You are being pedantic.

> Step 1: cryptically warn people that their rights are under attack.

They are, UK is heavy surveillance, there is an article on Wikipedia dedicated just to this subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

> Step 2: tell people that you have been banned from saying any more.

They said their ad is "banned from TV" because they offer a way to circumvent internet surveillance.

> Step 3: Conveniently make no mention of the fact that this highly controversial 'banned' ad is absolutely watchable, in the UK, on youtube, with links to it from traditional media adverts.

Because it is about TV... what does YouTube have to do with this? It says on the damn Ad "Banned on TV".

what does the surveillance in the US have to do with a Swedish company and UK tv ads?

This is whataboutism. It doesn't address any of the points made above.

The point I was replying to used the existence of a Wikipedia article as proof that there is a problem in the UK regarding surveillance. By providing an example of similar articles about other locations I was showing that this alone is not particularly strong evidence. It certainly wasn't whataboutism, I don't even think the user I was replying to is from the US.

> By providing an example of similar articles about other locations I was showing that this alone is not particularly strong evidence.

How does linking similar articles help demonstrate that? That doesn't seem like very strong (counter?)evidence.

If only one country has an article about something you'd probably think it's an outlier. If every country has the article then you'd more likely think it's just part of life. I didn't make an assertion, I'm not providing evidence.

I don't even disagree with the post, I just don't like seeing shallow dismissals where someone could've actually put effort in to make a point. So I did the same.

With people like grandparent you can never be right.

Wow it looks really cool, I think I might enjoy actually using it as the main way to view the site

I was going to say the same thing too!

I just wish there was a dark mode.. Let me install night reader to see how well it looks :p

Edit: would've loved if there was a way to sign up or make comments from there, oh well :< I wish there was, I am not sure if that's possible tho but I hope it could be.

Hell Allan, apologies for going fanboy on you but just wanted to tell you that DataTables is amazing and we use it a lot in my circle of friends. You made an awesome product!

> This is entirely based around fear that the US government may suddenly stop supplying Ukraine with Starlink connectivity

And is that not a valid fear? Why is Elon/Starlink's denial of threats to cut off Ukraine more trustworthy than Reuter's reporting?

Isn't the US government capitalising on fear as we speak in the recent Tariff wars and such?

Starlink needs competition and I hope that will come.

Same here, Google's offering is very weird though, a simple question to Bard about what it's using also outputs the wrong result. https://imgur.com/Vb1STQe

Ah, but can you tell which part of the result is wrong? Maybe a follow up question to the LLM?

Could you recommend a tool that does subtitles and generates a .srt afterwards, from your experience?

I have a friend that translates everything from English for his grandmother, so she can watch movies that she does not understand, but he does it by hand in a video editing program. Would love to help him out.

I've tested a couple of the popular free ones, and settled on Aegisub. The default keybindings drove me nuts, they're not very ergonomic, but at least you can fix that easily.

.srt is the lowest common denominator for subtitle files, every subtitling program can import and export those. It's a pretty dumb format though, my biggest issue with it is that it doesn't have support for fixed-position left-aligned subtitles, and it doesn't have support for specifying the font. I understand why, it's to make playback much simpler and resolution-independent, which is why every single video player program or hardware device in existence has support for it.

But if you left-align it with a fixed margin, choose a good font, and use white text on black background, your subtitles are going to be so much easier to read.

(Here's a sample of what I prefer: https://skamenglishsubs.tumblr.com/post/188037245260/subtext...)

Isn't that left aligned? Am I missing something?

Crap, I meant left-aligned.

(I belong to the tiny minority of people who often mix up the words for left and right, it's both annoying and hilarious.)

Personally, I find the default keybinding for subtitle timing to be the best keybinding. But it's kinda not newcomer friendly.

Aegisub: http://www.aegisub.org/

Anecdote: I had a terrible time trying to use AegosSub, but Subtitle Edit is a total breeze: https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

The ones that leaked it are First American Financial Corp.

It seems to be back up. Reporting from Central Europe.

On behalf of Romania: Thanks for the kind words...

What wireless HDMI solution are you using? Could you leave a link? I was thinking of doing the same.

I'm using one of the Nyrius products. The delay seems imperceptible, but I did have one of their products mysteriously fail right after its warranty period so YMMV.