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Comment Re: So what are the pros and cons of Jellyfin folk (Score 1) 69

by the_leander (#65245929) Attached to: Plex Raises Premium Subscription Prices for First Time in Decade

Jellyfin gives you a highly configurable system that is free and open source.

Plex offers compatibility with more equipment out of the box as well as flexibility in what you can use as a server - a nvidia shield TV works well as a plex server and client apps are available on many smart tvs without having to sideload.

There is also plex TV, which is a free streaming service along the same lines as pluto.tv.

I terms of performance and capability for playing your own media I'd say there isn't a lot in it. I think that some things like downloading media you own onto your device via client apps, (something you might do if you don't expect to be able to access the Internet for a while), works more reliably in Jellyfin.

Ultimately it comes down to the question of use case and willingness to faff about getting the Jellyfin client to run on things it usually doesn't. What equipment you already have vs how much your time is worth?

Comment Re: You also had much cheaper food (Score 1) 189

Yup, 100% correct. The term to describe this phenomenon is credentialism.

At least here in the UK a lot of it was sparked by Tony Blair demanding that 50% of the population should have university degrees. If that figure seems utterly arbitrary, that's because it is - when asked by journalists at the time he had no answer for how he came up with the figure.

I've heard that in the US, a lot of this is being led by HR departments, but don't know how correct that is.

Comment Re: You also had much cheaper food (Score 1) 189

Seems to me that both you and the parent have points. There is plenty of examples to show that spending habits are skewed, however much of what you say is true also.

I would tack onto this the scourge that is credentialism that effectively forces kids to go into lifelong debt for jobs that demand levels of education far beyond what is actually necessary. That is an insane burden.

I'm in my forties and got to watch as politicians in the 90s offshored basically everything that wasn't nailed down and in so doing saw my future evaporate before me.

Add to this the floodgates were opened on mass immigration far beyond our capacity to build housing to cover it (this is in the UK) and housing inflation meant I was never in a position to buy a home on the wages the remaining job types could offer. As all of these factors have continued unabated, my kids are now in the position that they would struggle to be able to afford rent.

I don't see this improving without a major course correction and there is no political will to do it. I've my doubts as to whether large swathes of the public would either.

Submission + - Apple, Amazon Use Gender/Race/Ethnicity to Exclude Groups from Programs

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "There is no doubt that people of all races and ethnic backgrounds deserve a seat at every table and that increasing racial and ethnic diversity throughout Amici’s workforces is the right thing to do," read the 2022 Amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court by Apple and other companies in support of upholding Affirmative Action (Aug. 2024 update).

But when it comes to its own upcoming Apple Entrepreneur Camps, which offer participants opportunities including "unprecedented access to Apple engineers and leaders," Apple makes it clear upfront that seats at the table are only available "for founders and developers who are female*, Black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Indigenous." The in-person Apple Entrepreneur Camps are divided into female-only and underrepresented-only (Black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Indigenous) cohorts.

Despite the gender, race, and ethnicity participation requirements, the Code of Conduct for Apple Entrepreneur Camps states: "Apple is committed to diversity and to providing a harassment-free Apple Entrepreneur Camp experience for everyone. All Entrepreneur Camp attendees, including Apple personnel, have the right to a safe and welcoming environment regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, or any other attributes."

Meanwhile, Amazon announced it will only be accepting applications for Amazon Future Engineer (AFE) scholarships from female students in India. "We have seen many instances where parents have prioritised a son’s education, due to lack of resources," Amazon explained. "We’d like to encourage all eligible girl students to seize this opportunity to advance their careers in engineering and technology. We are excited to see the impact of our earlier cohorts and will continue empowering young women in India." Despite Amazon's pledge to provide "equal access to STEM education" and "quality, hands-on learning for all students, no matter their zip code or skin color," Amazon allows both female and male students to apply for AFE scholarships in the U.S., explaining that the evaluation criteria "includes things like [...] racial, ethnic and gender diversity."

Apple's and Amazon's choices to exclude certain groups entirely from opportunities in the name of promoting tech inclusivity follows in the footsteps of similar earlier efforts by tech giants and their nonprofit partners. After years of lobbying by tech-backed Code.org and its partners, the practice was even codified into law in 2015 by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which contained language favoring certain groups of schoolchildren over others with funding for programs aimed at "increasing access for students through grade 12 who are members of groups underrepresented in such subject fields, such as female students, minority students, English learners, children with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged students, to high-quality [computer science and STEM] courses."

Comment Re:Why AWS? (Score 1) 214

According to the CEO of Parler in his interview with Megyn Kelly on her podcast. They'd had a massive influx of new users and they simply couldn't keep up with the moderation. Back in November they apparently had a similar issue and had negotiated with Amazon to increase their mod team to work through the backlog. They had also been looking to incorporate Amazon's AI system to help with moderation efforts.

As it is, Parler for all it's faults was not really setup to work as a hub for political action (not to say it couldn't be used that way - Twitter is all the time). We know from media reports though that the vast bulk of that organising was done on Facebook.

In the end, I think that whilst a lot of what was on Parler was shitty, they were a convenient scapegoat in this case.

Submission + - The Arrogance of the Anthropocene (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by EmagGeek
EmagGeek writes: Peter Brannen has an interesting, if humbling take on the antropocentric view of geology currently held by many scientists and governments, and the staggeringly arrogant assignment to humanity of its own epoch, despite all of human civilization fitting within a time period, on a geologic timescale, equivalent to that of the exposure time on a high speed camera.

The idea of the Anthropocene is an interesting thought experiment. For those invested in the stratigraphic arcana of this infinitesimal moment in time, it serves as a useful catalog of our junk. But it can also serve to inflate humanity’s legacy on an ever-churning planet that will quickly destroy—or conceal forever—even our most awesome creations.

The article also ponders what will become of human civilization, and whether there will be any trace of it remaining when the (likely nonhuman) archaeologists of 100 million years from now go looking for new historical discoveries. An interesting read, for sure.

Submission + - Chrome 77 will stop showing Extended Validation information (googlesource.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Version 77 of the popular Chrome web browser will no longer display Extended Validation information in the URL bar. Previously sites with an Extended Validation certificate would display the name of the organization owning the certificate (e.g. PayPal Inc.) along side the URL, but from now on only the basic padlock icon will be displayed.

Research indicates that EV certificates do little to protect users, and that registrars do little to properly validate them anyway.

Submission + - Russia Orders Evacuation of Village Near Site of Nuclear Accident, Then Cancels (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Russian authorities on Tuesday announced the evacuation of the village nearest to the site of a nuclear accident in northern Russia, suggesting dangers more grave than initially reported. The still-mysterious episode last week killed seven people and released radiation, apparently when a small nuclear reactor malfunctioned during a test of a novel type of missile near a naval weapons testing site. Russian officials have released a flurry ofmisleading or incomplete statementsplaying down the severity of the accident, which the military first reported on Thursday as a fire involving a liquid-fueled rocket engine. It was not until Sunday that Russian scientists conceded that a reactor had released radiation during a test on an offshore platform in the White Sea. That pattern of murkiness continued on Tuesday, as news reports and official statements offered only the vaguest explanation for the evacuation, and hours later seemed to indicate that it had been called off.

Submission + - $3 Million Fortnite Winner -- and His Parents -- Become Latest Swatting Targets (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Kotaku reports that Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf was streaming a Fortnite game late Sunday when he abruptly left his desk and abandoned the game with the livestream still running. The cause? His father coming to tell him that armed police were at the front door. Fortunately, Bugha returned unharmed to the stream several minutes later. "That was definitely a new one," he can be heard saying on a recording of the stream. "I got swatted." The comparatively quick and peaceful resolution of the issue was in part due to sheer good luck. "I was lucky because the one officer, yeah, he lives in our neighborhood," Bugha explained on the stream.

Bugha won $3 million for his first-place finish in the first-ever Fortnite World Cup in July and even appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about his win with host Jimmy Fallon. He is also all of 16 years old, and so a threat against him also involved his parents, whose personal information may have been easy to find. "Swatting" occurs when someone places a hoax emergency call to a police department, hoping to mobilize an emergency response (i.e., a SWAT team) to the victim's home. Bugha was lucky in that the officers who responded to his address were of a mood to ask questions first.

Submission + - Ebola Is Now Curable (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Amid unrelenting chaos and violence, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial of new drugs to try to combat a year-long Ebola outbreak. On Monday, the trial’s cosponsors at the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health announced that two of the experimental treatments appear to dramatically boost survival rates. Starting last November, patients in four treatment centers in the country’s east, where the outbreak is at its worst, were randomly assigned to receive one of four investigational therapies—either an antiviral drug called remdesivir or one of three drugs that use monoclonal antibodies. Scientists concocted these big, Y-shaped proteins to recognize the specific shapes of invading bacteria and viruses and then recruit immune cells to attack those pathogens. One of these, a drug called ZMapp, is currently considered the standard of care during Ebola outbreaks. It had been tested and used during the devastating Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014, and the goal was to see if those other drugs could outperform it. But preliminary data from the first 681 patients (out of a planned 725) showed such strong results that the trial has now been stopped.

Patients receiving Zmapp in the four trial centers experienced an overall mortality rate of 49 percent, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (Mortality rates are in excess of 75 percent for infected individuals who don’t seek any form of treatment.) The monoclonal antibody cocktail produced by a company called Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had the biggest impact on lowering death rates, down to 29 percent, while NIAID’s monoclonal antibody, called mAb114, had a mortality rate of 34 percent. The results were most striking for patients who received treatments soon after becoming sick, when their viral loads were still low—death rates dropped to 11 percent with mAb114 and just 6 percent with Regeneron’s drug, compared with 24 percent with ZMapp and 33 percent with Remdesivir.

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