Testing HTTP based adaptive bitrate systems such as MPEG DASH and HLS needs test content.
We offer a set of streams for this - and we've just updated them to include live, low latency, audio description and alternative language and webcast versions:
@BBCRD
None of my AVRs can handle these streams so I can't listen to BBC radio on my systems anymore.
I've tried contacting the manufacturer and they don't seem interested. Do you have a list of compatible devices?
@BBCRD I was trying to work out where I'd seen that image before, then remembered; I made this in 2014 from shots taken inside the Berliner Philharmonie! 👻 😱
For reasons, my legal name is not the same as my real name. During that customer service call, I was repeatedly misgendered by the representative. Even after correcting her twice, she still did it a third time.
I got quite insistent that time, and told her that if it happened again, I would be talking to her supervisor. Now, I am really not a confrontational person, at all.
Avoiding confrontation is a trait common among autistic people. But at this point I was getting really annoyed. She could obviously tell, and stopped with the "sir" this and "sir" that for the rest of the call.
As you will see from the blog post, I am overall disappointed by the outcome, but willing to admit that part was not her fault.
Classicists, mythology fans, and others, I've been trying to read and/or round out my collection. I really prefer bilingual works, not simply translations. Is Loeb consistently my best bet? Are there other recommendations? Should I decide work by work?
Current work under consideration is Hesiod's Theogony, but the questions stand more generally, too.
[Feel free to tag in a Classics group if there is one]
It's intermission rn and uggghhh it's so good. I need to re-read the book so badly. I think I'll always love the book more but the adaptation to stage works surprisingly well.
It was incredible. I almost cried as much at the end as I did when reading, though not as hard. The technical aspects were amazing, the effects spellbinding. The puppetry!! The acting was very good but everything else just blew me away. The way the stagehands and scene changes were incorporated and sometimes interacted with the characters were so creative and clever, they added a meta level to the topic of storytelling. And being one of my favourite stories by @neilhimself helped too, of course.
Random talkback on Israeli news sites in response to current events.
This one in response to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attack in UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after his remark, in a speech to the UN Security Council, saying Hamas' attack did not happen in a vacuum.
“If our public face, advocacy and status rests on one sentence replete with historical truths and one sentence said by a redeemed female captive whose unhealthy husband and hundreds more are still held in Gaza - then we are the opposite of a wonderful nation. This is a weak, miserable, pathetic nation, managed by a gang of fascist garbage, that is more excited about volunteers feeding soldiers hamburgers than about human blood flowing like water with no hope.”
Israelis respond to Gilad Erdan's ( Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations) shamless, tone-deaf display of self-pity at the UN, while #Israel is standing accused of killing more than 8000 civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Listen carefully, you "cutting board" who mistakenly advanced to become Israel's ambassador to the UN: we are not in the #Holocaust. You are an ambassador of the sovereign state of #Israel, a country that according to foreign publications can wipe out the entire Middle East with the push of a button on the nuclear weapon. We have our own army and our own air force and nuclear submarines. Remember that for next time https://nitter.net/MatanAlcalay/status/1719225102875738192
No one does more to trivialize the holocaust than the governments of Israel for generations. And even in Erdan's tiny brain, the thought can be inserted: if so many things are "like the Holocaust", maybe the Holocaust is not so terrible. https://nitter.net/idanlandau/status/1719227634486256071#m
Zertal, Idith. "Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood" (2005)
A book talk with the author in which she reflects on some of the issues around the use of the #Holocaust in political discourse in Israel, and the insistence of some on seeing the victimizers as victims.
Hello #Mastodon! I am making the jump from X to here. Too many of my #science and #medicine buddies left X. If you switched from X, how do you like it here?
It's nice. A bit less spammy, a bit less cantankerous.
I started by following the #science hashtag and following the @science account, that exposed me to a lot of users talking about science, from which I could choose whom to follow.
For topics like that, I tend to organize my follows onto lists divided by their main focus (it's a rough sort), and set each list to "hide these posts from home". That way I can see posts on that topic when I'm in the mood (rather than all muddled together on my home feed, which is more for close friends and serendipity).
@alepiad@FediFollows can be great for discovery, for general tech content @malwaretech, @arstechnica, @GossiTheDog, and @shanselman all pop up for me regularly with interesting posts. There are also "group" accounts like @philosophy that automatically share any posts from their members, discovering those allowed me to see a lot of interesting discussions without needing to follow a whole lot of people!
Menschen, der Verlag braucht Soli, mir zieht gerade eine Steuernachzahlung das letzte bisschen Boden weg. Bitte gönnt euch, wenn ihr noch ein paar Euro locker habt, was im Verlagsshop und macht auf allen Plattformen Werbung. Würden mehr Menschen etwas vom Frohmann Verlag mitbekommen, könnte er vermutlich ohne solche Hilferufe existieren – das ewige Indieproblem.
@Frohmann vielleicht magst du noch #bookstodon@bookstodon und #bookbubble nachsetzen, auch wenn da viele englischsprachige sind, erreicht es doch auch deutsche Bücherwürmer
@movation@Frohmann@bookstodon
Kleiner Tipp, wenn es sich um Gewerbesteuer handeln sollte, Stundungsantrag bei der Stadtverwaltung stellen. Die sind normalerweise zugänglicher als das Finanzamt. Wobei man beim Finanzamt den Antrag ebenfalls stellen kann. Die meinen nur immer, sie sitzen am längeren Hebel.
#AllStarTrek I love me some #StarTrek but for Pity's sake, #Worf and #Dax are of two separate species from completely different biospheres. How the heck are they supposed to successfully mate? It's ridiculous!
What a stunning 12th century definition of the work of lexicographers by Marie de France! Her passage beautifully captures how earlier scholars often wrote in metaphorical or obscure language, requiring future readers to decipher and interpret the meaning. But Marie is also remarkably prescient in recognizing this interpretive process as the essence of creating a gloss (or dictionary) elucidating the symbolic "letter" of a text by bridging context and definitions.
For all the dictionary-makers – and their forever unfinished yet deeply meaningful job: Happy Dictionary Day!
[Illustration: Marie de France writing, Paris, BnF, Français, 2173, f.93] #DictionaryDay#AngloNorman#Medieval
On the bird site, I followed quite a few #JaneAusten and #Bronte accounts. Here, when I search for either tag, it's typically only me that comes up. Surely there are other Austen and Bronte accounts on Mastodon??