Cue dumbasses tossing their iphones in the toaster oven in 3… 2…

I WANT OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE

“My mom says you need to stop”

She’s your mom, not mine; IDGAF.

Just tried: the ‘report an issue’/‘suggest an edit’ button doesn’t appear when The Gulf of Mexico is selected.

It does for other locations, but not for the Gulf.

(viewed from Canada)

No, you can sort/filter within a community, but not within a whole instance.

You’d have to visit the instance directly and filter by local.(from the web page, or signed in as an account from that instance if you’re using an app)

TikTok’s fate in the U.S. now lies in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump, who originally favored a TikTok ban during his first administration

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Trump began to speak more favorably of TikTok after he met in February with billionaire Republican megadonor Jeff Yass. Yass is a major ByteDance investor who also owns a stake in the owner of Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform.

Stop the ban or we’ll burn your own platform to the ground.

https://archive.ph/20250102201741/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/technology/net-neutrality-rules-fcc.html

Link that isn’t behind a damn paywall.

Holy shit; planned to spend 10 days, stuck there for almost a year… (if they finally manage this schedule)

The article writer’s didn’t even read the paper they are reporting…

This is power-over-skin. Ie: power transmitted from one device to another via human skin. It’s not harvesting or generating energy from the human body.

The research paper, published by Andy Kong, Daehwa Kim, and Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University, notes that the human body is particularly efficient at generating 40 MHz RF energy.

No. It doesn’t. At all…

Page 1 of the research paper PDF:

We call our technique Power-over-Skin Prior work has found that the human body is particularly efficient at conducting 40 MHz RF, while largely confining transmitted power to the body

So the .su domain was handed to Russia to operate alongside its own (.ru). The Russian government agreed that it would eventually be shut down, but no clear rules around its governance or when that should happen were defined.

But ambiguity is the worst thing for a top-level domain. Unknowingly, this decision created an environment in which .su became a digital wild west. Today, it is a barely policed top-level domain, a plausibly deniable home for Russian dark ops and a place where supremacist content and cyber-crime have found cover.

I seems IANA would like to not repeat past mistakes.

And for a much much smaller paycheck.

All corporate gives af about.

But still far to much of a hassle for the general public. Hell, half the people I know refuse to figure out a regular e-transfer/cash app. There’s no way they’ll even consider bitcoin; or really any other currency.

Supposedly Starlink is maintaining service for existing accounts, even if they can’t bill them ATM.

Somehow I don’t think that’ll last all that long.

I don’t have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself

That’s kind of the root of the issue imo; having a subscription based model doesn’t really work with open source as the project just gets forked every release to remove the subscription.

This leaves Emby with little option but to go closed source if they want income through subscriptions.

So, I’m not sure I understand what you mean with ‘the way they went about it’. Is it the subscription you had an issue with, or the fact that they were no longer open source? What would you have done differently?

And, if you don’t mind me asking: Had you supported (paid) Embys developers prior to them shifting to closed source + ‘Emby Premiere’?

To be clear, I’m not trying to be argumentative or divisive; I’m just trying to understand the animosity towards Emby and why it’s so often left out of the conversation, so to speak. It’s something I’ve never been able to wrap my head around. Thanks for taking the time to chat about this.

I’m curious to know why you think/feel that way.

I found/started using personal streaming solutions around 8 years ago; so post-Emby/MediaBrowser split into Jellyfin.

While I started with Plex, I very quickly came to despise their always online/centralized authentication system and moved to Emby as the only alternative I’d seen/heard of at the time. From there I learned of Jellyfin and (at least some of) it’s origins; though I’ve had 0 reason/need/desire to actually install Jellyfin as Emby works fantastically.

I’ve been really quite happy with Emby; particularly with their stance of not tracking/collecting userdata and maintaining Emby as a private company focused on their customers instead of investors/partners. I understand some people don’t like the Premiere licensing model they use; but I think it’s a good way for the developers to ensure stable income for their work; and TBH, especially with the lifetime purchase option, I think it’s undervalued. Unfortunately that model is not compatible with opensource (as users just fork it to remove the paywall), which is why Jellyfin exists from what I understand.

You can always use the older, well established, actively developed, and stable project that Jellyfin is built from; Emby. (Jellyfin is literally Embys code from 10+ years ago)

I wish I’d actually chosen a file system instead of just letting window’s at the time default to NTFS for external drives.

Moving from Windows to Debian; NTFS has been nothing but a headache. I’ve actually had to setup a windows machine to serve that drive pool via SAMBA as Linux just won’t play nicely with it.

They’ve gotta do something in the face of ballooning expenses…