Comment Re:Headline and article disagree (Score 1) 40
So did Joshua/WOPR and that was over 40 years ago. Stephen Falken was a fucking visionary and a genius!
Comment Re:I will believe you are serious ... (Score 0, Troll) 116
If these people were serious we'd see EV adaption in the double digits and be able to walk into any restaurant and get a vegetarian meal without having to double guess what may or may not be used to create it. We're not seeing that. We're not going to see that because environmentalism is only an issue when it comes down to politics and not lifestyle in the minds of these people. They want to weaponize environmentalisms as a political tool, not as a practical guide for end-user consumption.
But, you know, fOlLoW tHe ScIeNcE!!!
Comment Re:Speaking of Amazon and books... (Score 1) 57
Too bad so many have hurt feelings about doing the right thing. Typical Slashdot.
Comment Re:Speaking of Amazon and books... (Score 0) 57
Comment Re:Surprising! (Score 1) 59
Telescreen monitoring would have required a crazy amount of manpower.
Probably the closest real-world analog was the East German Stasi, which may have accounted for nearly 1 in 6:
The ratio for the Stasi was one secret policeman per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become much higher: In the Stasi's case, there would have been at least one spy watching every 66 citizens! When one adds in the estimated numbers of part-time snoops, the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per 6.5 citizens. It would not have been unreasonable to assume that at least one Stasi informer was present in any party of ten or twelve dinner guests. Like a giant octopus, the Stasi's tentacles probed every aspect of life.
— John O. Koehler, German-born American journalist, quoted from Wikipedia
Comment Re: Make them occasionally? (Score 1) 186
In the USA is it common to have self service tills at supermarkets that accept coins?
If it accepts cash, it should accept both coins and bills. Any change I manage to accumulate usually gets fed into the coin slot at a self-checkout before I swipe a card to provide the rest of the payment. It's better than handing it off to a Coinstar machine, as those skim off a percentage of what you feed them.
Comment Re:I can only dream (Score 1) 23
The Las Vegas Fry's is still vacant, too. Best Buy has this market to itself.
Comment Re:Are people still using POP(3)? (Score 1) 48
I like being able to pull all my mail to my main machine, filter it into folders and have it, backups too.
I do all of that on my mail server. It's then accessible over IMAP, or I can fire up Roundcube in a browser. The filters are also managed through Roundcube. The VPS it runs on costs me maybe $12 per month, and that's not even the cheapest option out there.
Comment Re:Say goodbye to your 401k (Score 1) 43
Embrace the power of "and."
Comment Re: RSS is Main source of news (Score 1) 181
What self hosted solutions have you been looking at?
I've used TTRSS ever since Google Reader went away, however long ago that was. Works like a champ, and there are one or two Android clients that talk to it.
Comment Beware the economists (Score 5, Insightful) 23
I’ve learned to be suspicious whenever I hear an economic argument made in favor of anything at all.
Nobody ever made an economic argument in favor of chocolate ice cream, puppies or Taylor Swift tickets, which seem to be things people actually want. The only time the economic arguments get trotted out is when somebody is trying to lube up a dildo to shove up our asses.
Even the dumbest salesman knows if he wants to make a sale, he has to convince you the product is good for you. When he has to tell you it’s “good for the economy”, he’s acknowledging there’s no way he can convince you it will be good for you, so he’s distracting you by appealing to an abstraction
Comment The end of the woke executive (Score 0) 78
They know which way the wind is blowing.
Comment UK thinks they can regulate US companies (Score 3, Insightful) 28
https://x.com/cricketwyvern/st...
I think they're in for a surprise.
Comment Re:Plex = Subscription-Ware (Score 1) 69
I don't think it directly supports remote streaming
It does, but you'll need to route the incoming traffic through manually. For me, that involves having the router forward traffic on port 443 to the server and configuring a reverse proxy on the server to hand off traffic addressed to jellyfin.$HOME_DOMAIN to the Jellyfin daemon. In my case, Jellyfin is one service among many on a Docker host, with Caddy directing incoming traffic to wherever it needs to go.
It's not automated like Plex, but I've streamed movies and TV shows from across the country without any problems.