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I happily run Jellyfin in a jail using: https://github.com/Thefrank/jellyfin-server-freebsd

It's not an official build, but its been very reliable for me.

That's a pretty brilliant observation. On nice days, public parks look similar to the library (and increasingly have the same vagrancy and drug problems, ha!). But public parks don't need staff like a library so it's less obvious who's job it should be to kick everyone out at night.

Is it possible that rather than abandoning people in dire need, we're now actually trying hard to help those in need instead of criminalizing bad luck and pretending they don't exist, but that that is exceedingly hard to do well?

Not to be a totally wet blanket, but I often hear a lot of "it didn't used to be like this" or "the purpose of libraries" thrown out in discussions like this.

Carnegie's vast wealth single-handedly forced the idea of libraries that weren't just for rich university students, privileged religious orders or the mind-bendingly affluent. He loved books and wanted to share them, which is very noble. But he also had no room for slackers. To quote wikipedia, quoting, Carnegie:

> Carnegie believed in giving to the "industrious and ambitious; not those who need everything done for them, but those who, being most anxious and able to help themselves, deserve and will be benefited by help from others."

This vision of the public library as public welfare's physical manifestation is a modern invention that is not anchored in history. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be. My partner was a librarian for a long time and loved helping those in need. But let's make sure we're accurately remembering the past, not designing a convenient past to justify the budgets to do the work we see we need done in the present.

Mopidy provides some fantastic web frontends, and also exposes an MPD interface so you get the best of both worlds. For output, you can go directly to your audio out on the server, or use something like Snapcast or even an Icecast stream (I use both for different purposes).

I have a few different sql scripts that just tear through the mopidy sqlite database and build daily playlists using mood, genre or pure random so each day I get a few "discovery" playlists.

Then, for real discovery, flip through the year-based lists on rateyourmusic.com (https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2020/) and the world is your oyster.

Not sure if you either remember being a kid and/or have kids of your own, but negative consequences are almost always inferior to positive consequences, or simple reframing. That doesn't mean there should be no negative consequences ever, life is hardly so black and white. But a discipline system built primarily on negative consequences has troubling relationship costs that only become obvious much later down the line.

Parenting via negative consequences is actually very similar to industrial externalities. Sure, there are results right now, but the cost of those results will devastate the environment 10, 20, 100 years from now.

> Military expenses, for example, can be cut back at any time. Handout programs become a dependence and will never be removed once implemented, no matter how poorly they're executed.

Don't embarrass yourself. Military expenses look like they can be cut back, but are functionally impossible to cut back because of how they're gerrymandered.

This, a million times. I am not principled enough to live without closed source hardware and software. But I've experienced too many changes to tools I didn't ask for and didn't want to try to advocate that closed source is better than open source alternatives.

> Thats not something I care about

Well what's the point in having a debate about any of this if you've yet to experience closed source software taking something away from you?

I suspect this is the silent majority at work. The vocal folks who have opinions don't like how GNOME largely just sits there and manages windows. People who do care show up on hacker news to complain about it being default.

I, as a technically inclined person who has many people in their life who are not, love GNOME as an opinionated desktop that works reasonably well for average users with no tweaking. I can install it, explain how the windows key works and then walk away from the computer for a decent amount of time.

Is it my daily driver? No. But I'm not going to inflict i3 on my loved ones. There's nothing gaslighting about not being the target demographic for something. Unlike macOS or Windows, if you don't like Gnome, use something else. Damn I'm getting tired of people acting like whatever Fedora or Ubuntu choose as the default is them trying to poison the FOSS well. They just need something that works by default and isn't a Windows clone (cough, KDE, cough). That's largely GNOME in 2023.

BUT, there are plenty of distros that do not use GNOME by default and there's always a way to remove it or install something else, because this is linux, after all. I wish we could objectively argue about desktop environments, but I think it may be like objectively discussing our favorite brand of underwear.

Because it's an old Kia and there's three menus to click thorough and one confirmation screen. I'd guess 15 is a little long, but on average it takes at least 10 seconds.

10-15 seconds is an eternity. I can switch the bluetooth phone connected in a 10 year old car in 10-15 seconds.

Still makes me a little depressed that instead of evolving Iridium, the best we can do with cheap launches is put up a bazillion bent-pipe satellites. I know all the technical reasons why not, but damn. Seems like a missed opportunity to use low interest rate VC money to build--or just improve--a generationally important system.

Hard agree. Might as well just call this "Ask HN: What are your opinions of homeschooled kids" and be done with it.

It means that male-gendered people tend towards impulse and emotion rather than attempting to understand a situation and listen well into their 20s. Listening and empathy are really fucking hard, and it does not come as naturally to those heavy on testosterone, probably for obvious evolutionary reasons.

None of this is written in stone. Biology and human behavior are way to nuanced for that, but as a group, those of the male persuasion develop those skills at a later age, again, probably for species survival reasons.

You might as well just say "quality" <educational type> and leave it at that. Then crack open Zen and the Art of Motorcycle and try to figure out what quality means.

I'd be curious how large your sample size of unschooled friends was and what sort of longitudinal observations you had on their whole lives.

While you're not technically wrong, the idea of net-zero sources of energy does not address what happens when you start concentrating "free energy" in new places. Fish farms are ecologically monstrosities in most places they exist. Electricity is only one input, fresh water is another, and we haven't figured out where to get that much fresh water for free yet.

In many ways these arguments of "there's free energy from hydrogen fusion" feels similar to arguments about solving invasive species with another species because we haven't figured out that the new species will be invasive yet. And in a similar fashion, the local ecology may eventually re-balance (indeed, likely will) but what time scale are we looking at? Humans need human time scales.

Love all the details here! For me, I skipped the crazy expensive Davis hardware and have built a network around the EcoWitt GW1100 station. It collects data at 900mhz from other EcoWitt sensors and sends it over a wifi network to WeeWX. In my case WeeWX is running in a FreeBSD jail, but it could be on any 24-7 powered computer on your network.

WeeWX is one of those hackers projects that I just love. It's not pretty, and a lot of the edges are real rough, but damn, it just works, all day, everyday, and stores data in sqlite with a funky, but beautiful HTML output as well.

processor : 7 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 24 model name : AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx stepping : 1 microcode : 0x8108109 cpu MHz : 2300.000 cache size : 512 KB

That almost sounds like bad hardware that Windows is somehow not using, or working around in a hacky way. I am literally typing this on a T495s with 22.04 LTS and no freeze, nothing. Uptime thanks to suspend is creeping along at something like 30 days.

Haha! They said they don't know what iCloud account is was registered under. Everything in Apple's world flows from the iCloud, so even with the receipt, the first thing they'll ask is to login and confirm the account is on your iCloud account.

I hate being held hostage to a corporation. Anti-theft mechanisms propagated from a corporation should be understood to generally benefit the corporation first (monopoly on resale market) and the user second (limited protection from petty theft).

I know I'm charmed to live in a place where petty crime is relatively low, but these sorts of "lock it to my Apple account" anti-theft tools feel awfully similar to the use of martial law. It's very helpful in limited circumstances but should never be the default state of our lives.

Damn. Talk about hitting the nail on the head. This describes so much of life.

It's like taking the concept of materialized views in databases and applying it to all of life's little data pools. The data is what matters, and Jira is a tool for materializing in a certain way. But often, it's just as important to allow to be materialized and managed in a completely different way (spreadsheet views).

I love this and am going to pitch it hard to our product team. Thank you!

I think the information age has introduced a lot of people to the public square who've no idea what rhetoric is.

If you're on linux, check out Foliate. It's everything you're asking for :D

Not quite. Apple has done a very aggressive marketing campaign to encourage us to perceive them as privacy-forward.

They've also done an admirable job marketing the specifics of what they do. What's left is all the places where they don't respect the privacy of their users because there's limited marketing value. They don't claim E2E on many services because they don't have it, and adding it wouldn't help marketing. My guess is some Tier 1 support person can drop in and take a look at the GPS pings from your phone.

But don't take my word for it. The Atlantic is far more reputable: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apple...

I think the quotes are meant to suggest that while paper is not really indestructible, it's failure mode in poor weather is much more graceful than an electronic device. Put the paper in a plastic bag and I know from experience that it will out last your touchscreen device in a down pour in the middle of the woods :)

Plus you've eliminated battery anxiety when the last thing you need is more things to be anxious about.

I think Vioxx is a great case study in why people are growing skeptical of not just vaccines, but pharma solutions to daily problems in general.

I find it hard to be too critical with people who are skeptical of modern medical science, given we know the Replication Crisis [0] has yet to be resolved. Between the human brain's chronic inability to parse statistics properly and the incredible amount of money to be made in solutions that make chronic conditions or deadly diseases go away, I do my best to be tolerant.

Ironically, another post that's currently sitting on the HNews frontpage has some fun ads from the 60s encouraging women to slam sugar before lunch so they don't eat as much. I'm sure this advice was being peddled alongside physicians who not only smoked in their patient rooms, but encouraged smoking for it's weight loss side-effect.

Separating the human from science is unfathomably difficult. Humans are cruel, selfish and misguided about many things. Assuming because something was published in JAMA or NEJM by someone who spent 6 years in a PhD program at an accredited university, that it's the gospel truth should be discouraged. People should ask questions and think for themselves. And as a result, some people will make horrible decisions and some may even die directly from those decisions or from the long term consequences. But then again, there were probably plenty of doctors in the 60s who had a gut feeling about the safety of smoking and ended up dying of some horrible and preventable cancer. But what the hell, they had a medical degree, so they probably knew better than everyone else.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Edited to add missing link

Apples and oranges my friend. Being elite and overtraining are orthogonal. By definition, overtraining is pushing your body too far too fast. No one can train for a 100 mile race by doing 3 50 mile training runs in a week. That's not how physiology works. Discipline and lots of hard work can help you be elite, but overtraining is never good. Never.

Is it just me, or is it a little silly to compare the 1919 world economy pre-mass production/consumerism with today?

The irony to most of this shutdown is that "essential" businesses are still open. What the Great Pause has exposed is the shallowness and fragility of mass production/consumerism. During the pandemic of 1919, 80-90% of household income was spent on food and essential needs.

Can you even imagine if we spent 80-90% of our income on essential needs? Well shit, we wouldn't hurt so much when non-essential business was put on pause, that's for sure.

In a strange way your statement "accept that their influence must be curbed ..." sounded an awful lot like how pro athletes don't really get a choice about being role models for young kids.

The difference in the two groups is the affluent can pretty effectively build hedges (literal and figurative) to keep prying eyes off what they're actually doing, while pro athletes by design are in the spotlight.

I wonder what would happen if the affluent were compelled somehow to acknowledge just how much wealth they have and what they do with it. Maybe this already happens via tax returns but most people don't know where to look?

In any case, as you've stated, if capitalism has taught us anything, "morality" or "should" have zero effect on actual societal behavior. There must be a forcing function where the benefits of a particular behavior are obvious and outweigh the negative.