It’s pretty weak. It could do quite a bit, in theory, but I’m skeptical that the very regions that would most benefit from the new opportunities and funding, would bend over backwards to find ways to refuse the money and loosened zoning laws etc that this bill provides a “framework” for. It’s all pretty weak and feels like a messaging bill to me. I really hope I’m wrong, I’m trying to buy/build a house myself so I’d love it if these things end up working in parts of the country where it’s almost impossible to get a house without being a millionaire.

Here’s the part of the article that talks about exactly what the bill would do:

To increase the supply of housing, the bill would streamline environmental reviews and speed up the construction process.

It would offer funding to local governments that build more housing, including Community Development Block Grant money to places exceeding the median rate of homebuilding. It would also provide money for communities to turn abandoned infrastructure into housing, and offers a framework for communities that want to reform outdated zoning regulations, which often limit larger housing developments.

The legislation would allow banks to invest more in affordable housing and raise limits on the number of public housing units that can receive private financing through Section 8 funding to rehabilitate properties. And it would remove outdated requirements and expand federal financing to make manufactured homes more affordable.

I like freefilesync for one-off synchronizations, mostly because of the super-simple UI. If I need to quickly make sure a folder on two drives are identical, I go to freefilesync.

For everything else, I use syncthing. I use it to keep files synchronized between my PC, tablet, and phone. I use it to sync Obsidian, as well as KeePass so my passwords are accessible across my devices.

Sounds like syncthing is probably more robust for your purposes, though its default behavior is continuous sync, you might need to do some extra configuration to strictly run it on a schedule.

I’m so disappointed in my fellow Californians. Becerra will most likely be the next governor, so we can expect no meaningful progress on the issues that California voters actually care about. Thanks to the insane amounts of money he took from the worst corporations on the planet, he has no incentive to change the status quo.

Yeah, that’s a clearer way of saying it. I usually think of the highest quality commercially available version as being lossless, since the raw files or negatives are almost never accessible to the public (wouldn’t that be awesome??). But yeah, every DVD/Bluray is still technically just a disc with lossy video files that the studio encoded.

A remux is a fully lossless video file, typically a MKV, that is just the video streams from a DVD/Bluray wrapped in an MKV container. It’s not a new encoding, it’s the original video, in its original codec, fully lossless.

I personally like knowing that I’m watching the best possible quality of any given media, without any extra processing. Most people probably wouldn’t immediately notice the difference between a high quality encode and a remux, but I’m a quality snob.

Amazing!

Seems like a very cool concept. Will/does it support outputting untouched remuxes? I don’t like to reencode my discs rips, I prefer a remux, and MakeMKV is the only reliable free option for this (as far as I know). I’d love to eliminate MakeMKV from my workflow…

Regardless, I’ll be watching this, nice work!

This is hilariously meaningless. Federal employees have all already agreed to this by signing their employment paperwork.

There is also required annual training, that every federal employee must retake every year that refreshes their “legal obligations to safeguard non-public, confidential, or proprietary information, created or obtained through their official duties.”

That description of the NDA could easily have been taken from stock language for any employment contract. This just feels like another excuse to weaken job protections for civil servants.

Really interesting that you’ve encountered this, I have no trouble at all watching super-high bitrate media in Infuse. I may be spoiled with my gigabit internet, but the Apple TV caches entire 4K Blu-rays in minutes on my local network (you can watch the seek bar fill up, it’s really satisfying) so I never thought about this. I’m curious why this hits some users and not others.

As others have said, Jellyfin server with Infuse as the player on Apple TV is the best experience, especially for Dolby Vision, which works flawlessly. Anyone in your house should find the interface super-easy to navigate. But if the price of Infuse turns you off (which I get), the native Jellyfin app on Apple TV isn’t terrible (Swiftfin), and there are some other less-polished apps for way cheaper than Infuse (MrMc I think?). The native Jellyfin app struggles with Dolby Vision, otherwise you’ll have no trouble with it, but definitely a slightly clunkier experience than with Infuse. I personally find the price of Infuse way too high, but I can’t argue with the stability and slick UI.

The Apple TV also caches content really well, so you won’t run into any issues with high bitrates over streaming. I regularly watch full 4K Dolby Vision Blu-rays (50-70 GB files) with buttery smooth playback, no issues at all.

Most do. You can tell a lot about the health of your population by testing wastewater. Hell they can detect levels of albuterol, the medicine in asthma inhalers, to correlate with increases in air pollution. WHO has global programs for this, and the majority of countries treat their wastewater already, so it’s not a huge leap to run some tests on it.

It’s clearly on his mind, he’s been mentioning it out of nowhere lately. He doesn’t want to be impeached for a third time. Now you’re right it won’t actually do anything to the administration, but this is one of those times when the principle matters. It’s worth doing it because he deserves it and it would infuriate him.

You’ve just unlocked the Empathy skill tree, congrats!

I wish my neighbors acted like they knew other people lived here…

I frankly don’t have the patience to explain why you’re so wrong, but I can’t let this kind of comment go unanswered, so here’s an article that links to a number of studies about the benefits of diversity:

The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Keep reading…

Her team didn’t personally conduct the background checks either. Her team submitted names of potential employees/contractors for the security detail, and then the agency responsible for conducting background checks took it from there. It was completely out of her and her team’s hands.

Other commenters and I are trying to explain to you how the process actually works. She is not responsible for the outcome of any background check. The independent agency that conducted it is. When this guy’s background check (wrongly) came back as clear, there was legitimately no reason for her not to hire him.

She was told, by the authority on the matter, that he was good to go. They were wrong, not her or her team.

Elected officials don’t personally conduct the background checks for their staff, that would be absurd. There are entire investigative agencies most people have never heard of whose job it is to run clearances and background checks for federal employees and contractors.

There is implied bureaucratic trust that when an elected official submits a list of names of prospective staff who need background checks, that the results of those checks are reliable and trustworthy once they are completed. Sometimes they’re wrong.

You may not like Crockett, but this is not on her.

We’re talking about Israelis. I’m a Jew and I find these crimes to be completely disgusting and unacceptable.

Your casual conflation helps no one, especially the Palestinian victims of genocide and these particular crimes against humanity.

Scoop: no fucking shit.

So exhausting.

Well NYTimes, now you know. So maybe change your coverage to stop favoring “moderate” (read: right) voices that nobody trusts anymore?

There was some typical wishy-washy group-think in the panel, but for the most part it was incredibly clear that there is no patience for spineless moderation or both-siding. Bernie, AOC, Crockett, and Mamdani are the politicians that stood out to them as speaking their minds and representing the people with clear visions of forward progress. It’s no coincidence that they’re some of the most left politicians we’ve got.

I’m frankly shocked the NYTimes went through with publishing this, since it basically goes exactly against their approach to journalism.

I don’t understand. Why thigh-high striped socks?

More importantly, why would you want to unredact the names of victims? The victims have been through enough, there’s no reason to further risk their safety or retraumatize them.