May I recommend adding a slow loris or two to the mix? I don’t think you’ll regret it.

…I agree that’s a fact.

I believe that Handbrake externalizes the handling of BD encryption to an separate external library (libbdplus IIRC) for various legal and logistical reasons. You’ll need that installed too if you want to decode encrypted discs.

I honestly didn’t care enough to spend time looking into it as I’m not being paid to make Wired’s website functional. Thankfully, BrikoX was the real MVP and ensured nobody has to actually go there to access the content by posting an archive link.

If the basic version of MakeMKV isn’t enough for you and you don’t want to register for the full version, Handbrake is a good alternative.

All told, it’s also a transformative shift that has countless users considering greener pastures, like Linux or even Apple’s macOS.

It’s novel to see OSX described as if it was some distant contender to Linux. Maybe for Windows-refugees it is, for all I know.

Disclaimer: I’m not Ruby programmer. I evaluated it once, saw no particular reason to use it instead of Python and promptly forgot about it.

With that said, the specific criticism(s) are:

• Poor performance. Sure. Ruby does appear to be somewhat slower than Python, but I’m more concerned about the peak memory consumption which is admittedly frequently pretty terrifying. Mind you, if I need high performance, I’m not likely to be using either Ruby or Python. It’s fine for automation scripts, rapid prototyping or experimentation, hypothesis validation, moderate data processing, analysis and visualization, but yes: If you build your (supposedly) hyper-scalable website on Rails or use it for the system software for your embedded device, you’re going to have a bad time. Every tool has its place (except Brainfuck). Don’t use a hammer when you should be using a screwdriver.

• The above also covers the railing against rails, about which I have no further comment as I’ve never used it. Maybe it’s nice, but if you’re working on something with more concurrent users than your homelab automation UX, there’s undoubtedly better alternatives.

…And that appears to be it. So it boiled to down to “performance”. Does that in and of itself make Ruby “not a serious programming language”. Well, if it does, then the same applies to Python. Does it mean that there’s probably a better alternative for any given application? Probably yes.

Thank you.

Maybe if I could read the article I’d have something to say about that. I guess we’ll never know, and that’s probably for the best.

A lot of things should, but apparently don’t.

“Just follow the legal process”, huh?

How do you even live with yourself if you’ve been a part of those proceedings?

Well, yeah. What else would one do it with it? Set it on fire and scatter the ashes?

…Right next to the oil furnace in the basement, trying to figure out how to rig it to blow and burn the place down.

“An admirer of the physical sciences are we, sir? Jolly good. Let me get the special tools.”

The stove isn’t hot; it’s all in your head, and everyone telling you otherwise are idiots who just cannot appreciate your unique genius.

Go on, touch it again. This time it’ll work, surely.

That looks like what’d happen if one put APL in a blender. I don’t know who came up with whatever that is, but they need to get outside more. Or, you know, just once maybe.

Sure, you demented dickhead.

If I were dumb enough to own one of these pieces of shit, that screen would see constant need for repair under warranty.

“Sorry, the darned thing fractured spontaneously again. Seems to happen every time something I paid for shows me an unsolicited advertisement. I guess the fact the some dickhead would do that to their customers shocked me so much that I tripped and hit the screen with my fist by accident. As it made my knuckles bleed, I’ll have to sue you pricks for damages.”