Delete those and I'll go another 10%.

But... That's you saying it's a codec.

MKV can contain MP4. A raw MP4 and that same file contained in an MKV would be virtually the same size (unless the MKV contains other things too).

It's odd how every time I need to look at a Vimeo it stutters and buffers like it's 1997 no matter what device, OS, or network I'm on.

Literally the only video site that this happens to me. I thought it was my DSL line back in 2009 but home gigabit has been a thing for a while and oddly similar results.

If I understand what TFS is saying, check out The Why? Files for an example of what people like in a show with good production values (it did have a Midjourney rough patch).

"True Crime" seems lame to me but I'm not a chick so that doesn't matter.

"The Telepathy Tapes" is an investigative series that blew up the Internet.

This sounds like the NPR dweebs realized that their product was popular due to scarce distribution. Now distribution is democratized and listeners have choice.

People have long reported that taking a B vitamin supplement keeps mosquitoes away.

Beer drinking is well known to deplete B vitamins.

Consider that you might be dietarily or genetically deficient in B's. It's probably not your haircut or magnetic personality. ;)

I like Life Extension's Two-Per Day. Good blend, cheap for the potency.

Mediterranean resorts do quite well, as I remember

Is there some racist reason in South Carolina that poor people can't move to Appalachia on the other side of the fall line?

Or, gasp, abandoning non-viable coastal cities.

Wouldn't it be better to relocate the people rather than build the sea wall, and just depopulate Charleston which is no longer viable as a city?

There is no privacy, and privacy apps are only used by scammers and criminals anyway.

I would have bought at 5.2mm.

The case adds 6.1mm so how can they excuse a gargantuan 5.6mm?

You're sitting on it wrong.

It's weird how the CIA LifeLog project got shut down a week before Facebook commenced operations.

So many coincidences.

> Seriously though... how do you propose we "just do the encryption yourself" in this case? The IOS app doesn't even have an option to export chat history.

I agree - most of my Signal friends can't manage to do backups and their safety number frequently changes when they drop their phone in the toilet. Not something that's happened to me, but wow, it's common. This breaks the assumed security model.

That said, I use Android and my nightly backups are copied by Syncthing to another device most nights. I keep the restore key somewhere safe under multiple other keys.

It's not too hard for techies but it's too hard for normies.

IMO Signal found an excellent solution to the overall security model of its ecosystem. I was asked to teach a Signal backups howto at an event next year and this probably obviates the need. That's good!

> And please, stop with the microplastics while you're at it.

I get it but I'm glad I learned that most chewing gum is made of polyethylene now, so I've stopped using it.

I would not have been chewing it if I knew it was plastic and not tree resins.

Amazingly the FDA Act was first passed to make labeling mandatory. Now FDA allows manufacturers to lie and hide ingredients.

This is what happens when you ignore the Tenth Amendment.