Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1153852/meta-accused-of-restricting-sexual-health-and-queer-instagram-accounts

Interesting follow-up to their previous post about the AI slop tsunami.

Also: High quality chaos

ETA: curl donation link!

ETA2: personal sponsor link! (I need new glasses, I swear I looked for both before posting...)

I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

Cancer sucks. Bondi sucked.

do you get the joke?

MakeMKV gives you a pile of VOB files. Sonarr wants a clean named MKV in the right folder. The gap between those two is always a manual dance. Figure out which season it is, rename it, drop it in the right place, trigger a rescan.

Discarr fills that gap: it's a small Node.js web UI (no npm packages, pure built-ins) that handles the VIDEO_TS / BDMV / ISO → arr import chain.

What it does:

• Scans disc structure automatically (VIDEO_TS, BDMV, multi-disc, ISO)
• Reads IFO chapter data to split multi-episode DVD discs correctly
• Browser UI to map disc titles to the right Sonarr episodes or Radarr movies
• Queues HEVC encodes via ffmpeg or HandBrake (locally or over SSH to a remote box)
• Notifies Sonarr/Radarr via custom script hooks on import/delete/completion
• Optional: qBittorrent hook triggers a scan on torrent completion; Tdarr ping after encode
• Persistent job queue. restarts resume automatically

Requirements: Node.js 18+, ffmpeg + ffprobe. HandBrake optional. Docker image bundles both plus openssh-client.

Still early, issues and PRs welcome.

Forgejo (primary): https://git.opensourcesolarpunk.com/Circuit-Forge/discarr GitHub (mirror): https://github.com/pyr0ball/discarr

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/49692723

Canadian MP Judy Sgro calls Taiwan important global democracy.

Archived link

Canadian lawmaker Judy Sgro announced that she will lead a cross-party parliamentary delegation to Taiwan in October.

During a hearing on Canada-Taiwan trade cooperation in Canada’s House of Commons, Sgro, head of the parliamentary Taiwan Friendship Group, said she looked forward to the trip, per CNA. Sgro described Taiwan as an important leading democracy in the world.

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The next step is advancing a Taiwan-Canada Trade Cooperation Framework Agreement, Tseng added.

Several Canadian lawmakers asked about potential areas for deeper Taiwan-Canada cooperation, including whether Taiwan would be interested in purchasing Canadian energy or nuclear power resources. Taiwan is seeking more stable energy sources, and Canada is a good option, Tseng said.

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Sgro’s forthcoming trip comes after Chinese Ambassador to Canada Wang Di warned Canada against sending lawmakers to Taiwan or military ships through the Taiwan Strait. Wang said Ottawa must make its position clear if it wants relations with Beijing to continue improving.