Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:04:34 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Right. So #Netflix need my browser to remember history (why?), I have to enable #DRM (can understand that, but don't want that) and it thinks the latest Firefox doesn't support #HTML5. Pretty sure it does.

So, no more Netflix for me, saves me €12 a month.

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Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:07:42 +0100

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

I used to read a lot of books, in different languages too. But then we bought a waterbed and I simply gave up reading in bed.

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:20:47 +0100 last edited: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:36:30 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

Wow, you are blessed with a lot of language proficiency... I figured you would prefer the originals (your English is excellent). I just wanted to point out that Pratchett's humor includes a ton of razor-sharp playing with words, more than any other author I recall reading - And even the best translation stands no chance to transport all the subtleties of that - And it's so worth it... :grin:
(There is enough left worth reading without it, but...)

If you need a tip where to start, do not hesitate to dm me. There is a sequence, but you can follow various independent threads, and are books portraying nearly any theme of society to relate to (tourism, science/academics, politics, police, engineering, Hollywood, banking, news, post offices, quality of gender and race - to name a few).

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:59:52 +0100

Colin Devroe

cdevroe@mastodon.social

@hans I saw that Brave also gave me a warning about installing DRM to watch Netflix. I haven’t looked into it further yet. I wonder how something like Netflix could exist _without_ DRM?