This is being complicated by the out-of-touch rules on what constitutes "live TV" - I occasionally watch news from my home country through a VPN, and sports events that are also might be broadcast live to at least one country somewhere. Despite neither having anything to do with live broadcasting in the UK, I still have to pay TV license.
I can't speak to security, but from a functional standpoint the tree and key-value structure of password managers allows easier third party integration into browsers etc, compared to a flat file.
Also you have search and don't expose the other passwords as you would in a textfile. There is pretty good apps for Keepass, which offer a Keepass Keyboard so you don't need to use the clipboard (which can be read by any app on Android for instance).
Audio compression and encoding is such an interesting area, and I'd recommend anyone to read up on the basics. I had a naive idea about compression being something-about-cutting-waveforms or something like that, and had no idea that principles of vocoding was used to encode phone conversations - we're essentially encoding speech by passing artificial air through a software model of an artificial human speech system, and decoding it by blowing the air back out the other way! The compressed data is essentially not even the sound itself, but parameters about the artificial tongue, mouth etc.
I know this is extremely dumbed down, but every once in a while you realise there's a subject out there you know nothing about, that's just so interesting to learn a bit about - and speech encoding definitely checks that box for me!
I've reinvented the wheel myself and made "pype" (link below).
I've been using python on the command line for quite a while, but I found that I tend to use it when I'm doing something a little more advanced than what can easily be done with standard Linux tools - and command line python would often fail me, because I couldn't easily do conditions or loops, because of the requirement for whitespace indenting. So pype contains a simple parser that'll convert bracket indented code to regular whitespace indented code, besides supporting all the stuff you want on the command line.
I found it cumbersome to do branching in most of the existing python stream tools. I made an alternative, that allows you to use curly brackets for indentation:
There's a handful of great ideas that I might include in pype, such as the -p argument.
I'm not aware of any way of automatically importing referenced modules, and manually parsing the user code for modules seems a bit daunting. I'd love to see a solution, if you can find the repo.
