Interesting Links for 14-12-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Some promising news on the Covid vaccine front

(tags:vaccine Pandemic GoodNews )

2. Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

(tags:trains drm Poland OhForFucksSake viaPatrickHadfield )

3. Edinburgh City Council considers ban on fuel-powered leaf blowers

(tags:plants waste fuel Edinburgh Scotland noise )

4. Behold: The most Scottish dog of all time!

(tags:Scotland dogs ai art )

5. Netflix releases information on what shows people watched, and how long for.

(tags:netflix tv streaming )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Oh no! Shadow and Bone was FUN! But since I don't have Netflix any more, I could not watch it again anyway.

(I hate that so little stuff is on Blu-ray).

[nancylebov]

Maybe Blu-ray will be the next thing to be revived-- like vinyl.

[matgb]

Netflix specifically don't want their exclusive stuff released on other mediums, they want your sub money. Whereas, for example, Amazon just want your money and will release everything they can if they think it'll sell, they bought LoveFilm to run as a loss leader to get subs to prime, it works. Some creators switched to them specifically because of this

But yeah, I hadn't finished S2 before it got ditched and I just, well, it was so much fun. Not great TV, but fun, and the sort of thing I need to cheer me up. It's why I'm switching away from Netflix essentially, it's bundled with my cable deal else it'd be gone by now.

[andrewducker]

I am quite surprised Sandman got a Blu-ray release. I assume that was down to Warner.

[matgb]

I vaguely recall something about it being insisted on in the deal, that the prod companies got the dvd rights or something, but it was awhile ago, obviously Neil wanted it to happen. But yeah, very unusual for them, it's why the guy that did the Haunting and Midnight Club jumped ship to Amazon

[channelpenguin]

Oh yeah. It's totally obvious that they want subscriptions. Like the whole fracking world do. Dammit. I don't want to have to be online to watch stuff. Sometimes I don't HAVE connection. I also don't want stuff just disappearing like it does. I'm happy to pay out good money - but once (well maybe twice - I have upgraded DVDs to Blu Ray). Not every dammed month.

God it's all just so depressing...