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- Comment on Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" 3 weeks ago:
iPlayer isn’t an ‘open’ service- you have to use a supported client, even if that client is a web browser. Your options are limited to platforms that can support those clients. Personally I’ve found Roku preferable to Chromecast, firestick, full PC. I may at some point have tried to get iPlayer running with Kodi back in the day, when it was XBMC, but XBMC was pretty clunky anyway, let alone on raspberry pi.
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
Welcome
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
Depends what you want to play it on. In my house we have:
3 laptops 2 tablets 2 mobile phones (1 android, 1 iPhone) TV
Not all these devices support local storage for music and it’s a pain to sync files between them. With Jellyfin the complete library is in one location with a consistent interface. It can also be made available remotely if I choose.
- Comment on Elasticsearch is open source, again 2 months ago:
You might say that the definition is ‘Elastic’
- Comment on Why does Olympic Breakdancing get top 40 music, while other events get a lot of royalty free stuff? 3 months ago:
Not how it works- licensing will be through a third party agency
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 3 months ago:
Because they don’t know or trust them
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
So what will you use as your Jellyfin client then? Roku?
- Comment on "The Colors Within" Anime Movie New Key Visual 4 months ago:
That’s an incredibly specific and unusual model of guitar that she’s playing in the foreground - Rickenbacker 360v64 jetglo
- Comment on "The Colors Within" Anime Movie New Key Visual 4 months ago:
Maybe ‘Auras’?
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
If you look at the price for a Mac versus a Windows computer, I think it’s pretty obvious why people might choose a Windows device. For Linux, you really have to know where to look to buy a laptop that is shipped or warrantied with Linux. People tend to buy Windows computers because that’s what’s advertised available, familiar and in their price bracket.
Disclaimer: my main laptop is Mac. I have a secondary one running Linux and although I have a work laptop running Windows, that wasn’t my choice and I don’t have Windows on any personal devices.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 6 months ago:
- Comment on Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers? 6 months ago:
Coming from what looks to me like a different perspective to many of the commenters here (Disclosure I am a professional platform engineer):
If you are already scripting your setups then yes you should absolutely learn/use Ansible. The key reasons are that it is robust, explicit, and repeatable- doesn’t matter whether that’s the same host multiple times or multiple hosts. I have lost count of the number of pet Bash scripts I have encountered in various shops, many of them created by quite talented people. They all had problems. Some typical ones:
Issue Example Most people write bash scripts without dependency checks ’Of course everyone will have gnu coreutils installed, it’s part of every Linux distro’ - someone runs the script on a Mac We need to pass this action out to a command-line tool, that’s obvious Fails if command-line tool isn’t available, no handling errors from tool if they aren’t exactly what’s expected Of course people will realise that they need to run this from an environment prepared in this exact (undocumented) way Someone runs the script in a different environment Of course people will be running this on x86_64/AMD64, all these third party binaries are available for that Someone runs it on ARM Of course people will know what to do if the script fails midway through People try to re-run the script when it fails mid-way through and it’s a mess The thing about Ansible is that it can be modular (if you want) and you can use other people’s code but fundamentally it runs one step at a time. You will know for each step:
- Are dependencies met?
- Did that step succeed or fail (in realtime!)?
- (If it failed) what was the error?
- (Assuming you have written sane Ansible) you can re-run your playbook at any time to get the ‘same’ result. No worries about being left in an indeterminate state
- (To an extent) It is self-documenting
- Host architecture doesn’t really matter
- Target architecture/OS is specified and clear
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
Are you able to provide an example as to how greater complexity makes it easier
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
So OP has posted this everywhere, even getting it flagged on Hacker News. Article is weak sauce:
I would agree with author that there are many problems with Spotify but concentrating on the artist revenue per stream and then publishing your top hits of the year as YouTube links? Really? Go and find out what the artist share per stream is on YouTube (regular YouTube video) for soundtracks. I’ll wait. Hint: there’s a reason that soundtracks using unauthorised copyrighted work get muted or taken down rather than revenue being redistributed.
Recommending a paid desktop MacOS music app for local content? There are hundreds of local music players but OK… but none of the criticisms of Spotify were about the client! Foobar2000 (mentioned for mobile playback) supports Spotify streaming…
Article seems to boil down to ‘I got tired of Spotify recommendations and I am an aspiring musician at an early stage in my professional career so I am recommending Bandcamp and soap boxing about artist revenue share’ . There’s a reason that people, some with local music libraries in the TeraByte range listen to Spotify. There’s also all the competing services - Apple Music; YouTube; Deezer; Tidal; Amazon; etc…
Recommendation to OP: If you are trying to persuade people on something, then decide what point you want to concentrate on, consider the pro’s and cons for your position, and make your point based/reinforced on that. Don’t meander around a bunch of inchoate personal gripes and affections that don’t really relate to one another or any particular point.
- Comment on Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax 10 months ago:
I’m in the UK. Spotify family subscription is £17.99/month (US$ 22.84). Same price as Netflix premium, although I have Netflix standard at £10.99 (US$ 13.96). Now, I know that they give a high percentage to the record companies, source says 70% but really? What are they doing over there? They seem to have some fundamental problems. With Netflix, my history, watchlist, search results, etc. are consistent across sessions and devices. Spotify can’t manage this. Netflix of course produce a significant quantity of original content. Spotify do a few live music sessions. I don’t think that the user experience with Spotify has changed significantly in the last 6 years that I have been a customer.
So they’re not making money. They’re not improving the user experience or meeting the market standard for it. They’re not producing original content and they seem unable to comply with local laws. Why have they not been disrupted by one of their competitors?
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality 11 months ago:
Microsoft were hardly early to the game with Windows phones, compare BlackBerry or Symbian. They had some early successes, for instance against Palm. The big failure was to keep deprecating the existing version of Windows phone, in some cases many months before the ongoing version was available, and deprecating the existing hardware along with it. Look at the whole mango/tango Windows phone 7 /Windows phone 8 debacle
- Comment on UK telecoms firms told to safeguard at-risk customers in switch to digital landlines | Telecommunications industry | The Guardian 11 months ago:
Really poor article. Could swap out mention of phone lines for e.g. high street bank branches and nothing would change. What would be useful:
- What’s the legal requirement regarding power cuts?
- What are the regulatory requirements regarding panic buttons etc?
- Why the focus on the over 70’s within the article?
- What’s different for a user for VOIP compared to analogue (apart from the power issue)?
- What are some possible mitigations, e.g. a battery backup and a fallback mobile connection?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Look into ssh
- Comment on Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board 11 months ago:
Article seems to be mainly about Timnit Gebru. I struggle to see ANY business wanting her on the board. Sasha luccioni, appears to be another AI Doomer, i.e. Up there with Helen toner who
The New York Times reported this week that in the weeks leading up to Altman’s firing, he and Toner had discussed an October paper she had co-authored for CSET.
In the paper, OpenAI is criticised for releasing ChatGPT at the end of last year, sparking “a sense of urgency inside major tech companies”, like Google, to ensure they did not fall behind and prompting competitors to “accelerate or circumvent internal safety and ethics review processes”.
Seriously, look at the people in the article, the organisations that they’re associated with and the opinions they’ve publicly stated. The Doomers at open.ai tried a coup and failed. The Accels won. The current board surely wouldn’t welcome or be welcoming to the Doomers. We’re clearly well past the point where people can sensibly pretend that they can hold back the avalanche of A.I. from the board of a single company in the space.
- Comment on Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked" 11 months ago:
I know right, nobody’s interested in Norman Rockwell anymore
- Comment on What were some ways old community sites grew before stuff like search engine optimization became prevalent? 1 year ago:
Blogrolls and webrings
- Comment on Rivian blames “fat finger” for infotainment-bricking software update 1 year ago:
I don’t follow your line about an intern. I don’t see it in the article and even if it were the case, an unqualified person being able to do this is on the seniors/leads. Throwing the intern under the bus is what scummy companies do to shift blame - see solar winds , where (spoiler) this strategy doesn’t seem to be working out
- Comment on Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes” 1 year ago:
This is a feature available in outlook desktop application at least for Mac
The irony is of course that Gmail did used to be essentially an instant messenger until Google decided in their wisdom that on Android you should not be notified immediately you receive a message
- Comment on Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! 1 year ago:
You’re forgetting that they had a good market position with Windows Mobile. They saw off Palm and were competing with Symbian and RIM. Then they rebooted with Windows phone and again with Windows phone 7 and again with Windows phone 8 and again with Windows phone 10. Each generation incompatible with the last. Sometimes even known in advance, e.g The 8-10 transition leaving Osborned devices on sale for nearly a year Meantime Android was available ‘free’ to manufacturers, compatibility was maintained between operating system versions and across manufacturers. Customisation was a big thing for OEMs - look at HTC and Samsung on Android. Every Windows phone had to look IDENTICAL on screen by order of Microsoft.
Microsoft did it to themselves with mobile. Ballmer era MS thought they could ‘bulldoze the market’ like the early PC era again but that didn’t work when they had to actually compete.
- Comment on MI6 door ‘always open’ to Russian defectors, says UK spy chief Richard Moore 1 year ago:
When would this invitation not be open?