If your web browser can play it once, it can play it any number of times. Look into Widevine decryption. Basically you load the video in a special browser, save both the video and decryption keys, then decrypt the video file.
I don’t think the crazy taxes need to be on obscene wealth itself, but on the very lavish and wasteful things people do with that wealth, things that have a very real impact to the rest of society.
For example, private jets or even private chartered flights should have some very steep taxes to offset the cost of all the FAA employees and stuff at all the small airports, all the carbon emissions, and everything.
Yachts, and very large properties also come to mind. Like total square feet of living space of all real estate owned - once it crosses like 10,000 sq ft the annual taxes just get higher and higher. For example 10k-20k sq ft costs $1/sq ft annually, 20k-40k costs $5/sq ft, etc.
Tor routes through relays, which could be run by digital rights holders or government entities. Presumably they could trace with some effort. VPN is an encrypted connection to some trusted party who is accepting your money. Some VPN providers have policies about keeping no logs of your network traffic. Presumably the VPN provider needs good lawyers to know they can safely discard and ignore all the copyright notices. If the VPN provider did keep logs, and if they were legally compromised in some way, the VPN would no longer be protective.
Also if you really need some to prevent a migraine, try a quarter tsp of epsom salt dissolved in a few oz of warm water. Tastes bad but it’s magnesium sulfate.
Widevine DRM s the rabbit hole it you want to do webrips. If it was me, I’d get an ADTH NextGen TV receiver, hooked to an OrangePi 5 HDMI input. Need more good sports streams, and over the air should be free for everybody anyway.
It’s quite remarkable really. A single layer DVD stores 4.7 GB, for a movie with 576p (H.262). A while later those videos could be compressed using DivX or Xvid (H.263) down to 700 MB to fit on a standard CD, though full quality was more like 2 GB.
The Blu-ray standard came along with 25 GB per layer, and 1080p video, stored in H.262 or H.264.
Discs encoded in MPEG-2 video typically limit content producers to around two hours of high-definition content on a single-layer (25 GB) BD-ROM. The more-advanced video formats (VC-1 and MPEG-4 AVC) typically achieve a video run time twice that of MPEG-2, with comparable quality. MPEG-2, however, does have the advantage that it is available without licensing costs, as all MPEG-2 patents have expired.
Now H.265 is now even smaller than H.264, so now you could record a full 1080p movie onto a 4.7 GB DVD. Now the Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs are only slightly larger (33 GB per layer), but they store 4K video by supporting H.265 codec. I guess by now a 720p video encoded to H.265 could make a decent copy on a 700 MB CD.
Grocery Outlet and Trader Joe’s. For GrocOut just go and see what’s cheap, don’t shop off a list. Make sure the prices of the stuff you’re buying is about 50% off or more. At TJ’s everything is priced pretty fairly, just buy what you want to eat.
Don’t drink alcohol or soda, or anything canned really.
This, but I think equally important is de-duplication of links. Ideally these alternative links to the same content could also be de-duped. All comments should be in one thread. I know what I’m describing is complicated due to communities across servers, but it would really improve lemmy for me.
I have no idea. I have read anecdotally that magnesium is being depleted from agricultural soils worldwide, and that a majority of Americans are deficient in magnesium. Mg is known to be a vital mineral for neurological and brain health.
So the problem is, I have no idea how much is in the foods I eat. I have no idea how much is needed for adults, or children.
Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), beriberi (Vitamin B deficiency), Cretinism (iodine deficiency), and anemia (iron deficiency) all took decades of population-level health disaster (and thousands of lives) before they were solved by governments. Mg deficiency isn’t so acute a disease as these, so I am doubtful that we will get any large attention on the matter soon. Maybe Alzheimer’s, migraines, or other neurological disease research may discover the link sooner.
That is interesting. Of course there aren’t any HDMI CD Video players so it doesn’t much matter. But it’s interesting how a 4 GB DVD in H.262 would compare to a 1080p copy of the same movie in H.265.
I wonder if there’s a lot of room for encoders to improve the quality per byte without changing the format. For instance jpeg and mozjpeg.