I get the feeling there was a lot of other shit boiling away under the surface here, and the hot sauce argument was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

That’s not how knowledge works. You can’t just have an LLM hallucinate in missing gaps in knowledge and call it good.

Okay, what crazy shit is he trying to distract everyone from now?

Flag poles were for the possibility of an Iran invasion.

Trump Mobile was for his sagging poll numbers.

Sending the Marines into LA was for the popularity of the No Kings matches.

So paving over the rose garden is for… invading New Zealand or some other insane idiocy?

Pretty good advice. Although they are probably recommending that for more than just it being a Meta data farming scam.

A broken clock, etc etc

Awesome, thanks for the tips!

I started down the Jellyfin path after they made that announcement. It’s super easy to install, and in many ways the UI is nicer than Plex. But I ran into challenges getting my server safely accessible for users outside my LAN. And I haven’t had the time to look into that further.

Would be great if there was a clean, easy way to set up the webserver portion so it’s as easy to share content entirely as Plex. But I get they are a volunteer project with a lot on their plate.

Good news good Signal.

Do you know of any good options similar to Duolingo?

I’ve been pissed off with that platform for a couple of years now. They keep changing the structure of lessons and learning paths. I think they’ve been trying to make learning more based on quick rewards at the expensive of context, which I don’t like.

I took a look around for similar apps a coding of years ago, and they all seemed to be one of: a) paid, b) rifled with ads; c) have crappy/buggy UIs. I realize the ads can usually be motivated with a DNS server, but the fact they showed do many ads is kind of a red flag in general. But I know FOSS options have really taken off in the last year or so, so I’m hoping a new, good, free platform has stepped up to tackle Duolingo and the like.

It started happening a few years ago in my area. Maybe like right before the pandemic?

For a while some of the stations had a hidden option where you could hit one of the unmarked selection buttons and it would at least mute the ads. But starting around the end of last year they took that option away.

The only stations I know of that don’t show ads are Costco (and I assume Sam’s Club too, but idk). Plus they have slight discounts on gas because they are member only. But my local Costco station is such a headache to get through these days - even at around 9pm after the main store closes - that I not just go to a local Shell or Valero and resentfully try to ignore the fucking ads that always play.

Accelerando is such a weird but excellent novel.

TIL Ghostery had their own browser.

It’s the rock crossover you never knew you wanted! Liza Mileili and Ted Nuget-Head!

Oh maybe it is only FOSS.

Keep an eye on Revolt.

Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.

Edit: it might only be FOSS, not federated. Still a promising project though.

Who would have thought that gutting the technical expertise of the company would lead to such vulnerabilities. 🤔

Ohh right… everyone with more than a few brain cells!

I started using it right after they launched their streaming service. Back then it was awesome. No ads, nice UI, and lots of great content, so for a good price.

But that was a long time ago.

I cancelled my subscription several months ago. And I should have done it much sooner. The difference between what is was way back in the day and what it is now is jarring.

I think a lot of people keep paying for nostalgia reasons, and because of a futile hope that Netflix might somehow go back to that earlier version. In retrospect I think that was a big part of why I kept my subscription for as long as I did (which was obviously a mistake on my part).

Now, the company says it imagines an “Uber-type of setup” to fill their ranks, with gig workers logging in remotely to argue with customers from the comfort of their own homes.

So they’re using their spectacular failure as a chance to exploit their new ‘employees’ via the gig economy.

Fuck them. They have learned nothing about respect or decency, and I hope they continue to crash and burn.

He should just come out and announce that he worships Nurgle.