.

To that criticism, Kubrick responded over the years that if we had just been jump-scared by Jack suddenly appearing over Wendy's shoulder as she read, we would have felt relief and even started laughing to blow it off, which would have undermined the tension Kubrick was looking to build past this point in the scene.

Yes, this was 'Atlantic-ized' and generally storified in a very unfortunate way.

I don't know - I think the author was hoping for tremendous indulgence from Kubrick when attempting to get him to green-light quotes like:

'There are good things in Lolita. But in too many respects it squanders, impoverishes and conventionalises its source material, draining it of its complexity, nymphetry and eroticism.'

It's valid criticism, because it's a point of view, but I wouldn't expect anything quite that harsh in a collaborative work.

I have to say that the 'critical' quotations from the book are uncharacteristic of a project where the target of the biography (and this is a kind of biography) is cooperating and participating - and particularly when they have veto.

Most writers know the score in this respect: unauthorized coverage is harder-hitting and may be more accurate, whereas authorized coverage has inside scoops, but is unlikely to be allowed to contain very critical barbs.

TBH I fast-forward through musical interludes (which are still amazingly frequent in TV shows, though diminishing) and sex scenes, because they almost never advance the narrative. There are musicals and there's porn, if necessary, I suppose - I'm here for the story. If two characters get together, I don't need to see it, just to know that it happened, unless something unusual during the act changes the course of events.

I think the title is misleading clickbait, since it suggests the EU is proposing something similar to the recent UK law, or laws in other jurisdictions regulating AI deepfakes in general; whereas this is entirely about the depiction of CSAM using AI (confusing in itself, since I'm fairly sure that EU regulations already prohibit the non-photographic, i.e., artistic depiction of such content).

A more accurate and less click-baity title might be 'EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated and deepfaked child sexual abuse content'

After two years of using Fastmail as my primary account, in my effort to de-Google in 2022, spam recognition at Fastmail seems to me to be on a par with Gmail, if not better. I still use both.

I re-watched The Andromeda Strain yesterday, and am glad to see this is only a (presumably) fixable technical hitch.

I think it might be better to leave God (and atheism) out of it entirely, both of you.

Once a video can show a person twisting round, and their belt buckle is the same at the end as it was at the start of the turn, it's solved. VFX pipelines need consistency. TC is a long, long way from being solved, except by hitching it to 3DMMs and SMPL models (and even then, the results are not fabulous yet).

Massively clickbait title. 'India's Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) this week issued an advisory saying social media companies need to remove deepfakes from their platforms within 36 hours after they're reported.'

Yes, the 'sleep hangover': the after-effect that told me that what I was doing to myself by regularly staying up for 48 hours was similar to drinking a quart or two of scotch.

I've been in therapy over six years, and also did it for a shorter spell in the early 1990s.

A few months is really the start of the relationship - it usually takes that long for most people to establish trust with their therapist. That doesn't mean you have the right therapist, but it is hard to know this early on.

> just interesting enough to keep your interest (and exhaust your brain) but not interesting or meaningful enough to keep you awake

Exactly. Back when I read more, I would have books to stimulate (daytime/commute reading) and 'bedtime books', which had to be interesting enough to read, but also effortful and ultimately tiring enough to promote sleep.

Now I do the same with TV shows in Plex, late at night. Unusually, it's the documentaries that stop me sleeping, and the classic US TV shows (that I like) that help me drift away.

> would actually fix the rebounds for a bit.

I can't prove it, but even dumb teenage me felt instinctively that extreme sleep deprivation was likely to take a long and possibly permanent toll. I don't think anything that extreme can really be practiced in moderation, because it's more like taking heroin than eating too many cakes, etc., i.e., it's not a 'granular' indulgence.

I would hesitate to call this a hot take on my part, since I am guessing that in that period of my life, I probably stayed up for two days on several hundred occasions, if not more.

For anyone else suffering from severe depression, this is an easy answer, maybe; but there are better easy answers than this. Cannabis (I am not a partaker since I was an student) would be better than this.

Really, do anything but this. It's not 'free'; nothing that works is free.

Having suffered from severe depression for over forty years, this reminds me of when I was 17, 18, etc. and suddenly discovered that if I stayed up for two days, the problem went away. So I knew this a very long time ago; but it always seemed to me that, besides smoking, this was just about one of the worst habits you could develop. By my mid-twenties, I had stopped.

Wow - this one really crept up on me, after years of seeing it shot down in flames by people who actually understand the technology, and the implications (not least, the security implications). I wonder if the recent passing of the UK act emboldened them..?

I think there has been some serious misinterpretation of what 'real time' means in the context of this paper; and, possibly, that the researchers have avoided overt clickbait claims because they knew the term 'real time' would do the work for them.

This is not some neural codec that can convert any novel or unseen object live, like a kind of 3D YOLO - the paper mentions that it requires up to 24 hours of training on a per case basis.

Nothing can be edited, no textures or movements - all you can do is remove people or speed them up or slow them down, and that's been possible in NeRF for a few years now.

I watched the complete Carlin HBO specials about five years ago, from the 1970s up to the last one he did, and they are very anodyne at the beginning. Having watched a few documentaries about his career, they don't necessarily reflect the risks he was taking live sometimes; but really, if you watch those specials, he seems to evolve from a tediously corporate comedian into a hilarious and unstoppable force of nature. So I can understand how people would have the perception that he started out generic, as that was what the public saw in popular output he made.

> I always remember my friend who works in VFX telling me he spent all week working on James Bond riding a pig. Which gave me some high hopes for the movie!

I think that was Sean Connery in his swansong as Bond.

This suffers from the same low-vector movement requirements as EbSynth.

I have thought about developing this site for the last 3-4 years! This is exactly what it would have looked like. Thanks for saving me the trouble (if I ever had got round to it).