I’m a big fan of the purple mushroom cloud really adds to the feng shui.

‘The west’ is barely holding itself together right now; conquering another nation, particularly one the size of Russia, isn’t exactly in the cards at the moment.

Not a biologist, not something I study, just a passing thought:

I would guess a large number of venomous animals are also poisonous, because you’d be ingesting their venom. Probably not always the case; you’re not always eating the venom containing parts, and it my not be poisonous unless injected into the bloodstream/tissue. But that’s what my intuition tells me. 🤷

Just because it’s kinda interesting:

Tomatoes are technically a fruit, but they’re legally, a vegetable

nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine pair, better known as amyl and heptyl.

Some rather nasty stuff, highly carcinogenic and poisonous.

Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin are all legal, and each have ways to serve liveTV alongside your own locally stored content, and DVR that liveTV if you want. You’d just have to purchase a liveTV subscription from your local provider (or go the Pirate route ofc).

Emby has what they call ‘Emby Connect’ which is entirely optional and is basically a glorified DNS service.

It doesn’t proxy connections, it just passes on the hostname to the client. The server is still required to setup port forwarding or other routing like tailscale or a proxy on a vps.

Emby Connect will let you sign into your local server using your emby.media credentials, but unlike Plex it’s completely optional and only works once explicitly linked to the local user of an Emby server.

I only bring it up because you explicitly said you have no idea why it doesn’t work.

Take things at a comfortable pace; there’s no sense overwhelming yourself. Then you just forget what you’ve done and end up lost in your own maze.

I started with Plex myself, almost 10 years ago. Moved to Emby, where I learned about buying a domain, setting up ssl through a reverse proxy, and just continued to explore from there. Today I run ~26 containers/projects across three systems and I’m always keeping my eye out for interesting new things.

Best of luck with your journey m8.

Sounds like you’re behind cgNAT, which essentially means there’s another router owned by your ISP that’s between yours and the open internet, which also requires port forwarding, but your ISP will never do that for you.

It complicates things, but the solution(s) are tools like tailscale, cloudflare Tunnels, or to rent a VPS just to host a proxy/vpn.

Plex solves this by using their own public servers as a proxy for you, but this is part of how they have control over your users/server/data, such as blocking remote streaming… That makes more than a few people uncomfortable.

Plex centralizes authentication at plex.tv

When a user wants to connect to a ‘private’ plex server, they must first sign into their plex.tv account, which then provides the auth token needed to login to the users server (even if both the client and server are on the same lan)

With this system, Plex can monitor and control every single connection to every plex server; limiting access to whatever they want. Even your own local content.

Plex has an automatic proxy service hosted by their public servers. If you haven’t or can’t configure port forwarding correctly, plex will route the connection through their own servers.

The problem is, that also means Plex co has total control over your server and the data sent between it and clients if they so choose. Anything from quietly logging the data sent back and fourth, to controlling who can connect and what they can do while they are.

Jellyfin has to be correctly exposed to the internet via port forwarding or tools like tailscale/a vpn; but it’s entirely your server under your control. You have ultimate control over how your server can be accessed, but that also means you’re responsible for actually setting that up.

I miss the layout of my neighbourhood from when I was 5-10 years old.

I lived in one of the middle units of a 10 unit townhouse. Each had a ~30’x30’ fenced in backyard that opened up to a large field and playground. The u-shaped roads that flanked this field and the houses along them left a large cross shaped grassy alley on either side of the field.

I’m not sure that description does it justice, but this setup created a huge amount of grassy space for the surrounding neighbourhood kids to run around in, while keeping them somewhat contained. There were only 3 entrances/exits to this neighbourhood that were pretty well supervised by parents, so the kids were able to roam a pretty big area without anyone having to worry. Something I’ve come to appreciate more with age.

It also meant a TON of snow to build and play with in the winter, without playing in the road :D 🇨🇦

Kind of reminds me of Raspbian/Raspberry PIs and mpeg4 decoding.

The hardware can do it; but you’ve gotta purchase a separate license key specific to your serial number, and add it to the boot partition, to unlock it.

I bought one for one of the three pis I’ve got.

The margins are a little slimmer on a $50 SBC vs a $1200 laptop though…

I was so excited for Oculus right up until it was bought by Facebook. I didn’t have the funds right away and had been waiting, but I immediately wrote it off the day that news broke.

It may just be my first foray into VR. Stoked. :D

If we were talking about adults, I might agree with you; but that’s a lot to ask of a 13 year old.

Perhaps she should have waited until she could get home and speak to her parents; but she did reach out to the adults responsible for taking care of her and was repeatedly turned away without a solution.

With that, I can’t really blame her for her actions here. I’d educate her on how to reach out further for help in the future, but I definitely wouldn’t punish her for this one.

Yeah; I mean, if this was any other content from the same shows/movies it’d be a non-issue covered under Fair Use.

I can understand being upset about entirely new content, AI deepfakes for example; but this content was created and distributed to the public, intentionally, with the consent of the individuals that are filmed within it. It’s just been transformed into a different format; arguably, in a creative and educational manner. (the same way something like a ‘Family Guy funny moments’ compilation is)

If you didn’t want people looking at your nude body, why did you perform nude scenes in front of a camera, knowing it’d be distributed to the public…

Nice to see the sheriff took action, since the school doesn’t seem to give a damn.

charged with ten counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence

The girl has been allowed back into school, only after a school board meeting voted to allow it; but ‘on probation’ and with the expulsion still on her record. The family is following up with a federal lawsuit because of that.

I’ll note she didn’t just hit him out of no where. She first reported it to school staff. They did nothing. She then tried to contact her dad and got told by school staff ‘parents don’t need to get involved’. The school then put her on the same bus as the offender, who showed off the image again to other students in front of her.

What else was she supposed to do. I’d have hit him too, and I’m almost 30.

Why the fuck are you voting on ANYTHING you haven’t actually read???

Thank you. All I was looking for.