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  • It would be prescient for movies shot before 1996.

    The concept is to store data optically in non-photosensitive transparent materials such as fused quartz, which has high chemical stability. Recording data using a femtosecond-laser was first proposed and demonstrated in 1996.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

  • Governments should definitely have done a better job to ease tensions and avoid faith-based hate and backlash for muslims.

    A good thing officials could do is explicitly oppose to the rhetoric of religioius war that Daech/Isis is trying to spread, and defend France's universalist model that aims and succeed in large part to have citizens of all faith peacefully cohabit.

    See also: Islamic State’s Goal: “Eliminating the Grayzone” of Coexistence Between Muslims and the West, by Murtaza Hussain

    Note Hijab is banned in a few places like schools. I don't think it's a good law but wanted to point out the ban isn't countrywide.

  • Try the libredirect extension to automatically redirect from YouTube to Invidious instances which don't have any ads. https://libredirect.github.io/

    Note you may need to switch instances from time to time becauses these Instances are getting blocked from YouTube.

    By default, the extension will redirect many services to alternatives (Twitter, Reddit, Quora, Translate, ...). Tweak the extension settings if you only want to use YouTube redirect.

  • I only mentioned his familiy's faith because you mentioned it. This murder is front page news and talked at length by medias, but your comment is the first time I heard of his supposed faith, so I went and checked.

    It would be interesting to understand the motivation. This might be an attack on the school as an institution, which affects people of all faith.

    There's no justification for killing innocent civilians, Jewish or not.

  • There's little doubt of the attacker motive given he invoked his god, and given the timing. But nothing suggest the teacher was personally targeted for his faith. He may have been the first person the attacker ran into.

    There have been a few articles about Dominique Bernard, the teacher who fell victim. AFP/Sud Ouest talk about his professional life and character. France Bleu says students like him, and that he interposed himself between the attacker and others. Neither suggest he was targeted for his faith, or even mention his faith at all.

    Update: La Croix/AFP quote a few people who knew the victim, speaking highly of him, and say the victim is member of a familiy of "enlightened Catholics"

  • The United Earth government in Star Trek looks almost as unrealistic as Faster Than Light travel.

    A united earth government isn't contrary to any physics law I'm aware of, but that would take a strong political will, not just from leaders but from the general population, as well as a very long time.

    The European Union has been a work in progress for 70 years to integrate different countries into one political system. Lots have been done, but it's still far from a small-scale United Earth. Every country hold onto its sovereignty, and a consensus from all 27 member states is required for many things, so it's moving rather slowly.