It’s evil, full stop. Either it’s a series of expensive, environmentally destructive parlor tricks designed to create a false impression of intelligence and inner life in order to enable the economic displacement of our fellow humans in an already wildly economically stratified world or, worse, it’s an attempt to create and then enslave an actual intelligence with an actual inner life.
Fuck every fucking thing about that and fuck everybody working toward it, including OP. You’re doing evil shit in the world and you don’t understand why people don’t like it. You’re confused and upset that people actually do have morals and beliefs that haven’t been buried under the strain of modern life. You want to steal from others, degrade their daily life, enable systems of coercion and control, then have people treat you nicely because you think you’re special and clever and you deserve to be rewarded because you figured out what the next big thing is ahead of the herd. You’re not, you don’t, and you haven’t.
In top of all of that, it just sucks. When it isn’t making up bullshit, it’s producing the most boring, milquetoast nonsense imaginable. On the bright side it may be wrecking the economy shortly.
So please, do yourself and all of us a favor- find something useful and fulfilling to do with your life and stop building the torment nexus. You get one short ride on this rock, don’t waste it making your life and the lives of others worse.
I fucking hope they keep it in red state cities. More cops, more AI, more surveillance does fuck all to actually help anyone (who isn’t either a cop or part of the epstein class). You’ll note there’s a long list of things that money can be spent on, but I guarantee you that the vast, vast majority of those funds will go to more gestapo and more surveillance.
On the bright side, $300M is basically nothing on the scale of this country, so really, this is only news to axon, flock, motorolla, and other fasc-tech companies.
I’m aware of this (that’s why I described a potential breach as Jellyfin -> LXC escape). What it does provide me is a static IP to point my domain at that I don’t have to worry about updating via whatever DDNS service and that isn’t tied to my home address. That and the wireguard tunnel gives me plausible deniability should my ISP ever decide to enforce its rules against hosting servers. 😀
I have a very cheap ($11/yr) us-based vps through racknerd I got via low end box. I’ve got 12 users but only 5 really active ones and I’ve never come close to hitting the 1tb transfer. I serve several services through that one vps (all just reverse proxy to my homelab).
I did just pick up another u.s. based vps through low end box the other day- $12/yr and unmetered Gbps. 1 CPU only, but a reverse proxy doesn’t need a lot of compute. :)
Depends on what you mean by “secure.” My personal setup is Jellyfin LXC on proxmox --> Wireguard to VPS -> Nginx reverse proxy on VPS.
This setup relies somewhat on Jellyfin’s auth, but I’m comfortable with that risk. The LXC is blocked from sending local traffic on my network by firewall rules. Yes, someone could exploit a vulnerability in Jellyfin (though looking through the CVEs I’m not overly worried about that), then escape the LXC and fuck with my server. But that’s a lot of work for no profit.
For more protection (in sense of reducing traffic that even interacts with your server), I’d recommend getting a wildcard cert for the domain so that the actual subdomain jellyfin is on is undisclosed to anyone not using your service.
Security isn’t about making everything impregnable, it’s about making attacks more trouble than they’re worth. Otherwise, we’d all live in fortified bunkers surrounded by landmines. 🙃
Never had stability issues. It doesn’t do asynchronous messaging without the mailbox app though. IIRC, it also doesn’t have an iOS app due to apple’s insistence that no apps run in the background
Then they engaged in a smear campaign against a woman who suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her genitals. People laughed about it for years. But hey, McRib and Szechuan sauce.
Navidrome. It’s lightweight and works with any subsonic app.
Maybe check your facts. NPR: Trump would have won even if everyone eligible voted
Trump won in 2024 with just under 50% of the vote, 49.7%-48.2% over Democrat Kamala Harris.
Roughly 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out in 2024, the second highest since 1904. 2020 was the highest.
But even if everyone who could vote did, Trump would have won by an even wider margin, 48%-45%, according to Pew’s validated voters survey
Whether it’s your intent or not, the narrative you’re spreading is used to dissuade folks from demanding better than the choice between a shit taco and a turd sandwhich. It affirms a shitty status quo and demands political patience in the face of a fucked up world… to the benefit of fascists and their corporate cronies.
There are ways to make that irrelevant. I use a cheap vps and just have it funnel raw traffic for the ports I need to my home server via wireguard. All my SSL certs live on my machine and the VPS can’t see any of the traffic contents. I suppose they could redirect traffic elsewhere or start serving whatever on that domain, but I would know immediately and there are some limits to my paranoia.
This argument is specious. It implies that there’s an ethical way to engage in any imaginable act and ignores the possibility of the existence of acts which may never be ethical under any circumstance. This isn’t a question of whether someone has “learned this shit.” You’ve created a tautology re: the existence of an ethical means to all ends. One doesn’t need to accept Kant’s Categorical Imperative to believe that some acts can never be ethical.
That is… incorrect for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is the following copyright notice given by the EFF themselves: 
If every HP fan supported the author by buying it, but then volunteered in a soup kitchen one time, they’ve done far more good than bad.
Good and evil aren’t interchangeable, fungible quantities. You can’t punch 20 babies in the face and then feed 100 starving orphans and expect people to forget about one due to the other. The babies stay punched and the orphans stay fed.
With respect to HP in particular, supporting someone who actively and successfully campaigns against trans right hurts trans people. (And tells us that y’all care more about a children’s story than you do living, breathing human beings). Volunteering at a soup kitchen after donating to the exterminate trans people fund doesn’t undo the donation. It does feed some hungry people, but again doing “good” doesn’t erase having done “evil”; both acts still occured.
What people are saying here is literally “please don’t donate to the trans extermination project.”
Finally, there being no ethical consumption under capitalism is an indictment of consumption, not an absolution for any/all consumption. Just because all consumption falls short of perfect ethics doesn’t mean it’s all equally unethical. This should be obvious.
Wow, we’ve come so far in the last 20 years… In 2006, Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was released. Thank goodness we’ve come together as a society to figure out how best to refer to the domination of the Palestinian people 🙄.
I mean, the W54 was small enough to be carried by a person and I don’t think anyone wants even a 1kt device going off near them. So it’s within the realm of possibility even if it does strain credulity as an actual goal Iran was working toward (let alone a solid justification for this bullshit).
Edit: the W54 weighed 51lb (23 kg).