I honestly didn’t care enough to spend time looking into it as I’m not being paid to make Wired’s website functional. Thankfully, BrikoX was the real MVP and ensured nobody has to actually go there to access the content by posting an archive link.
If the basic version of MakeMKV isn’t enough for you and you don’t want to register for the full version, Handbrake is a good alternative.
Welcome! Here’s hoping you’ll enjoy yourself.
Disclaimer: I’m not Ruby programmer. I evaluated it once, saw no particular reason to use it instead of Python and promptly forgot about it.
With that said, the specific criticism(s) are:
Poor performance. Sure. Ruby does appear to be somewhat slower than Python, but I’m more concerned about the peak memory consumption which is admittedly frequently pretty terrifying. Mind you, if I need high performance, I’m not likely to be using either Ruby or Python. It’s fine for automation scripts, rapid prototyping or experimentation, hypothesis validation, moderate data processing, analysis and visualization, but yes: If you build your (supposedly) hyper-scalable website on Rails or use it for the system software for your embedded device, you’re going to have a bad time. Every tool has its place (except Brainfuck). Don’t use a hammer when you should be using a screwdriver.
The above also covers the railing against rails, about which I have no further comment as I’ve never used it. Maybe it’s nice, but if you’re working on something with more concurrent users than your homelab automation UX, there’s undoubtedly better alternatives.
…And that appears to be it. So it boiled to down to “performance”. Does that in and of itself make Ruby “not a serious programming language”. Well, if it does, then the same applies to Python. Does it mean that there’s probably a better alternative for any given application? Probably yes.
Thank you.
Maybe if I could read the article I’d have something to say about that. I guess we’ll never know, and that’s probably for the best.
A lot of things should, but apparently don’t.
“Just follow the legal process”, huh?
Well, yeah. What else would one do it with it? Set it on fire and scatter the ashes?
…Right next to the oil furnace in the basement, trying to figure out how to rig it to blow and burn the place down.
“An admirer of the physical sciences are we, sir? Jolly good. Let me get the special tools.”
That looks like what’d happen if one put APL in a blender. I don’t know who came up with whatever that is, but they need to get outside more. Or, you know, just once maybe.
Sure, you demented dickhead.
The… What?
Temu Kraftwerk. I was promised Kows, and there was no livestock in sight.
You know what? That’s fair. Admittedly, i don’t know who I’m talking about here.
I’ve always done that with both my parents, but then again I’m Danish. It’s a radically different culture. Families are not seen as particularly inherently important here. It’s usually not even a meritocratic assessment of the family as a unit - it’s an individual one. You might like some people, you might dislike others. Either way, is has almost nothing to do with whether a blood relation exists or not.
“An asshole’s an asshole.”
Edit: Along similar philosophical lines, there’s no particular veneration of age. Age and wisdom might be proportionally related, but one does not guarantee the other. Some people manage only to grow more foolish with age. Precocious children exist.
I’d be very interested in exploring the differences between cultures more with you, assuming you’re willing.
Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit’s relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.
Wait. Are you telling me that people would be willing to pay a small premium for living in a place that isn’t a shit hole, surrounded by content people who aren’t feeling murderously angry about crappy circumstances beyond their control?
Huh.
I believe that Handbrake externalizes the handling of BD encryption to an separate external library (libbdplus IIRC) for various legal and logistical reasons. You’ll need that installed too if you want to decode encrypted discs.