Edge TV Now Online-Only
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
If there is anybody else besides me who wondered what happened to Edge
TV, as of the beginning of this month it is no longer on Freeview, it
can now only be viewed as an online stream
<https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/113928839/the-edge-tv-remo...>.
In the last few days of June, there was a promo announcing that it
was going HD, but I don’t recall it mentioning that it was leaving the
broadcast airwaves.
Quote:
MediaWorks chief executive Michael Anderson says the move is in
line with audience trends, which show people primarily consume
music videos online.
While that may be mostly true, personally I would go look for videos on
YouTube after seeing them first on Edge TV.
1 month, 1 week
The State Of Video Streaming In NZ
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Apple’s TV+ streaming service is coming soon, followed by Disney’s one
<https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=1226...>.
Note:
Disney+ will break Sky's longtime near-monopoly on Disney content
in these parts. Disney says that, ultimately, Disney+ will be the
exclusive home of its content.
So to get a comparable range of TV content to that you currently have
free-to-air, you are going to have to subscribe to two or three or
maybe more different streaming services. The increasing multitude of
things to pay for isn’t about choice, but about no choice at all.
3 months, 4 weeks
“Open Source” Journalism
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
This week’s “Listening Post” on Al Jazeera (viewable here
<https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2019/09/xinjiang-story...>)
talks, in the latter part, about this new phenomenon of “open source”
journalism. My understanding is, the meaning of “source” here is not
that of “source code” familiar to software developers, but “source of
information” as understood by journalists.
That means getting information from public sources available to all.
Even a tightly-controlled society like China makes a surprising amount
of information freely available online--more than it really wants to
make available, sometimes. And this information can be pieced together
like a puzzle by perceptive investigators, to point to conclusions
which can be directly at odds with public pronouncements from
Government officials.
4 months, 3 weeks
Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed
by Peter Reutemann
'Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it is winding down its long-running
Yahoo Groups site. From a report:
As of October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content to
the site, and on December 14 Yahoo will permanently delete all
previously posted content. "You'll have until that date to save
anything you've uploaded," an announcement post reads. Yahoo Groups,
launched in 2001, is a cross between a platform for mailing lists and
internet forums. Groups can be interacted with on the Yahoo Groups
site itself, or via email. In the 18 years that it existed, numerous
niche communities made a home on the platform. Now, with the site's
planned obsolescence, users are looking for ways to save their Groups
history.'
-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/16/1928228
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
5 months, 3 weeks
Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast, like “make old hardware feel new” fast
by Peter Reutemann
'Leaves are turning. Temperatures have dipped. These are sure signs—if
you live in the Northern Hemisphere, at least—that Canonical's Autumn
release is upon us. Things are a bit different in 2019, however. Not
only is Ubuntu 19.10 nicknamed Eoan Ermine (no, I don't know how you
pronounce it either), but it's the best non-LTS Ubuntu release
Canonical has ever put out.
I should qualify that statement somewhat, because really, as the
newest version, it had damn well better be the best Ubuntu ever. But
there's more than recency bias behind the sentiment. I've been
reviewing Ubuntu for 10 years now, and I was using and interacting
with this distro in some form or another for another three or four
years before that. After spending recent weeks with Ubuntu 19.10, I
can say confidently it is quite simply the best Ubuntu Canonical has
ever released.
The first reason I like 19.10 so much is that it feels insanely fast.
Everyday tasks like opening applications, dragging windows, activating
the search interface, and even just moving the cursor around are all
noticeably faster than in 19.04. The speed boost is immediately
noticeable from the minute you pop in the live CD, and it's even
faster once you have 19.10 installed.
I happened to be testing a top-of-the-line MacBook around the time I
first installed the 19.10 beta on my aging Lenovo x240, and it
instantly made the Mac feel like a sloth. Ubuntu 19.10 ran circles
around the Mac even on much, much less powerful hardware, and nothing
says success during testing like software that makes old hardware feel
newer. Even if that were all you got out of Ubuntu 19.10, I'd call it
a win.'
-- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubuntu-19-10-quite-simply-the-bes...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
6 months
