The FCC already regulates the volume of ads on TV and other over the air providers. However, streaming is somewhat of a loophole, and this helps close it

I do something similar, except on the Kobo I run KOReader which can interface with Calibre-Web over OPDS

Yes, Jeff Vandermeer directly cites it as an inspiration! https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/jeffvandermeer

That’s interesting to hear. I wish efficiency had been considered from the start. It seems like there has been a ton of waste. They should only do the calculations needed to achieve the user objective. But they were prioritizing market share over efficiency. Maybe they thought they could afford another couple years of subsidizing wasteful use to build market share, but it hasn’t turned out that way.

I expect that many companies will realize that an LLM is a tool that can help with certain tasks, but cannot fully replace most workers because there is a ton of context in people’s jobs that cannot be condensed into language. Similarly, many companies are now realizing with token-based pricing that frontier LLMs are not cost effective in many applications. You shouldn’t have a natural gas fired data center in Tennessee running a model to proofread your emails. You can have a local model do so MUCH more cheaply. This will leave the speculative data center companies holding the bag on a lot of hardware and capacity that is not actually needed.

There are solutions aiming to help with that like LibreELEC (basically a minimal backing OS for Kodi). But unfortunately any Linux-based streaming solution will have issues with DRM connecting to Netflix, Prime, etc. There are sidesteps around that too but starts to get more and more challenging for the average user

It just is nice to have Google results in there. I find that’s the coolest part of searxng, showing when the different indexers corroborate each other as important.

Yes, in the last few months they got it right. But there was a long period, maybe half a year where they could not get Google search to work

Searxng is cool but I find myself needing to constantly tweak the container, Google keeps blocking access

I think the point is to be easier than frigate. Eg a full image like home assistant, not needing to fiddle with docker.

For me I was trying to host it a few years ago on an Nvidia Shield. Found it kept forgetting media and had other performance problems. Was probably a function of trying to use media from an external drive, and maybe bugs with the Nvidia Shield implementation, android scoped storage issues, etc. I went to Jellyfin on a Pi and have found that mostly bulletproof

You don’t have to use a tunnel, for example I use a reverse proxy to a domain I own, and set a cache rule so cloudflare doesn’t get mad.

Yeah, they clearly should charge for what they provide, dynamic DNS and user experience. It’s just about the cost/benefit, which is debatable

I totally get what you’re saying. Nextdoor really is an unpleasant view into how unintelligent everyday people are. I’ve seen it too. I try to be a humanist but they make it hard.

If we prioritize education they fail. That’s why they attack public education with everything they have.

On the other hand, during Jim Crow they had poll tests that were weaponized to keep black people from voting.

Kodi has movie group/collections. I don’t remember about Plex, it’s been a long time since I used it

The median voter will never realize. They will always forget and eventually get scammed again. I haven’t made peace with this, and feel a kind of grief about it, but it’s the truth. We are trapped in this cycle of idiocy.

Some have tried. They have a long history of suppressing unionization efforts.

Full time employees are not currently unionized, although some contractors indirectly employed by Meta are. In April 2024, the NLRB ruled that Meta had unlawfully restricted employees right to organize, including “non-disparagement and confidentiality restrictions (that) prohibited former employees from raising workplace concerns with co-workers, labor organizations, or the public, preventing them from finding support when dealing with labor disputes. These restrictions would also apply even if former employees’ statements were truthful.”

It’s the investor obsession with forever growth. It ruins everything.

I’ve long wondered when this was going to happen. Their investors must have been frustrated about the lack of revenue per user growth (eg, screwing us over with annual price hikes and removing features from free plan)

Can keepass do passkeys?