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garrett , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in JellyBox - Music player for Jellyfin

Just started toying with Jellyfin for my media after Plex started being freaks about everything. I love PlexAmp though so anything that moves the needle on that is excellent. Tried some other players but currently, my setup only works in network and I’ll need to configure SSL somehow.

garrett , 2 months ago to Pulse of Truth in Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic

Gonna end up being one bot talking to another, believing that they're gonna make money off each other soon enough.

garrett , 2 months ago to Pulse of Truth in Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic

But Wikipedia still calls the Dead Internet Theory a "conspiracy theory". smh

garrett , 4 months ago to Technology in Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

I don’t really disagree with you at all but repeatedly reminding us all that you’re “not surprised” isn’t the savvy commentary you think it is. Especially since it’s historically been the case that any service you pay money to has said “no, you own your content”.

The marker has just moved gradually on this with companies slowly adding more ownership clauses to their Terms of Service in ways that aren’t legible to average consumers. Now they’re cashing in on that ownership.

garrett , 4 months ago to Technology in Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

While you’re not wrong, the social contract we’ve adapted to is that paying means you have some sense of ownership. It’s unreasonable to expect folks to read every Terms of Service with their legalese. Perhaps the new reality we need to accept is that there is no such thing as a good actor on the internet.

garrett , 4 months ago to Technology in Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch

Interesting and all but boy, Threads sucks as an environment. It’s just the worst algorithm and their stance on “political content” is misery.

garrett , 4 months ago to Technology in Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

It stinks that what seems like the most critical reporting lands behind paywalls.

garrett , 4 months ago to Technology in Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

You pay for WordPress.com though. That’s crazy to offer a paid service and use that data in AI training.

garrett , 5 months ago to Technology in Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says

Yeah, I don’t like a guy who consistently tries to embody “move fast, break stuff” in the places I least want that to be the case.

garrett , 5 months ago to Technology in Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back.

These companies are just miserable to talk to, trying to stay out of the legal handling themselves by being mum, passing along the reports.

garrett , 5 months ago to Fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

You all can downvote me but if you're not interested in living in the land of facts, demonstrating any attempt at backdooring Fediverse products beyond "bad money in a think tank", then there's literally not even the smoke to indicate a fire.

Can you share anything that indicates that understanding governance is even tangentially related to backdooring these products or the teams behind them? Is the best response really "wait four years and see"?

garrett , 5 months ago to Fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

That hardly means they’re investigating how to take over instances… These egghead think tanks will do research on anything that matches a couple buzzwords and this is one of them.

garrett , 5 months ago to Fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

Someone’s researching governance in a federated environment and that’s scary because…?