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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Subler mostly as a metadata acquisition and injector tool, and secondarily as a M4V remux sanitiser. The subtitles function is more a subset of its stream management, and is much less relevant than its name implies. That said, it does do a very competent job at converting, through OCR, DVD and BluRay bitmap subtitles to ASCII variants required for MP4 containers.

  I think it only works in macOS, which makes it difficult to understand its purpose when you don’t have that platform readily available. Ideally it would have a CLI/TUI which would lend it better to script integration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Love the project name.
  2. This looks close to what I’ve imagined coalescing my hand conjured ffmpeg scripts into.
  3. I’d like to feed this into a pipeline that includes Subler or equivalent.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨billy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aging wind turbines are a massive clean energy opportunity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

  Wind turbines could be enhanced with razor sharp leading edges on their blades. It may increase their generation efficiency, but would definitely help remove the biggest environmental polluters, the morbidly wealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only recently, really looked deeply into politics, and I may be back propagating my current understanding in an inconsistent manner, but I can’t identify a single entity who has elevated to the level of candidate and is worthy of voting for.

  The state of politics in Australia has become so thoroughly polluted that one must intrinsically be irreconcilably compromised to participate, which leaves the only justifiable path being to vote for the least bad option, if one can be gleaned in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the past 3 decades, basically the entire span of my adult life, I’ve been unable to identify any candidate worthy of actively voting for, and the only memorable specimens have been clowns I’ve needed to vote against.

  This country chose to gave Howard 4 fucking terms to undermine and obliterate the Australian social fabric, and no one since has had the cognitive calibre required to correct his debasement.

  If you need a primer, this is a decent point to start: Where it All Went Wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s stable, it’s not a lab.

  That’s infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Single ply snowflakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s telling that LLM thumpers think it’s appropriate to treat skeptics of their slop like a rape victim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the wok agenda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The wōk agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.

  Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PB&J⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried, but I can’t unsee my initial identification of filled nappy and used tampons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bunnings wins fight to use AI facial recognition tech to combat store crime, opening door for other retailers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to install IR and UV LED strobes in hats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affluenza is really the biggest driver between thinking the barrio/ghetto/slums is an "unsafe wasteland" vs people who are just trying to exist and survive in the framework they are given.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This "March for Billionaires" event in SF happening today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This "March for Billionaires" event in SF happening today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  4320p video makes as much sense as 96kHz audio. Both have a legitimate role in capture and creation, but a vanishingly minuscule role at the point of playback and consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way I often frame my perspective on this is:

  Economics is the social control mechanism that filled the void vacated by religion after the Enlightenment.

  Mythology was replaced with finance.
  … Churches with banks.
  … Clergy with economists.
  … God with GDP.

  I don’t see either as inherently problematic systems, but their lack of rigorous foundational attachment to reality informs my argument that they should be applied as subservient tools, as opposed to their current role as dominant, dictatorial weapons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A distinction without a difference. Lobbying and propaganda are basically the prophesizing and scripture of politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.

  Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked to retroactively support a given economic model, and applied as its supporting mythology.

  It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Autoerotic asphyxiation from farts in an echo chamber produce the wildest trips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop calling LLMs ‘AI’, there’s nothing intelligent about regurgitating statistically luke-warm refried Reddit threads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a dreamy guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re Mort like ju-Rick-stictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a dreamy guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two of those, famously, are not states, as indicated in their literal names.