The tap interaction is a bit janky on mobile.

thanks, fixed, first tap now shows the popup, second tap goes to the full page.

Tooltip positioning is poor. Also colours are hard to distinguish and layout of table could be better in mobile.

okay, tried a few more things, lmk

That's impressive. I've only reported one bug to Chromium, years ago. It was a bug in their CSS engine and I included an HTML file with a full repro. It took them a few years to actually fix it since the person who was initially assigned it never bothered, eventually left Google, and nobody picked it back up for a while. But they did eventually fix it, so that's something, I suppose.

Edit: this comment elsewhere in the thread is closer to my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523107 Certainly in my own stint at Google I saw the same thing--bugs below a certain priority level would just never get looked at.

It's not irrational at all! The act of doing something yourself brings inherent pleasure and satisfaction, whether that thing is "growing tomatoes" or "coding a feature". It makes us feel useful.

>It's weird to see people getting fixated on the DDoS, which is obviously far less nasty than actually attempting to dox someone.

I would say the opposite... The DDoS is pretty obviously ridiculous, completely unacceptable, and entirely indefensible, while the blog post seems like whatever.

I honestly cannot fathom defending using your popular website as a tool to DDoS someone you have personal beef with, without the consent of the DDoSing participants.

I've been seeing variations on your comment a lot on HN lately and I find it a rather vapid way of looking at something so intricate as human communication. Among other things, the medium is the message!

I mean I assume it's a bot comment. It has that LLM stink to it in writing style even without the "new account" signal.

It's implemented in drive firmware, so the drive will refuse to read protected sectors without authentication.

That was a late edition. I have working DVD drives that will happily read anything on a disc, even if they can’t decode it.

Newer drives I bought will refuse reading what they won’t decide themselves (e.g. wrong region).

You want to search for BDMV for full disc images, or for remuxes which are uncompressed video and audio streams, if you want to get a sense for the size on disc. Typical Blu-ray images will be from 20-40ish GB.

How are today's scene rippers about keeping extra audio tracks and such in these, E.G. audio description?

It used to be quite hard to get an actually actually unmodified disc image.

Unmodified Blu-ray disc images are the BDMV folders I mentioned. Any BDMV will be unmodified almost all the time though I've very occasionally run into modified ones originating from the Chinese piracy scene that had custom subs added.

A "good" remux is actually the highest quality movie release available, usually, if you don't care about file size. A good remux will combine all the best parts of every possible release into one super-file. For one movie, you could have the best video quality be on a French UHD Blu-ray, the best audio quality from a different source, subtitles aggregated from various international releases and streaming platforms (and filtered/deduped for quality), chapter titles taken from an old DVD, and all available commentary tracks collected. Rarely you might even see a hybrid release where multiple streams are spliced together to fix some problem or another in one of them. You can look for releases by the CINEPHILES p2p group for gold standard examples, they get distributed fairly widely so you can probably find some.

To answer what you asked about extra audio tracks specifically (outside of full disc images)--usually non-English dubs are considered bloat and aren't distributed. Commentary tracks are kept. Audio description is a mixed bag, good groups will keep it.

On private trackers where people care about that stuff it's easier. The NFO usually has a pretty comprehensive description of the contents and all the tracks etc so you can decide which version you want before downloading.

It's just an acquihire. On the startup's side, the company has failed and they would be shutting it down regardless; this way they've found jobs for their employees and saved face. On the acquirer's side, they've recruited a team that they think is worth hiring with a lower cost of sourcing them.

The acquirer usually isn't paying that much in a case like this. Unlike what some other comments in this thread say (I assume from people new to the industry), nobody's getting rich.