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  • Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? | Fortune

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  • Yet another reason for me to dislike Shopify.

    I already hated that all the small retailers I use have migrated to it and it pushes you to set up an account so that it can connect all my purchasing habits together from what should be independent retailers.

  • You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever

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  • 100%. I buy physical copies of the books I want to read, because odds are I'll probably keep them and read them again in future. The ebooks I have are files I have been able to download and store on my system (and backed up), so they can't be edited or deleted.

    I will always prefer a physical release for a film or TV show over digital-only. Not only do I not have to pay a subscription (and then worry that it's going to get edited or removed), but I get sound+video quality that exceeds what's possible on streaming at present. Plus there's just something nice about having your favourite movies and shows sitting on your shelf to remind you that it's there and something you enjoy, rather than a purely digital library that isn't as tangible or immediately visible.

    It's deeply frustrating, too, when there are shows that you just can't buy at all. A few times in the past two years there's been a show on one of our free-to-air TV networks and their online streaming video service that I've enjoyed, but they're only there for a limited time and then gone. Can you buy them on disc or even digital only? No. They are almost as ephemeral as TV from the 1960s when shows were made to be shown once, maybe repeated a few times before rights expired, then gone (sometimes forever, if you didn't have space in your archives).

  • WIRED | OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

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  • I don't think their test system was directly connected to the Internet. OpenAI's post said this:

    With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access.

    The way I read it, the AI agent (using multiple models) escaped the sandbox, traversed the LAN in their R&D environment, gained access to the gateway and from there, the Internet. That's not as simple as just escaping a container, VM or firewall on the host machine and bingo, you have Internet. I'm mildly impressed by that.

    The concerning aspect of all this is that this is a perfect example of misalignment, which has been warned about. In order to reach its goals, instead of pursing it legitimately, the AI agent sought a shortcut and attacked Huggingface.

  • How I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks

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  • Thanks for sharing. I would definitely be interested in a write-up on how you solved the DNS+certificate problem please, as this is a problem I've run into on my self-hosting journey.

  • Still time to make it happen

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  • Charles Dance (who also would make an excellent Master in Doctor Who).

  • All shows used to be like that

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  • Sometimes it was quite obvious where cuts had been made, sometimes not. An easy cut was the episode preview before the title sequence -- I can only recall one episode actually retaining it.

  • All shows used to be like that

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  • I think it's quite possible to still tell a good story in the time allocated these days (noting that streaming shows have more variability in episode length too), but I agree that there is far too much focus on SFX and fast pacing that often leaves the story lacking (and gaping plot holes).

  • All shows used to be like that

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  • Here in PAL world, I think most of TNG, DS9 and the first 4? seasons of VOY clocked in around 44 minutes without commericals. It then dropped to 42 minutes through the remainder of VOY and all of ENT.

    By the 2010s most US procedurals (e.g. NCIS and its spinoffs, Elementary, etc.) were averaging 39 minutes per episode.

    In the 2010s, one of our free-to-air stations started butchering shows that had longer runtimes (e.g. Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, early Murder, She Wrote episodes), cutting them from their normal 45 to 47 minute duration down to 40-42 minutes to fit the expected amount of advertising for a one-hour timeslot.

    Now I feel old.

  • Maylin is making progress

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  • For certain cats, shelters do more harm than good, unfortunately. One of mine was a stray and we went through the formal process of taking her to the local shelter (pound) to confirm she didn't have an owner and get her checked out, etc., stating that we clearly wanted to adopt her if she had no owner. She went backward in the shelter (they flagged her as having "behavioural issues" - she initially started to warm to staff, but then became very withdrawn and defensive after they tried to wash her chin and stayed that way, apparently). She steadily recovered when we brought her home (no doubt being in a familiar place helped), although it took years for her to get used to strangers and her to stop responding to a couple of trauma triggers we were able to identify (I don't know what happened to her in her first few years of life).

    To this day we're not sure whether they would have tried to adopt her out if we hadn't been so keen to take her. She has never been hostile towards us and her default is to run and hide if anything disturbs her (so on the rare occasion I get scratched if something startles her whilst she's on my lap or I'm holding her).

    I wish you all the best with Maylin and hope that, with time, she'll improve.

  • Loving this new meme template

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  • DNS is the first thing I check.

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  • Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated.

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  • Ah, that makes more sense. At least they're retraining the staff, but I have to wonder if they offered the factory as part of the sale to TCL (If they did, why did TCL decline? If not, why not, if they're now needing to retrain and repurpose the plant?)

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  • So, they're producing over 200 million discs a year, with 50% of that being for Playstation and 20% new orders currently, but want to kill that market? The projections of reduced disc production seem to be a clear result of Sony's decision to stop making games on physical media, not a dying market. I have to wonder if the problem is that the market isn't growing fast enough for Sony.

  • Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI | CNN

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  • Exactly. The fact that "AI" has now been almost completely associated with LLMs is incredibly frustrating.

  • Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

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  • Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers

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  • I've been using it for years too. Can recommend.

  • Safely exposing services to the Internet

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  • Good to know, thanks.

  • Safely exposing services to the Internet

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  • Safely exposing services to the Internet

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  • That sounds like it may be a good fit for my use case, then. Thanks again and I'll definitely look into it!

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    Hegseth removes flu vaccination requirement for US troops

    www.cidrap.umn.edu /influenza-vaccines/hegseth-removes-flu-vaccination-requirement-us-troops
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    Australia Post halts most parcel postage to US immediately

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-08-26/australia-post-commercial-shipping-suspension-us-tariffs/105696336
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    Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as global carriers face 'chaos'

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-08-21/australia-post-suspends-transit-shipping-parcels-us-trump-tariff/105680456
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    America's economic and political chaos has implications for Australia: The United States has proven itself an incomprehensible and unreliable ally

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-06-09/donald-trump-elon-musk-australia-defence-security-alliance/105391190
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    America is on the verge of something fateful, but it cannot escape history

    www.abc.net.au /news/2024-09-15/us-election-america-cant-escape-its-history/104305618
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    Australian Taxation Office fires warning shot over 'hopelessly flawed' sovereign citizen movement's tax advice