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TechBro8615
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- TechBro8615 parentSafari content blockers are not enabled in embedded Web Views.
- No, usually this is done behind closed doors and away from the press.
- The suddenness of the firing, and the bridge-burning language (basically "he lied to us") rather than any sort of soft exit, suggests that it must be something in the "other" bucket.
The details are anyone's guess. But if we're engaging in wild speculation, how about this weird coincidence: one day after Xi Jinping and Sam Altman are in the same place, Sam Altman is abruptly fired.
- The anti-snitching culture within this community seems to rival that of even the mafia. Perhaps that's why it's been called "the gay mafia" in the past...
- CNLohr made a similar project three years before that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqqEYz38ens
I know this stuff is dystopic, but I personally find it really cool. That said, I also disable WiFi and prefer ethernet wherever possible...
- This guy built a 32-bit RISC-V CPU in Terraria: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zXPiqk0-zDY
- Yeah, rather than take a reputational hit, they've now got a reputation for paying ransoms to hackers. They will now be targeted by more hackers wanting ransoms.
- It seems like the only post on here is a link to this post on HN. Well played, I suppose.... this is indeed recursive.
- Thanks for the depressing reminder.
- (I once saw a Google result for Stackoverflow that included a username in it. I never saw it again or investigated it further, though.)
I don't know what's going on with archive.is, but that service has always struck me as sketchy. Unfortunately since I use Cloudflare WARP as a VPN, I'm not actually able to access archive.is (although technically I believe this is not because of the VPN, but rather due to 1.1.1.1 DNS and its lack of support for EDNS [0]). So again, I haven't investigated it much.
But I've always wondered who has the time and resources to maintain the archive.{is,ph,etc.} websites, which must cost a lot of money for no directly obvious financial gain. But there is some serious intelligence value to knowing who views those sites and where the links to them get posted. And that's not to mention how weird it is that they insist on EDNS (which sends client IP with DNS queries) in the first place.
- I get a rate limit error when I click the text input (I'm on a VPN).
- Yeah, I've heard of it and it looks great. But it also means I need to maintain a media server (which costs me time and money, and is also a potential liability in terms of copyright mafia and script kiddies who find a vulnerability in it and end up on my network). One day I'll get around to building a proper setup, with automated deploys, isolated networking and secure hosting... but for now the least work is just downloading files one at a time when I need them, and otherwise just watching Netflix.
Frankly the motivation that will finally make me build this is that my mom is complaining about the streaming service fragmentation... each of her favorite shows is on a different service with its own $20/month subscription, and that's on top of the $100/month for cable. For now she's just password sharing, but when that stops working I'll get around to setting this up for her so I can manage it remotely. Or maybe by then the services will figure out they'd be better off just streaming everything free on the internet and splicing ads into the streams. You know, like TV...
- When I used a Chromecast, I was fond of an even more direct method. On my laptop I ran a Node CLI called "peercast" [0] with a single argument (a magnet link), and it streamed a video file while downloading its torrent, and since it called the torrent library directly, it could prioritize downloading the earlier chunks of the file so I could start streaming the video before the download completed.
It looks like that repo hasn't been updated in a while, although it might still work. It's an offshoot of peerflix [1], a Node CLI that streams video from a torrent to an h264 playlist. So without peercast I would just open my browser to the local network address where peerflix was hosting the h264 playlist, and use the Cast button to stream it to my device (which I believe technically means Chromecast "takes over" downloading the playlist, rather than my laptop pushing the video to it, so I just needed to use a URL with the LAN IP of my computer).
- Apparently the overarching goal of Jellyfin is to always be able to "direct play" (no transcoding), but whether or not that's possible depends on each file and the client device. They have a comprehensive table of which formats require transcoding on which devices: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/
- I'm not certain, but I think it will avoid transcoding for certain "Web-native" formats that your client device can already play. For example, if you download an mp4 then you should be able to watch it on your iPhone without Jellyfin needing to transcode it.
- I run it on my laptop, and when I want to watch a new episode of a TV show, or a movie, I search for it on 1337x.to, find the mp4 with the most seeders, copy the magnet link, paste it into Transmission and then press enter. Within half an hour, the file is in the folder where Jellyfin knows to look for it. Then I open Jellyfin on my phone and watch the content in bed.
This works for me because I've never cared about hoarding a library of TV shows and movies that I've already seen. I just download what I want when I want it.
- Alternatively: don't have Plex accounts in the first place. Distribute the software in such a way that it can be deployed silently and independently of any connection to the company that creates it. (In ancient times, this was actually the normal way of distributing software - you went to the store and bought a CD with a program on it, and then you could run that program on your hardware without ever interacting with the company that made it.)
- If you're pirating content, you should retain complete control and security over your setup. How does Infuse enforce its yearly license cost? There must be some telemetry at the very least, which is exactly the issue that got Plex into this situation and why people would do well to avoid it (unless of course you're just watching your own legal copies of media).
- They didn't walk away from it. They were blocked from making the acquisition.
- I've never understood why Plex phones home or why Plex the company has any insight at all into what's running on your Plex installation. I was never able to look past that, so I never installed it.
After years without a media server, I've started using Jellyfin and it's great. It's self-hosted but still has decent client apps. And there's no sketchy corporation watching my server, which just runs on my laptop and streams to my phone via my local network.
- > Assuming there is a buyer waiting to take ARM private seems pretty unlikely.
The whole premise of this comment thread is that ARM made more by selling 10% of its stock on a public market than they would have by selling 100% of it to Nvidia. In other words: there already was a buyer who wanted to take ARM private. So how does it seem unreasonable to assume one would exist, when we already know that one did?
- Oh my bad, you're right. I was thinking of WebM, which iOS Safari does not support.
- Maybe an iOS issue? I know Safari doesn't support WebP, so if Messenger is using a WebView on iOS then maybe that's why.
- Joe Biden has been in politics for more than 20% of the time the US has been a country.
- Until recently (when apt-key was deprecated), this has been a large security hole (and it will continue to be as long as apt-key is still used). Basically unless a repository in your sources.list includes a signed-by attribute referencing a specific key, then it can install packages signed by any public key you've added via apt-key. Also, sources.list defines an implicit priority order (IIRC it's top-to-bottom), so that when two repositories include a package with the same name, the package from the highest priority repository is installed. You can imagine the security issues that arise from a system dependent on the order of lines in a file that many people manually edit while frustrated and reading a tutorial online.
More here: https://medium.com/@glegoux/ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-apt...
- In some sense maybe that's for the best, since it means they won't bring any pre-existing biases or misunderstandings into their interpretation of fairness. It's up to the lawyers on each side to present their case starting from the fundamental principles.
- I wonder if there are methods that could take advantage of natural movements throughout the day, where your body naturally emulates what the cuff forces it to do. For example, when you transition suddenly from sitting to standing, is it possible for a sensor to measure some proxy metric that, combined with an accelerometer, can be used to infer blood pressure? If there is some method like this, even if it has large margins of error, maybe cumulative measurements could converge on a fairly accurate reading?
(I'm not a medical professional nor do I know much about sensing, or even really the basics of how blood pressure is measured or what it indicates.)
- Personally, the worst impact of "bringing my work home with me" has been when I'm spending time adjacent to infosec or pentesting. That's a discipline that requires cynicism (engineers are incompetent, can't protect their systems), paranoia (everyone is constantly trying to hack your vulnerable systems) and distrust (any user input could contain a malicious payload). Unsurprisingly, these are not the ideal qualities for fostering strong relationships, especially with a new partner or anyone you met recently.
I don't think this is discussed often enough. The traits that make for the best infosec professional are the same traits that make for the worst spouse. And that's before even considering the tendency to "over analyze" that comes with the baseline analytical mind required for any engineering profession.
So how to manage it? Well, I'm not sure you can really turn it off. But you can be aware of it. Remain cognizant of your own biases, and redirect some of that analytical energy into introspecting and analyzing yourself, before you take it out on someone else. But don't take it too far - sometimes your gut instinct is right; maybe she really is cheating on you, maybe you're not just crazy. But take a second to think about it. And make sure to communicate your biases to anyone whom they might affect, so that they're prepared to recognize when they emerge - that's when a good partner will sympathize and bring you back to earth, and a bad partner will take it personally and exacerbate the situation.