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.
Personally I wouldn't say that curiosity in general is linked it to, but rather the combination of special interests, often being detailed-oriented, and (at least for me) the need to understand the how and why for whatever I'm doing drives curiosity (or least a greater level of questioning and learning than typical) in specific contexts/situations/topics.
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).
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.
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.
Given how strongly hereditary ASD and ADHD are, your sister will have at least some autistic traits. It's unclear from your posts whether she is diagnosable, but I also wouldn't rule it out based on the information you've provided.
I can understand both your perspectives (she not wanting a diagnosis because your parents baby you, you not wanting it because then you'll feel less different to your sister) but the deciding factors really should be (1) does she have it and (2) will a diagnosis benefit her? If both of those are true, then you will both need to accept the negative aspects of a diagnosis.
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.
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).
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.
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.
For games, perhaps, but I would have to disagree for HD & 4K video. Streaming and digital downloads rarely match the bitrate and quality you can get from a properly-authored BD or UHD disc, especially paired with the right player.
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?)
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.
Ironically I wasn't able to get EAC working on my Windows 10 installation due to the WinFSP clash, whilst CUERipper errors out on WINE (something to do with how it interacts with the ODD).
However, CUETools works fine and so I was able to compare the same CD ripped by CUETools/CUERipper on Windows with EAC under WINE. I used an ABBA CD as the test case (100+ matches in CTDB, 10+ in AccurateRip).
The CUE sheets are functionally identical (barring the differences in extra metadata stored between the two, as CUERipper included the IRSC where EAC has a Composer comment instead) -- the gaps and indices are all the same. The raw rip itself is also identical - I ripped the CD to a disc image (with offset correction in both cases) and the md5 checksum of the WAV file from both applications is the same.
In both tools the rip validated against AccurateRip and CUETools DB as well. I double-checked the EAC rip afterwards using CUETools (again under WINE), as a further test.
Finally got around to testing out EAC on WINE (prompted by my previous comment a few hours ago).
It seems to work without major issues on WINE 11 in a 32-bit prefix (at least on LMDE 7). Plugins need dotnet20 and dotnet48 installed, otherwise only the in-built AccurateRip meta engine shows up. I've only tested ripping to WAVE and FLAC, though.
I've been looking into this myself recently. EAC still seems to be the top option (followed by CUERipper/CUETools). CUETools itself runs under WINE, but CUERipper doesn't (at least for me). Haven't tried EAC on WINE yet.
Honestly surprised coffee isn't in there somewhere...
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.
Personally I wouldn't say that curiosity in general is linked it to, but rather the combination of special interests, often being detailed-oriented, and (at least for me) the need to understand the how and why for whatever I'm doing drives curiosity (or least a greater level of questioning and learning than typical) in specific contexts/situations/topics.
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).
I don't think their test system was directly connected to the Internet. OpenAI's post said this:
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.
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.
Charles Dance (who also would make an excellent Master in Doctor Who).
Given how strongly hereditary ASD and ADHD are, your sister will have at least some autistic traits. It's unclear from your posts whether she is diagnosable, but I also wouldn't rule it out based on the information you've provided.
I can understand both your perspectives (she not wanting a diagnosis because your parents baby you, you not wanting it because then you'll feel less different to your sister) but the deciding factors really should be (1) does she have it and (2) will a diagnosis benefit her? If both of those are true, then you will both need to accept the negative aspects of a diagnosis.
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.
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).
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.
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.
DNS is the first thing I check.
For games, perhaps, but I would have to disagree for HD & 4K video. Streaming and digital downloads rarely match the bitrate and quality you can get from a properly-authored BD or UHD disc, especially paired with the right player.
Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated.
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?)
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.
Ironically I wasn't able to get EAC working on my Windows 10 installation due to the WinFSP clash, whilst CUERipper errors out on WINE (something to do with how it interacts with the ODD).
However, CUETools works fine and so I was able to compare the same CD ripped by CUETools/CUERipper on Windows with EAC under WINE. I used an ABBA CD as the test case (100+ matches in CTDB, 10+ in AccurateRip).
The CUE sheets are functionally identical (barring the differences in extra metadata stored between the two, as CUERipper included the IRSC where EAC has a Composer comment instead) -- the gaps and indices are all the same. The raw rip itself is also identical - I ripped the CD to a disc image (with offset correction in both cases) and the md5 checksum of the WAV file from both applications is the same.
In both tools the rip validated against AccurateRip and CUETools DB as well. I double-checked the EAC rip afterwards using CUETools (again under WINE), as a further test.
Finally got around to testing out EAC on WINE (prompted by my previous comment a few hours ago).
It seems to work without major issues on WINE 11 in a 32-bit prefix (at least on LMDE 7). Plugins need dotnet20 and dotnet48 installed, otherwise only the in-built AccurateRip meta engine shows up. I've only tested ripping to WAVE and FLAC, though.
In short, I'd say it's worth a try now.
I've been looking into this myself recently. EAC still seems to be the top option (followed by CUERipper/CUETools). CUETools itself runs under WINE, but CUERipper doesn't (at least for me). Haven't tried EAC on WINE yet.
https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Comparison_of_CD_rippers