One of the things I enjoy about the Classic Doctor Who DVDs and Blurays are the production subtitles - almost every episode has production notes/commentary as a set of subtitles that provide background information on the episode and often the specific scene on screen. No idea if this is made available on Disney+ (which now has the rights to Doctor Who).

Fair call. Both major parties need to lift their game!

Question time has always been a spectacle demonstrating just how badly our elected officials can behave and I’m glad someone is calling it out. Of course, it should come as no surprise as to which party is the worst:

Figures provided by the Speaker’s office show there have been 198 ejections during the 47th parliament as of Tuesday 20 August. Of those, a Guardian Australia analysis shows 161 have been Coalition members, 36 Labor and one from the Greens.

ABC News segment on the theme remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoEHf21KgFk

Well, they didn’t want to be part of society, so they shouldn’t be surprised when they don’t get to participate…

If you’re happy with OpenDNS logging your traffic, you could set the router to use them as the DNS server (assuming your network is DHCP and your father-in-law’s devices just use whatever DNS server your router says). As long as one of your devices keeps OpenDNS updated with your IP (the one provided by your ISP), then you can look through the traffic to see what is being accessed (and even enabling category content blocking if you wish). Of course, if your father-in-law is IT savvy, he’ll just manually set the DNS server on his devices.

The crew should come back on the Dragon and Boeing be required to solve the problems and carry out another test flight. It is unacceptable that Boeing wants to bring the astronauts back without understanding some of the failures on the Starliner.

Can’t see Kirk ever giving in to the dark side, but Sisko or Janeway…

Well, of course.

Nope, just inherited a colleague’s codebase when they left. It’s years later and I still haven’t sorted it all out.

There’s some relevant commentary on the Jaws 3 release at blu-ray.com, particularly about its use of AI in upscaling (it’s not pretty):

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=372655&page=28

As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.

Egon Spengler and his grand-daughter Phoebe from the Ghostbusters franchise. The character of Ray Stanz also has some traits, no doubt assisted by the fact that actor Dan Ackroyd is autistic.

What a cutie. Hope you manage to find a home for her!

Unless you happen to live in Australia, that’s going to be a challenge…

Yep. Especially if they’re DVDs that have been superseded by Blurays, the DVDs are almost worthless, sadly. For example, I upgraded my Stargate Atlantis set to Bluray and want to rehome my DVDs, but they’re barely worth $5 a season at this point (and that’s assuming you can find a buyer). Usually I check with family and friends first to see if they want my hand-me-downs.

This is why you do staged rollouts of updates… not the entire planet at once.

This. Especially looking at the quality of your sleep (poor sleep can trigger or exacerbate depression). There is a high prevalence of sleep-related issues in the autistic community. If you haven’t had a sleep study done, I recommend doing it (it’s uncomfortable and not a good night’s sleep, but it will help identify issues such as sleep apnoea or restless leg syndrome).

Also go through all the typical sleep hygiene stuff (I know it can be annoying and tedious, but these factors can play a bigger role in autism than for neurotypicals due to sensory issues) such as temperature, noise and light. Are your pillow and mattress comfortable and providing the support you need, or are you tossing and turning, or waking up sore or uncomfortable?

Make sure it’s not whitespace sensitive and requires explicit typing, just to mess with everyone.

Can someone who speaks sovcit interpret please? I can usually follow their “arguments” to some degree, but I’m completely lost with this one.