DIY Photography reports that Sandisk denies it’s SSD Failures are a Hardware Issue

From DIY Photography. Even after an Austrian company has shown that it is a hardware they deny, because they would have return money instead of giving out more defective drives as replacements and doing nothing about lost data.

I have already lost one drive to this and relegated any SanDisk drives I have to media cache duty as if they die oh well.

Honestly after years of loving SanDisk I will never buy another SanDisk and they should have to solve the issue or give refunds.

Neat Video Noise Reduction has hit version 5.6

The premiere Noise Reduction software Neat Video has been updated to version 5.6, which includes support for Apple M2 Ultra and Apple M3 processors.

Neat Video is available from $79.90 depending on the platform you are purchasing it for ($99.90 for Resolve and $144.90 for Media Composer) but it such a good noise reduction program that it is certainly worth checking out.

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting in June 2024

ArsTechnica has the report on this. As if I didn’t hate Google and it’s behavior, but this is just gross. Google already started by messing with ad blocker users with YouTube, but to basically emaciate ad blockers in Google Chrome is disgusting behavior, especially as the dominant web browser in the world.

If we had a working government I would say they should do something about this, but they are so bad when it comes to understanding tech at all that they would never do anything in time or correctly.

Google’s Manifest V3 is utter garbage and won’t do any of the things they claim with privacy benefits, it is literally only to help their bottom line by stopping ad blockers.

One can only hope that this will push more people back to the vastly superior Firefox, but since they already switched to Google’s Manifest V2, and are also supposed to support Manifest V3, which means they should never have switched to Web Extensions, but at least they claim they will continue to support webrequests in MV3.

Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available.

Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap & Next Steps

Jake Wipp shows how to do what Video Copilot Orb does in DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion Page

From Jake Wipp on YouTube. And it actually uses the Earth Textures from the free After Effects Plug in from Video Copilot Orb.

This is a complicated one, and for a 20 minute video took me hours to get it setup right. Wow, but now I can do what ORB does within Fusion. Very cool. I am going to be testing this out for my Short Space Trash.