Em Adespoton

It falls over?

Apple 2: the search for more money aired in 1977.

We’re WAY into the Apple Universe at this point.

I moved into a place with a Ring doorbell.

I bought myself a Reolink doorbell and swapped them out. Reolink doorbells can be configured to be local storage only with no callhome, and they support RTSP. You can essentially configure them to precisely the privacy model you use — I even have mine set up to black out the parts of the screen that show my neighbors’ property, so it’s not available in recordings or the streaming video.

All the benefits of a Ring without the privacy invasion.

Why do you þink?

It’s the letter thorn and is pronounced th.

Thing is, this agentic stuff… if it isn’t aimed at home users, who is it aimed at? Because it’s not compliant with any of the security programs IT departments are required to comply with.

Or, it could be random noise at this point.

Or It could be overwritten with copies of text from Richard Stallman saying “first post!” Over and over.

I’ve got some devices I’ve been fast charging for 8 years; it seems to be more of a problem as the device ages; but that’s offset by having it ready to use again quickly.

I’ve been a two browser person for over 20 years. It might not be for everyone, but I do all my browser activity that has an information risk (banking certain types of ordering, health access, etc.) on one browser with a specific security profile to protect those sessions, and all my other browsing on a FireFox variant locked down with NoScript, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, etc.

This means that I always reach for the properly configured tool when doing something online, and attempts at phishing have one more hurdle to clear. Default browser points to a fully locked down profile, so any stray clicks will do minimal damage. Sites I know are sandboxed and not allowed to access anything on the rest of the Internet.

This configuration isn’t for everyone, but I’ve been on the Internet for over 35 years and still seem to have a reasonable amount of privacy and security.

The layoffs are usually due to a race to meet quarterly projections; when the projections slip, the fastest way to match them again is layoffs. And for companies to keep their stock prices up, quarterly numbers have to keep climbing.

Why not deport them?

OK, you’re saying that deploying a docker container is too difficult, but somehow MPV assembly from the command line isn’t?

My point was, why should people be abandoning Jellyfin for MPV when there’s no observable gain in features or functionality, and it’s significantly more complicated to set up?

I’m still trying to figure out why I should stop running a jellyfin server. It does all this too, and I just had to deploy a docker container and point it at my NAS.

Maybe it’s the cameras themselves that are the privacy concern, hmm?

It’s totally achievable; he just glossed over the part where most of the world’s population is wiped out by global warming and the only people who survive are Elon and those he deems worthy.

Aliens (even illegal ones) are preferable to an asteroid strike, too.

Too bad they aren’t mutually exclusive.

ISPs route data packets between IP addresses; they don’t get to see the content of what I send/receive (it’s encrypted), and they don’t get domain info without deep packet inspection, because I don’t use their DNS servers.

It’s more like sometimes the city will put up speed cameras and ALPRs — but does that make them responsible for speeders?

You have a point about the DMCA though; I’ve had videos monetized by a third party because of music I wrote and performed myself — turned out, the company was stealing MY music and I got dinged for it.

Is that last 10% all about DRM and anti-cheat?

The writing was on the wall when Serif sold the product to Canva. We already knew Canva used a rent seeking model at the corporate level, so it didn’t really matter what promises they made about what they’d do with Affinity.

This frustrates me so much.

I paid for v1 and v2 of the suite precisely because I’m willing to pay for a tool that works for me, predictably and reliably and with no compromise in goals. Now I’ll have to switch platforms yet again, because they’re going to monetize somehow, and if it’s not by taking my money, it’ll be by taking something else.

Is Inkscape a reasonable replacement for Illustrator yet? Is there an equivalent for InDesign?

I don’t want to get stuck in a Canvas walled garden, and I’m not going to pay rent to use software.