reads meta data 1st We gotta get Alec to show up on William's chaos ranch for an episode of Farmer's with Brain Damage. If anyone can get 1 million billion Sunflowers to grow in sand and not get eaten by Kevin's dog it'll be Alec.

Now I'll watch the video. I'm sure it's good. It's always good.

edit: Yep. Interesting.

I think, it's not very expensive or difficult to find work around solutions to the few people holding onto standard definition media.

I like putting the thing in the thing

Me too.

Alec is also (unsurprisingly) on the Fedi: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

DVDs have already been left behind so not much of an issue.

kind of.

He mostly left because of bullying. Just posting video updates and rare posts.

Who the fuck is bullying this guy? I will round up a goddamn posse, Alec is a treasure.

Piracy has none of these problems.

Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.

Fediverse being fediverse.

For large accounts it's a genuine toxic cesspit.

Scroll back to a year ago and you can regularly see posts from him where he calls people out.

small sample from just scrolling through:

Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to)

Look, I'm gonna lay this out on the line: This place is fucking shit for my mental health. It's that simple! And it is *not* helped that any time I voice this, I get replies which one way or another make it clear it's my problem to solve.

mas.to (mas.to)

Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to)

FYI my last boost? That's why I don't hang out here so much anymore. Kind of a drag to see someone share a video of mine then deal with that kind of sentiment. Also I'd really like to be able to quote toot but alas...

mas.to (mas.to)

But that's just the stuff he openly shows

Someone didn’t watch the video

After watching his video it feels like it was already left behind.

It really depends on the ripper. I'd say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.

It's that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.

DVDs are getting left behind.

And the downloaded ones are never in sync properly.

His Bluesky is also a delight

If you run your own server you can have a look at bazarr.

30 years old next year

Thats just social media.

Which is why social media shouldnt exist. cause its not good for anyones health.

You're taking about bringing a man of control and order into that den of chaos and goblinry? I don't think Alec would enjoy it.

What is the "it" that you think got left behind?

As a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.

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