What's everyone using to auto-transcode their media library?

Tdarr and unmanic are both freemium/proprietary. I dont mind paying for software but I prefer to support open source projects.

Is there anything similar worth looking at?

Absolutely love the professor's energy.

gotta admit watching somebody whipping a shitty mid 2000s renault clio around a dirt track corner at 60kph kind of rules.

Also easily the most insane professional motorsport left. I mean look at this bullshit.. Some guy and his codriver hooing a souped up Toyota Yaris while getting constantly flashbanged by a combo of roadflares and camera lights from spectators around 0 meters away from the track? Like the FIA sucks, motorsport organisations sucks, monte carlo sucks really fucking bad but man this is a spectacle

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10958558

Tanker traffic in the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 per cent of the world’s oil supply is transported, has effectively halted. Brent crude surged as much as 13 per cent intraday to $82 a barrel. UBS analysts warn Brent could hit US$120 a barrel if the Strait remains blocked; and Barclays estimates a three-to-four week squeeze could push prices above US$100. On Monday, Qatar’s national LNG company, 20 per cent of global supply, halted production and Saudi Arabia shut its biggest domestic oil refinery after a drone strike.

Australia, watching all of this unfold in real time, has just 25 days of diesel reserves and 29 days of petrol coming into 2026. Australia imports over 90 per cent of its refined oil products – diesel, petrol, aviation fuel – as well as crude oil feedstocks. While our largest direct supplier is Singapore, those supply chains trace back through primary fuel extracted across the Gulf. We have essentially no buffer against what is unfolding.

has anyone checked how he's doing?

When Trump readied the 11th Airborne Division out of Alaska for potential deployment to Minneapolis to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents in their immigration crackdown, I posted the big scoop: the operations leader for that unit was none other than Canadian Brigadier-General Robert McBride. I subsequently wrote about the intertwined nature of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the US military for The Economist.

The ties detailed involved exchanges, secondments, embeds, task forces, and other joint operations, including training. At any time, there are hundreds of our service members sprinkled across the vast US military, with several more in the North American Aerospace Defense Command or overseas serving with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United States Central Command, and others.

That story rattled both Ottawa and Washington. The Department of National Defence was keen to separate themselves from the idea of a Canadian military member partaking in the brutality visited upon civilians in Minneapolis. They assured the public that there are safeguards in place to prevent a Canadian being “deployed” with an American unit, including that any such actions would have to be approved at the highest levels (but it does happen: see my previous coverage about the Iraq invasion).

But the DND was extremely skittish when it came to answering questions about intelligence sharing between Canada and the US and potential CAF involvement in Operation Southern Spear. Weeks of plugging away at sources in the US military, CAF, Ottawa, Washington, and the Open Source community brought me to the tipping point.

Here’s what I found out: by nature of our military relationship with the US, Canada is implicated in Operation Southern Spear. The question is to what degree.

The prime minister’s seat was empty in the House of Commons during the marathon four-hour debate on the Iran war on the evening of March 9. Mark Carney blamed scheduling issues, but it was a notable absence, jumped on by the Conservatives, who claimed he was in hiding.

The foreign minister, Anita Anand, got the first chance at the empty hot seat instead to try to defend the government’s inconsistencies in its approach to the American and Israeli attack on Iran. Anand did her best with a weak hand, suggesting the core principle at stake for the Liberals was to ensure that Iran never acquired nuclear weapons and stopped acting as a terrorist agent of disruption in the region and the world.

The defence minister, David McGuinty, also got his time in the hot seat. He spoke to emphasize the need for de-escalation of the Iran war, without even sketching a starting point or a plan. He also suggested an optimistic outlook for the Iran war, arguing that the weakening of a repressive regime would open the door to a better future. Note weakening, not all-out regime change.

The Canadian position on the Iran war is now incoherent. If the original, allegedly “realpolitik,” decision to go all in with the United States and Israel was based on winning favour with the Donald Trump administration, or at least avoiding disfavour, any such win, doubtful in the first place, has now been lost, and we are back in a position where we can join the list of those countries who Secretary of War (truly) Pete Hegseth will say are “clutching their pearls.”

The province will be taking over control of Billy Bishop airport on Toronto Island, Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday.

"This is a crown jewel," said Ford, adding the City of Toronto, which currently has jurisdiction of the airport, will be compensated for the value and for any lost revenue, which Ford said was about $5 million a year.

"This is an economic driver," the premier said.

The airport is currently governed by a tripartite agreement with the City of Toronto, Toronto Port Authority and the federal government. The city owns about 20 per cent of the land the airport sits on, according to its site.

Ford told reporters that he'd told Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow about the plan when she visited his home "in the last week or so."

Like, if its nots public health system its obviusly price-gated for obvious reasons (it can be a commodity or boutique diagnosis for the rich and connected to get their sweet-sweet pharma speed)

I take arguably the sweetest or 2^nd^ sweetest of that sweet-sweet pharma speed on prescription so lets not get into the the whole speed semantics for those of us otherwise inclinced

Edit: some advice- skip your first appointment on accident. It seems counterintutitive but its actually completely intuitive and expected for an actual ADHD person. If I was a psychiatrist I woupd almpst expect or come to expect people who end up diagnosed to do that haha

There is a union of sex workers in Montreal and they're calling for a strike on the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend in May.

The Dark Bluntman and Mega Chronic put the smack down on Chef Golgoth Ramsay in the final Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch Animated Trailer.

Game releasing April 20th, 2026 on Nintendo Switch (and XBox, Steam, PlayStation).

This is slightly older news from early February that I just caught wind of. There's a couple longer paywalled posts on Mamamia and SMH.

This is about Control, but its also about everything else

lol