It is actually pretty easy to answer questions like this by searching the web. Below, I have done some work for you.

First, though, gotta say that the most generous reading of your arguments is that you are philosophically defeatist and suffer from "the perfect is the enemy of the good"---- why do anything except the one final action that will solve it for good? If that is your attitude, why bother posting on a forum? Why bother doing anything?? To learn about the broader strategy, you could try Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - Wikipedia. Nobody is arguing that MS should be targeted instead of promoting governments to sanction and remove the subsidies that keep it afloat. But Brian Eno thinks he has more sway with MS than with the US government, so that's what he's throwing his back into.

'Microsoft Powers This Genocide': Firm Fires Pro-Palestine Disruptors of 50th Anniversary Celebration | Common Dreams

The protests come a few months after the publication of an investigation by The Associated Press which found that Israel's use of Microsoft and OpenAI technology "skyrocketed" following Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which prompted Israel's deadly campaign on the Gaza Strip. Multiple human rights groups have said Israel is guilty of committing genocide or "acts of genocide."

Specifically, the investigation found that artificial intelligence "models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets during the recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon."

Ex-Microsoft employees expose company's role in Gaza genocide, quoting Hossam Nasr:

there needs to be a focus on Microsoft's actual business practices as they affect Palestinians in Palestine and as they directly contribute to the genocide and the horrible scenes that we were seeing coming out of Gaza.

And two, the need for a strategy to put pressure on executives rather than trying to appeal to the humanity and moral character of these executives.

We started researching Microsoft's complicity in the genocide, trying to find out exactly the target and strategy for this campaign.

We then formally launched No Azure for Apartheid in May 2024, with four main demands: IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) off Azure, ending all sales of any Azure cloud and AI services to the Israeli military and government.

Two, disclose all the ties between Microsoft and the Israeli military-industrial complex, the Israeli government and the Israeli military.

Three, calling for a permanent and immediate ceasefire to honour an earlier petition signed by over 1,000 employees.

And lastly, to protect employees and uphold free speech by ending the discrimination and the double standards against Arab, Muslim, Palestinian and allied employees.

Microsoft must be held accountable for its complicity in Gaza genocide, rights group says – Middle East Monitor

According to human rights and media reports, since the beginning of the ongoing war on Gaza in October 2023, Microsoft has provided direct technical support to the Israeli occupation army worth at least $10 million through its Azure cloud platform.

Reports revealed that Microsoft’s support included data management services, the development of targeting systems, advancements in surveillance technologies and the provision of cutting-edge AI tools. These include ‘Lavender’, an AI-powered system designed to identify bombing targets, which has faced accusations of being linked to the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza.

Furthermore, the reports accuse Microsoft of supplying biometric surveillance technologies to track Palestinians. This comes as the death toll has surpassed 50,800 people, including more than 18,000 children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

In a statement, Skyline asserted that Microsoft’s continued support of Israel violates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The organisation urged the company to transparently disclose the nature of its relationship with the Israeli occupation and to terminate all forms of cooperation linked to military activities that breach international law and human rights.

I'm not familiar with chacl ("change the access control list of a file or directory"). Is is similar to setfacl ("set file access control lists")? A matter of preference/habit?

It seems like -B does "Remove all ACLs". Which I guess is what I am asking for? Files on linux are OK to have no ACLs?

About the find ... {} +, I see {} +

runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched files.

So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?

Cursory websearch suggests your info, however accurate it may have been in the first place, is stale by 3 years.

Even that source doesn't mention genocide. It does mention the Geneva convention, which sounds kind of similar but they are serious things so try to keep track of them. It's shitty to toss around terms like this without any regard to the gravity of them.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | OHCHR:

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Relocating people itself is not genocide.

If it isn't open source now you shouldn't say it's open source. You should say it's partially open source with plans to get the rest out soon.

That is great info thank you I have been bothered by this issue for years and never able to find any useful insight into solving it. Because everyone who care about audio has fancier equipment of course. It makes sense I will try to select stereo instead of surround. I just use the TV speakers.

I was typing up a reply when you posted this. And as I mentioned, it so happened I tried to play a x265 file and my TV/device did crazy things I had never seen before requiring a hard reset. Now that I see how to look at the filenames I notice that >80% of my existing collection is x264 or h264. So I think I will do as you say and stick to this.

Thanks for the advice it is all helpful.

From what I can tell I have much much lower standards than anyone who is writing online about this stuff. :)

My TV is either 720p or 1020p. Sources disagree I am not sure why and haven't investigated too deeply; maybe it is situational. I am satisfied with whatever it is. So as I understand 4k would be indistinguishable in any case.

Looking in my reasonably-sized series/film directories I am seeing a lot of files named like [HDTV-720p][AAC 2.0][x264], [SDTV][AAC 2.0][h264].mp4 so your advice on 264s is probably good for me.

Is the h264 or x264 part of the name the bitrate? If so is there a list somewhere of what term corresponds to what bitrate? I also find terms like DivX, HEVC TrueHD 7 1 (is HEVC the bitrate there?), XVID (these ones are very small and actually seem not to be picked up by jellyfin/kodi--- it was an older hard to find TV show IIRC it was all I could find).

I just tried to play a file that is [HDTV-1080p][AAC 7.1][x265].mkv which has a pretty big filesize compared to length and it made my TV/device freak out--- had to hard reset it. Is it x265 that is so much harder to handle than x264? I don't find anything else in my collection that includes this.

The committee said it found evidence that Gaetz did not learn the victim’s age until a month after they had sex. But “statutory rape is a strict liability crime,” the report said, referring to crimes that don’t require proof of intent for a conviction.

what do you do with it?

Dont just consider if its "legal". But also if it is aligned with institution policy.

Depending on the details maybe it would be the kind of thing theyd have to declare when publishing? Like as a conflict of interest.

Could be other equity type avenues depending on details.

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community has a wide range of options

and there are websites like https://wiby.me/ that exist to assist people in finding the old-type content.