{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Mark Twomey","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/Storagezilla","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1786642","username":"Storagezilla","bio":"I mess around with consumer technology and read a lot. I've been fortunate to turn that curiosity into making a living at technology companies like EMC, Veeam, and AWS, usually in information and data protection roles where I help people store, analyze, and protect their information. Those places have their own blogs, but this one (like my opinions) is mine. Here you'll find movie, TV, and book reviews alongside posts about whatever piece of tech in my house I'm currently struggling to make work. You can follow this blog on the Fediverse at @Storagezilla@storagezilla.xyz","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":7,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/21/1786642.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"95844447","content_html":"

It’s been years since WebAssembly support was suggested in the EPUB 4 draft. Allowing eBooks to run scientific calculations and interactive code offline. While I prefer my pages free of distractions, I can see the advantages of this. But no one has made progress. Too harsh on the eReader battery?

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I didn’t enjoy Waking Life, pseudo-intellectual despite the praise. A demo reel for A Scanner Darkly, masquerading as art. Without rotoscope, it’s a student film: characters vomiting paperback philosophy. In dreams, the dreamer speaks to themselves, this one’s a dull conversationalist.

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I like to remind first time employees that professional jealousy fades. Eventually, you realise it’s not a competition. Just you, a golf ball, and a career-length crazy golf course. You keep swinging until retirement or death.

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Today someone who isn’t a reader spotted my copy of The King in Yellow. ‘How do you know about that?’ I asked. ‘Minecraft,’ they replied.

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I do wonder if the audiobook industry’s ongoing growth will lead to favourite AI narrators, complete with names and “Read by” credits?

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Replace Beverly Hills, 90210’s banality with Red Dragon’s menace, add a lot of sex and drugs, and you’ve got The Shards. A writer as the point of view character in a series? We’re not getting a satisfying ending.

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Optical may not be back for everyone, but with the drives and spindles of blank discs I have, it’s back for me. SSDs at 7–8× HDD prices mean a reversion to how I used to buy in 2006: SSD for OS, HDD for media, optical for backup. I didn’t miss the hour it takes to burn a disc. Wow.

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I was looking at post quantum cryptography wondering what I’d have to replace AES with. It turns out you just double the key size as a quantum computer can half the encryption key strength. It’s the key exchange that needs the new NIST algorithms.

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I always liked Peter Weller in The New Age. He’s smart enough to know why his early 90s yuppie lifestyle is failing but not smart enough to do anything about it. Maybe the answer is being the wrong guy to attend a pool orgy, or he could maybe get a job. Adam West as his cad of a father is great.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the weakest Holland film. Marvel’s tired “friendship wins” trope and dropped plot thread issue has infected this franchise too. Far From Home’s Mysterio remains the series’ most threatening enemy. This is a forgettable movie.

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Should a Stargate show be an MGM+ production? I’d say yes. MGM+ is a cable broadcaster with a streaming service attached. Spider-Noir is an MGM+ show, it had several viewing marathons two days before it hit streaming. And they could sell international streaming rights to the highest bidder.

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I understand why Stargate fans are yelling at Amazon, but Stargate Universe’s final ratings probably ended up in a six page document and someone in an Amazon doc read underlined them in red pen. MGM going bankrupt in 2010 during the second season of SGU didn’t get it cancelled, it kept it cancelled.

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@manton Opus and AV1. Those may be a bit too grinding on your compute resources but it’s what YouTube and streamers are delivering to mobile these days. But I get you have costs to maintain so whatever works.

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@manton Suggestion, on the docs I see 128kbps MP3 audio seems to be the extracted audio format for podcasts. If this was 128kbps Opus it would give better audio fidelity in comparison.

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Anecdotally, I’m seeing DeepSeek and Moonshot pop up a lot more in EU based software development. I wouldn’t underestimate how annoyed some people got after the cack handed attempt to prevent “foreigners” from accessing Fable.

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The short listed designs for the new Euro bank notes are some of the most soulless things I’ve seen in a while. Each nation should get one side of the note for a design they choose, that would be more interesting and people would want to see all the other notes.

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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies:

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this may be the most meaningful potential of LEDs: the ability for a community to control when, where, at what levels, and in which colors its lights shine.

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We can program our streetlights. We don’t yet, but we should.

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I’ve seen all the Evil Dead movies and the modern ones suffer from the same problem. The protagonists are dull. Evil Dead Burn, abused wife trapped with abusive in-laws. That’s terrible, and miserable to watch. Where’s the spit and vinegar?

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Ireland & U.K. were some of the last countries to get HBO Max. You subscribe and find HBO shows like Westworld aren’t on it. But I can “buy” it from Prime Video. Legal streaming is just three-card monte. The show you want could be there, on a different service or only available for purchase.

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Nintendo Switch 2 gets user replaceable batteries in the EU

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It comes at the cost of the original Nintendo Switch being withdrawn from sale in Europe but Switch 2 systems, Joycons and controllers will soon have user replaceable batteries.

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While I enjoy watching The Vampire Lestat it does miss having a human POV character. The vampires are intense with each other all the time. Having not read the books I don’t know if they are capable of human friendship, but they could do with not having 300 years of baggage with everyone.

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The time for a European Social Stack is now

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The breadth of support behind this declaration reflects a growing consensus: a European social stack is not a luxury. For European digital sovereignty, it is a necessity.

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Missing from this op-ed and the open letter it links to is who is building what and when will they deliver it?

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I’m still paying for a Microsoft Office home subscription and I wonder why. Habit? I’ve stopped using Outlook and probably open Word on my home machine twice a year. If I opened it now, the Copilot crapware would be waiting for me.

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Russia to import gasoline as Ukrainian strikes force Putin to use reserves :

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Ukraine has been obliterating the hydrocrackers in Russian refineries using targeted drone strikes. Hydrocrackers are so difficult to replace that Russia now needs someone else to refine Russian oil for them.

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Today I learned Russia once sought $350/1000m³ from China for natural gas, but now sells at ~$259. China wants ≤$100 or it won’t sign off on the massive new Siberian pipeline. Selling fossil fuels to the world’s top renewable energy manufacturer isn’t a winner.

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Irish Rail blowing €50M over five years on traffic management software that doesn’t work makes for wild reading. They signed the contract with the vendor in June 2020, and were then told the software they thought they’d be getting would be replaced in 2021. And no one asked to see a build of code?

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Years ago I had a meeting at the HQ of one of the main Irish banks. The day before was the goodbye party for the IT team who were shifted to an outsourcing provider. The bank was going to boost profitability by reducing tech spend. Today 80% of Irish adults use Revolut. That party was a domino.

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@alexgalbraith Hahahahaha!

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@alexgalbraith Every SaaS purchase starts with good intentions. Then you have a mountain of good intentions and a mountain of a SaaS bill.

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@steveintro I miss how fast news got to me on X. But the flood of Bot nonsense was unstoppable. I won’t miss that.

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@jacobasker Nice post. Get out of tutorial mode as soon as you can. The moment you’re building a “real thing” your learning speeds up, because you hit the issues you never thought of before.

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@jimmitchell Working great! Thanks for the fast turn around.

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@jimmitchell Working great! Thanks for the fast turn around.

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@manton That’s sent. AI analysis of the hang file included. Because these days everyone is a junior developer.

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@manton Launch version ran fine. After the latest update it now hangs on open. Tahoe 26.3.1 on an M1.

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@gar Check out their YouTube channel to see if any of the new stuff looks interesting.

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