You’re really telling me the Eiffel Tower isn’t real? Why would you type those words?

That only applies to new contracts from what I heard, not to existing contracts. Google certainly has a long term contract that wouldn’t be affected by the increased royalties for new H.264 contracts.

I imagine costs have increased (more expensive server components due to ai shortages, more users to stream to, ever-increasing storage for the unthinkable amount of video that gets uploaded to YouTube nonstop). I imagine Google going all in on ai (infinite negative money glitch) costs a lot and they’re trying to cover the costs elsewhere so the investor report doesn’t look so bad and spook stockholders into selling. I’d keep an eye on other Google services to see if their prices also go up over the coming months.

At this point I almost entirely write off UE5 games. I assume they’re smudgy upscaled underperforming dogshit until proven otherwise. Unreal Engine 4? Cool, no problems. Unreal Engine 5? Fuuuuuuckkkk no.

Forgot to check the sub lmao. Still a great app, but it is closed source yeah. My bad!

I don’t know about the rescan requirement you have, but Symfonium handles my very large Jellyfin music library (and supports local libraries and many other libraries as well). Has good equalizer options including volume boost and very good native theming that supports dark mode and material you. Paid app but very well worth it if you listen to lots of music on Android. I’ve been using it for years and it’s regularly updated, I’m very happy with it.

The home page turns off, but recommended videos still show up in the sidebar as usual.

The way I instantly knew this was beetlemoses. I love his work so much.

This sounds genuinely awful to me. Every time I open an incognito tab to search something or watch a video without affecting my watch history, the default recommended videos are the absolutely worst most insane slop I’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine using youtube without history recommendations since my devices would all have different recommendations and they would completely reset if I ever clear cookies.

Same. I woke up and saw there was another protest scheduled for today projected to be bigger than the last one. I thought “maybe this time there will be one in my town” and lo and behold. I swung by at the tail end of it to see what was up and it was active to the very end. I talked to the event organizers who said 300 people showed up and most care were honking and giving thumbs up. I ended up following the group to a post-protest location to eat and hangout and all in all I talked for five straight hours. I only expected to swing by for a couple minutes to see if there were more than a dozen people.

At home I make shakes with some ice cream and milk, then blend manually using a fork to get a really nice texture I like, then eat the shake with the fork (until I get to the end and I have to drink it normally).

What makes you think this? Server costs have gone up, Bitwarden has increased their pricing. It’s a big jump, but it’s also still very very affordable (less than $2/mo). How is this indicative of them changing behavior in the future to start trying to take down legally licensed open source projects like Vaultwarden?

Maybe a minority take here, but I think this is good. I liked the first season and would honestly be satisfied with it ending where and how it did. Getting another season out of it is awesome so we can flesh out the backstories and experiences of the characters that didn’t get as much development, but I think this show is better served by just a couple really good relatively self contained seasons. I would hate to see the show dragged out beyond that, personally. I got into Star Trek from Lower Decks and I like having different shows tackling different aspects of the Star Trek universe, rather than one or two long-running shows that never truly end. I think I just like an open and closed show that has an interesting story with an end in sight so the story that gets told is more fleshed out and feels more important. I’m excited for another season and want to see what they do with it!

The first episode is not a good sample of the rest of the show and genuinely feels like an entirely different writing team. The rest of the show feels more like finding and fighting for a utopia, where the first episode feels a lot more pessimistic at the idea that a utopia is even possible. I genuinely recommend skipping through the first episode as much as you want just to get the setting and characters out of it, then start actually watching from the second episode on.

new data about how to lay out society

look inside

bad people who keep wanting bad things still want bad things

everyone who wants good things still wants good things

why the fuck do we let rightwingers vote on anything at all

Almost every single deployment has failed lmao

https://github.com/netgoat-xyz/netgoat/deployments

Edit:

Oh my god they’re committing their .env with their “DiamondKey” (different from their API_STREAM_KEY) and they’ve committed TWO .exe files named agent.exe and agent.exe~. They’re also looking for strategic partnerships who should reach out via Discord(???) and Gmail. Their quickstart includes only two things: a link to unpublished docs and the sentence “We recommend datalix for cheap and highly avaliable [sic] vps’ses [sic]” (no closing punctuation like a period, despite that being common throughout the readme). You can tell very obviously which parts were written by the person behind this project and which were generated by an LLM.

Edit 2:

Their 1.0.1-alpha.1 - Syncronizing [sic] versioning - Minor Changes commit rewrites like the entire project??? Very obviously an ai slop project by some teenager who had an idea far beyond their skill level and decided to use ai instead of building up their skills over several years and changing the scope of their project to be a building block towards their idea that helps them develop the knowledge they would actually need to develop a project like this. They’ll realize at some point that they’re in over their head and that fancy code generators don’t magically fix that; I’d be surprised if this project is still being worked on by the end of the year.

I use Symfonium to play my Jellyfin library, and Jellyfin has a plugin for ListenBrainz integration. So depending on your setup, there already is integration!

It’s a scrobbling service. You send your listening data to it so that you can see your listening habits and share them with other people (your top songs, which countries the artists you listen to are from, etc.). It’s just interesting data that some people like to collect, but if you only throw on your mp3s and don’t care about that, then you probably won’t find much use in setting it up.

Edit: to clarify what “listening data” means here, it just means the metadata of the music you play. Song name, artist, album. Nothing fancy. I think it also supports marking songs as favorites.

I use Koito as a selfhosted version of this. I use the ListenBrainz plugin to send my Jellyfin listening data to Koito, which has a setting to forward that data to ListenBrainz so I can have a backup and contribute to the ListenBrainz project. It’s pretty cool!

To be clear, there are some benefits to provisioning enterprise devices in a tightly controlled cloud environment, but we’ve all seen ideas with “some benefits” get shot down by managers and CEOs who “don’t get why anyone would want that” so I’m not keen on giving Microsoft too much credit.