>youtube works fine
>brave is desperately begging me to update
>finally update
>youtube is showing me ads now
kill me

in this episode of youtube personalities are retarded: anthony fantano failed highschool geography
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not caring about things is fine
not caring about nearly everything is fine
not caring about everything is NOT fine.
have something important to you. pursue it. make God's green earth greener, and dont worry about the rest.

I wrote something again:
Beating the Attention Economy
on how to reduce wasteful screentime and doomscrolling social media
864 words written in ~2.5 hours
and because it is on topic i was distracted 3 times while writing this.

Plex has contracted with Markscan as an antipiracy service provider.
Markscan handles antipiracy for a lot of companies and submits nearly 1 million domains to be blacklisted on some days. Yes, 1 million domains in 24 hours.
Furthermore, based on leaks from Plex they plan to start offering pay per view video on demand in Febuary.

if you are considering setting up a media server I strongly recommend using Jellyfin or Emby instead. If you're using Plex it might be time to switch to one of the mentioned competitors
Years ago plex turned off the ability to suppress sending telemetry data which includes the original file name of files being played on Plex, allowing them to see what movies you have (and that you probably haven't paid for).

yooo jellyfin supports hardware encoding including NVENC which was the whole reason ive not switched yet
it also supports audiobooks which is a pain point for me in plex because its not supported in plex. its supports podcasts too unlike plex.
it also supports live tv, a feature plex removed years ago.

when i was a kid i had a lot of predictions for the future.
for instance when my teacher told me that i wouldnt be carrying around a calculator in my pocket i (an everyone else who wasnt my teacher) knew that laptops keep getting smaller and would eventually be pocket sized and would definitely have a calculator on it. it would probably replace the cell phones we were already carrying.
after seeing facebook kill myspace and friendster i expected that the internet would become a half dozen popular websites that would censor everyone's speech and the rest would be no man's land. i was right about that too.
what i didnt see coming was watching a few videos on youtube and suddenly for the next two weeks my algorithm is all screwed and offering me nothing interesting. that wouldnt be a problem if search on youtube actually worked but its completely worthless.

also update on jellyfin i got it installed but it feels like its just not there yet. media detection is not nearly as good as plex. if your movie's filename is "some.movie.noscript.(2008).[xvid].mkv" there is a zero percent chance it will match. im also pretty sure i have some mis matches that i have to hunt for and that will be a pain.
the bigger issue is playing media. regardless of if hardware transcoding is enabled it wont play any media that needs transcoding. it just sits there waiting to start the movie. the transcoder logs show no errors. the dashboard shows that it is transcoding successfully. i waited about 20 minutes and it managed to transcode an entire movie into buffer and never started playing. the only work around i know of is to use the desktop application that is built off of plexmediaplayer (another thing plex discontinued) and it plays fine but only because it doesnt need to transcode.

the videos not playing issue was either because my browser was blocking insecure content or blocking video autoplay. it was not a jellyfin issue.

the whole point of democracy is that the people consent to be ruled by choosing who rules them, but is it really consent in the first place if you cannot revoke the consent, or if you cannot consent to being ruled by no one?
people with only shallow understandings of communism will deride the USSR because of their voting system. "can you believe that they would have elections where there was just on candidate on the ballot?"
yes actually I can believe that because the whole point of a single candidate ballot was to renew consent. the candidate had to get a vote from half of his constituency or he would be removed and replaced. if he sucked at his job badly enough that people couldn't be bothered to go out and vote for him then consent was revoked and he no longer was a leader.
if one of the worst political systems can get that right then why are we not able to?
unless maybe democracy is just as bad as communism. hmm.

if I ever became friends with a mortician I would buy him a coffee mug that says "my other mug is a human skull"

me: hey IT guys we have a critical incident here. it looks like a very specific malware artifact was discovered on a file server named "AllOurSecretShit". The malware artifact that was discovered was associated with a known malware named "光荣的艰苦奋斗的中国人民蠕虫" The threat group behind this malware uses a specific known vector to compromise systems. please ensure that the server is not vulnerable to CVE-2016-99999 to prevent reinfection, further, I would encourage you to review network logs to determine what, if any sensitive data was exfiltrated.
lazy sysadm: the EDR says that the file was already deleted so i think we are good to go 👍 closing ticket
this meme hits close to home

twimpst
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I wrote something again: The unexpected affects of stress on your body
on the physical effects of stress, complications of stress caused by autism, and encouragement to help other people reduce stress.
980 words
writingtoiq.com Estimated IQ: 130 (heck yea)

so i decided to try this myself
song is gucci by omniboi

at some point "the sciences" stopped being about wanting to learn more and started being about wanting more proof for whatever you believe, and now we have reddit atheists.
i assume this change happened around the end of enlightenment.
maybe i'll write an article about that.

google is now doing the AI in the search meme and it works decently well. i think maybe 1/3 searches ive done today got me an answer without clicking any links (excluding queries where i am looking for a download link or similar.)

and when i do click a link it tends to be in the AI response instead of in the normal query response list

let me tell you a story as a warning to not be stupid
in 2014 an eclipse went over my house and i decided to try to photograph it using a DSLR camera. DSLRs are the ones where you have to look though a periscope eyepiece to see your target unlike a point and shoot where you just look through the screen. i was using an 80mm lens which is rather large and it was able to zoom in very tightly.
as the eclipse was reaching its maximum i tried my best to angle the camera on its tripod towards the sun and then peeked through the eyepiece to make sure it was pointed correctly.
now, im not dumb enough to just LOOK THOUGH A TELESCOPE AT THE SUN- i was wearing not one, but three pairs of gas station sunglasses. unfortunately when i moved my head to look though the viewfinder two of the pairs slipped down and i LOOKED THROUGH A TELISCOPE AT THE SUN wearing one one pair of sunglasses. i burned my eye but the camera was aligned so i took the picture. i thought i had set the shutter speed to open for the shortest amount of time it was able to open for (1/4000th of a second), but somehow accidentally set it to open for four seconds, causing the cmos sensor in my expensive camera to LOOK THROUGH A TELESCOPE AT THE SUN FOR FOUR SECONDS.
the outcome of this comedy of errors was this:
i later found out that i burned the camera. it has about a dozen stuck pixels now. I also burned my eye. i can still see fine though it but my dark vision in the middle of my eye is messed up. if i need to see something in the dark i have to look at it slightly off of center of my vision because everything is just black for like 3-4 degrees in the middle of my sight.
please buy some glasses designed specifically for looking at the eclipse if you plan on viewing the upcoming eclipse next month.