There’s also Tuta if you’re looking for an alternative.
That would put the burden of verifying the identity of users on the website operator before they can participate. Personally, I know I don’t want to have the responsibility of handling PII just so that a stranger on the Internet can participate on a public forum where there could be harassment when I think we’re doing a good enough job by moderating the platform with a decent set of rules.
And this kind of requirement doesn’t really consider the nature of a federated platform such as the fediverse, as I couldn’t vouch for the identity of remote instance users if we get audited.
And there’s also Bill C-63 that may fuck us up too…
The GST vacation offloaded all the work to the local businesses, many who weren’t ready to apply the exemption in time. Kind of a dick move to them.
It would have made more sense to give that back in the form of a tax rebate during income season, or through bonus child benefit / pension payments, etc who are usually those that needs it the most if they wanted to put it back in people’s pocket faster.
Removed, duplicate of https://lemmy.ca/post/35057413 posted 7 hours ago.
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I use handbrake with libaacs, libbdplus and an up-to-date keydb
https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/
With these in place, you can just read and transcode a Blu Ray like any other media.
Quebec is phasing out using these agencies, and it’s bringing back a good portion of those nurses in the public system.
I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instances.
It solves the following issues
MKV is just the container though, what really matter are the codecs and their parameters. Transforming the container (aka remuxing) doesn’t require a lot of processing power, and in fact some platforms like Plex will remux an MKV to another format on-the-fly to another container if the player doesn’t natively support MKV but otherwise support the codecs used inside with little effort required.
Cut the crap