@theartlav - I've actually been forced to go about this slowly. I have three optical drives in the house, two DVD burners and one Blu-Ray.
I've been doing 1 Blu-Ray a day, and then however many DVDs, Audio CDs and CD-ROMS I can while that one Blu Ray gets ripped.
It's forced me to take a while to do all this, but at the same time, it's also forced me to take it slow, and really nail down the organization of everything so I'm not looking at thousands of files going "HOW DO I ALPHABETIZE JAPANESE CHARACTERS?!"
Since the beginning of 2022, I've made a big effort to digitize all my archive of...everything (and re-digitizing some of my older stuff).
I've been concentrating on optical media since I started, and after almost two years, I've hit my first milestone: all my audio CDs are re-encoded. I will likely have all my CD-ROMs also ripped shortly.
The Blu-Rays and DVDs not so much. Oh my goodness, the DVD stack is HUGE.
Responding to the #Dreamwidth bat signal - hi!
Here's the most recent statement I can find from Denise on the matter:
"If you are not using a VPN and you regularly get the captcha from our hosting provider (the graphical one instead of the DW-native text one), please email support@dreamwidth.org with your IP address… we are very well aware of the security and privacy reasons to use a VPN service for internet browsing, and we really wish we didn't have to put those barriers in the way of some of the VPN services people use to access the site, but the overwhelming majority of our abusive traffic comes from free VPN services. It's been getting sharply worse lately, and we've needed to take some radical steps to curtail it. I apologize profusely to those of you who are using those services legitimately for the inconvenience you've been experiencing."
Full text here: https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/90925.html
@awoo @socketwench - I'm particularly fond of those whose gender is "Kent."
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You know all the random unforced tech layoffs are just labor disorganizing, right?
That's it. That's all they are. They're making us play musical chairs with our jobs to keep us from ever building enough trust to organize. Their ideal outcome is a labor pool that's too traumatized and reactive to act collectively.
Just pushing everyone into a scarcity mindset on purpose. It's the whole US economy writ small.
If you liked that toot then you'll love this book
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PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“
Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.
These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.
Please spread this knowledge.
Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.
@piersb - There were so many changes between the pilot movie and the series, that The Gathering isn't completely necessary. But if you do watch it, there are actually a few neat clues to the overall arc hidden here and there.
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