Aardman has had a CG division since the mid-90s. Flushed Away was their first all-CG feature, followed by Arthur Christmas. Pirates! in an Adventure With Scientists was intended to be fully CG but, at the request of Sony, it was changed to stop-motion with extensive CG augmentation.

Aardman also produces stop-motion, so it is untrue that Laika is alone.

Not such a positive story for Will Vinton, who had a hostile takeover of his studio, and then was fired and replaced by the new owner’s son.

The fire is irrelevant. That was storage of historical assets. They have never stopped using models, but also entered the CG business as diversification.

Not at all, and that was never a possibility. Aardman has several years’ supply in storage, and is securing an alternative supplier. They even have the capability to manufacture it themselves if they needed to.

One might say it’s a prerequisite.

I thought he was a quasi-modo

First an IPO has to get SEC approval. A confidential filing means they send the information to the SEC without it being generally available. The public prospectus follows after approvals are given.

First the SEC and other authorities need to vet the offering. By filing confidentiality this initial stage is kept from competitors.

It means that instead of filing publicly 90-120 days ahead, they can hold off public prospectus to 21 days ahead of launch.

If they could read this, they’d be really mad.

Yes. Member states issue fines. The maximum is the higher of €20m or 4% of global annual turnover.

It’s currently a significant part of the Irish economy. They have issued the largest fine to date, €1.2 billion against Meta in 2023.

Accuser makes it sound like he was not found guilty of rape

He wasn’t. It was a civil lawsuit. He was found liable.

The man surrounded by a few dozen od the most heavily armed, drunken bodyguards in history’s and who lives in a fortress?

Widespread corruption.

China’s been at war in Mali since 2012

Compose is just a way to have docker run services (apps) based on a list of settings in a text file rather than from commands in a terminal. It makes it easier to manage a whole stack (collection of services), and sets out the settings in a more human-readable format, so once you get how one service is configured, it’s easier to try others.

I found the guides overwhelming too at the start, but then I skipped them and just went for it with a simple container in a compose file (doesn’t even have to be sonarr).

The benefit of containerisation is that if you break it, it’s simple to remove the container, delete the config folder and start again without affecting your system. Give it fake data files to munch on and it’s unlikely to ruin anything if you muck it up.

So I did that a few times until I got the basic relationship between the docker compose file and the functions of the program. THEN I looked up some guides on the arrs and saw I needed to structure the volumes better, but that’s fine because I could wipe clean and go again.

Only when it worked predictably and I understood it did I let it loose on my library.

The good news is that if you figure Sonarr out, Radarr is almost exactly the same. As are all the arrs.

And then if you need some of them to route through a VPN container, that’s just one line in the file. And so on. Before you know it there are 20+ services and they’re easily managed.

So from services on a single compose, I can mark a show to follow, it’ll automatically download on release, rename itself, any extraneous subtitles and audio tracks removed, ingest to the media server, and delete the files when they’ve been watched. Basically, all I do is ask for the show and watch it. Everything else is automatic.

Just let Sonarr/Radarr do the renaming automatically.

He was spotted at the cafe nearby, so we knew this

Prosecution. This isn’t complex.

Fines