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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • DaVinci resolve is on a completely different level to shotcut or kdenlive. None of them are totally intuitive, but the required learning on something like Shotcut essentially boils down to understanding that pretty much everything is a video filter, or basic track operation hotkeys (e.g S to split video segment at selected frame, X to delete selected segment).

    For your use cases I’d suggest taking another look at either of those and ignoring “advanced” settings wherever possible, it’s really not that bad and you’re unlikely to find anything on either Linux or windows that is both lightweight & does all that





  • Some of my favourite shows have a very slow pace. But so much of this story was frontloaded in the first 2 episodes, it created a stark difference in pacing compared with the rest of the season. I thought it’d likely return to the fast pace in the finale. I imagined Gilligan’s process setting up the premise and having some big twist planned, with the middle episodes mostly serving as a means to get there. But now it seems like he just came up with the premise and once established, now wants to explore it slowly and methodically. That’s totally fine for me, but can totally understand it having less widespread appeal than how it initially seemed





  • I think you’re both right. The active boycotting part likely will blow over quickly for most. But it’s still an opportunity for a large group of subscribers, many of which are primarily subscribed due to FOMO, to reconsider the value of their subscription. Some segment of boycott participants will end up resubscribing. Some segment will remain unsubscribed and go without. Some other segment will remain unsubscribed and switch to piracy. Over the past 5 years since the service started, this kind of opportunity has only really happened around the annual price increase (e.g in Dec 2022, Oct 2023, Oct 2024).

    I think it’s totally plausible that we would have seen another price increase next month, but won’t. It’d be too many reasons to unsubscribe, too close together. Even if they’re comfortable enough to increase in Dec instead of Oct, that’s still a hypothetical loss of 100s of millions in monthly revenue. That’s a significant win for the boycott.


  • You’re right, the messages would not be decrypted by the server but by the client making the report. Key rotation also shouldn’t be an issue because it uses a ratcheting chain key. But if the non-malicious client is already set up to send decrypted messages to the server, this seems antithetical to the idea that WhatsApp can’t read your conversations. There are clear caveats without even introducing the idea of a malicious client potentially exfiltrating decrypted messages elsewhere. Signal on the other hand receives the reported senders phone number and an encrypted message ID, presumably acting on spam reports by relying on multiple reports of the same message from the same sender, rather than by reading the message