yep lol. Either this is a bribe scheme, or Dementia Don forgot his message.

Clarification: ICE’s recruitment campaign with Spotify ended. Doesn’t mean they won’t accept a new one if ICE comes knocking again.

Damn that’s some next level detective work. Thx for the details

Edit: God it just gets worse and worse. I just peeked at the website for his “EA DC” org and their board of directors literally includes an exec from Anthropic. This guy is literally taking money from the AI industry. This article is a complete joke.

Agreed 100%. I started doubting everything this writer was saying as soon as he started espousing the usefulness of Chatgpt.

I found the arguments about the environment convincing - he really does a great breakdown and comparison of other, individualist carbon emission sources and clearly explains why one person’s heavy Chatgpt usage is nothing compared to, say, using a laptop for an hour. I still hate Chatgpt and the rest for all the OTHER reasons that we all know by now, but on the environmental point, I felt this article was persuasive. Overly long, but persuasive.

As anti-AI as I am, this is way less sensational than the headline makes it sound. They’re adding an AI mode that’s basically a built-in extension. Sounds easy to disable. I hate this shit, but you have to grant that Mozilla is a small company fighting for survival. They are probably just doing this to stay relevant (maybe they can get more money from google by being the default AI provider as well), and they may just as quickly drop this when the AI bubble finally pops. I am willing to forgive Mozilla for a little more than I forgive Microsoft, who has no real reason to push this AI hype other than trying to get more rich.

ehhhh get back to me in 14B years, i only believe REAL-WORLD metrics

fuck yeahhhhhh!!! This is huge, id may have relative independence but they exist under the Microsoft regime.

I thought this was going to be about how dead the subway car looks in that photo

it’s infuriating and honestly kind of scary. They’re making gaming a luxury hobby, one auxiliary industry at a time. Every component that goes up in price is another reason for consoles to go up in price. More and more cool hobbies are slowly growing out of reach for the average person. Soon the only thing left to fill your free time will be alcohol and the sound of silence.

google should experiment with sucking my ass

I posted this below in reply to a similar comment. If you don’t like the way the devs have handled the raising of concerns, then fine, that’s kind of a judgment call and I can’t tell you what you should feel comfortable with. In my limited experience with the Jellyfin devs (including reading through the responses on that thread you linked), I do not personally get the impression that they are downplaying or refusing to correct issues. To me, it seems more like they are prioritizing some issues over others, and the outstanding security issues seem pretty minor for most use cases.

This is the core problem, at the end of the day. Average doctor’s salary in the US is higher than any other country in the world. On top of that, a significant chunk of the money you are paying for your health care is going to the hospital admins and support staff, not the doctors. In this issue, health insurance is a catalyst, not the cause. The core problem is that care providers and drug companies can charge whatever they want for services and items, and there is no real countermeasure to this inflationary problem. Medicare sets payment rates for medical services, but this only applies to Medicare enrollees and only applies to medical services. Health insurance is a parasite that feeds on this problem, and accelerates the inflation of health care costs so they can skim off the excess inflation. But the core problem is that there is no US law regulating the prices of medical services, items, or drugs.

Setting up a reverse proxy and dynamic domain is not one click

Maybe not for the server administrator, but for users, it’s mega easy. Download Jellyfin app on TV. Enter URL for server. Login like a normal streaming service. Done. As far as I know, Plex requires these same steps, so if Plex works for your 89 year old grandparents, Jellyfin would as well.

Jellyfin has also yet to resolve the unsecured api

In what way is the API insecure? What types of attacks are you concerned about?

Until jellyfin can be 1 click accessed from anywhere securely over clear net it’s not a replacement.

It can be, speaking from extensive personal experience. I followed their Reverse Proxy guides, now my tech-illiterate friends access my server over https via a duckdns url.

Maybe this is news to Europeans, but we Americans know that the constant wars are about propping up the military-industrial complex. The US economy is partly propped up by US spending on weapons from private defense contractors. For this reason, presidents and other political leaders never want to push to reduce the military budget, partly because of lobbying from the defense contractors, and partly because they are afraid that reducing the budget will literally crash the economy. Take all that together, and you see the US’s perverse incentives to always have a war going on, so they can justify the military spending.

As President and former General Eisenhower said during his farewell address in 1961:

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

It’s kind of the last slice they have left for gaming. Windows remains the de facto platform for PC gaming. It’s not as big as the segments you are describing, but it’s critical to Xbox’s near future plans. If they lose that advantage in gaming (Linux gaming is on the rise), Xbox becomes just another third-party publisher in the games space.

Gotta get on a private tracker, bud. They are real quick on it.

He says it like no one has seen the party trick yet. Like, yeah dude, we were all impressed with it in 2022. Then we learned that it’s all smoke and mirrors.

Great visual pun, but I think it’s a narrow slice of people that know of Jojo Siwa and Curtis Sliwa. I think that’s gonna be mostly TikTok kids that were political enough to pay attention to the third place NY mayoral candidate. I only know who Sliwa is bc of the SNL parody of the mayoral debate.